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$25000 awarded by NPG to Scott Bycroft
MEDIA RELEASE COURTESY OF: NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT PRIZE 2010
Mr Andrew Sayers, Director, National Portrait Gallery announced today the winner of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 is Scott Bycroft for the work titled Zareth.
VISA has generously sponsored the exhibition and will provide the winning prize money of $25 000. The winning work is featured in an exhibition of forty-three portraits from the finalists’ and will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery until 2 May 2010. The exhibition will then tour nationally. The winning work is attached to this media release.
Scott Bycroft (born 1972) is a High School art teacher at the Clontarf Aboriginal College in Perth, WA. He has been experimenting with photography since 2007 and is self taught. On winning the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 Scott Bycroft said:
“I would like to sincerely thank the National Portrait Gallery for hosting the exhibition and promoting photography in Australia. I would like to thank also, the judges for their support and recognition of this image, and lastly, VISA, for their support and promotion of this event, which has no doubt raised its profile and helped attract a healthy number of entrants. I regret that I cannot be there to accept the award in person”.
Members of the judging panel include: Dr Christopher Chapman, Curator, National Portrait Gallery; Joanna Gilmour, Assistant Curator, National Portrait Gallery and invited guest judge Ms Kim Machan, Director, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific.
“Bycroft’s work was selected for its immediacy and power, its distinctiveness as a portrait, and for its direct presence. The subject, Zareth Long, projects an uncompromising gaze, drawing us physically closer, to then explore the razor-sharp photographic depiction. Every detail is so clear and finely realised, creating an unquestionably compelling portrait that is a strong and positive representation of youth”, Dr Christopher Chapman said.
The call for entries for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2011 will commence in August 2010.
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