Applause: Latest funding and awards announced

Finalists announced for 2019 Lester Prize, Ned Kelly Awards shortlist, Inaugural First Nations Fellowship, plus latest news in prizes and awards.
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Lynn Savery’s Self Portrait is a finalist in the 2019 Lester Prize. 

Forty finalists have been chosen for WA’s premier portrait prize – The Lester Prize. Formally known as The Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, the award is one of the country’s richest prizes for portraiture and is now in its thirteenth year. It was renamed in 2019 in honour of the award’s leading patron Richard Lester AM.

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