BP Portrait Award 2004

Past exhibition archive

Images from the BP Portrait Award 2004
The BP Portrait Award 2004 received 955 entries.

There were four prize-winners and fifty others selected for exhibition.

Judging Panel

Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery (Chair)
Susan Ferleger Brades, Director, Hayward Gallery
John Keane, Artist
Trevor Phillips OBE, Chair, Commission for Racial Equality
Des Violaris, Director, UK Arts and Culture, BP

Winners and Exhibitors

Colour half-length portrait of a seated young woman holding a young child on her knees. — First prize: The Miracle by Stephen Shankland

Colour head and shoulder portrait of a young bespectacled woman sitting on a chair set against an orange background — Second prize: Louise Tiplady by Paul Harris

Head and shoulder portrait of the artist's elderly mother wearing a blue plaid shirt set against a pale blue-grey background — Third prize: Head Full of Smiles by Fergus Mayhew

Self-portrait of the artist with long dark hair sitting holding a cigarette with her shadow on the wall to the right of her — Fourth prize: Self-portrait by Sara Shamma

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Trace by Jackie Anderson

Colour portrait of a little girl looking upwards sitting in a darkened space. — Portrait of Josie by Mary-Jane Ansell

Three-quarter-length portrait of a little girl wearing a pink skirt and white t-shirt with a butterfly on it, she is set against a very dark background — Butterfly by Nicholas Archer

Close-up colour portrait of an elderly bespectacled man wearing a bowtie, white shirt and black jacket set against a bright red background. — Bompa (Grandad) by Bianca Alice Berends

Close-up colour portrait of a young man dressed in black, his head turned to look at the viewer, set against a deep red background — Redeye Jack Jones by Lanceford Brown

Colour head and shoulder portrait of the artist wearing a brown roll neck jumper and staring straight at the viewer — Self-portrait by Paul Brown

Three-quarter-length colour portrait of the artist's father viewed standing from the side, his head turned to look at the viewer — Untitled (Artist's Father) by Vincent Brown

Colour three-quarter-length portrait of an older shirtless man wearing belted white trousers, his arms hang by his side and he is set against a black background — Eddie II by Jason Butler

Close-up pale-hued portrait of a young woman — H by Gary Colclough

Very visually busy colour portrait of a young woman set against a wall of shelving full of plants and other objects — Self-portrait by Georgia Cox

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Caroline by James Crowther

Close-cropped portrait of a woman's face set at the very top of the brown-hued painting — Untitled by Sebastian Dacey

Half-length colour portrait of young woman with long hair holding an octopus — Nicola with octopus by Joel Ely

Three colour portraits in a row, each a close-up portrait of a different man — Three men named Ian by Danrish Fakhr

Head and shoulder portrait of a young man wearing a bright red hoodie and set against a black background. — Steve Ryan by Maryam Foroozanfar

Close-crop colour portrait of a young woman wearing red lipstick — Twenty-eight days of veiled sorrow by Savas Georgiadis

Colour portrait of two young girls sitting back-to-back and viewed from the side, on the left a taller girl with darker shoulder-length hair, on the right a small girl with blonde hair — Flora and Betty by Dominique Grantham

Full-length portrait of three men in a darkened studio-like setting, one sits of the floor, as the other two stand, one behind the other — The Artist, The Model, and The Critic by Mitch Griffiths

Full-length portrait of a young man in a darkened brown-hued space, he appear to be asleep and falling backwards as if in motion — Robert Schneider by Phil Hale

Colour head and shoulder portrait of a man holding a baby — Thomas Fairfax and Father by Gemma Harwood

Close-up colour portrait of a young man with gold hoop earrings who is gazing up — Nvanda by Helen Masacz

Self-portrait of the artist viewed from the side, he wears a hat and looks out of the corner of his eye — Self-portrait by Maeve McCarthy

Colour portrait of a young man wearing shirt and tie, sitting on a chair examining something in his hands, he has lots of images pinned to the wall behind hin — Dr Martin Skittles, Architectural Historian by Nicholas Middleton

Painting of a man and a woman standing in front of a graffiti-covered wall; the man has his hand on his chest — The Elevator by Tim Okamura

Head and shoulder colour portrait of the artist wearing a black roll neck jumper set against a greyish background — This is me - Self-portrait by Anna Orchard

Half-length colour portrait of a man wearing a white shirt seen through a clear surface on which he is writing — The Optics Lesson of Doctor Turner by Alan Parker

Colour head-and-shoulder portrait of a young man wearing a white t-shirt, the left side of his face is lit by the light of a a window — Some wild, some tame by Imogen Paton

Pink-hued close-up portrait of a balding man looking down — Witness by Freva Payne

Half-length portrait of a young woman viewed from the side, her with long dark hair tied back in a ponytail and bright red top contrast with the pale-coloured background — Olivia by Robert Proudfoot

Close-cropped colour portrait of a man with a vacant-looking expression — Raymond by Patrick Redmond

Three close-crop colour portraits of young boys' faces, set next to each other in a row — Gaze by Philippa Robbins

<em>Miss Davies</em> by Stephen Rogers — Colour head-and-shoulder portrait of two young women, both with long dark hair, one wears a red top, the other a black top

Half-length colour self-portrait of the artist sitting on a stool, wearing jeans and a white t-shirt and holding a paintbrush in one hand and a palette in the other — Self-portrait by Mark Roscoe

Full length colour portrait of a young girl wearing a black skirt and ablack and white striped jumper, standing in front of a pinkish pale-coloured wall — Silia by Gideon Rubin

Close-up colour portrait of a bespectacled young man wearing a red shirt and tie, leaning on a patterned fabric — Tiff my boi by Teri Sanders

Close-cropped colour portrait of a young woman with shoulder-length blonde hair and red painted lips — Ellen by Adria Sartore

Head and shoulder portrait of a young shirtless boy with red hair and freckles, he stares at the viewer with a faint smile and is set against a blue background — Olivier by Nathalie Scott

Close-cropped colour portrait of a woman wearing a hat, she looks to the side and is set against a pale-coloured background — Norma by Sarah Simpson

Full-length colour portrait of a young woman dressed in black, a dog sits next to her — Orla Kelly and Sparky Kelley (in Scart in the 'New Home') by Blaise Smith

Close-crop colour portrait of a man with a goatee and moustache, looking up with a slightly worried or weary expression — Thomas by Nigel Spong

Colour self-portrait of the artist, as if miniaturised and sitting on a long shelf, his shadow is seen on the wall behind him — Self-portrait by James Stewart

Full-length colour portrait of a couple standing in a darkened room, he is shirtless, she wears traditional east Asian clothing — Alexander and Eun Ju by Andrew Tift

Half-length colour portrait of older man wearing a blue t-shirt and examining something in his hands, a wall of books behind him — Harry Thomson: Antiques Bought & Sold by Emma Wesley

Full-length colour portrait of an elderly woman sitting on a wooden chair with her hands clasped — Mary Spencer-Watson, Sculptor by Toby Wiggins

Half-length colour portrait of a man viewed from the side wearing a wooly hat set against a large pale sky and river landscape scene — Doug by Craig Wylie

Half-length portrait of a seated man with his hands clasped in front of him, he leans back in his chair looking relaxed — Rt Hon Paul Boeteng by Jonathan Yeo