The winner of the $10,000 Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award was announced last Friday by Lisa George, Head of the Macquarie Group Foundation, at the National Portrait Gallery.
The artist judged to have made the most outstanding screen-based digital portrait is Tiyan Melissa Kilie Baker from the Northern Territory, with her series of three digital video works; Lost Love – Waiting for midnight at the Long Distance Call Building on Chang-an Jie so I can call her, Beijing 1998, 2014, Waiting on the bridge on Da Liu Shu Road for something to happen to me, Beijing 2011, 2014, and Yiyi is tired after running at Yong He Jia Yuan park, Beijing 2014, 2014.
“The judges have selected Tiyan’s series of three video portraits that are meditations on love – lost and remembered. The video portraits reveal heartbreaking moments where individuals long for connection – a feeling that many of us can identify with”, says National Portrait Gallery Senior Curator, Dr Chapman.
The other finalists are Joseph Steven Knox, Imogen Henry, Phoebe Carmody, and Xanthe Dobbie. These digital works, in addition to that of the winner, forms the Macquarie Digital 
Portraiture Award exhibition.
Now in its third year, the Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award seeks to extend traditional notions of portraiture to the digital realm for emerging artists between the ages of 18 and 30. The award highlights the Gallery’s commitment to regular engagement with screen-based narratives and digital technology.
As the winner of the Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2014, Tiyan Melissa Kilie Baker will be given the opportunity to undertake a multifaceted professional development program at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), who will provide access to sophisticated technologies and well-connected online communities.
National Portrait Gallery
22 August to 23 November, 2014
Australian Capital Territory
Tiyan Melissa Kilie Baker, Lost Love – Waiting for midnight at the Long Distance Call Building on Chang-an Jie so I can call her, Beijing 1998, 2014
Tiyan Melissa Kilie Baker, Waiting on the bridge on Da Liu Shu Road for something to happen to me, Beijing 2011, 2014
Tiyan Melissa Kilie Baker, Yiyi is tired after running at Yong He Jia Yuan park, Beijing 2014, 2014
