''Artist of the Year'' is a

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competition shown on the

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channel (formerly known as Artsworld and Sky Arts 1) which aims to find the best portrait and landscape painter every year.

Overview

Through several rounds of regional competitions in different parts of the UK professional and amateur artists are challenged to produce a landscape; whilst the

portrait A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this r ...

competition takes place in

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where the contestants produce a picture of one of three famous sitters. The winning artist of each round, selected by three judges, advances to the semifinal and then to the final. The landscape competition is filmed on location; whilst the heats of the portrait contest are held at Battersea Arts Centre with the final at the National Portrait Gallery. The winner of both series receives a £10,000 commission to paint either a famous landmark or a famous personality and the picture becomes part of a national collection. The show is produced by London and

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-based independent production company Storyvault Films. It is presented by

Joan Bakewell Joan Dawson Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell, (''née'' Rowlands; born 16 April 1933), is an English journalist, television presenter and Labour Party peer. Baroness Bakewell is president of Birkbeck, University of London; she is also an author a ...

and

Stephen Mangan Stephen James Mangan (born 16 May 1968) is an English actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He has played Guy Secretan in ''Green Wing'', Dan Moody in ''I'm Alan Partridge'', Seán Lincoln in '' Episodes'', Bigwig in ''Watership Down'', Postm ...

. Series 1 to 5 were presented by Frank Skinner. The judges are the British art historian, curator and arts broadcaster Kate Bryan, head of

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at the

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, Kathleen Soriano, director of exhibitions at the Royal Academy, and portrait/landscape painter

Tai-Shan Schierenberg Tai-Shan Schierenberg (born 1962) is a British portrait painter, based in London. He was the joint winner of the 1989 BP Portrait Award and is Head of Painting at the Art Academy in London. Early life and career Tai-Shan Schierenberg was born ...

Transmissions

International adaptations

Landscape Artist of the Year Canada ''Landscape Artist of the Year Canada'' is a Canadian reality competition series, which premiered in 2020 on Makeful and CBC Gem. An adaptation of the British series '' Landscape Artist of the Year'', the series featured Canadian artists, both amat ...

'', a

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version of the show, premiered in 2020 on

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References

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