WA’s prestigious annual portrait prize exhibition celebrates both the individuality and universality of human nature, finds Kim Kirkman.
![Sidney Tapia Through you 2020. Oil on wooden board, 22 x 22 cm. A painting of a man who looks to be a First Nations Australian. He has a greying beard and shaggy hair and is facing at right angles to the viewer, but has his head turned to us. He wears a flannelette hoodie. Lester finalists are relatable, dynamic and charismatic](https://www.seesawmag.com.au/wp-content/uploads/fly-images/36606/Tapia_Sidney_Through-you_2-410x273-c.jpg)
Western Australia’s arts playground
Western Australia’s arts playground
19 October 2021
WA’s prestigious annual portrait prize exhibition celebrates both the individuality and universality of human nature, finds Kim Kirkman.