There are now only 5 days of voting to go in the EAC People’s Choice Award. 2405 votes have been cast, and 750 comments submitted, with 77,620 page views on the site since 9th November when the online voting was launched. We are absolutely astounded and delighted at the take-up!

Voting will end at 9pm on Monday 30th November, so that those who wish to watch the exciting conclusion don’t have to stay up half the night to do so.  The winner of the EAC People’s Choice Award will be presented with his or her well-earned prize, at the preview event at The Bankside Gallery, London, on Tuesday evening, 1st December.

In a previous blog, I remarked that “the Top 5 have been remarkably stable”. No longer! Gordon Morley’s “Downham Village” has been knocked off its first position by the original front runner, Gerald Hudson’s “Venice”. Meanwhile, Nickie Jones’s “Sophie” first entered the Top 10 six days ago, and has moved steadily up the ranking, until it is now challenging the top 3.

It’s going to be a very interesting five days!

On a practical note, it would seem that 1350 people have registered on the site, but not all have yet voted. Some may be saving their votes for the last few days, but others may have experienced problems verifying their email accounts and or passwords. If this is the case, please contact us, using the ‘Contact Us’ page on the website. For those not too familiar with computer logging in and emails, please be very careful to type in your exact email address; one wrong letter and the system won’t work.

Lastly, a big thank you to all those who have shown such an interest in the EAC Art Awards, taken the time to vote, and most particularly, to submit comments on the 101 art works on view from this year’s competition. Some commentators have been generous enough to offer feedback on almost every page, and we feel sure that the praise, support and encouragement have been highly valued by the artists themselves.