Travel Award
National Portrait Gallery
2017— 2018
National Portrait Gallery
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" Caspar White uses scrap envelopes, record sleeves and brushed steel to capture the moods of the Berlin and Mallorca club scene. His works move between nights raving and days hanging – an unlikely but welcome narrative in the NPG."
- Rhiannon Edwards - TIME OUT.
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The BP Travel Award 2017
National Portrait Gallery
Room 33
National Portrait Gallery
Room 33
The BP Travel Award is a given to an artist to enable them to experience working in a different environment on a project related to portraiture. The BP Travel Award 2017 was won by Casper White for his proposal to create works about music fans in clubs and concert venues in Berlin and Mallorca, representing an often youth-related subculture that is not traditionally recorded in portrait paintings. The resulting work will be displayed in the BP Portrait Award 2018 exhibition
1 'I'll be waiting (Emma)’, Mallorca
oil on stainless steel
2 ‘Next day 5 (Emma)’, Mallorca
pencil and watercolour on found book cover
3 ‘Next day 6 (Emma)’, Mallorca
pencil and watercolour on found book sleeve
4 ‘Next day 3 (Emma)’, Mallorca
pencil and watercolour on found neon paper
5 ‘Next day 7 (Hannah)’, Berlin
silverpoint, pencil and watercolour on found record sleeve
6 ‘Next day 4 (George)’, Berlin
pencil and watercolour on found book cover
7 ‘Into a light (Mabli)’, Berlin
oil on stainless steel
8 ‘Next day 2 (Mabli)’, Berlin
silverpoint and pencil on found record sleeve
9 ‘Next day 1 (Owain)’, Berlin
pencil and watercolour on found paper
10 ‘It just feels gross’, Berlin
oil on zinc
11 ‘Have to warm up to the feel of it (Mabli and George)’, Berlin
oil on canvas
12 'This is now (Dan)’, Berlin
oil on zinc
13 'I ran out of expectancy (Dan)’, Mallorca
oil on stainless steel
Confetti made from coloured lighting gels