Gallery Statement by Fine Art Commissions:
Jamie Coreth graduated from Oxford in 2010 with a degree in Archaeology and Anthropology. Keen to pursue a career as an artist, he studied at the London Atelier of Representational Art, Charles Cecil Studios and the Florence Academy of Art. In 2014 he graduated from the Academy where, alongside his own studies, he had been working as an Art History lecturer and assistant tutor.
In June 2016, a year after returning to London, his portrait Dad Sculpting Me was awarded the Young Artist Award at the BP Portrait Awards, National Portrait Gallery, London. The painting depicts Jamie’s father, the sculptor Mark Coreth, sculpting Jamie. The pair ‘sat’ for their respective portraits over the course of a month. The judges of the BP Portrait Award commented, “we were drawn to the timeless quality of the painting and its treatment of a father and son relationship through art”.
In 2018 Broken Bodies, an arresting portrait of former soldier, turned sculptor, Mark Jackson, was accepted into the BP Portrait Exhibition to much acclaim.
Two years later, his work Portrait of Fatima was shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award – and was also selected for both the cover of the catalogue and the National Portrait Gallery’s marketing campaign. He later won the Visitors’ Choice with over 1,000 votes.
With three entries into this prestigious award, Jamie Coreth has established himself as one of Britain’s leading portrait artists. He paints with an intelligence and originality. He focusses on the character of his sitters, evoking a sense of their presence in his work. His technical facility sits in harmony with a modern vision.
Awards and selected exhibitions
2022 Awarded second place in The Portrait Society of America’s Annual International Portrait Competition, Atlanta, USA
2021 Group: Elwes & Coreth: Relatives in portraiture, Fine Art Commissions, London, UK
2020 Awarded BP Portrait Award Visitors’ Choice
2020 Group: Shortlisted for BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2020 Group: Stage & Screen, Fine Art Commissions, London, UK
2019 Group: Summer Portraiture Exhibition, Fine Art Commissions, London, UK
2018 Group: Shortlisted for BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2017 Group: Fresh Paint, Fine Art Commissions, London, UK
2016 The Young Artist Award, BP Portrait Awards, National Portrait Gallery, London
2016 Group: Shortlisted for BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2015 Group: Selfie, Fine Art Commissions, London, UK
2015 Group: Contemporary Masters, Fine Art Commissions, London, UK
2014 Awarded ‘Best Painting of the Year’ prize at the Florence Academy
2014 Group: Represent Art London, London, UK
2012 Awarded NADFAS painting prize at an exhibition at Guggleton Gallery, Dorset, UK
2012 Awarded the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship to study at the London Atelier of Representational Art
Selected collections and commissions
The Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond (HRH The Princess Royal)
Canterbury Cathedral (Dr Robert Willis, The Dean of Canterbury)
The Baltic Exchange (Mr Guy Campbell)
The Baltic Exchange (Mr Lambros Varnivides)
MOD Chaplains (The Chaplain General, Jonathan Woodhouse)
MOD Chaplains (The Chaplain General, Stephen Robbins)
MOD Chaplains (The Chaplain General, Dr David Coulter)
Berry Bros & Rudd (Mr Simon Berry)
The Rifles Regiment (General Carter CBE)
J. & J. Denholm Ltd (Mr John Denholm)
White’s Club (Lieutenant Colonel Sir Archibald David Stirling, DSO OBE)
Mr Oriel College, Oxford University (Professor Rex Nettleford)
Emeritus Professor David Lewis Williams
Miss Alice Eve
Ronald Munro Ferguson
Lord Reay
Mr Rory Fleming
Clementine Gaisman
The Leith family
Mrs Lucilla Stephenson
Federal Judge, Hon. Kimba Wood
Dr Ogilvie-Graham
Mr Nicholas Deterding
The d’Arenberg family
The Duke of Roxburghe
Mr Derren Brown
Mr Richard Chilton
Mr Dominic Collins
Mr Tom Swerling
Mr Gerd Reimann-Dubbers
Myself with dad, Mark Coreth, on a father-son project to make portraits of one another at the same time!
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