Celebrate the art of portraiture with the ABC’s brand-new series Portrait Artist of the Year. Across eight episodes, amateur, emerging and professional artists go head-to-head, competing for the ultimate prize: a life-changing commission to hang in the National Portrait Gallery.
In each episode, nine artists have just four hours to create a portrait of a well-known celebrity. Their work is then judged by three Australian art experts: Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, Bree Pickering; award winning, multi-disciplinary artist, Abdul Abdullah; and Associate Professor of Art History at the Australian National University (ANU), Robert Wellington.
Watch the series from 2 November on ABC iview and ABC TV, and see the winner’s final commission at the National Portrait Gallery from 22 December 2025.