Megan Seres has taken out top honours at this year’s Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with a painting of her daughter.

The recipients of the prestigious Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize have been announced at Juniper Hall in Paddington, Sydney. The winner of the 2016 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize is Sydney based artist Megan Seres for Scarlett as Colonial Girl, while Perth based photographer Johannes Reinhart has been awarded the 2016 Moran Contemporary Photographic prize for Mermaid Show.

Megan Seres’s prize-winning portrait Scarlett as Colonial Girl. Photo courtesy of the Moran Foundation

Established in 1988, the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize is thought to be the world’s most substantial portraiture prize. Megan Seres received $150,000 prize money for her arresting portrait of her daughter Scarlett. The competition invites entries of original works from Australian artists, capturing people from all walks of life.

In response to her win, Seres stated “I’m so overwhelmed. I think what the Moran Foundation does is it brings absolute joy to so many artists. For an artist like myself to be able to walk into a space where there are so...