BP Portrait Award 2001

The BP Portrait Award 2001 received 661 entries.

Of those there were eight prize winners and forty-nine others selected for exhibition.

First prize

Stuart Pearson Wright
£25,000 plus, at the judges discretion, a commission worth £3000.
Title: The Six Presidents of the British Academy
oil on linen © The Artist

Joint second prize

Phil Hale
£4,000
Title: Source X
oil on linen © The Artist

Brendan Kelly
£4,000
Title: Nude in a nightclub
oil on canvas © The Artist

Commended

Each received £1,000

David Hancock
Title: Something Beautiful, Something Free # (U look well intresting)
acrylic on canvas © The Artist

H. Craig Hanna
Title: Carlos sitting on a clear plastic chair
oil and hammerite on board © The Artist

Tom Leveritt
Title: Malerie's painting
oil and acrylic on canvas © The Artist

Andrew Patterson
Title: Separation
oil on canvas © The Artist

Andrew Graham Dixon
Critic

Nicola Hicks
Artist

Jock McFadyen
Artist

Victoria Russell
Winner of BP Portrait Award 2000

Julia Somerville
Broadcaster

Dr Chris Gibson Smith
Director, Policies and Technology, BP

Dr Charles Saumarez Smith
Director, National Portrait Gallery