Threadneedle reveals shortlist for annual art prize

Threadneedle has announced the shortlist for the sixth annual Threadneedle Prize, a competition for figurative and representational painting and sculpture.

The shortlist of six artists was drawn from over 3,500 entries for the £30,000 prize, with the candidates including a special effects artist and a former artist in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company. An exhibition featuring 111 works submitted this year will open on 25 September at the Mall Galleries in London. The shortlist: Andrew Cranston After Canaletto, Oil on canvas Cranston lives and works in Glasgow. Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1996, he exhibits regularly in the UK and Germany. After Canaletto is a lampooning of contemporary art. It shows the gal...