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Brand New!! Tim Storrier Wins Richest Portrait Prize Inwards The World

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WINNER OF THE DOUG MORAN PORTRAIT PRIZE
The Lunar Savant (portrait of McLean Edwards)
past times Tim Storrier
acrylic on linen
The Lunar Savant (portrait of McLean Edwards) by Tim Storrier has only won the First Prize inward the Doug Moran Portrait Prize - worth $AUD 150,000 

It's the richest portrait prize inward the world. [Note: Just to give roughly feel of perspective, according to Google, equally of today, $AUD 150,000 equates to £89,160 inward the UK; €99,910 inward Europe  as well as $117,525 inward the USA]

However the BIG storey is the backstory nearly how the portrait came to live entered for the contest inward the commencement place - which makes for fascinating reading. I'm guessing the sentiments expressed volition live ones that many artists volition receive got known at roughly betoken inward their career.

    About the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize


    Founded inward 1988, the aim of the prize over the in conclusion 29 years has been to encourage
    both excellence as well as inventiveness inward contemporary Australian portraiture past times bespeak artists to translate the await as well as personality of a chosen sitter, either unknown or good known.
    The contest is solely opened upward to:
    • Australian citizens or 
    • an creative mortal legally resident inward Commonwealth of Australia for the 12 months preceding the entries unopen date
    The judges of this year's contest were:
    • Daniel Thomas AM - an fine art historian as well as curator, who was once 
      • chief curator at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 
      • then Senior Curator of Australian Art at the National Gallery of Commonwealth of Australia and, 
      • from 1984 to 1990, Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia
    • Wendy Sharpe - an Australian creative mortal who has won an awful lot of awards 
    • Greta Moran - a founding Director of the Moran Arts Foundation which she established with her belatedly married adult man Doug Moran inward 1988. 

    First Prize


    Tim Storrier's portrait of his friend the artist McLean Edwards is to my take away heed the absolute stand upward out portrait alongside the finalists - it's caput as well as shoulders to a higher house the others - inward to a greater extent than ways than one. (notwithstanding the fact the finalists included a self-portrait past times McLean Edwards).
    Standing almost ii metres tall, the portrait is i of the largest inward the contest as well as for sure i of the most beautiful as well as arresting, depicting a disheveled-looking Edwards inward a stark, mystical black landscape with a cigarette dangling loosely from i hand, a bemused await on his ruddy human face upward as well as i shoe noticeably absent.Doug Moran Art Prize Won past times a Portrait Rejected past times the Archibald | Jane Albery, Broadsheet Melbourne
    Judge Daniel Thomas described the portrait equally i that
    “went exterior his personal mythology as well as produced an affectionate, teasing, ‘friendship painting’ of a wild swain artist”.
    Interestingly, according to the Sydney Morning Herald
    • this is the commencement fourth dimension Tim Storrier has entered the Doug Moran Portrait Prize competition. 
    • the portrait was "screened out" past times the the judges of the Art Gallery of NSW (presumably inward relation to the Archibald Prize)
    On collecting his prize coin Storrier patently commented equally follows
    "That moving icon should receive got been actually called Lazarus, because the judges of the Art Gallery of NSW inward their wisdom screened it out; it did non brand the cut..... It's interesting isn't it? It's ii unlike institutions with ii unlike value systems at work." Tim Storrier quoted inward the Sydney Morning Herald
    Storrier was likewise inward the word before this yr for blasting the pick of winner for The Archibald Prize - encounter John Olsen as well as Tim Storrier nail judges of Archibald Prize dailytelegraph.com.au - they defendant the judges of picking a "bland" portrait. He reiterated his criticism that the board of the Art Gallery of NSW had been taken over "by a postmodernist cabal" driven past times fashion as well as political caution. inward the interview he gave to the Sydney Morning Herald.

    That commentary makes to a greater extent than feel instantly it turns out that fifty-fifty pre-eminent portrait painters tin experience real aggrieved nearly how selections are made for prestigious competitions!
    “It’s only amazing how a limping domestic dog tin halt upward winning a race, isn’t it?”Tim Storrier on his Doug Moran win subsequently beingness rejected for The Archibald
    Storrier has real definitely for both street cred as well as a runway tape equally both a portrait painter as well as winner of major awards.

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