This is a list of finalists for the 2018
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
portrait
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face is always predominant. In arts, a portrait may be represented as half body and even full body. If the subject in full body better r ...
ure, listed is Artist β ''Title''.
(As the images are copyright, an external link to an image has been listed where available.)
* Benjamin Aitken β ''Natasha'' (Portrait of Natasha Bieniek β
Image
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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 psych ...
β ''Self-portrait with studio wife''
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Jason Benjamin β ''So you want to come down and the silence of painting (self-portrait)''
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Peter Berner
Peter Berner (born February 1963) is an Australian stand-up comedian and television and radio presenter. He hosted ''The Einstein Factor'' and ''Backberner'' on ABC Television. He previously hosted the news comedy TV series '' The B Team with P ...
β ''Self-portrait with hindsight''
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Amber Boardman β ''Self-care exhaustion''
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Joanna Braithwaite β ''Hall of fame β portrait of
Pat Corrigan''
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Jun Chen β ''Judith Bell''
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Yvette Coppersmith
Yvette Coppersmith (born 1980) is an Australian painter; she specialises in portraiture and still life. In 2018 she won the Archibald Prize with a self-portrait, in the style of George Lambert.
Coppersmith studied at the Victorian College of t ...
β ''Self-portrait, after George Lambert'' Winner: Archibald Prize 2018
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Tony Costa
Antone Charles "Tony" Costa (August 2, 1944 β May 12, 1974), sometimes referred to as the Cape Cod Vampire or the Cape Cod Cannibal was an American serial killers, American serial killer who was active in and around the town of Truro, Mas ...
β ''
Claudia Chan Shaw''
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Jonathan Dalton β ''Abdul''
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David Darcy
David Darcy (11 August 19431 August 2020) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s. Darcy also played for and coached South Adelaide in the South Australian National F ...
β ''Charlotte''
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Amanda Davies
Amanda Davies (born 24 March 1980) is an English sports presenter on CNN International.
Early life
Davies was born on 24 March 1980 in Manchester. She is the daughter of sports journalist and sports administrator David Davies. She was educ ...
β ''Self-portrait''
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Blak Douglas
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Blak Douglas, formerly known as Adam Douglas Hill, is an Aboriginal Australian artist and musician. he is based in Sydney, New South Wales.
Early life and education
He is a Dhungatti man, with Irish, Scots, English, and German anc ...
β'' Uncle Roy Kennedy''
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Graeme Drendel β ''Portrait of Michel''
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Yvonne East β ''The Honourable Chief Justice
Susan Kiefel
Susan Mary Kiefel (; born 1954) is an Australian lawyer and barrister who was the 13th Chief Justice of Australia from 2017 to 2023. She concurrently served on the High Court of Australia from 2007 to 2023, previously being a judge of both the ...
AC''
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Marc Etherington Marc or MARC may refer to:
People
* Marc (given name), people with the first name
* Marc (surname), people with the family name
Acronyms
* MARC standards, a data format used for library cataloging,
* MARC Train, a regional commuter rail syste ...
β ''Me and Granny''
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Marina Finlay β ''
Peter
Peter may refer to:
People
* List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* Peter (given name)
** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church
* Peter (surname), a su ...
, Coco and Susan O'Doherty''
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Prudence Flint
Prudence (, Contraction (grammar), contracted from meaning "seeing ahead, sagacity") is the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason. It is classically considered to be a virtue, and in particular one of the four cardina ...
β ''Double''
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Andrew Lloyd Greensmith β ''The serenity of
Susan Carland''
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David Griggs β ''The warrior and the prophet''
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Melissa Grisancich β ''
Courtney Barnett
Courtney Melba Barnett (born 3 November 1987) is an Australian singer, songwriter, and musician. Known for her deadpan singing style and witty, rambling lyrics, she attracted attention with the release of her debut EP ''I've Got a Friend Calle ...
and her weapon of choice''
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Robert Hannaford
Robert Lyall "Alfie" Hannaford is an Australian realist artist notable for his drawings, paintings, portraits and sculptures. He is a great-great-great-grandson of Susannah Hannaford.
Early life, education, and family
Robert Lyall Hann ...
β ''Robert Hannaford self-portrait''
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Tsering Hannaford
Tsering Hannaford is an Australian artist.
In 2012 Tsering and her father Robert Hannaford were the "first father and daughter to show concurrently in ''Salon des RefusΓ©s'', an exhibition of Archibald entries",
''(Page includes a pho ...
β ''Self-portrait''
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Nicholas Harding
Nicholas Harding (1956 β 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 ...
β ''Treatment, day 49 (sorbolene soak)''
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Amani Haydar β ''Insert headline here''
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Pei Pei He β ''Portrait of Theodore Wohng''
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Paul Jackson β ''
Alison Whyte
Alison Whyte (born 1968 in Tasmania) is an Australian actress best known for her roles on the Australian television series '' Frontline'' and '' Satisfaction''.
Acting career
A former student of classical ballet, Whyte graduated from the Victo ...
, a mother of the renaissance''
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Kathrin Longhurst β ''Self: past, present and future''
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Mathew Lynn
Mathew is a masculine given name and a variant of Matthew. It is also used as a surname.
As a given name
Notable people with the given name include:
* Mathew Baynton (born 1980), English actor and comedian
* Mat Erpelding (born 1975), Americ ...
β ''
Gladys Berejiklian
Gladys Berejiklian (; born 22 September 1970) is an Australian businesswoman and former politician who served as the 45th premier of New South Wales and the leader of the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party from 2017 to 2021. Berejikl ...
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Alison Mackay β ''Quid pro quo (portrait of photographer Gary Grealy)''
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William Mackinnon β ''The long apprenticeship''
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Euan Macleod
Euan Macleod (born 1956) is a New Zealand-born artist. Macleod was born in Christchurch, New Zealand and moved to Sydney, Australia in 1981, where he lives and works. He received a Certificate in Graphic Design from Christchurch Technical Colle ...
β ''Guy at Jamberoo''
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Guy Maestri β ''The fourth week of parenthood (self-portrait)''
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Robert Malherbe
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''HrΕΓΎiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, reno ...
β ''Michael Reid''
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India Mark β ''Candy''
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Fiona McMonagle β ''Sangeeta Sandrasegar''
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Julian Meagher β ''Herb and Flan''
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Anne Middleton β ''
Guy
Guy or GUY may refer to:
Personal names
* Guy (given name)
* Guy (surname)
* That Guy (...), the New Zealand street performer Leigh Hart
Places
* Guy, Alberta, a Canadian hamlet
* Guy, Arkansas, US, a city
* Guy, Indiana, US, an uninc ...
'' (Winner: People's Choice Award 2018)
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Stephanie Monteith β ''The letter β I really wanted to paint
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer (; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and feminist, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement in the latter half of the 20th century.
Specializing in English and women's literature, she ...
, but she said 'no' (self-portrait)''
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Vincent Namatjira
Vincent Namatjira (born 14 June 1983) is an Aboriginal Australian artist living in Indulkana, in the APY lands in South Australia. After being a finalist for the Archibald Prize three times, he became the first Indigenous artist to win the pr ...
β ''Studio self-portrait''
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Kirsty Neilson β ''Anxiety still at 30''
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Tom Polo β ''I once thought I'd do anything for you (Joan)''
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James Powditch β ''Narcissist, the anatomy of melancholy''
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Jamie Preisz β ''
Jimmy
Jimmy may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film and television
* ''Jimmy'' (2008 film), a 2008 Hindi thriller directed by Raj N. Sippy
* ''Jimmy'' (1979 film), a 1979 Indian Malayalam film directed by Melattoor Ravi Varma
* ''Jimmy'' (2013 f ...
(title fight)'' Winner: Packing Room Prize 2018
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Jordan Richardson β ''
David Wenham
David Wenham (born 21 September 1965) is an Australian actor who has appeared in film, television and theatre. He is known for his roles as Faramir in The Lord of the Rings (film series), ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy, Friar Carl in ' ...
and hat''
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Sally Ross β ''The Huxleys''
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Dee Smart β ''Lunch in the outback''
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Ben Smith β ''
Tony
Tony may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Tony the Tiger, cartoon mascot for Frosted Flakes cereal
* Tony (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters
* Gregory Tony (born 1978), American law enforcement officer
* ...
''
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Loribelle Spirovski β ''Villains always get the best lines''
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Vanessa Stockard β ''Self-portrait''
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Noel Thurgate β ''
Elisabeth Cummings in her studio at Wedderburn, 1974 and 2018''
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Angela Tiatia β ''Study for a self-portrait''
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Natasha Walsh
Natasha is a name of Russian origin. It is the diminutive form of the Latin name Natalia, which means "born on Christmas Day".
Notable people
* Natasha Aguilar (1970β2016), Costa Rican swimmer
* Natasha Allegri (born 1986), American creator, ...
β ''Numb to touch (self-portrait)''
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Mirra Whale β ''
Don''
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Marcus Wills
Marcus Wills (born 1972) is an Australian painter, winner of the 2006 Archibald Prize and finalist in many other art competitions.
Early life and education
Wills was born in Kaniva, Victoria in 1972.
He studied for an Advanced Certificate o ...
β ''Lotte'' (Portrait of Lotte St Clair)
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Karyn Zamel β ''
Marina Finlay''
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Salvatore Zofrea
Salvatore Zofrea (born 1946) is an Italo-Australian artist and painter.Marlene Antico Fine Arts'Zofrea ExhibitionAccessed 06-20-2008
Life and work
Zofrea was born in Borgia Italy, on the 1st January 1946, and emigrated to Australia in 1956. ...
β ''
Sally Dowling
Sally Dowling is an Australian lawyer who has been Director of Public Prosecutions for New South Wales since August 2021.
Early life and education
Dowling is one of three children; her mother, Stephanie Claire, worked as an English teacher and ...
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See also
*Previous year:
List of Archibald Prize 2017 finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 2017 Archibald Prize for portraiture. As the images are copyright, an external link to an image has been listed where available (listed is Artist β ''Title'').
*Tony Albert β '' Self-portrait (ash on me)'' ...
*Next year:
List of Archibald Prize 2019 finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 2019 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist β ''Title''). As the images are copyrighted, an external link to an image has been listed where available.
*Clara Adolphs β ''Rosemary Laing and Geoff K ...
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List of Archibald Prize winners
This is a list of winners of the annual Archibald Prize for portraiture, first awarded in 1921.
List of winners
Gallery
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References
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