Forty Main Awards Finalists have been chosen for WA’s premier portrait prize – The Lester Prize.
The finalists were chosen from 750 entries received from artists across Australia, with twelve finalists from WA, eight from NSW, seven from VIC, five from SA, three each from QLD and TAS, and one each from the ACT and NT.
The Lester Prize is one of the nation’s most recognised and prestigious fine art prizes. The prize pool available to professional, emerging and young artists is now worth almost $85,000, including the main prize of $50,000.
