The Brisbane Portrait Prize is all about celebrating Brisbane portrait artists and their sitters, while encouraging public engagement with the arts.
Any artist with a connection to Brisbane is eligible to enter. The sitter must also have a connection with Brisbane.
All entrants will be eligible for the $50,000 Lord Mayor’s Award which is supported by Brisbane City Council. A further $40,000 of category prizes is also available.
The 2024 Prize consists of two key competitions:
- The Main Competition – Open to all entrants 18 and over
- The Next Gen Prize – Open to entrants 18 and under
For the main competition:- A non-refundable $65 entry fee (inc GST) per entry must be paid at the time of entry.
- Payment must be made online via credit card.For the Next Gen competition:
- A non-refundable $25 entry fee (inc GST) per entry must be paid at the time of entry.
- For individual entries, payment must be made online via credit card.
Additionally, since its inception, the Brisbane Portrait Prize has set out to be a truly contemporary art prize.
As our world continues to evolve, so too will the prize, which means from 2024 entries which have been created using Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be accepted.
This could be using AI to assist with image composition or in any other part of the artistic process including image generation.
BPP continues to support individual human creative processes, and this will be highly valued, even in works using AI .
Image: Before the crossroads (Vin age 11) by Fiona Lowry. 2023 Sylvia Jones Award for Women Artists
