Portrait of a girl (Becky) has been selected for inclusion in the BP Portrait Award, 2018. The exhibition will be held at the National Portrait Gallery, London, 14 Jun 2018 – 23 Sept 2018 and will subsequently tour to: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 13 October – 30 November, 2018, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 December 2018 – 10 March, 2019, Winchester Discovery Centre, 6 April – 26 June, 2019. 2,667 entries were received from artists in 88 countries.
“The portrait is of Becky, an artist’s model who first agreed to sit for Braiden in April 2017. The portrait began with a series of sketches in which the fundamental questions of the composition were resolved. Braiden says: “The painting attempts to portray the ambivalence experienced by a young person in negotiating the transition from adolescence to adulthood.”