LONDON.- The National Portrait Gallery announces the Call for Entries for the
BP Portrait Award 2012, the world’s most prestigious open competition for portrait painting.
The Portrait Award, now in its thirty-third year at the National Portrait Gallery and
twenty-third year of sponsorship by BP, is an annual event aimed at encouraging
artists to focus upon and develop portraiture in their work.
The BP Portrait Award 2012 exhibition will run at the National Portrait Gallery from 21
June to 23 September 2012.
The BP Portrait Award is open to all artists over the age of 18, and provides an
important platform for portrait painters. In 2011, 2,372 artists submitted their work
and the exhibition, featured 55 paintings.
Seen by over 340,000 people, the BP Portrait Award 2011 had the highest ever
visitor figures for an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
A cash award of £25,000 will go to the First Prize winner who will receive, at the
judges’ discretion, a commission worth £4,000 (to be agreed between the National
Portrait Gallery and the artist).
Recent National Portrait Gallery commissions by BP Portrait Award first-prize-winning
artists include novelist V. S. Naipaul by Paul Emsley (BP Portrait Award 2007 winner),
and Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh by Dean Marsh (BP Portrait Award
2005 winner). Many artists who have had their work exhibited have gained commissions
as a result of the considerable interest in the BP Portrait Award and the resulting exhibition.
The prize winners and exhibition will be selected by a judging panel chaired by Sandy Nairne,
Director of the National Portrait Gallery. All 2012 exhibitors will be eligible to submit a proposal
for the BP Travel Award. The aim of the Award is to provide the opportunity for an artist to
experience working in a different environment, in Britain or abroad, on a project related to
portraiture.
Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London , says: ‘The quality of the entries
and the range of styles in 2011 was outstanding. I look forward to the BP Portrait Award 2012,
and thank BP for their continuing support.’
Des Violaris, Director, UK Arts and Culture, BP, says: “We are delighted to continue our
support of the BP Portrait Award, and look forward to what we expect to be another year of
fantastic entries.”
Call For Entries - Jerwood Painting Fellowships 2013
Jerwood Visual Arts are delighted to announce the mentors for the 2013 Jerwood Painting Fellowships: Marcus Harvey, Mali Morris RA and Fabian Peake.
This is the second year of the Fellowship scheme which aims to promote and support emerging painters in the first five years of their professional practice. The purpose of the Fellowships is to offer structured development opportunities in two distinctive areas: studio practice and professional development.
Three Fellowships will be awarded with each Fellow receiving a bursary of £10,000 and one year of critical and professional development support from mentors. This programme of support will be designed to suit the needs of each Fellow. During the Fellowship year each artist will work towards a body of new work, which will be exhibited in a group show as part of the JVA programme at Jerwood Space, London in March 2013, before touring within the UK.
Jerwood Painting Fellowships is an open submission opportunity. Entry is by online application, artists must be resident in the UK and within five years of graduating or practicing professionally.
The PowderMills Hotel, PowderMill Lane, Battle TN33 0SP FRI 25 - TUE 29 NOVEMBER 2011
Open daily 10am - 6pm
Admission Free This Winter Exhibition will be a showcase of small works.
Perfect for theChristmas Season, whether your looking to treat yourself or your loved ones.
The Mince Pies will be warming every day from 10am. We hope to see lots of you and share some Christmas cheer. Lots to See and Buy. Prices start at £65
Call for Artists: Lower Marsh Public Art Commission, London Borough of Lambeth
Lambeth Arts and Transportation are working in partnership to commission a public art and/or signage intervention as part of a public realm improvement scheme for Lower Marsh and the connecting streetscape.
Lambeth Transportation has appointed consultants to develop detailed designs for the area which will form the basis for a major public realm improvement scheme.
The selected proposal will form the basis for a public art and/or signage project that will compliment the main public realm improvement scheme.
We are inviting proposals for a single public art intervention, or series of interventions, to a value of up to £55,000. This will be divided into 2 phases; with the first phase being for the programme management, community engagement activity and finalising the concept designs and the second phase being for fabrication and installation. The maximum budget available for the first phase is £15,000 and the maximum capital cost available at the second phase is £40,000.
The deadline for Expressions of Interest is 12 noon on Monday 5th December 2011.
Open Call for Submissions: Artists’ Residency Exchange Programme 2011–2012
Organized by Italian collectors association Artegiovane, this programme aims to create an inspiring cultural exchange between Italy and twenty other countries participating in the Milano Expo 2015 Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life.
Selected artists are invited to spend 2 months at Open Care studios in Milan.
The aim of the residency is to carry out production and research around the 2015 Milano Expo’s themes; these include issue around ecology, sustainable energies and resources, eco-architecture and our population’s nutrition.
The successful artist will have access to a workspace and accommodation, generous production costs and and an enabling bursary of 2.500 euros for out-of-pocket expenses and research.
This residency suits mid-career artists who have completed art education and who have been practicing and showing for a few years.
Deadline for submissions: 9 December 2011
Start Date: January 2012
The Times newspaper's art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston talks to Charlotte Luxford about her new book on the 'English Van Gogh', Samuel Palmer. She reveals why Shoreham is such a source of inspiration, that she and Palmer share shepherding experiences and that she would love to hate Tracey Emin's art
Why did you decide to focus on Samuel Palmer for your first book, Mysterious Wisdom?
It was after the British Museum held an exhibition on Palmer as a bicentenary celebration, but it was in a dingy gallery and while I didn’t know much about his life, I loved his work. Few people are in between, they have either heard of Palmer or they haven’t. There was only one biography on Palmer but it was quite dull, so I decided that something should be done and I wanted to bring him to life. I always found his self-portrait fascinating and I felt quite close to Palmer, carrying poetry in my rucksack and being a shepherd myself; I feel we both shared the same inclination to revel in our own self-conscious romanticism with our flocks of sheep! Did you become increasingly emotionally attached to Palmer’s life the more you found out about him?
Yes, I did; I disliked him in the middle of my book as it was his devout piety that practically killed his son he was so strict, but by the end I was crying and I just thought, “What a lovely man you are”. He started so well with his glorious Shoreham scenes and then in the middle of his life he painted somewhat tedious topographical studies, sacrificing his Shoreham beliefs for money – wrongly, unfortunately. Why do you think Shoreham was such a haven for Palmer and his friends the Ancients?
I think the Shoreham landscape with its softly-domed hills, cottages and meadows was the attraction for Palmer; he thought that the church should be the lynchpin to every landscape and it was included in many of his works. He considered the landscape to be very rural and remote and I imagine it would have provided a place where he could imprint his pastoral fantasies. He may well have been inspired by Spenser’s writings on the Darent also.The fact it was walking distance from London, which many of the Ancients relied on for their work, would have been a considerable factor also. What did you make of the area when you first came to Kent; did you find it as inspiring?
I spent weeks and weeks in that little valley, and I would lay and daydream as Palmer would have done – I took the 30-mile walk from London and got horrifically lost in Catford with my poor dogs, but once I had reached the lip of the Darent Valley, it all became amazingly beautiful.
I’d be Caravaggio on the run – what a swashbuckling adventure that would be. Mysterious Wisdom: The Life and Work of Samuel Palmer by Rachel Campbell-Johnston is published in hardback by Bloomsbury on June 6, priced £25
Why not take a day trip and visit Samuel Palmer’s paintings in some of the best British cities? Visit The Fitzwilliam in Cambridge (www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk) and The Ashmolean in Oxford (www.ashmolean.org)
2012 Olympic posters include those by Bridget Riley and Chris Ofili, who may have created the one that 'truly lives in memory as an image of the London Games.' Photograph: London 2012/PA
Martin Creedis going to have a good Olympics. Not only is Work No 1197, his proposal to have "All the bells in a country rung as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes" on the first day of the games, likely to prove the most appropriate, elegant and magical public artwork of 2012, but he also comes up trumps among the artists who have designed posters for the sporting event that will dominate our lives next summer.
Creed likes to paint layers of rectangles in bright colours that always make me think of arthouse cinema posters for some legendary 1970s film. This is a continuing series of abstract works, part of his enigmatic conceptual project of creating a numbered and interrelated corpus of art.
It just happens to be his good luck – OK, his astute and apparently effortless recognition – that his stepped design resembles in such a nice way the winners' podium at the Olympic Games.
No one will have any trouble seeing this image in his abstract painting, which is likely to make it one of the most effective posters. Not all are going to be as universally popular. Are these aimed at art fans or athletics fans? As an art fan, I find Bridget Riley's poster beautiful. But will it say much about the games themselves, or just inspire lots of arguments along the lines of "I know it's art, but is it a poster?"
Rachel Whiteread has not taken any chances. Her web of bright circles is a riff on the Olympic symbol of interlinked hoops. What connects it with her artistic touch is the use of a simple printing method to make the circles: Whiteread works with the given stuff of the world around her.
This too will be a winner, I suspect, as will Chris Ofili's very different effort, a powerful and overtly emotional graphic design. In fact, Ofili is at his very best here, passionate and engaged, and this may be the poster that truly lives in memory as an image of the London games.
There is a touching idealism about all the posters that leading artists have created. Sometimes that slips into self-conscious sentimentality that makes the designs by Tracey Emin and Bob and Roberta Smith seem egotistical and, frankly, self-indulgent.
But to see Howard Hodgkin, grand old man of sensuous painters, reach into the deep blue to create a dreamlike metamorphosis of athlete and water, the diver and the pool, is beautiful. This is more poetry than mere poster.
Olympic posters are an art form in themselves, and great ones endure as modern icons. Inviting a gaggle of artists to design these may seem a superficial bit of outmoded British art boosting, but in reality it is a romantic restatement of the Olympic ideal, inviting artists to imagine the forces of human effort and natural capacity that have always made sport a theme for modern art (think of cubist portraits of cyclists and Picasso's beach ball scenes).
On these grounds, the most introspective, serious and moving of all these posters has to be Fiona Banner's design for the Paralympics, a painted prose poem about the wonder of human, or superhuman, achievement.
IMAGE: Uncertain Futures: Larder by Suzanne Hobbs NSP 2011 Winner
With a prize fund of £15,000, the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize aims to provide a platform and give strong support and encouragement for younger or emerging artists to showcase their creative work, within the medium of outdoor sculpture. The competition is open to UK based Sculptors in their last year or within 10 years of graduation from a recognised School of Art, willing to submit their contemporary work before a distinguished panel of judges.
2011 National Sculpture Prize Exhibition
Ten short-listed sculptors were carefully selected by a judging panel comprising internationally acclaimed artists Tim Shaw, Rob Ryan and Carol Peace at the beginning of this year. Each of the ten finalists were given a £1,000 budget to turn their proposed idea into an inspiring finished piece for the Summer Exhibition.
The final ten sculptures are now on display until Spring 2012.
2011 Results
Congratulations to Suzanne Hobbs and Wenqin Chen!
The judging panel selected ‘Uncertain Futures: Larder’ by Suzanne Hobbs as the overall winner for 2011.
IMAGE: ‘Endless Curve’ by Wenqin Chen, Winner of the Public Vote
“Suzanne’s monumental sculpture was chosen for its fantastic interaction with the landscape, providing viewers with a very exciting experience. The piece was beautifully executed with a social awareness angle, tying in with the enclosed trapped emotion of the time we live in. We’re delighted with the outcome, Suzanne put great thought and effort into her piece and is truly deserving of the 2011 title. Many thanks to our sponsors and judges for their support in making this possible.” — Rinus van de Sande
The sculpture that captured visitors attention the most this year and winner of the ‘Public Speaks’ title is Endless Curve by Wenqin Chen, also awarded a ‘Special Commendation’ by the judges for creating an uplifting, open, positive, healing, well executed sculpture that has the right spirit and powerful inspiration in a difficult time.
The judges also awarded a ‘Special Commendation’ to Yulia Podolska, Jake Rusby and Lee Odishow.
2012 NSP Registration Now Open
Broomhill are now accepting entries for the 2012 National Sculpture Prize. If you are a budding sculptor and wish to take part in the 2012 competition please register here.
The deadline is Sat 14 Jan 2012.
The judging panel for 2012 includes internationally renowned sculptor Abigail Fallis, celebrated artist Rupert Gatfield; Dean Sampson, Creative Director at Bray Leino; Kate Jago, Editor of Proof Magazine and Broomhill owners, Rinus and Aniet Van de Sande. Their collective, diverse experience will be put to the test in February 2012 when choosing ten works for the final Summer exhibition and in September when deciding which piece takes the 2012 title!
“Oh I do like to be beside the seaside……” Three incredible shows on in Margate, two of which are stuffed full of Hastings artists – what’s not to like? Well worth an art-away-day-trip!
Turner Contemporary– Nothing In The World But Youth until Jan 8 Pushing Print– The Pie Factory, 5 Broad Street, until Oct 29, plus fringe events throughout the town - open Tues-Sat, 11am-5pm, Sun 12-4pm - www.pushingprint.co.uk Telling Stories: Margate– Marine Studios, 17 Albert Terrace, until Nov 1 – open 2-5pm daily – www.marinestudios.co.uk
and check out our FREE family workshops and Artists Talking Days on the magnificent Pushing Print website
With extra special thanks to Dawn Cole for her tireless support.
The Festa dos Tabuleiros is an amazing spectacle which occurs once every four years in Tomar, central Portugal. The festa dates back hundreds of years and is held over a one week period with many activities and attractions for all ages.
Prior to 2011, the last festival was held in 2007 and attracted over 600,000 visitors from around the world, keen to witness the event.
The Festa begins with an elaborate Street Decorating Competition in which neighbouring 'ruas' festoon the entire town with flowers in all shapes and sizes.
Such is the popularity of the event even the Prime Minister and President of Portugal are present for the signature parade on the final day of the festa.
The parade, which takes around six hours to complete it's route through the streets of Tomar, sees over 400 'maidens' and their chaperones, in traditional dress display the 'baskets of bread'.
The bread baskets are specially designed headdresses which each weigh around 15 kilo grammes and must be balanced on the girls' head for the entire parade.
It is a great honour to be invited to be part of the parade and pride, matched with determination and practice ensure the majority of 'girls' complete the parade still carrying these weighty baskets.
Residents of a small British village have reacted angrily to a 40ft gold-plated artwork that has been installed at a local nature reserve.
The 40ft tower of 'metal leaves' that is meant to reflect a birch tree, called Gold Leaf: Buried Sunlight, has been placed at Pooley Country Park in Warwickshire as part of a regeneration project in the area.
But locals have responded angrily to the monument, calling it an 'eyesore' and a waste of public money.
Local Steve Jarvis told This is Tamworth: 'We residents call it 'Polesworth Folly'. It cost £110,000 from the public purse – what a total waste of money when this country can't afford it.'
Steve added that he wrote to Chancellor Gordon Brown, as well as local government ministers and MPs objecting to the plans, but had no response.
Warwickshire County Council told the paper it had no record of the petition.
Councillor Tilly May defended the piece, calling the artwork 'different and thought-provoking', and said:
'We want to draw visitors' attention from the motorway and, of course, to encourage people when they get to the park to explore the pools and the nature reserve.'
Jean-Claude Reynal Foundation - 2011 Jean-Claude Reynal Scholarship
A 10,000 EUR grant awarded to a young artist for studies abroad Deadline: 15th November 2011
The Jean-Claude Reynal Foundation, under the auspices of the Foundation of France, in collaboration with the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux, offers an annual grant of 10,000 EUR to enable a young artist, who works directly on paper, to travel to a country of his/her choice for a period of 6 months maximum. http://www.rosab.net/bourse-reynal/accueil.php
Conditions:
Candidates must be between 20 and 30 years of age and have had an artistic practice on paper for at least two years. All artists are eligible regardless of educational background or nationality.
50% of the scholarship money will be paid before departure and 50% at the time and place of the residency.
The prize winner authorizes the Reynal Foundation to use a work of his/her choice on the media announcing the following year's scholarship competition. The chosen work will be approved by the executive committee. Modalities of participation Registration only online on http://www.rosab.net/bourse-reynal
1. fill in the application form (studies, curriculum, travel project);
2. upload your portfolio as a PDF or PowerPoint file, or as a zipped folder (maximum filesize: 10 MB). Schedule
Deadline for online registration: 15th of November 2011.
A first examination and selection will take place in the beginning of December.
The selected artists will have to send three original works on paper (drawings or prints of all kinds), the dimensions of which must not exceed 40 × 60 cm (15-¾ × 23-⅝ in.).
Works must be sent or hand-delivered no later than the 15th of January 2012 to:
The Bluecoat is a contemporary arts centre in a Grade 1 listed building, the oldest building in Liverpool city centre, and offers a contemporary offer of visual art, literature, live art, music, dance, cabaret and comedy. The programme is presented through exhibitions, performances, residencies, cross-art happenings, community celebrations and a related programme of participation opportunities, talks, tours, publications and workshops. Moreover it is a catalyst for Liverpool's creative and cultural life, developing and engaging artists, creatives and audiences and aims to fashion 'wow' moments; events and happenings that are desirable, connective, inspirational and transforming. http://thebluecoat.org.uk
The Bluecoat is seeking a visual artist with international profile and experience of engaged community practice to work with the Participation Team on a seven week residency project between January and March 2012. The project will focus on engaging children, young people and adults with learning disabilities in a collaborative creative experience that will help them connect with each other, take more notice of their environment and support each other in the community. The participant groups are already in place, along with a team of experienced staff who will support the residency.
The participant groups:
The Bluecoat's participation team is involved in two award-winning partnership programmes using the arts as a vehicle for working with disadvantaged groups to raise aspirations and increase health and wellbeing:
The Pad is a space in a row of shops in Norris Green in the north eastern suburbs of the city run by the Bluecoat and our creative partners Liverpool Merseyside Theatres Trust. Since January 2009 we have had a full-time Outreach Manager based in the area working for the two organisations. We have worked in partnership with local service providers in health, housing and local government and a range of community organisations to deliver arts programmes that tackle a range of neighbourhood objectives. There has always been an emphasis on health and wellbeing and working with young people to raise aspirations. The Pad has more recently provided us with a dedicated space, which will be a focus for this work for the rest of 2011/12. The Pad opened in early June 2011 and we have already engaged with over 100 people from the local community, mainly children and young people, through outreach work, partnership work with the Youth Service team and children's holiday activities. We are building foundations within the community.
Blue Room is an arts development programme for adults with learning disabilities from across the city. It is delivered in partnership with Liverpool City Council and is based at the Bluecoat three days every week. 32 members attend on a weekly basis, many of them for over three years now, and have developed considerable skills in a variety of visual arts media. Members have also reported improvements in health and wellbeing. Last year, the Thursday group worked collaboratively with Sonia Boyce on Like Love: Part Two, an exciting experience which lead to work being featured in the galleries at the Bluecoat. They have also met international artists through our Biennial projects but many of these meetings have been fairly brief. Most of the group have volunteered on children's programmes at the Bluecoat so have some experience of working with young people. As a group they would benefit in many ways from the opportunity to collaborate with an artist of international renown.
We are looking for an inspiring international artist to link these two exciting programmes using a creative collaboration as a catalyst and focus for discussion, sharing, exploration, healing and celebration.
The total budget for artist fees, expenses, materials and production costs is just under 15,000 GBP. The project is funded by Liverpool PCT as part of a Decade of Health and Wellbeing.
For a more detailed project brief please email Bec Fearon, Head of Participation: bec.f@thebluecoat.org.uk. Deadline for emailed submissions is 31st October 2011.
An exhibition of sculpture, painting ,photography and works on paper
at Gallery Different, 14, Percy Street, London
November 7th to the 13th 2011.
As a direct response to the sad loss of Amy Winehouse, sculptors Guy Portelli, David Begbie and Gallery Directors Karina and Neil Phillips and Eva Begbie have organised an arts charity event to raise money for The Hannah Meredith Foundation (THMF).This is an emerging, grassroots charity inspired by a teenage girl’s tragic death from heroin and focused on working with families like the Winehouses that are dealing with the loss of a loved one through substance misuse. THMF also supports friends and families of those that are struggling with their loved ones’ addiction - in addition to educating young people. Since its formation, the mission of THMF has been to improve quality of life through a balance between support groups, drugs education and the provision of quality services in response to the unique needs of individuals and families affected by addiction.
The prestigious Gallery DIFFERENT in London’s, Fitzrovia will be showing an exhibition that reflects the creative synergy between art and music.All works will be for sale and a third of the proceeds will go to THMF, to support its work in developing The Jade Project (Jump-starting Adolescence/Adults Drugs Education) programme. THMF offers tailored support and also aims to provide family & adolescence therapy especially where mental health and substance misuse needs are identified.
“For me personally I owe a great debt to Amy. From the point when I created the Amy Winehouse sculpture ‘Excess’ my world changed, and doors opened that were once closed. My invitation to be on Dragons Den, and the offer of money from Theo Paphitis,James Caan and Peter Jones, was a direct response to the Amy sculpture, ... so thank you Amy.
The Amy sculpture is in my opinion one of the iconic pieces of my pop icon collection, and the sad news left me thinking how best to use the sculpture in a positive way. For me harnessing the energy of my art, and the art of some of my colleagues, who have found art to be a positive influence in their lives was the obvious way.
It was not easy to find a drugs related charity that had the focus on young people and it came as a surprise to me to discover that there isn’t one rehab clinic for young people in the UK yet research shows over 20,000 young people in the UK are addicted to drugs”.
Guy Portelli VPRBA FRBS
“When Guy approached us with his suggestion of an event of this nature the gallery was keen to give its support and whilst being sensitive to the immense personal loss this is to Amy Winehouse’s family and friends, we feel that supporting the work of the Hannah Meredith Foundation is a fitting way to commemorate her passing and we believe that the exhibition will be a celebration of Amy’s artistic and creative influence, which transcended the world of music, was truly inspirational and has left a worldwide legacy.”
Karina Phillips, DIFFERENT
“I am a big fan of Amy Winehouse and her music and was shocked and saddened by her premature death.
‘HELP ME IF YOU CAN I’M FEELING DOWN’ (Lennon & McCartney)
I know from experience that there is no medical cure for addiction to anything – only abstinence and even abstinence can be a danger to an addict if the addiction has already wreaked its damage.It seems that in the end Amy Winehouse may have died from abstaining from the alcohol and drugs which ravished her mind and body and destroyed that delicate chemical balance which all life needs in order to survive.
‘I CAN’T HELP YOU IF YOU DON’T HELP YOURSELF’ (Amy Winehouse)
Prevention is the only cure… Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, private clinics and the NHS can only offer guidance and management for addiction.Amy’s desire for euphoria led to her ultimate oblivion – as in so many cases - yet it may have been prevented if it had not been assumed that this was simply inevitable.As a surviving alcoholic who has abstained now for over 15 years I know how unstoppable the forces of addiction can be.That is why I am very enthusiastic to support The Hannah Meredith Foundation and its pre-emptive and grass roots approach.”
David Begbie ARBS
Hannah Meredith, a much loved daughter, sister & niece, died on October 20, 2009, two months before her 18th birthday, after a heroin OD. Hannah’s aunt Lisa Moore was inspired to set up THMF after reading a letter Hannah wrote ‘Dear Heroin’. Lisa felt a huge sense of responsibility to fulfil Hannah’s dream of steering children away from drugs so that other families would not have to suffer as hers had. Hannah hated what she did to her own family. Families of drug or alcohol abusers go through a lot of painful feelings as they struggle with their loved ones’ addiction. Feelings of helplessness, failure, and shame are common in these situations, and often families question where they went wrong as they don’t know how to fix it. Sometimes these family members are overlooked, while help is being offered to the person with the drug or alcohol problem. This is why THMF exists!
Lisa Moore aged 42 said: “Losing a loved one to drug addiction turns family life into a perpetual state of torment, with a million questions and no answers. We will never get over what happened to Hannah, but I hope that through the foundation, we can at least help prevent some other families from suffering in the same way we have. This can be her legacy, a legacy she truly wanted, as her letter to heroin so clearly showed.” See: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7311207/Drug-addicts-letter-to-heroin-published-after-her-death.html
THMF’s first support group was launched on July 25, 2011 in order to help support families like the Winehouses as well as those who are living with their loved ones’ addiction. Through the group we aim to provide: EMOTIONAL SUPPORT where friends and families of substance misusers can share their experiences in a safe environment, learn coping strategies from each other and combat stress. PRACTICAL SUPPORT where we share information on and signpost other agencies that provide specialist support within the local area. ADVOCACY where families have someone to speak on their behalf.
The Jade Project (both Hannah & Amy share this same middle name) is in its developmental stages. Once fully funded, its aim is to train individuals as prevention specialists to deliver a wide-ranging drugs education programme to children and young people by approaching local education authorities, children’s services, colleges, universities and every service that works with young people, with a view to using Hannah’s legacy to help prevent further tragedies. THMF will also look to work with parents who want to tackle drug issues with their children, ensuring a united family approach.
Addiction has no preference to age, gender, race or status, when there's an addict in the family, whether it is a child, sibling or parent EVERYONE SUFFERS. Addiction is a progressive illness, often it is so crippling that family members suffer as much as the addict, family members often lose themselves along the way. THMF relies on the generosity of others to enable us to provide support, your HELP is crucial to our work.
Website: www.thehannahmeredithfoundation.org.ukThe website is under construction and will be online in the next few weeks.
Please HELP make this event a fitting tribute to Amy Winehouse and Hannah Meredith and to make a contribution to the understanding of addiction as well as financially benefitting the THMF
For further information, images or interviews please contact:
Karina Phillips
Gallery DIFFERENT 14 Percy Street, London W1T 1DR T:0207 637 3775
The RSPP are looking for talented portrait painters and would like to encourage you and/or your friends to submit work for the 2012 open show.
With their new on-line pre-selection for all artists only works with a good chance of being selected need to travel to be judged thereby saving time, money and the environment
For more about the prizes on offer and to see catalogues of works that have been shown in previous exhibitions please visit http://www.therp.co.uk
Please make a note in your diary of the following dates:-
2012 Receiving days and other useful dates
�Receiving Days 16th and 17th March
at 17 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5BD
�16th January opening of on-line registration
�On-line pre-selection dates to be confirmed
�Exhibition opens Thursday 3rd May 2012 until 18th May 2012 at the Mall Galleries, London SW1.
