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Doug Moran national portrait prize

May 2024

  • Doug Moran national portrait prize 2022 winner Graeme Drendel with fellow artist and subject of his portrait, Lewis Miller (left)

    Australian arts in focus
    Doug Moran prize: Australia’s richest portrait award quietly ‘put on hold’

    The $150,000 prize was not awarded in 2023 and will not return this year as organisers look at ‘the different options we have’

November 2022

  • Doug Moran national portrait prize 2022 winner Graeme Drendel with fellow artist and subject of his portrait, Lewis Miller [left)

    Doug Moran prize 2022: Graeme Drendel wins $150,000 for portrait of fellow finalist who painted him

    The Victorian artist wins for his small painting of artist and friend Lewis Miller, who was also nominated for his own portrait of Drendel

December 2021

  • Vincent Fantauzzo and Asher Keddie

    Australian arts in focus
    Doug Moran prize 2021: Asher Keddie, Holocaust survivors and ‘ghostly crew’ portraits share major win

  • Two lives one soul, by Andrew Greensmith

    Doug Moran prize 2021: judges pick three $100,000 winners in unprecedented decision – in pictures

October 2019

  • What and his painting

    Doug Moran prize 2019: mysterious artist 'What' wins $150,000 for Robert Forster portrait

  • Michael Zavros WhiteCrash, , finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2019. Australia.

    Doug Moran portrait prize finalists 2019 – in pictures

October 2018

  • portrait of woman with dog

    Little-known artist wins world's richest portrait prize

    Melbourne artist Lynn Savery has won the $150,000 Doug Moran prize for her self-portrait

September 2018

  • Bury Me With a Mandarin

    Doug Moran portrait prize 2018 – in pictures

    The Moran Arts Foundation has announced the semi-finalists for the 2018 prize, which showcases original works by Australian artists

May 2018

  • Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize 2018 Winner Announcement - James Bugg 2018 Winner
Juniper Hall, Paddington
Tuesday 8th May, 2018
Photographer: Belinda Rolland © 2018

    James Bugg wins $50,000 Moran contemporary photographic prize

    A 22-year-old photography school graduate has taken out the prize with a portrait of life in Melbourne’s Frankston North

October 2017

  • Tim Storrier's portrait of McLean Edwards

    Tim Storrier wins Doug Moran prize for portrait of McLean Edwards

  • Paul Capsis by Michael Simms

    Doug Moran portrait prize 2017 finalists: from Isla Fisher to Anh Do – in pictures

October 2016

  • Sydney-based artist Megan Seres has won this year’s $150,000 Doug Moran Portrait Prize for a painting of her daughter, Scarlett.

    Part-time cleaner Megan Seres wins $150,000 portrait prize for painting of daughter

  • Mick Fanning – Edge of Infinity

    Doug Moran portrait prize finalists for 2016 – in pictures

October 2014

  • Tessa, by Bridgette McNab

    Australia culture blog
    Moran prize 2014 – 30 Australian portraits

  • Bill Henson Diptych Triptych

    Louise Hearman wins 2014 Moran prize, Australia’s richest portrait award

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