Head On Portrait Prize – Documentation

I posted news about this previously on my other photography blog but am sharing the documentation here for posterity. Earlier this year my portrait of my dear friend Edgar was a finalist in the Head On National Portrait Prize in Australia. There were over 2500 entrants and 40 finalists.  The list of finalists includes some of my favourite Australian talent and the images themselves are incredible and diverse.

I once made a joke that you know you’ve made it as an artist when your art appears on a banner outside an important institute. Well, according to that theory, it seems I have ‘made it’ as the image of Edgar was the banner image outside the NSW State Library, where the exhibition was held.  ‘Making it’ isn’t quite like I thought it would be, so I guess my theory was a little off and it’s still nose to the grindstone here.  But I like it that way.

Many thanks to Liz Bolster for capturing these images for me.