News Articles for The Lester Prize

Self-portraitist Jenny Rodgerson has taken home the prestigious Richard Lester Prize for Portraiture at the annual Lester Prize awards night hosted at the WA Museum Boola Bardip.

WA's premier national portraiture prize has secured a $90,000 three-year partnership with Westpac, as its total prize pool and entry numbers top those for the Archibald Prize.

OPINION: The Lester Prize gets very little recognition, despite being considered one of the major art prizes in the country.

Dick Lester hopes to widen interest in his eponymous portrait prize.

WA's prestigious annual portrait prize exhibition celebrates both the individuality and universality of human nature, finds Kim Kirkman.

New South Wales artist Sidney Tapia was awarded the 2021 Richard Lester Prize for Portraiture at the Art Gallery of WA on Friday evening.

Victorian artist Serena Cowie is the 2020 winner of Western Australia's richest art award, The Lester Prize for Portraiture.

Liam Nunan had never entered an art competition before winning the The Richard Lester Prize for Portraiture 2019 for a painting of his friend Jonny Hawkins on Friday night.

John Langoulant's interests range widely, from building a lyric theatre in Perth to doing business in the Top End, but his main passion is public sector reform.