The Threadneedle Prize for painting and sculpture
Exhibition for this prize for figurative and representational painting and sculpture for artists working in the UK and Continental Europe held at the Mall Galleries run jointly between the gallery, the Federation of British Artists and Threadneedle Investments. There were some really nice pieces in this exhibition and was refreshing for all being representational and not abstracts. A number of images will stay with me but I voted in the people’s choice vote for Margie Andrew-Reichelt’s “100 heads, all the same but different” which was a wooden grid holding a small sculpted head in each box. A close second was a stunning picture called “Surrender” by Raoof Haghhighi which had an almost photographic quality and showed a woman lying naked on the floor of a modern kitchen with a portrait of a man on the wall. It made you build narratives in your head.