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Entries close at 9:00am AEDT on Friday 31 January 2025
Entries are now closed. Finalists whose work is selected for display in the exhibition will be notified by close of business 28 March 2025. Good luck to all who entered!
The Gallery is committed to supporting artists, so each selected finalist will receive:
In 2025, the winner will receive a prize of $30,000 and $20,000 worth of equipment courtesy of Imaging Partner Canon Australia, and Highly Commended will receive a prize pack from EIZO. The Art Handlers’ Award winner will receive $3000 courtesy of IAS Logistics and the People’s Choice Award winner will receive $10,000 courtesy of the Calvert-Jones Foundation.
All finalist artworks will be exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery from 16 August 2025.
The Darling Portrait Prize is a biennial national prize for Australian portrait painting honouring the legacy of Mr L Gordon Darling AC CMG.
The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.
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