Jeremy Gardiner wins ING Discerning Eye Prize 2013

The ING Discerning Eye 2013 prizewinners were announced last week.  They are listed below.  It's very evident that media and mark-making other than conventional oil painting has had a 'good innings' in this year's prizes.  Lots of rewards for unconventional use of media and drawing.  Well spotted those who paid attention to who was one of the judges!

I'm going to see the exhibition on Monday morning and will be writing a review of the exhibition.  The ING Discerning Eye 2013 Exhibition continues at the Mall Galleries until Sunday 24 November 2013.

Pendeen Lighthouse, Cornwall
acrylic and jesmonite on poplar panel, 12x18"

© Jeremy Gardiner

 Purchase Prize (£5,000) - Pendeen Lighthouse Cornwall by Jeremy Gardiner (invited by Liz Anderson)

For those interested in how he generates his 'his artistic excavation of the geology of landscape' and constructs his paintings Jeremy is giving a talk "Unfolding Landscape" to Bath Society of Artists at the Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, 16-18 Queen Square BA1 2HN on Thursday 28 November at 7:30 pm.

DE Founder's Purchase Prize¹ (£2,500) - Foreshore, Shaldon by Richard Teasdale (selected by Lloyd Grossman)

The ING Staff Prize (£1,000) was jointly won by:

• Betula, late Autumn 2012-13 by Charlotte Verity (invited by Eileen Hogan)
• The lost lears by Phil Shaw (selected by Deborah Swallow)

Betula, late Autumn 2012 - 13 (£1680)
Sepia Watercolour, 12 x 8 inches
© Charlotte Verity

The lost lears (£792)
8 Colour pigment based archival print on flahne, 15x15"
© Phil Shaw

The Meynell Fenton Prize	£1000	Tessa Farmer (invited by Stephen Farthing RA)	A captive bumblebee insects, plant roots, glass bell jar; 4x4x4 inches;  £1100
The Benton Purchase Prize	£1000	Rachel Pearcey (selected by Eileen Hogan)	Genoese 18th Century armchair Stitch on padded linen with acrylic; 10x10 inches £750
The Hicks Purchase Prize	£1000	Chris Eckersley (selected by Eileen Hogan)	A day at the Pantheon Pen and Pencil, 20x15 inches £900
The Humphreys Purchase Prize	£750	Rod Bugg (invited by Eileen Hogan)	Split Graphite and foil on paper; 20x20 inches £850
The Lincoln Seligman Purchase Prize	£500	Gill Robinson (selected by Eileen Hogan)	Microcosmos No 47: Unravelling Watercolour, 18x14 inches £500 [You can see more of her paintings in her book Microcosmos]
The DE Sculpture And 3D Work Prize	£250	Dee Stanford (selected by Deborah Swallow)	Repetition Mixed, 14x14x14 inches £5000 Industrial Horse Chestnut Mixed, 14x14x14 inches £2800
The V&A Acquisition Prize		Alexander Massouras (invited by Eileen Hogan)	Interhotel Etching, 20x16 inches £400 (edition)
London and South East Regional Prize	£250	Alexander Massouras (invited by Eileen Hogan) Julian Rowe (selected by Eileen Hogan)
North of England Regional Prize	£250	Martin Greenland (invited by Lloyd Grossman)
West Country Regional Prize	£250	Robert Truscott (selected by Deborah Swallow)
Scotland Prize	£250	Gordon Bryce RSA RSW (invited by Liz Anderson)
Wales Prize	£250	Wilf Roberts (invited by Liz Anderson)

See tomorrow's post for the winner of the ING Drawing Bursary.

The scorecard for the allocation of prizes between the selectors is as follows. These split roughly 50:50 between selected and invited artists.

I must confess I am very bemused by the way in which Eileen Hogan's selected and invited artists achieved c.50% of the prizes!  How did that happen?

	Role	Selected	Invited
ARTISTS
Stephen Farthing RA	Rootstein Hopkins Research Chair of Drawing at the University of the Arts London		1
Eileen Hogan	Research Professor at Wimbledon College of Art	3	4
COLLECTORS
Loyd Grossman OBE	TV presenter, gastronome and art historian	2
Professor Deborah Swallow	director of the Courtauld Institute of Art	3
CRITICS
Liz Anderson	arts editor, 'The Spectator'		2
Estelle Lovatt FRSA	art critic and lecturer