Newspapers
- Review of BP Portrait Award 2013 in London Evening Standard
- Image in The Scotsman, newspaper for the opening of the exhibition in Edinburgh
- Jackdaw Magazine, Sept/Oct 014 (magazine)
Books
- 500 Portraits. 25 Years of BP Portrait Award, NPG, 2015
- Sophie Ploeg, The Lace Trail. Fabric and Lace in Early 17th Century Portraiture. An Interpretation in Paint, Blurb, 2014
Online
- Blog Post on the website of the National Galleries of Scotland
- Review of the BP Portrait Award 2014 in the Edinburgh Reporter
- Article in The Sunderland Echo on BP Portrait Award 2014
- Review of the BP Portrait Award exhibition on Grumpy Art Historian’s Blog
- Extensive review of The Lace Trail on Making a Mark Blog
- Extensive interview this link Lacenews blog
- BP Portrait Award review online in Good Housekeeping
- BP Travel Award article in Broadway World
- Film made about the BP Portrait Award 2014 by Lonely Leap (film)
- Link to National Portrait Gallery page about Sophie
Press Quotes
“Sophie Ploeg’s Self-Portrait with Lace Collar sensitively describes the delicacy of human skin as her luminous face emerges from a dark interior” (Ben Luke, London Evening Standard, 20 June 2013, on Self Portrait with Lace Collar, BP Portrait Award 2013)
“[…]captures the tension between a child’s vulnerability and unconfidence on the one hand and her incipient independence and individuality on the other. These elegant, classic pictures draw thoughtfully on art history without being pastiches.”
(Michael Savage, Grumpy Art Historian, Blog on ’The Lace Maker’, within BP Portrait Award 2014 Exhibition)
“To my mind it’s a bit of a masterclass in how to portray complex fabrics in portraits[…]”
(Katherine Tyrell, Making a Mark Blog 2014 on BP Travel Award works)
Blog
Throughout this project I have been writing about my experiences on my Blog. See for a overview of all blog posts, written over the course of 2 years.