Doug Moran National Portrait Prize [SEP] inception
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize is an annual Australian portrait prize founded by Doug Moran in 1988, the year of Australia's Bicentenary. It is the richest portrait prize in the world with A$150,000 awarded to the winner. The prize is acquisitive; "the winning portrait immediately becomes the property of the Moran Arts Foundation, to be exhibited permanently as part of the Moran Arts Foundation Collection". 
The aim of the competition is to promote contemporary Australian portraiture and, as such, entry
of the AFR Magazine Influential Australians.
- 2007 Recipient of the Creative Partnerships Australia (Formerly AbaF) Business Arts Leadership Award.
His photographs have been finalists in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, the National Photographic Portrait Prize, the Sydney Life Photography Prize and his portrait of Jon Muir is represented in the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.
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