Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
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. It is the richest portrait prize in the world with A$150,000 awarded to the winner and A$10,000 awarded to the runner-up. An exhibition of the finalists is held each year at the State Library of NSW following a touring exhibition around Australia.
The aim of the competition is to promote contemporary Australian portraiture and, as such, entry conditions stipulate that both the artist and their subject be an Australian citizen or resident for at least one year prior to the closing date for entries, however it is not required that the artist or the subject be well known.
There was a court case in 2002-2004 involving the Moran family and the Tweed Shire Council, which ended with an out of court settlement. Following this, there was no longer a $1000 prize paid to the 30 finalists who did not win, and no longer an international judge.
List of winners
- 1988 - Penny Dowie - Caitlin
- 1990 - Robert HannafordRobert HannafordRobert Lyall Hannaford , is an Australian realist artist.Known as Alfie, Hannaford was born and grew up on his family farm in Riverton, South Australia....
- Bill - 1992 - Siv Grava - Self portrait
- 1994 - Josonia PalaitisJosonia PalaitisJosonia Palaitis is an Australian artist living in Sydney, Australia. She won the 1994 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with a portrait of her father artist John Mills. In 1995 she won the Archibald Prize People's Choice award with a portrait of artist and cartoonist for the Australian Newspaper...
- John Mills - 1996 - Greg Creek, 1996
- 1998 - Esther ErlichEsther ErlichEsther Erlich is a Melbourne based Australian artist who has been exhibiting since 1985. She won the 1998 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with her painting, "Gaunt and Glorious" a portrait of Steve Moneghetti....
- 2000 - Kristin Headlam
- 2002 - David Fairbairn
- 2004 - Prudence Flint
- 2006 - Peter Wegner
- 2007 - Leslie Rice
- 2008 - Fiona LowryFiona Lowry-Early life:She completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts, Honours, at the Sydney College of the Arts.-Career:Lowry uses aerosol paint in a fine mist to explore the forbidding nature of the Australian bush, usually in limited colour harmony, placing the figure or nude, in ambiguous or unsettling...
- 2009 - Ben QuiltyBen QuiltyBen Quilty is an Australian artist who won the 2011 Archibald Prize.-Biography:Quilty grew up in Kenthurst in Sydney's north-west. He lives and works in Robertson, New South Wales. He is a graduate of the Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney...
- 2010 - Michael ZavrosMichael ZavrosMichael Zavros is an Australian artist.Zavros studied printmaking at Queensland College of Art in the 1990s. Zavros has won three Australian drawing prizes: The Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize and the Kedumba Prize...
- 2011 - Vincent Fantauzzo - Off Screen portrait of Baz LuhrmannBaz LuhrmannMark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for The Red Curtain Trilogy, which includes his films Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!...
Photographic Prize
The Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize was set in motion in 2007 by the Moran Arts Foundation. This Prize is exhibited at the same time as the Portrait Prize and consists of three sections; Open, Secondary Schools and Primary Schools. Entrants are asked to interpret ‘Contemporary life in Australia’, with an emphasis on Australian’s going about their day-to-day lives.There is a total prize pool of A$130,000, with $100,000 awarded to the winner of the Open division and up to $10,000 awarded for highly commended works. The Secondary division is split into three sections; 7-8 (winner receives $2,000), 9-10 (winner receives $3,000) and 11-12 (winner receives $5,000). The 30 finalists of the Primary division each receive a digital camera.
Photography Workshop Program
The Moran Arts Foundation Photography Workshop Program commenced in 2007 and is part of the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize.The free workshops are run by professional photographers at schools Australia wide. Each child is given a digital camera to work with for the day along with guidance from the professional photographer. Basic photography skills are taught along the theme of ‘Visual Storytelling’ and the children print their favourite shots of the day. In 2010 there were 120 digital photography workshops across Australia in urban, rural and remote areas. Out of the 120 workshops 40 were held in remote areas.
Open Section
- 2007 - Ben Searcy Waiting for News on David -Terry and Bev Hicks on the five year anniversary of David's detainment
- 2008 - Belinda Mason Four Generations
Schools Section (Secondary, Years 11 and 12)
- 2007 - Ronnie Ling The Usual Suspects
- 2008 - Alex Case Where You've Been Hiding
Schools Section (Secondary, Years 9 and 10)
- 2007 - Ronald Au Otamop
- 2008 - Larissa Enright Sinking
Schools Section (Secondary, Years 7 and 8)
- 2007 - Vonny Chui Constant Change
- 2008 - Alden Leong Pollution