Competition to win a catalogue of Carl Randall's completed portraits and more!

As 2012 BP Travel Award winner, former Daiwa Scholar Carl Randall trekked along Japan’s Tokaido Highway in the footsteps of woodblock artist Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858), recording the people he met en route.

The National Portrait Gallery is running a competition in connection with Carl’s current exhibition, In the footsteps of Hiroshige: Portraits of Modern Japan.

To win, simply comment on the National Portrait Gallery’s facebook page: if you won the BP Travel Award, where would you go and why?

Former Daiwa Scholar Carl Randall will be judging this competition.  The deadline for entry is the 26 July.

The lucky winner will receive a signed hardback catalogue of his completed portraits,  ‘Japan Portraits’ (120 pages), a ‘Japan Portraits’ postcard book (16 colour postcards), and a signed large high-quality print of ‘Shinjuku,Tokyo’.

The catalogue includes a foreward by English author Desmond Morris (author of Naked Ape and Human Zoo), and an introduction by the late Donald Richie.

National Portrait Gallery facebook competition

The exhibition In the footsteps of Hiroshige: Portraits of Modern Japan  will run until 15 September 2013 at the National Portrait Gallery. 15 paintings are included in the exhibition.

The exhibition then tours to Aberdeen Art Gallery (2 November 2013 – 1 February 2014) and Wolverhampton Art Gallery (3 March – 14 June 2014).