Sentence examples for portrait award from inspiring English sources

A painting such as the extraordinary portrait of her dead mother by Daphne Todd, which was last year's first prize winner in the BP Portrait award, takes on all the challenges of representation.

Without BP there might be no portrait award.

The centrepiece is a new portrait of Garner by BP Portrait Award winner Andrew Tift.

With defenders like the BP portrait award, painting doesn't need enemies.

A young artist has bitten the oily hand that feeds the BP Portrait Award and he's surely started something.

The winner of this year's BP Portrait Award is the sort of reticent image that could quite easily be overlooked.

The director of the gallery, Sandy Nairne, described it as "a superb, magical portrait – a very worthy winner for the BP Portrait award".

Todd's macabre painting has won the BP Portrait award; while this questionable prize (dodgy sponsor, dodgy artistic standards) may not be much in itself, here is a portrait that has got people talking, because it confronts us with death.

I accepted an invitation to be on the BP Portrait Award jury a few years ago.

The BP Portrait award show is at the National Portrait Gallery, London WC2 until 19 September.

Climate activists on Tuesday night targeted the BP Portrait Award ceremony in protest against sponsorship from the oil giant.