Jaq Grantford has just won the 2022 Darling Portrait Prize, a $75,000 prize that rethinks portraiture in our times.
Alongside this prize are many others including: the National Photographic Portrait Prize, the blockbuster exhibition Shakespeare to Winehouse: Icons from the National Portrait Gallery, London, Archie 100 touring nationally, the 2022 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW, FACELESS opening at Cairns Art Gallery this week, Who are you: Australian Portraiture at the National Gallery of Victoria (later to travel to Canberra), the Rick Amor Self-Portrait Prize 2022 at Montsalvat, Face to Face: Embracing Portraiture at The University of Adelaide, and of course the swag of photographic portrait exhibitions with the recent PHOTO 2022 festival.
