Jaq Grantford has just won the 2022 Darling Portrait Prize, a $75,000 prize that rethinks portraiture in our times.
It is the third richest portrait prize in Australia, behind the $150,000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and the $100,000 Archibald Prize, and is presented by the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.
The Darling Portrait Prize was announced this past week, as ‘portrait season’ takes hold over the country. We counted close to a dozen major portrait exhibitions currently showing across Australia.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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