Entries for the inaugural National Youth Self Portrait Prize are now closed.
The National Portrait Gallery invites all young Australians between 18 and 25 years of age to enter the inaugural National Youth Self Portrait Prize 2008.
The National Portrait Gallery invites all young Australians between 18 and 25 years of age to enter the inaugural National Youth Self Portrait Prize 2008.
Ten shortlisted portraits including the prize-winning work will be displayed at the National Portrait Gallery, Old Parliament House from 27 March until 27 April 2008. In addition to the shortlisted works a select number of submitted works will also be displayed as an online exhibition.
Since its inception the National Portrait Gallery has focussed on young people as both art makers and audiences. An important part of our program is to provide a forum for people to express themselves through portraiture. With the generous support of the Tallis Foundation and the Association of Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Societies, the National Portrait Gallery is offering a prize of $10,000 for the most outstanding self portrait produced by a young person in the year preceding the prize, not earlier than 31 January 2007.
The inaugural National Youth Self Portrait Prize seeks to encourage young people to embrace self portraiture and its expressive possibilities. The National Portrait Gallery seeks entries that reflect a broad interpretation of self portraiture from a broad cross-section of young people.
Underpinning the National Youth Self Portrait Prize is a belief that self portraiture is a pertinent and potent art form through which individuals can conceptualise their experience of the world and express what they have learned from it. Entrants are invited to create a self portrait in any of the following media: drawing, print, painting, traditional or digital still photography. A panel of three judges will make a selection from all entries to determine a shortlist of works for inclusion in the exhibition. The prize-winning self portrait will be selected from the exhibited works.
