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List of Archibald Prize winners This is a list of winners of the annual Archibald Prize for portrait A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to displa ...

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Lists of finalists

*1920s **

List of Archibald Prize 1921 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 1921 Archibald Prize for portraiture. (listed is Artist – ''Title'')List of Archibald Prize 1922 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 1923 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 1924 finalists **

List of Archibald Prize 1925 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 1925 Archibald Prize for portraiture, listed by Artist and ''Title.'' As the images are copyright, an external link to an image has been listed where available. See also * Previous year: List of Archibal ...

** List of Archibald Prize 1926 finalists *1930s **

List of Archibald Prize 1938 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 1938 Archibald Prize for portraiture, listed by Artist and ''Title.'' As the images are copyright, an external link to an image has been listed where available. See also * Previous year: List of Archiba ...

** List of Archibald Prize 1939 finalists *1940s ** List of Archibald Prize 1946 finalists *1950s *1960s ** List of Archibald Prize 1960 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 1966 finalists *1970s ** List of Archibald Prize 1973 finalists *1980s **

List of Archibald Prize 1986 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 1986 Archibald Prize for portraiture, listed by Artist and ''Title.'' As the images are copyright, an external link to an image has been listed where available. See also * Previous year: List of Archi ...

*1990s ** List of Archibald Prize 1990 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 1991/92 finalists1991/92 finalists
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW ** List of Archibald Prize 1993 finalists **

List of Archibald Prize 1994 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 1994 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). * Roger Akinin – Portrait of Joseph Graffi * Bruce Armstrong – Jan Senbergs * Bob Baird – Salvatore Zofrea – Psalm 58 * Li (David) ...

List of Archibald Prize 1995 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 1995 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). Prize winners The winners of the 1995 Archibald Prizes were: * William Robinson – Self Portrait With Stunned Mullet (Winner: Archibald P ...

List of Archibald Prize 1996 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 1996 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). * Davida Allen – Anne Purves in purple * Rick Amor – Portrait of Paul Boston *Judy Cassab – Robert Juniper * Kordelya Zhansui Chi � ...

** List of Archibald Prize 1997 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 1998 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 1999 finalists *2000s ** List of Archibald Prize 2000 finalists **

List of Archibald Prize 2001 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2001 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). Finalists * Bruce Armstrong – Peter Carey in Kelly country * Michael Bell – Kingo and Boofhead, Lavendar Bay * Danelle Bergstr ...

List of Archibald Prize 2002 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2002 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). Finalists * Bruce Armstrong – Stuart Purves * David Bromley – Charles Blackman * Tom Carment – Richard Neville * Peter Churche ...

** List of Archibald Prize 2003 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 2004 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 2005 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 2006 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 2007 finalists **

List of Archibald Prize 2008 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2008 Archibald Prize for portraiture. As the images are copyrighted, an external link to an image has been listed where available (listed is Artist – ''Title''). * Martin Ball – '' Neil Finn '' (Winner o ...

List of Archibald Prize 2009 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2009 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). * Anthony Bennett – '' self-portrait in the bathroom discussing beauty, bukowski and brett whiteley with my ex, now a stripper, who likes ...

*2010s ** List of Archibald Prize 2010 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 2011 finalists **

List of Archibald Prize 2012 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2012 Archibald Prize for portraiture. As the images are copyrighted, an external link to an image has been listed where available (listed is Artist – ''Title''). *Vernon Ah Kee – ''I see Deadly people, Lex W ...

** List of Archibald Prize 2013 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 2014 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 2015 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 2016 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 2017 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 2018 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 2019 finalists *2020s ** List of Archibald Prize 2020 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 2021 finalists **

List of Archibald Prize 2022 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2022 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). Of the 816 entries received for the Archibald Prize, 52 artworks were selected as finalists. A record 20 Aboriginal Australian artists ent ...

Notable Archibald artists

There is a number of artists who have been judged finalists more than twenty times. (Many of these have never won the main prize.) These include: * Bill Leak *

Keith Looby Keith Looby (born 1940 in Sydney, Australia), is an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1984 with a portrait of Max Gillies. Early life and education Looby was raised in the Sydney suburbs of Newtown and Bondi. He studied at Ea ...

Robert Hannaford Robert Lyall "Alfie" Hannaford , (born 9 November 1944) is an Australian realist artist notable for his drawings, paintings, portraits and sculptures. He is a great-great-great-grandson of Susannah Hannaford. Family Hannaford was born a ...

* L. Scott Pendlebury *

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 ...

Notable subjects

Besides the winners, there have been many hundreds of Archibald finalists featuring portraits of Australian celebrities, including musicians, athletes, politicians, film-makers and artists. Some selected ones: (listed Artist – ''Subject'') ; 1979 * Lance Bressow – ''Dame

Joan Sutherland Dame Joan Alston Sutherland, (7 November 1926 – 10 October 2010) was an Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s. She possessed ...

'' *

Josonia Palaitis Josonia Palaitis (born 1949) is an Australian artist living in Sydney, Australia. She won the 1994 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with a portrait of her father artist John Mills. In 1995 she won the Archibald Prize People's Choice award w ...

– ''The Honourable

John Howard John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, holding office as leader of the Liberal Party. His eleven-year tenure as prime minister is the ...

, M.P.'' * L. Scott Pendlebury – '' Anne and

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Pendlebury (Actress and Musician respectively)'' ; 1980 *

Charles William Bush Charles William Bush (23 November 1919 – 13 November 1989) was an Australian painter. History Bush was born in North Carlton, Melbourne, a son of signwriter Andrew Charles Thomas Bush (born 1898), and Alice Maud Bush née Rohsburn (died 21 Apr ...

– '' Sir John Kerr'' ; 1981 *

William Dargie Captain Sir William Alexander Dargie (4 June 1912 – 26 July 2003) was a renowned Australian painter, known especially for his portrait paintings. He won the Archibald Prize, Australia's premier award for portrait artists on eight separat ...

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Joh Bjelke-Petersen Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen (13 January 191123 April 2005), known as Joh Bjelke-Petersen, was a conservative Australian politician. He was the longest-serving and longest-lived premier of Queensland, holding office from 1968 to 1987, during ...

'' ; 1982 * Rex Dupain – ''Max's Muse'' (

Max Dupain Maxwell Spencer Dupain AC OBE (22 April 191127 July 1992) was an Australian modernist photographer. Early life Dupain received his first camera as a gift in 1924, spurring his interest in photography. He later joined the Photographic Society ...

) *

Geoff La Gerche Geoffrey, Geoffroy, Geoff, etc., may refer to: People * Geoffrey (name), including a list of people with the name * Geoffroy (surname), including a list of people with the name * Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1095–c. 1155), clergyman and one of the m ...

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Patrick White Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was a British-born Australian writer who published 12 novels, three short-story collections, and eight plays, from 1935 to 1987. White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, ...

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Ted Markstein TED may refer to: Economics and finance * TED spread between U.S. Treasuries and Eurodollar Education * ''Türk Eğitim Derneği'', the Turkish Education Association ** TED Ankara College Foundation Schools, Turkey ** Transvaal Education Depart ...

– ''The Great White Hope in the Land of the Blind'' (

)15' x 5' oil on canvas. Lost by the University of NSW about 11 years ago. ''(How can you "lose" a painting nearly 5m by 2m?)'' ; 1983 * Wesley Walters – '' Molly'' ; 1984 *

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Max Gillies Maxwell Irvine Gillies AM (born 16 November 1941) is an Australian actor and a founding member of the 1970s experimental theatre company, the Australian Performing Group. Early life and education Gillies studied art teaching at Frankston Tea ...

'' * Wesley Walters – ''Portrait of

Colleen McCullough Colleen Margaretta McCullough (; married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson; 1 June 193729 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being '' The Thorn Birds'' and '' The Ladies of Missalonghi''. Lif ...

'' ; 1985 *

Susan Rothwell Susan is a feminine given name, from Persian "Susan" (lily flower), from Egyptian '' sšn'' and Coptic ''shoshen'' meaning "lotus flower", from Hebrew ''Shoshana'' meaning "lily" (in modern Hebrew this also means "rose" and a flower in general), ...

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Peter Weir Peter Lindsay Weir ( ; born August 21, 1944) is a retired Australian film director. He's known for directing films crossing various genres over forty years with films such as '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (1975), '' Gallipoli'' (1981), ''Witnes ...

'' ; 1986 * Naomi Berns – ''

David Williamson David Keith Williamson AO (born 24 February 1942) is an Australian dramatist and playwright. He has also written screenplays and teleplays. Early life David Williamson was born in Melbourne, Victoria, on 24 February 1942, and was brought up ...

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Fred Cress Frederick Harold Cress (10 July 1938 – 14 October 2009) was a British painter who migrated to Australia and won the Archibald Prize in 1988 with a portrait of John Beard. Cress was born in Poona, British Raj, but went to England with his pa ...

– David Armstrong ; 1987 * Keith Looby – ''

Manning Clark Charles Manning Hope Clark, (3 March 1915 – 23 May 1991) was an Australian historian and the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume ''A History of Australia'', published between 1962 and 1987. He has been descri ...

'' ; 1988 * Leeka Gruzdeff – ''

Don Burrows Donald Vernon Burrows (8 August 1928 – 12 March 2020) was an Australian jazz and swing musician who played clarinet, saxophone and flute. Life and career Donald Vernon Burrows was born on 8 August 1928, the only child of Vernon and Beryl and ...

'' *

Sidney Nolan Sir Sidney Robert Nolan (22 April 191728 November 1992) was one of Australia's leading artists of the 20th century. Working in a wide variety of mediums, his oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is best known ...

– ''

Arthur Boyd Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd (24 July 1920 – 24 April 1999) was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, ...

at Fitzroy Falls'' ; 1989 * Tim Harris – ''The

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with the Risen Elvis'' * Bernd Heinrich – ''

Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael Keneally, Officer of the Order of Australia, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his non-fiction novel ''Schindler's Ark'', the story of Oskar Schindler's rescu ...

'' * Bill Leak – ''Sir

Donald Bradman Sir Donald George Bradman, (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), nicknamed "The Don", was an Australian international cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. Bradman's career Test cricket, Test batting average (c ...

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Brett Whiteley Brett Whiteley AO (7 April 1939 – 15 June 1992) was an Australian artist. He is represented in the collections of all the large Australian galleries, and was twice winner of the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes. He held many exhibiti ...

– ''Portrait of

Francis Bacon Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626), also known as Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Bacon led the advancement of both ...

'' ; 1990 *

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– '' Kaz Cooke'' ; 1991/1992 * Vladas Meskenas – ''Dr

Victor Chang Victor Peter Chang, AC (born Chang Yam Him; 21 November 19364 July 1991), was a Chinese-born Australian cardiac surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation in Australia. His sudden murder in 1991 stunned Australia, and is considered ...

'' *

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– ''The Long Afternoon – Portrait of Dr

Germaine Greer Germaine Greer (; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the radical feminist movement in the latter half of the 20th century. Specializing in English and women's literatu ...

Lists of finalists

Notable Archibald artists

Notable subjects

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