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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Cassie Rowe’s ‘Shirley’ wins The Lester Prize 2024 People’s Choice
Western Australia's The Lester Prize for portraiture offers a prize pool of over $120,000 spread across two exhibitions and ten categories....
The Lester Prize People’s Choice | 2022 winner
". . . we felt desperate to throw off masks and gulp fresh, untainted air." – Sarah Anthony's' Breathe' is The Lester Prize's 2022 People Choice recipient....
The Lester Prize
‘The Lester Prize exhibits all our traits – the heroic, the despicable, the humble, the deplorable, the principled and the fallen.’...
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....
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....
The 2019 The Lester Prize People’s Choice Award
Perth artist Jordan Andreotta, with his work Sr Flora (2019), has won the 2019 People’s Choice Award of Australia’s premier portrait prize – The Lester Prize....
Forty finalists announced for ‘The Lester Prize’ 2019
From 400 entries for ‘The Lester Prize’ this year, 40 artists from around Australia have been selected as finalists for the exhibition at the Art Gallery of Western Australia....