2025 Interpretive Portrait Prize
Registration Opens Saturday Oct 4
Doodler, Nudenight and the Wallace family invite entries to produce artworks of and about P. S. Wallace
Finalists will be exhibited in the all new Doodler Gallery (Opening Night) Fri Dec 5.
1st Prize $800 plus a 1 month exhibition at Doodler Jan 9-31st
2nd Prize $200
(judged by secret ballot on opening night. Each Wallace entrant is eligible for one vote. Tie-breaker vote held by P.S.Wallace)
Entries Close Midnight Nov 23rd 2025, Entry Fee $30
Along with the announcement of winners on opening night. Every hanging work will be displayed along with a printed critique of the work from P. S. Wallace explaining where you went right and wrong.
P. S. Wallace is the proprietor of Doodler, Nudenight Life Drawing, and Art Director of PEOWPEOW. He is also sometimes known by his art moniker Stuntmullet, and it is rumoured that he was in fact the frontman for the early 90’s bands I May Just Fuck Myself and LambLambLambMan.
As a model he has served as a curio and muse to this years 40th Anniversary Fletcher Foundation Winner Ev Shipard (currently hanging in the Garden Gallery Sydney Botanical Gardens), and Lester Prize Finalist Jon Potter (currently hanging in The Western Australian Museum). He also saw a magnificent drawing of himself in the wind once, but it went away.
Despite Paul being potentially already dead, he is offering up his body and mind for science and the arts. He asks you to visually interpret him however you want. Find cold beauty, or don’t. Mock him, parody his torn face and tired limbs. It is totally up to you (the artist) to make something. I beg you though. Once you think you have finished, just take a moment and figure out if you could just give it a bit more. Push it a little further. Tear it up and start again. Boring will not win this prize.
Entries are open to portraiture but not strictly limited to it. Abstraction is encouraged interpretations of why P. S Wallace exists will be revelled in. Special consideration given to artworks of bold failure testable observable stoppability and true emotional heart gouging. Artworks displaying characteristics of “fucking goodness” will always be given preference over craft like photographic accuracy.
1 work per artist. We will do all we can to accommodate submissions over 1.8m in any dimension but please advise if that is your intention.
This will be a physical exhibition, so whilst various mediums are eligible, we need to be able to show any finalists (If in doubt just ask Doodler).
Entries may be offered up for sale (conditions apply, please talk to Doodler).
Judging Mechanism
The brief to the judge is to uncover and award on
1. AFFECT ... Emotional creation over that of physical accuracy
2. NOVELTY and originality
3. BEAUTY (and all of it’s gnarled glory)
4. CONTEXT
The sole judge is P. S. Wallace and his decision is final.
To facilitate your understanding of The Wallace P. S. Wallace will be sitting free of charge at Doodler on the following dates (alongside normal Nudenight sessions):
4th Oct 5-6.30pm
8th Oct 9-9.30pm
11th Oct 5-6.30pm
18th Oct 5-7pm
25th Oct 1.30-3.00pm
26th Oct 1.30-2.30pm
2nd Nov 1.30-2.30pm
8th Nov 5-6.30pm
13th Nov 9-10pm