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Loughborough student to exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery

Posted on 28/12/2008

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Loughborough student to exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery

For the first time ever a portrait by a Loughborough University School of Art and Design (LUSAD) student has been selected to go on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Benjamin Cohen, a second year Fine Art student, entered his work into the gallery’s BP Portrait Award, an annual competition aimed at encouraging artists to focus upon and develop the theme of portraiture in their work.

The competition is open to everyone aged 18 and over and with a substantial first prize of £25,000 it has been the launch pad for the careers of a number of successful portrait artists. Recent winners and their commissions include Stuart Pearson Wright (2001) who painted J.K. Rowling, Catherine Goodman (2002) who painted Dame Cicely Saunders and Charlotte Harris (2003) who painted Dame Vivien Duffield.