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Returning: Portrait Artist of the Year

UK arts series returns to Foxtel Arts next month.

UK arts series Portrait Artist of the Year returns to Foxtel Arts next month.

The competition to find the UK’s most talented portrait artist is hosted by UK TV personalities Joan Bakewell and Frank Skinner.

Each episode features a regional competition where artists are shortlisted and challenged to produce a portrait of one of three famous sitters. At the end of each round, the judges select an artist to go to the semi-final.

The finalists will have their work displayed at the world-famous National Portrait Gallery in London and the winner will receive a £10,000 commission to paint a portrait that will become part of the permanent collection at the British Library. With judges and onlookers examining their every move, the artists face new challenges at each phase of the competition while painting such famous “sitters” as Sir Ian McKellen, Hilary Mantel, John Hannah, Sophie Turner, Simon Weston, Sophie Dahl, Maisie Williams, John Humphrys, Julian Fellowes, Richard Dawkins and Alan Cumming.

Tuesdays from July 11 at 7.30pm on Foxtel Arts.

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