Noel McKenna, Darling Portrait Prize 2024 winner

The Darling Portrait Prize is a biennial national prize for Australian portrait painting, offering a platform for artists to explore the evolving notion of Australian identity while celebrating emerging and established portrait painters. Noel McKenna has won this year's Darling Portrait Prize for his portrait William Nuttal with horses in the field, 2023. [caption id="attachment_96998" align="aligncenter" width="550"] Noel McKenna, William Nuttall with horses in field, 2023. © the artist[/caption] "This is an energetic and unexpected portrait," said the 2024 judging panel – Bree Pickering, Director of the National Portrait Gallery; Tara Heffernan, art critic and historian; and Erin Vink, Curator, First Nations…