The Lester Prize | 2020 Call for Entries Now Open - Adult

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—it always has been and always will be.

The Prize pool consists of:
- The Richard Lester Prize for Portraiture (selected by a panel of judges) | $50,000 cash
- Tony Fini Foundation Artist Prize (selected by artists’ peers) | $10,000 cash
- Baldock Family People’s Choice Prize (selected by the general public) | $7,500 cash
- Highly Commended x 2 (selected by a panel of judges) | $1,000 cash, $550 domestic art transport voucher, $500 framing voucher plus $250 art supplies voucher each

Entries for 2020 will open on 11 April and close on 10 July (5pm AWST).

Visit our website to submit your entry, view our Terms & Conditions and download a Subject Consent Form.