Edinburgh, UK. 14th Dec, 2017. An Edinburgh College of Art graduate's prize-winning entry in a prestigious, worldwide portrait competition will go on show in Scotland for the first time this winter. The 2017 BP Portrait Award exhibition, which opens at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery on 18 December, will feature 53 stand-out works selected from 2,580 entries, by artists from 87 countries. Credit: Rich Dyson/Alamy Live News
An Edinburgh College of Art graduateÕs prize-winning entry in a prestigious, worldwide portrait competition will go on show in Scotland for the first time this winter. The 2017 BP Portrait Award exhibition, which opens at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery on 18 December, will feature 53 stand-out works selected from 2,580 entries, by artists from 87 countries, including Breech! by Benjamin Sullivan which took this year's first prize. Pictured: First prize winner, Benjamin Sullivan with his wife Virginia and their daughter Edith, the subjects of the winning painting, Breech! which reflects on the worrisome time the parents faced during their daughters birth and celebrates their love of the new child.
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