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The winner of the BP Portrait Award 2006 was announced recently by singer and art collector Bryan Ferry at the National Portrait Gallery. In the seventeenth year of its support, BP also announced it was extending its sponsorship of the competition from 2007 until 2011.
BP has sponsored the annual BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery since 1990, as a recognition, says the company, of the role arts and culture play in the British economic and social fabric. BP's arts programme includes support for a number of the UK's other outstanding arts and cultural institutions such as Tate Britain, the Royal Opera House and the British Museum.
The 2006 BP Portrait Award received a record 1,113 entries, compared to 1,081 last year. Fifty-six portraits have been selected for display at the Gallery forty-four from the UK and twelve from abroad. The award was judged, from original paintings, by Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery (Chair), Waldemar Januszczak, Art Critic, The Sunday Times, Lucy Jones, Artist, Sarah Howgate, Contemporary Curator, National Portrait Gallery and Des Violaris, Director, UK Arts and Culture, BP.
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