Contemporary British Painting Prize

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The three judges, Graham Crowley, Griselda Pollock and Grant Scanlan, came to the unanimous decision that Sheffield based, Joanna Whittle was a painter worthy of taking home the £2000 prize and gave the Highly Commended Painter Prize of £100 voucher for art materials to Adam Hennessey who lives and works in London. 

As part of the prize CBP has commissioned Griselda Pollock to write an essay on Joanna Whittle’s work, which will be published in the Prizewinner’s edition of the catalogue and launched at ASC Gallery in London on Friday 7 February at the preview of a condensed prize exhibition which will include one painting by each of the shortlisted painters alongside all three works by prizewinner Joanna Whittle.

Joanna says of her work...  ‘The paintings are small scale landscapes and explore the intensity that smaller works or miniatures have. They have a discreet yet heightened method of persuasion, subversive in their intimacy with the viewer and in the privacy and concealment of small things.

Shortlisted artists:
Louise Bristow
Stephanie Douet
Kirsty Harris
Helen Hayward
Adam Hennessey
Juliette Losq
Scott McCracken
Jo McGonigal
Ruth Murray
Diana Taylor
Joanna Whittle
Maddie Yuille

The judges selecting the 2019 prizewinning painter are:  Graham Crowley, painter and (Painter, writer and Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art 1998 – 2006), Griselda Pollock (Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art at the University of Leeds) & Grant Scanlan (Huddersfield Museums Manager)