Rust-en-Vrede Gallery

Portrait Award 2023

Entries Open: 1 JUNE 2023 @ 00:01
Close: 10 JUNE 2023 @ 23:59

2023 Portrait Award Partners

Previous Portrait Awards:

THE WINNING PORTRAIT:

  • The winner will receive a cash prize of R150 000.
  • The Rust-en-Vrede Gallery will on application assist the winner in entering the next UK Portrait Award competition held by the National Portrait Gallery in London.
  • The winning artwork will feature on the cover of the 2025 portrait award catalogue.
  • The winner will be invited to present a solo exhibition at Rust-en-Vrede Gallery in 2025.

SECOND AND THIRD PRIZE:

  • The second prize winner will receive a cash prize of R30 000.
  • The third prize winner will receive a cash prize of R20 000.

OTHER PRIZES:

  • A month-long Artist’s Residency at the Blue Cactus in Barcelona, sponsored by The COart
  • Ryno Swart Drawing Medal which will be awarded to the best portrait done in a drawing medium as selected by the judges
  • Six Zoom sessions with Andrew James, Master Portrait Artist, former Vice-President and member of the Royal Portrait Society in Britain
  • The Italian Art Shop Sennelier Watercolour Prize
  • The Italian Art Shop Sennelier Oil Prize
  • A Faber Castell Drawing hamper sponsored by Pencafe Durbanville
  • Art Hamper sponsored by Prime Art

THE TOP 40 SELECTED ARTWORKS:

  • The Top 40 artworks will be exhibited at Rust-en-Vrede Gallery in Durbanville from 1 September 2023 until 2 November 2023  and the artists will be invited to the gala event at Rust-en-Vrede Gallery for the award ceremony.
  • The Top 40 works will be published in the 2023 Portrait Award catalogue.
  • The Top 40 works will form part of a touring exhibition.

PORTRAIT 100:

  • The 60 remaining artworks will be displayed as PORTRAIT 100 at The Spier Arts Trust Union House Exhibition Space in Cape Town.
  • The 60 selected artworks will be published in the 2023 Portrait Award catalogue.