The 2025 season of The Lester Prize – Australia’s richest portraiture prize – offers over $130,000 in prize money to selected winners....
The Lester Prize | 40 finalists have been selected for its 2025 season
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A Painter’s Painter
Curated by artist Ann Cape, 'A Painter’s Painter' examines the reciprocal influences and intimate relationship between portrait artist and sitter....
Julie Fragar’s portrait of Justene Williams wins Archibald Prize 2025
Julie Fragar's Archibald Prize 2025 winning portrait, Flagship Mother Multiverse (Justene), depicts artist Justene Williams as an "active master of a multiverse of characters and events."...
Carol Jerrems: Portraits
This exhibition showcases more than 140 photographs, from Carol Jerrems’ lesser-known early work to the now iconic Vale Street, 1975. Tahney Fosdike speaks to curator Isobel Parker Philip....
Amber Creswell Bell: About Face
In 'About Face', Amber Creswell Bell examines the practices of a diverse canvas of portrait painters in Australia and New Zealand. Emma-Kate Wilson speaks with the author-artist....
Look: Contemporary Australian Portraiture
Each artist brings their own unique vision, perspectives, visual language, and voice to this exhibition, provoking important conversations and the power to connect the viewer with broader issues....
Lori Pensini wins the 2024 Portia Geach Memorial Award
The $30,000 Portia Geach Memorial Award is presented annually to a female Australian artist for the best portrait painted from life of a man or woman distinguished in art, letters or the sciences....
Brisbane Portrait Prize 2024 winner announced
Imogen Corbett has been awarded the $50,000 Lord Mayor's Prize for her artwork of fellow artist and muse Natalya Hughes, an oil on canvas portrait titled The Artist's Studio....
Brisbane Portrait Prize 2024 finalists announced
Sixty-four works have been selected as finalists of the Brisbane Portrait Prize 2024, a competition which showcases the best in contemporary portraiture....
Amos Gebhardt, National Photographic Portrait Prize 2024 winner
Works by thirty-four selected finalists provide a powerful visual record of the year, reflecting a particular time in Australian culture, both socially and artistically....
Noel McKenna, Darling Portrait Prize 2024 winner
This biennial national prize offers a platform for artists to explore the evolving notion of Australian identity while celebrating emerging and established portrait painters....
Ryan McGinley: YEARBOOK
A single artwork featuring over 700 vinyl-printed studio portraits of creatives living and working in New York City and adhered to every available inch of wall space in the gallery....