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This morning the Moran Arts Foundation has announced 60 finalists for its annual ‘Doug Moran National Portrait Prize‘ and ‘Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize‘, which offer an acquisitive award of $150,000 for the Portrait Prize winner, and $50,000 for the Photographic Prize, plus $1,000 each to 30 finalists in each of the competitions.
The ‘Doug Moran National Portrait Prize’, believed to be the world’s most valuable portrait prize, it invites entries of original works from Australian artists, capturing Australians from all walks of life, whether a public figure or someone from their own circle of experience. The Portrait Prize attracted almost 1,000 entries in 2014, from a mix of established and emerging Australian artists, their subjects including paintings of well-known personalities such as actors Richard Roxburgh, Jackie Weaver and Noah Taylor, artist Charles Blackman, artist/musician Reg Mombassa, photographer Bill Henson and author Helen Garner, alongside intimate portraits of friends and family members, and self-portraits.
In 2007, the Moran Arts Foundation extended its arts award program to introduce the ‘Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize’, to celebrate and promote Australian contemporary photography. Australia’s biggest photography award invites entries that interpret ‘Contemporary Life in Australia’ with an emphasis on day-to-day life. The Prize is open to Australian photographers of all ages, with special awards for students and their schools.
The 2014 Moran Art Prizes winners will be announced at a media conference from 10.30am on October 28, 2014 at Juniper Hall, 250 Oxford Street, Paddington, Sydney.
The Moran Art Prizes exhibition will be opened by Edmund Capon AM OBE and will be open to the public from October 29, 2014 also at Juniper Hall.
The general public is invited to vote in the People’s Choice Award, with the winning artist and photographer, and also a randomly selected voter eligible to win a cash prize of $1,000.
The ‘Moran Portrait Prize’, established by the Moran Arts Foundation in 1988, is an annual exhibition that aims to foster the skills of portraiture. More recently, the foundation expanded the prize and exhibition to include contemporary photography by establishing a dedicated ‘Photographic Prize’. Encouraging both excellence and creativity in contemporary Australian portraiture, the prizes – the richest in the country – are acquisitive with the winning works joining the Moran Arts Foundation Collection for permanent exhibition.
Juniper Hall
29 October, 2014 to 15 February, 2015
Sydney
Hong Fu, Beijing Opera – Echo & Helena
Anthony Bennett, study for a portrait of reg
Jeffrey Hogan, Laurie Lawrence ‘Natural Habitat’
