This portrait of Hamish Blake has made the finalists of the prestigious Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award, in Bega NSW and also the Percival Portrait Painting Prize. To give the award its full name, the Glencore Percival Portrait Painting Prize is a $40,000 acquisitive prize, and is on at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, located in one of Townsville's finest heritage buildings, on the corner of Denham and Flinders Streets, in the city centre.
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
Matthew's work, in Search of Gaps is a semi-finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. It will be on display at Juniper Hall in Paddington, Sydney NSW from October. This work has also just returned from exhibition at the Black Swan Portrait Prize in Perth, as part of the Salon des Refuses.