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Darling Portrait Prize 2024

Opens Saturday 22 June
until Sunday 22 September 2024

Bookings open soon

The Darling Portrait Prize is a biennial national prize for Australian portrait painting honouring the legacy of Mr L Gordon Darling AC CMG (1921-2015). The winner receives a cash prize of $75,000.

The 25 finalists for the Darling Portrait Prize 2024 are:

Surya Bajracharya
Richard Butler Bowdon
Keith Edward Burt
Mitch Cairns
Tom Christophersen
Matthew Clarke
Nick Collerson
Jennifer D’Arcy
Dagmar Cyrulla
Peter Hughes
Bahman Kermany
Martin King
Claudio Kirac
Ali Marshall
Noel McKenna
Sarah McCloskey
Técha Noble
Mess Noise
Jordan Richardson
Nena Salobir
Elif Sezen
Morgan Stokes
Mark Tweedie
Anna Weston
Kat Weir
 

The winner of the cash prize of $75,000 will be announced on 21 June 2024. All finalist artworks will be exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery from 22 June to 22 September 2024.

Judges

This year the prize will be judged by Bree Pickering, Director, National Portrait Gallery; Erin Vink, Curator First Nations Art (local and global), Art Gallery of New South Wales and Tara Heffernan, Art Historian and Critic. The judges are seeking the most compelling recent Australian portrait painting, whether they honour or push the genre, offer unexpected insights into well-known faces, or centre everyday people to explore the breadth of Australian identity.

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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders past and present. We respectfully advise that this site includes works by, images of, names of, voices of and references to deceased people.

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