MLC Junior School Portrait Prize 2025
We invite all Junior School artists to submit a portrait for this year’s Portrait Prize. The theme for this year is ‘My Identity’.
The following questions are prompts to assist with gathering ideas for your portrait:
- How can you tell a person’s identity through a portrait?
- Who are the important people that make you you?
- Is your subject’s story rooted in family, community, culture or nation, or something else altogether?
Entry Guidelines
- Open to all Junior School students – Pre-Kindergarten to Year 6
- The portrait must be of a person who is special to you – someone who is known to you, who knows you and plays a significant role in your life
- Entries can be in most artistic mediums (eg. painting, drawing, collage, textiles etc.) but must be two-dimensional (2D). No photographic or digital art please
- Entries should be created on quality A3 or A4 paper. You are welcome to request paper from the Art Studio
- Only one entry per student
- The artwork must be the student’s own work
- Entry forms are available online Portrait Prize 2025 Entry Form, and can also be collected from the Art Studio
Submissions close on Friday 31 October 2025 (Term 4, Week 3). Please give your artwork and entry form to your Visual Arts teacher on or before this date.
All works entered will be displayed in the Junior School and receive a House point.
Winning entries will be announced at Assembly on Thursday 20 November 2025 (Term 4, Week 6). Winning artworks will be featured in Audacia (the school newsletter), receive a prize and be entered into selected external art competitions.