Entries for The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize will close in just over one week. Artists and photographers vying for the country’s most significant independent art prize – worth a combined $AU300,000 – must submit their work online at www.moranprizes.com.au/enter prior to 25 September at 4pm AEST before it goes before a panel of judges at the top of their fields.
Esteemed judges this year for the open photographic prize are the highly acclaimed former Visuals Editor of the US’s long- established ‘The New Yorker’ magazine Elisabeth Biondi along with Tony Nolan, Curator of the Australian Centre for Photography. Getty Images photographers Ryan Pierse and Cameron Spencer will judge the student divisions.
The Doug Moran National Art Prize will be judged by veteran art curator and director Daniel Thomas (AM) and 2009 Doug Moran Portrait Prize winning artist Ben Quilty who says he will “be looking for good strong painting” that can show him “how that person sounds, how they think and how their humanity has attracted the artist to work with them”.
For the past 25 years the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize has encouraged excellence and creativity in contemporary Australian portraiture. The current annual prize for the DMNPP stands at $150,000 for first place and $10,000 for the runner-up. The Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize is a national competition to promote the country’s contemporary photography talents. The current annual prize for the MCPP prize stands at $50,000 for first place and a further $50,000 to be shared between the runner-ups. Schools and students will share a prize pool of $20,000 in monies and camera equipment.
Entrants are permitted to choose their own subjects for painting or photographing. These subjects do not need to be famous or well-recognised, therefore extending the egalitarian nature of the Moran Prizes and encouraging the flourishing of art in all socio-economic areas.
2013 Moran Art Prizes
Exhibition opens 24 October, 2013
Juniper Hall, Paddington, Sydney
Image:
The $150,000 winner of the 2012 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
Sydney-based artist, Leslie Rice, for his work titled, Self-Portrait (with the Muses of Painting and Poetry)
