This is a list of finalists for the 2011

Archibald Prize The Archibald Prize is an Australian portraiture art prize for painting, generally seen as the most prestigious portrait prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after the receipt of a bequest from J. F. Archibald, J. F. Archib ...

for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). *

Abdul Abdullah Abdul Abdullah (born 1986) is a Sydney-based Australian multidisciplinary artist, the younger brother of Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, also an artist. Abdul Abdullah has been a finalist several times in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes. He cre ...

– '' Waleed Aly'' *

Giles Alexander Giles may refer to: People * Giles (given name), male given name (Latin: ''Aegidius'') * Giles (surname), family name * Saint Giles (650–710), 7th–8th-century Christian hermit saint * Giles of Assisi, Aegidius of Assisi, 13th-century c ...

– ''Space or bust (portrait of Sam Leach)'' *

Del Kathryn Barton Del Kathryn Barton (born 11 December 1972) is an Australian artist who began drawing at a young age, and studied at UNSW Art & Design (formerly the College of Fine Arts) at the University of New South Wales. She soon became known for her psyche ...

– ''Mother (a portrait of Cate)'' * Jason Benjamin – ''It's not all Henry bloody Lawson'' (portrait of musician

Gareth Liddiard Gareth Liddiard (born 20 November 1975) is an Australian musician, best known as a founding member of both The Drones and Tropical Fuck Storm. Musically active since 1997, he has also released a solo album titled ''Strange Tourist'' in 2010. ...

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Kate Beynon Kate Beynon (born 9 September 1970, in Hong Kong) is an Australian contemporary artist based in Melbourne. She was the 2016 winner of the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize for the painting, ''Graveyard scene/the beauty and sadness of bones.'' Her ...

– ''Painting shirt (self-portrait)'' * Natasha Bieniek – ''October'' (self-portrait) * Deidre But-Husaim – ''Roy Ananda (chin support)'' *

Marcus Callum Marcus, Markus, Márkus or Mărcuș may refer to: * Marcus (name), a masculine given name * Marcus (praenomen), a Roman personal name Places * Marcus, a main belt asteroid, also known as (369088) Marcus 2008 GG44 * Mărcuş, a village in Dobâr ...

– ''Portrait of a seated woman'' (portrait of Vanessa Callum) *

Adam Chang Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as " ...

– '' John Coetzee'' (Winner of the 2011 People's Choice Award) * Zhong Chen – ''Self-portrait on a horse'' * Adam Cullen – ''Charlie'' (portrait of barrister

Charles Waterstreet Charles Christian Waterstreet (born 17 July 1950) is an Australian former barrister, author, and theatre and film producer. He has written two memoirs and produced two films, and he is now a columnist for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' after the ...

) * Lucy Culliton – ''Ray in Paris'' (portrait of art dealer Ray Hughes) * Susanne de Berenger – '' Ted Robinson'' *

Ken Done Kenneth Stephen Done (born 29 June 1940) is an Australian artist best known for his design work. Although his simple, brightly coloured images of Australian landmarks have adorned a very popular range of clothing and homewares sold under the "D ...

– ''Me, March 2011'' (self-portrait) *

Matt Doust Matthew "Matt" Doust (1984 – 28 August 2013) was an internationally renowned American-born Australian hyper-realistic artist who was a finalist in the 2011 Archibald Prize, for his work on a portrait Australian actress and fashion model G ...

– ''White Cocoon'' (portrait of actress

Gemma Ward Gemma Louise Ward is an Australian model and actress. Born in Perth, Western Australia, Ward was first scouted at the age of 14, and made her Australian Fashion Week debut aged 15. She later became the youngest model to appear on the cover of th ...

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Geoffrey Dyer Geoffrey Dyer (1947 – 7 October 2020) was an Australian artist. He was born and died in Hobart, Tasmania. Career He won the Archibald Prize in 2003 with a portrait of Richard Flanagan. He was a finalist of the 2011 Archibald Prize The Ar ...

– ''The collector, David Walsh'' * Vincent Fantauzzo – ''

Matt Moran Matthew Moran (born 15 May 1969) is an Australian chef and restaurateur also known for being a guest on various TV cooking shows. Early life Moran was raised on a dairy farm at Badgerys Creek, west of Sydney, before moving to the outer-west ...

'' (Winner of the 2011 Packing Room Prize) *

Nicholas Harding Nicholas Harding (1956 – 2 November 2022) was a British-born Australian artist, known for his paintings, in particular portraits. Early life Harding was born in London, England in 1956. In 1965 his family emigrated to Australia, settling i ...

– ''Hugo at home'' (portrait of actor

Hugo Weaving Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is an English actor. Born in Colonial Nigeria to English parents, he has resided in Australia for the entirety of his career. He is the recipient of six AACTA Awards, Australian Academy of Cinema and Tel ...

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Jeremy Kibel Jeremy may refer to: * Jeremy (given name), a given name * Jérémy, a French given name * ''Jeremy'' (film), a 1973 film * "Jeremy" (song), a song by Pearl Jam * Jeremy (snail), a left-coiled garden snail that died in 2017 * ''Jeremy'', a 1919 ...

– ''Portrait of Robert Jacks AO'' * Sonia Kretschmar – ''The heart of things (portrait of

Cassandra Golds Cassandra Golds (born 1962) is an Australian children's author. Career Her first book, ''Michael and the Secret War'', was accepted for publication when she was nineteen years old. In collaboration with the artist Stephen Axelsen, she went on ...

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Michael Lindeman Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and ...

– ''Portrait of Wilfred'' (portrait of actor Jason Gann) * Song Ling – ''My name is Fartunate – self-portrait'' *

Fiona Lowry Fiona Lowry (born 1974, Sydney) is an Australian painter who airbrushes pale colours to portray landscapes with people in them. The landscapes are beautiful and ambiguous, provoking the dangerous side of wilderness. Lowry also paints portraits a ...

– ''Portrait of Tim Silver'' *

Tom Macbeth Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character ...

– ''Jessica'' (portrait of sailor Jessica Watson) * Amanda Marburg – ''DA'' (portrait of writer David Astle) * Angus McDonald – ''Dr

Ann Lewis Ann C. Frank Lewis (born December 19, 1937) is a leading American Democratic Party strategist and communicator. Lewis served as White House Communications Director in the Clinton administration and in senior roles under Hillary Clinton. She is ...

AO'' * Alexander McKenzie – '' Richard Roxburgh'' * Christopher McVinish – ''Portrait of Robyn Nevin'' * Andrew Mezei – ''Professor

Penny Sackett Penny Diane Sackett (born 28 February 1956) 19 pages. is an American-born Australian astronomer and former director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA) at the Australian National University (ANU). Professor Sackett was the ...

, astronomer and physicist'' * Lewis Miller – ''Small self-portrait'' *

Rodney Pople Rodney Pople (born 6 September 1952) is an Australian visual artist. Pople was born in Launceston, Tasmania. His works have been the cause of some controversy. Pople studied photography in Tasmania, and sculpture at Slade School of Fine Art, L ...

– ''Artist and family (after

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of hi ...

)'' (portrait of artist, his wife Felicity Fenner and their two sons) * Ben Quilty – ''

Margaret Olley Margaret Hannah Olley (24 June 192326 July 2011) was an Australian painter. She was the subject of more than ninety solo exhibitions. Early life Margaret Olley was born in Lismore, New South Wales. She was the eldest of three children of Jo ...

'' (Winner of the Archibald Prize) *

Craig Ruddy Craig Ruddy (8 August 1968 – 4 January 2022) was an Australian artist, known for winning the Archibald Prize in 2004 with his portrait of Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil. Early life and education Ruddy was born on 8 August 1968, at Forest ...

– '' Cathy Freeman'' *

Jenny Sages Jenny Sages is an Archibald Prize People's Choice Award winning Australian artist born 1933 in Shanghai, China. She is known for her abstract landscape paintings and portraits. She arrived in Australia in 1948. After being expelled from East Sy ...

– ''My Jack'' (portrait of artist's husband, Jack Sages) * Jiawei Shen – ''Self-portrait as Quong Tart's contemporary (after John Thomson), 2010'' * Xenia Stefanescu – ''Woven in tapestry of life'' (self-portrait) *

Tim Storrier Tim Storrier AM (born 13 February 1949, Sydney) is an Australian artist who won the 2012 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with ''The Lunar Savant'', a portrait of fellow artist McLean Edwards. Tim won the 2012 Archibald Prize for a 'facel ...

– ''Moon boy (self-portrait as a young man)'' * Pam Tippett – ''Self-portrait (for a change)'' *

Barbara Tyson Barbara Tyson (born October 1, 1964) is a Canadian actress known for appearing in hit TV series ''Neon Rider'', ''Cold Squad'', '' ER'' and ''The Twilight Zone''. One of her first notable television roles was in '' Another World'' as Dawn "Ivy" R ...

– ''The country's woman: Her Excellency, Ms Quentin Bryce AC, Governor-General of Australia'' *

Peter Wegner Peter A. Wegner (August 20, 1932 – July 27, 2017) was a computer scientist who made significant contributions to both the theory of object-oriented programming during the 1980s and to the relevance of the Church–Turing thesis for empirical ...

– '' Richard Morecroft'' * Apple Xiu Yin – ''Hearing • Meditation'' (portrait of operatic soprano

Cheryl Barker Cheryl Ruth Barker (born 22 April 1960, Sydney) is an Australian operatic soprano who has had an active international career since the late 1980s. She has sung on several complete opera recordings with Chandos Records, including the title ro ...

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