This is a list of finalists for the 2000

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'').

Finalists

As well as the usual Archibald with its set criteria, there was a Sporting Archibald which had a focus on sport due to the

2000 Sydney Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

. * Chris Antico – ''The Captain: Mark Taylor'' (cricket captain) * Michael Bell – ''The Sandman'' (comedian Steve Abbott) * Simon Benz – Anna Wilson (cyclist) *

Melissa Beowulf Melissa Beowulf (born 1957) is an Australian artist, specialising in portraiture. She grew up in Sydney, Australia and moved to Canberra in the late 1980s, later working between both Woollahra and Canberra. Education Beowulf undertook a mas ...

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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 " ...

(painter) * David Bromley – ''Strongest man of the games'' (

Dean Lukin Dinko "Dean" Lukin, OAM (born 26 May 1960) is a retired weightlifter from Australia. Lukin won the gold medal in the Super Heavyweight category at the 1984 Summer Olympics, held in Los Angeles. He carried the Australian flag during the closin ...

, weightlifter) * Tom Carment – ''Presbyterian self-portrait'' * Tom Carment – Don Idle, footballer * Adam Cullen – Portrait of

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 trilogy, Friar Carl in ''Van Helsing'', Dilios in ''300'' and ...

(Winner: Archibald Prize 2000) * Adam Cullen – Portrait of

Mark Occhilupo Marco Jay Luciano "Mark" Occhilupo (born 16 June 1966) is an Australian surfer and winner of the 1999 ASP World title. Occhilupo, also known as "Occy", began his professional career in the World Championship Tour (WCT) at the age of 17. In S ...

(surfer) *

Max Cullen Max Cullen (born 29 April 1940) is an Australian stage and screen actor. He has appeared in many Australian films and television series but is best known for his role in the film ''Spider and Rose'' and the television series ''The Flying Doctors ...

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Geoffrey Rush Geoffrey Roy Rush (born 6 July 1951) is an Australian actor. He is known for his Eccentricity (behavior), eccentric leading man roles on stage and screen. He is among 24 people who have won the Triple Crown of Acting, having received an Academy ...

(actor) * Elisabeth Cummings – May Barrie * Geoffrey Dyer –

Christopher Koch Christopher John Koch Order of Australia, AO (16 July 1932 – 23 September 2013) was an Australian novelist, known for his 1978 novel ''The Year of Living Dangerously (novel), The Year of Living Dangerously'', which was adapted into an The Yea ...

(author) * Esther Erlich – ''Never been better'' * David Fairbairn – Portrait of Victoria Hahn * Nic Fern –

Vicki Wilson Vicki Wilson, OAM, (born 11 February 1965 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian netball coach and retired international player. She is the current head coach of the Netball Fiji side. Netball career Wilson was a part of the Australian nati ...

(netball player) * Julie Fragar – ''Self-portrait with the artist: Julie Fragar, Chuck Close and security'' * Nicholas Harding – Portrait of John Bell * Juliet Holmes a Court – Portrait of George (

George Gregan George Musarurwa Gregan AM (born 19 April 1973) is a retired Australian rugby union player, and is currently Australia's most capped international player. Gregan was born in Lusaka, Zambia. He played Super 12 (now Super Rugby) for the Brumbies ...

, rugby player) * Colin Husband – Paul Bennett * Glenda Jones –

Nova Peris-Kneebone Nova Maree Peris (born 25 February 1971) is an Aboriginal Australian athlete and former politician. As part of the Australian women's field hockey (Hockeyroos) team at the 1996 Olympic Games, she was the first Aboriginal Australian to win an ...

(Gold Medalist with Australian Hockey Team) * Robin Lawrence – Andrea Durbach *

Bill Leak Desmond Robert "Bill" Leak (9 January 1956 – 10 March 2017) was an Australian editorial cartoonist, caricaturist and portraitist. Raised in Condobolin and Beacon Hill, Sydney, Leak attended Julian Ashton Art School during the 1970s. His cart ...

– '''Are you with me: portrait of

Sir Les Patterson Sir Leslie Colin "Les" Patterson (born 1 April 1942) is a fictional character created and portrayed by Australian comedian Barry Humphries. Obese, lecherous and offensive, Patterson is Dame Edna Everage's exact opposite: she is female, refined, Pr ...

* Kerrie Lester – ''

Susie Maroney Susan Jean Maroney (born 15 November 1974) is an Australian former marathon swimmer. In 2019, Maroney competed in the sixth season of ''Australian Survivor''. She was eliminated on Day 7 and finished in 22nd place. Swimming career Maroney wa ...

, True Blue Sue'' (swimmer) * Barbara Licha – ''Smile'' * Keith Looby –

Anne Summers Anne Summers AO (born 12 March 1945) is an Australian writer and columnist, best known as a leading feminist, editor and publisher. She was formerly First Assistant Secretary of the Office of the Status of Women in the Department of the Prime M ...

(journalist) * Mathew Lynn – Dr

John Yu John Samuel Yu (; born 12 December 1934) is a Chinese-born Australian paediatrics doctor who served as CEO of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children from 1979 until 1997. He was the Australian of the Year for 1996. Early life and educatio ...

* Lewis Miller – Ronald Dale Barassi (AFL footballer) * Lewis Miller – Self-portrait * Ann Morton –

Edwin Carr Edwin Carr may refer to: * Edwin Carr (composer) Edwin James Nairn Carr (10 August 1926 – 27 March 2003) was a composer of classical music from New Zealand. Biography Edwin Carr was born in Auckland and was educated at Otago Boys' High S ...

'Old Gold' (athletics) * Henry Mulholland – Padriac P. McGuinness * David Naseby –

Kostya Tszyu Konstantin Borisovich "Kostya" Tszyu (; rus, Константин Борисович «Костя» Цзю, , kənstɐnʲˈtʲin bɐˈrisəvʲɪtɕ ˈkosʲtʲə ˈdzːʲu; born 19 September 1969) is a Russian Australian former professional b ...

(boxer) * Paul Newton – Portrait of

David Campese David Ian Campese, AM (born 21 October 1962), also known as Campo, is a former Australian rugby union player (1982-1996), who was capped by the Wallabies 101 times, and played 85 Tests at wing and 16 at fullback. He retired in 1996 and was aw ...

(rugby player) *

Evert Ploeg Evert Ploeg (pronounced Ay-vert Plough; born 1963 in Sydney, New South Wales) is one of Australia's most highly regarded portrait painting, portrait painters, who has won a range of painting prizes, such as the 1999 and 2007 Archibald Prize ( Peo ...

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Louise Sauvage Alix Louise Sauvage, OAM (born 18 September 1973) is an Australian paralympic wheelchair racer and leading coach. Sauvage is often regarded as the most renowned disabled sportswoman in Australia. She won nine gold and four silver medals at f ...

(wheelchair athlete) *

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 ...

– ''Each morning when I wake up I put on my mother's face'' *

Garry Shead Garry Shead is an Australian artist and filmmaker. His paintings are in many galleries in Australia and overseas, and he has won several awards, including the Archibald Prize in 1992. He has spent time in Japan, Papua New Guinea, France, Austria, ...

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Sasha Grishin Alexander "Sasha" Dmitrievich Grishin is an Australian art historian, art critic and curator based in Victoria and Canberra. He is known as an art critic, and for establishing the academic discipline of art history at the Australian National Uni ...

(art critic) * Andrew Sibley – Marilyn Peddell (lawnbowls) * Ian Smith – ''Ray Hughes getting his desserts'' * Michael Snape – Stephen Mori * Kim Spooner – '''blue ( Kerry O'Brien) * Anne Spudvilas – Leigh Hobbs * Ann Thomson – ''Portrait of the artist as a painting'' * Branca Uzur – Paul Byrnes * John R Walker – William Wright *

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 ...

– Portrait of Professor Graeme Clark * Peter Wegner – Portrait of

Darren Gauci Darren Gauci (born 26 December 1965, in Melbourne, Australia) is a former Australian jockey. Racing career Gauci was one of Australia's most successful and durable jockeys. He won the Senior Victorian Jockeys Premiership in 1983–84, 1985� ...

(jockey) * Jan Williamson – Tom Carroll (surfer) * Louise Wood – ''Determination'' –

Michael Klim 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 ...

(swimmer) * Huihai Xie –

Johnny Raper John William Raper (12 April 1939 – 9 February 2022) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer and coach. Nicknamed "Chook", he was a lock-forward who earned a then-record of 33 Test caps in the Australia national team between ...

– ''A living legend'' (rugby league player)

External links

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Finalists

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