Threadneedle Prize 2012: names of selected artists

Below you can find the names of the artists selected for the 2012 exhibition of the £30,000 Threadneedle Prize.  Also included are links to their websites - just click the name (where I have been able to identify these)

The £30,000 is the most valuable prize for a single work of figurative art in the UK.

Threadneedle Prize 2012 - The Selection process
The Selectors: (Left to right) Nicholas Usherwood, Peter Randall-Page and Chris Riopelle

Back in June I announced that 153 works by 144 artists from the UK and continental Europe have been selected for the Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2012 - see Threadneedle Prize 2012: Analysis of entries / selected artists

The total of 153 works is three times bigger than the number of works exhibited in previous Threadneedle Exhibitions.  After some criticisms of the selection last year, the selectors have apparently included a much broader cross-section of figurative painting and sculpture than that seen in any previous Threadneedle Prize exhibition.  37 of the works selected are sculptures.

The artists included also vary from past winners of major prizes - including this prize - and prominent figurative painters among the premier art societies to recent graduates and younger emerging artists.  This is also the first year that artists from Continental Europe have been able to submit work.

There are two benefits to the changes this year

• Hopefully this broader approach will provide a better representation of the quality of contemporary figurative artwork in the Uk today
• Plus - if these trends continue - it makes the Threadneedle Prize = a much more attractive competition to enter from the artist's perspective.

The Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2012 is to be held at the Mall Galleries in central London, which is held between 26 September and 13 October 2012.

Threadneedle Prize 2012: Selected Artists

I saw a lot to like - and a lot of unique and/or original contemporary figurative art as I went through finding the websites. Right click on the link in their name and open in a new tab to see them.  

If you spot any errors and/or want to volunteer a link to a selected artwork (or an image of it) please leave a comment or email me - see the right hand column for how to contact me. I'm also happy to publish a small number of additional images of selected work in this post - just send me the file.
The 2012 exhibiting artists are:
A

• Jacqueline Abel 
• Georgina Allen
• Hollie L Anderson
• Eva Armental
• Bridgette Ashton 

B

• Christina Ballard 
• Jeannette Barnes - see 'Built" : recording and responding to the construction process  I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised to see whichever drawing Jeanette has submitted on the shortlist for the Prizewinner.  She's an ex tutor of mine and I know how she works - from observation on site - and then transposes it to huge drawings back in the studio.

Jeanette Barnes - Charcoal Drawings of The Olympic Stadium, the Shard and the Aquatic Centre
From the "Built" exhibition at the Mall Galleries in June 2012

• Gordana Batic 
• Guy Beggs
• Dijana Bekvalac 
• Jon Bentley
• Ilse Black 
• Alexandra Blum - I saw her work - and liked it a lot - when she was the 1st Prize Winner of the David Gluck Memorial Bursary for Drawing in 2008 (The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries). It's very interesting
• Maria-luisa Boito 
• Helen Booth 
• Patrick Brandon 
• Bev Broadhead 
• Peter Brown 
• Elaine Brown 
• Lisa Brown 
• Magdalena Brzeska
• David Byrne (No not THAT David Byrne - I got the Mall Galleries to check and make sure!)

C

• Patricia Cain - Threadneedle Prize Winner 2010
• David Caldwell 
• Alex Cave 
• Jeong Chloe 
• Peter Clossick 
• Yosef Cohen 
• Julia Colmenares 
• Justine Cook 
• Martin Cordiano 
• Denise de Cordova
• Emma Cousin 
• Lucy Crispin 
• Jennifer Crouch 

D

• Yi Dai
• Janet Darley 
• Kasia Depta-Garapich 
• Thomas Doran 
• Andrew Drummond 
• Lucy Duke 

E

• Jeannelise Edelsten 
• Saliha Elhoussaini 
• Luke Elwes - there's more than one way of making a painting (see the video below)

F

• Lu Fang 
• David Firmstone RWS - past Vice President of the Royal Watercolour Society
• Donna Fleming 
• Jaana Fowler 
• Eiichi Fukuda 

One of Every Species of Bird found in Hong Kong, Cage 26 by Fran Gifford
110cm x 80cm, graphite pencil (drawn using only horizontal lines

G

• Pippa Gatty 
• Fran Giffard 
• Kate Giles 
• Sarah Gillespie  
• Mark Glassman 
• Lucy Glendinning 
• Steph Goodger 
• Jolie Goodman 
• Ka Gray 
• Ben Greener 
• Inguna Gremzde 

My Feet by Ben Greener
Wood, glue, canvas dyed with tea and coffee.
10x24x34 cm

H

• Raoof Haghighi 
• Susie Hamilton 
• Tom Hammick 
• Andrew Harding 
• Clare Haward 
• Emma Haworth - a previous winner of the Sunday Times Watercolour Prize 2010, The National Art Open 2010 and Runner-Up in the Lynn Painter Stainers Prize 2010 and 2009
• Ben Hendy 
• Kaori Homma 
• Tony Hull 
• Julia Hutton

I

• Victor Ivanov 

J

• Lou Johns 
• Wynn Jones - I have wonderful memories of being shown the very first landscape panorama and all the other art treasures in Sienna plus the Giotto frescoes in Assisi by Wynn 
• Ross Jones 

K

• Delia Keeling 
• Peter Kelly 
• Luis Kerch 
• Sara Kerry 
• Yuichiro Kikuma 
• Terry Kubecki 
• Yun Kyung Jeong

L

• Chloe Le Tissier
• Sophie Levi

M

• Jill McManners 
• Enzo Marra 
• Lauren Marsh 
• Peter Marsh 
• Claire McCarthy 
• Andrew McDonald 
• Silvia Menamin 
• David Micheaud 
• Mick Miller 
• Melanie Miller 
• Adeline de Monseignat 
• Marianne Morild 
• Angela Morris-Winmill 

N

• Dan Narita
• Dominic Negus 

O

• Kelvin Okafor 
• Shaneen Osman 

P

• David Pairpoint
• Shanti Panchal 
• Stephen Park 
• Katherine Peeke 
• Julian Perry 
• David Piddock 
• Austen Pinkerton 
• Tim Pomeroy
• Jasmine Pradissitto 
• Francisca Prieto 
• Karen Purple 
• Sarah Purvey 

R

• Amanda Rae
• Paul Regan 
• Bettina Reiber 
• Steffie Richards 
• Philippa Ridley 
• Keith Robinson 
• Gill Rocca 
• Ryan Rodgers 

S

• Camila Sadler 
• Peter Sainty 
• Melissa Scott-Miller - winner of the Lynn Painter Stainer's Prize 2008 
• Andrew Seto 
• Guram Shavdia
• Roy Smith
• Claire Smith 
• Danuta Solowiej 
• Ian St.John 
• Richard Starbuck 
• John Stark 
• Natalie Stewart-Clark 
• David Storey 
• Ilona Szalay 

T

• Wendy Teo 
• Robert Truscott 

V

• Beatrijs Van Rheeden 

W

• Joanne Weaver 
• Tessa Whitehead 
• Natasha Whittle
• Antony Williams R.P. P.S. N.E.AC. - winner of the 2012 Ondaatje Prize (RSPP) and the 2012 Lynn Painter-Stainer Prize
• Simon Wright 
• Oi Wun Chan 

Y

• Geoff Yeomans 

Z

• Martha Zmpounou

Vote for the £10,000 Visitors' Choice Award

If you visit the exhibition you can cast a vote for the £10,000 Visitors’ Choice Prize after you've viewed all the artwork. Every one of the 153 works is eligible to win this Prize.  That means the public vote really counts for something - so get along to the gallery to see this exhibition in September if you can!

Prize announcements

Six works have been shortlisted for the £30,000 Threadneedle Prize.  These will be announced at a Preview on the evening of Tuesday 25 September 2012.

The winners of both The Threadneedle Prize and Visitors’ Choice will be announced at a special Awards Dinner, hosted by TV personality Victoria Coren, on Wednesday 10 October 2012.