The Lester Prize is one of the country’s premier art prizes—an award that places artists and community proudly front-and-centre. Our prize is about the advancement of the artists, not the celebrity of the sitters.
The $115,000+ Prize pool consists of:
- The Richard Lester Prize for Portraiture (selected by a panel of judges; non-acquisitive) | $50,000 cash
- Tony Fini Foundation Artist Prize (selected by artists’ peers; non-acquisitive) | $20,000 cash
- Baldock Family People’s Choice Prize (selected by the general public) | $15,000 cash
- Minderoo Foundation Spirit Prize (selected by Minderoo Foundation; non-acquisitive) | $10,000 cash
- Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize (selected by a panel of judges; non-acquisitive) | $5,000 cash
- Highly Commended (selected by a panel of judges) | up to $5,000 value
- Barton Family Foundation Installers’ Prize (selected by the Art Gallery of Western Australia installation team) | $10,000 cash
Entries for the 2024 Lester Prize are open and close 7 June 2024.
https://www.lesterprize.com/artists/submit-entry-2/
