Merging the traditional and unconventional, 'WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture' explores who we are and how we view others – historically, today and into the future....
WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture
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Lynn Savery wins the 2022 Portia Geach Memorial Award
This year's finalist exhibition displays fifty-eight works by leading Australian women artists representing the diversity in contemporary portraiture....
Robert Wilson: Moving portraits
This Australian exclusive presents more than twenty intricately produced video portraits that unveil the theatrical language of New York theatre director and artist Robert Wilson....
Jeremy Eden awarded Archibald Prize 2022 ANZ People’s Choice
The artist and his sitter bonded over their shared experience of losing close family members to cancer – Eden’s mother and [Samuel] Johnson’s sister – and the portrait captures both of their stories....
Marie Mansfield wins the 2021 Portia Geach Memorial Award
Marie Mansfield has won the 2021 Portia Geach Memorial Award, the pre-eminent portraiture prize for women in Australia, for her portrait of artist Matilda Michell entitled Tilly....
2021 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize semi-finalists
A blend of well known and unknown Australians are among the 151 portraits of the 2021 DMNPP semi-finalists artworks, as well as self-portraits and portraits of fellow artists....
2021 The Lester Prize winners
Congratulations to the winners of The Lester Prize 2021, Western Australia's premier portrait prize that is now in its 15th year and has a prize pool of more than $100,000....
Loribelle Spirovski | Naked & Nude Art Prize 2021 winner
Loribelle Spirovski, winner of the $30,000 acquisitive Naked & Nude Art Prize 2021 for her work Moving House, an oil painting of the artist's husband whose depicted stance is comparable to Michelangelo's David....
40 finalists, WA’s premier portrait prize – The Lester Prize
Congratulations to all 40 finalists selected for Western Australia's premier portrait prize – The Lester Prize whose works depict an Australian, or Australians, that they respect or admire, or a self-portrait....
2021 Olive Cotton Award finalists announced
The Olive Cotton Award is a $20,000 biennial national award for excellence in photographic portraiture in memory of photographer Olive Cotton. This year, a total of 72 finalists have been selected from a record 605 entries....
Winners of The Lester Prize – WA’s premier portrait prize
'We see in this year’s The Lester Prize a community of artists who are turning inwards... to create a timely, deeply personal and powerfully poignant image of our shared human condition.' – Curator Rachel Ciesla...
The Lester Prize 2020 finalists announced
Submissions for The Lester Prize 2020 explore the intricate and multi-layered connections between home, identity and everyday life in the contemporary world....