187 portraits shortlisted for the Scottish Portrait Awards

The Scottish Portrait Awards have shortlisted 187 works from nearly 2,500 entries, by more than 180 artists from across Scotland, including Orkney and Dumfries and Galloway. Several have never shown work publicly before. The exhibition opens at National Galleries Scotland: Portrait on 28 November and runs to 11 April.

There are three categories: fine art, photography, and a free-to-enter phone portrait award called Scotland Now! Prizes come to £17,500, and the fine art and photography winners each receive a commission that enters the national collection. Judges include Kirsty Wark, the photographer Albert Watson and Calum Stevenson.

This is the ninth year of the awards, run by the Scottish Arts Trust, and the first time the National Galleries have hosted them. Robyn Jenkins, an animation student at Edinburgh College of Art, is 18 and among the youngest artists selected. Admission is free.