Darling Portrait Prize 2024
Medium / category: Painting
Requirements: The work must be a painting, completed on or after 31 January 2022, depicting a person or persons having a strong association with Australia or who has made a significant contribution to Australian life, and is based on a live sitting or a study from life (including online sittings)
Eligibility: The artist, at the time the online entry is submitted, must be an Australian citizen or resident of Australia, and 18 years or over
Associated institutions: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Exhibition dates: From 22 June to 13 October 2024 at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
The Darling Portrait Prize is a biennial prize for Australian portrait painting which honours the legacy of L Gordon Darling AC CMG (1921-2015), founding patron of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia.
The Prize seeks the most compelling recent Australian portrait painting. Judges will be looking for works of art that honour and/or push the genre, that offer unexpected insight into well-known people or that acknowledge our shared humanity through works that centre everyday people.
Awards
In 2024, the winner will receive a prize of $75,000.
The Gallery is committed to supporting artists involved in the Prize. Each selected finalist will receive an artist fee of $1,200, a copyright and image licensing fee of $1,000, domestic artwork freight allowance to and from the Gallery, and domestic travel allowance and accommodation in Canberra for the exhibition launch.
Previous Judges
2022:
Karen Quinlan AM: Director (former) of the National Portrait Gallery
Dr Nicholas Cullinan: Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London
Clothilde Bullen: Head of Indigenous Programs at the Art Gallery of Western Australia and Chair of the National Association for the Visual Arts
Previous Winners and Finalists
2022:
Jaq Grantford, 2020
Winner: Darling Portrait Prize
Hong Fu, Alex Miller, Novelist
Winner: High Commendation
Nicholas Hopwood, Shadow Crown
Winner: High Commendation
Jane Allen, Weight of the Mind’s Periapt
Winner: Art Handlers’ Award
Tony Sowersby, Sabine Desrondaux – Woman of Letters
Winner: People’s Choice Award
2020:
Anthea da Silva, Elizabeth
Winner: Darling Portrait Prize
Sibone Heary, The In Between
Winner: High Commendation
David Darcy, Wendy Bowman
Winner: High Commendation
Sean Hutton, Tamara Dean
Winner: High Commendation
David Darcy, Wendy Bowman
Winner: People’s Choice Award
For Artists
What you need to know
Submissions must be a painting, completed on or after 31 January 2022, depicting a person or persons having a strong association with Australia or who has made a significant contribution to Australian life, and is based on a live sitting or a study from life (including online sittings). The artist, at the time the online entry is submitted, must be an Australian citizen or resident of Australia, and 18 years or over.
Dates for your diary
Open for Entries: Entries close 31 January 2024
To enter, visit the prize’s website here.
For more information, check out their socials on Facebook or Instagram.
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