The Lester Prize for Portraiture | Pre-Selection and Judging
The Pre-Selection Panel members and Judges for the Main Awards change every year. They are a group of independent experts in their respective fields with no commercial association with The Lester Prize.
During the Pre-Selection process, the panel is never provided the name or location of the artist (just the artwork image, title, dimensions and medium on screen).
Unfortunately, due to the large volume of submissions, we are unable to provide individual feedback to entrants.
This is the same process that many art prizes both in Australia and overseas undertake, and one that the Prize has followed since its inception.
Our Pre-Selection and Judging processes are fully transparent and something we are very proud of as we work hard to ensure there is no bias, personal, political or financial influence in the selection of our Finalists and Winners.
We are unable to enter into any correspondence about the selection of the Finalists and Winners.
We stand by and support all our Finalists, and respect the decisions made by our independent Pre-Selection Panellists and Judges.
