This is a list of finalists for the 2012

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 ...

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portrait A portrait is a portrait painting, painting, portrait photography, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, Personality type ...

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Vernon Ah Kee Vernon Ah Kee (born 1967) is a contemporary Australian artist, political activist and founding member of ProppaNOW. Based primarily in Brisbane, Queensland, Ah Kee is an Aboriginal Australian man with ties to the Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Yidin ...

– ''I see Deadly people, Lex Wotton '' * Monika Behrens – ''The artist’s practice '' (Self-portrait) *

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 ...

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Lindy Lee Lindy Lee (born 1954) is an Australian painter and sculptor of Chinese heritage, whose work blends the cultures of Australia and her ancestral China and explores her Buddhist faith. She has exhibited widely, and is particularly known for her lar ...

(Year of the Dragon) '' * Natasha Bieniek – ''Fluoroscuro '' (Self-portrait
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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 ...

– ''Self-portrait '
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Emile Sherman Emile Sherman is an Australian film and television producer best known for producing the film ''The King's Speech'' (2010), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Picture and the BAFTA award for Best Film and Best British Film, and for exe ...

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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 ...

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* Luke Cornish – ''Father Bob'' (Bob Maguire)br>(Image)
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Adam Cullen Adam Frederick Cullen (9 October 1965 – 28 July 2012) was an Australian artist, most known for winning the Archibald Prize in 2000 with a portrait of actor David Wenham. He was also known for his controversial subjects and his distincti ...

– ''Nelson and Koko'' (Nelson Woss)br>(Image)
* Jodi Daley – '' Foras admonitio, Private X '' * Melissa Egan – ''Old master,

Charles Blackman Charles Raymond Blackman (12 August 1928 – 20 August 2018) was an Australian painter, noted for the ''Schoolgirl, Avonsleigh'' and ''Alice in Wonderland'' series of the 1950s. He was a member of the Antipodeans, a group of Melbourne painter ...

'' * Robin Eley – ''Bibliography '' (Self-portrait) * David Fairbairn – ''Large head JB no. 1 (with blue ground) '' (James Barker
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Vincent Fantauzzo Vincent Fantauzzo (born 1977, Manchester, England), is a Melbourne-based Australian portrait artist known for his award winning portraits of Heath Ledger, Brandon Walters, Matt Moran, Emma Hack, Baz Luhrmann, Asher Keddie and his son Luca. He has ...

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Kimbra Kimbra Lee Johnson (born 27 March 1990), known mononymously as Kimbra, is a New Zealand singer and songwriter. Known for mixing pop with R&B, jazz and rock musical elements, her accolades include four ARIA Music Awards, two Grammy Awards and se ...

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Juan Ford ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

– '' Ultrapilgrim '' (Self-portrait) *

Benjamin Hedstrom Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's thir ...

– '' Annandale band meeting'' *

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 ...

– ''Jeremy Kibel – self-portrait '
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Rhys Lee Rhys Lee is an Australian visual artist who lives in Aireys Inlet, Victoria, Australia. Coming from a background of street art, Rhys works in a range of media centring on painting with acrylics and oils. Rhys is represented by in a range of art ...

– ''Self-portrait with shiny cardboard armour '
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* Angus McDonald – '' Tim Maguire'' * Tim McMonagle – ''Michael Buxton '
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Nigel Milsom Nigel Milsom is an Australian painter. Early life Milsom was born in 1975 in the southern New South Wales city of Albury. He completed a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) at the University of Newcastle in 1998, and then undertook postgraduate st ...

– ''Untitled'' (Kerry Crowley)
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* Paul Newton – ''Portrait of

David Gonski David Michael Gonski (born 7 October 1953) is an Australian public figure and businessman. In 2008, ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' described Gonski as "one of the country's best-connected businessmen" and dubbed him "Mr Networks" for being "a ...

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* Michael Peck – '' Self-portrait in the image of my son '
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Ben Quilty Ben Quilty (born 1973) is an Australian artist and social commentator, who has won a series of painting prizes: the 2014 Prudential Eye Award, 2011 Archibald Prize, and 2009 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. He has been described as one of Aus ...

– ''Captain S after Afghanistan '
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* Reko Rennie – ''Hetti'' (Hetti Perkins)br>(Image)
* Leslie Rice – ''Seeking a change, Madame Lulu, bearded lady, becomes ‘Tattooed Suzie’ – portrait of Lucky ‘Diamond’ Rich '
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Luke Roberts Luke Justin Roberts (born 25 January 1977) is a sports director and former Australian racing cyclist specialising in both track cycling and road bicycle racing. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he resides both in Adelaide and in Cologne, G ...

– ''In mob we trust ( Richard Bell) '
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Paul Ryan Paul Davis Ryan (born January 29, 1970) is an American former politician who served as the List of Speakers of the United States House of Representatives, 54th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019. A member o ...

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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 ...

– ''After Jack '' (Self portrait) (Winner of the 2012 People's Choice Award)''
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Wendy Sharpe Wendy Sharpe (born 1960 in Sydney) is an Australian artist who lives and works in Sydney and Paris. She is the only child of British parents and has a Russian Jewish heritage. Her father is the writer and historian Alan Sharpe. She counts ...

– ''Self-portrait in Antarctica with penguin and Mawson’s huts '' *

Martin Sharp Martin Ritchie Sharp (21 January 1942 – 1 December 2013) was an Australian artist, cartoonist, songwriter and film-maker. Career Sharp was born in Bellevue Hill, New South Wales in 1942, and educated at Cranbrook private school, where one ...

– ''The thousand dollar bill '' (Portrait of

David Gulpilil David Dhalatnghu Gulpilil (1 July 1953 – 29 November 2021), known professionally as David Gulpilil and posthumously (at his family's request, to avoid naming the dead) as David Dalaithngu for three days, was an Indigenous Australian actor ...

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* Raelene Sharp – ''A strength of character '' (Portrait of John Wood) (Winner of the 2012 Packing Room Prize)''
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* Garry Shead – ''

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* Jiawei Shen – '' Homage to

Esben Storm Esben Storm (26 May 1950 – 28 March 2011) was a Danish Australian actor, screenwriter, television producer, television director, voice artist and songwriter. He was well known for his work with the Australian Children's Television Foundation ...

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* Gary Smith and Frank Thirion – '' The faceless men '' *

Nick Stathopoulos Nick may refer to: * Nick (given name) * A cricket term for a slight deviation of the ball off the edge of the bat * British slang for being arrested * British slang for a police station * British slang for stealing * Short for nickname Place ...

– '' Art does belong. Portrait of

Fenella Kernebone Fenella Kernebone (born 8 June 1976) is an Australian radio and television presenter, MC and interviewer, based in Sydney, with a long record working across the arts, film, music, design, architecture and culture. Her most recent hosting roles i ...

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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 ...

– ''The histrionic wayfarer (after Bosch)'' (Self-portrait) (Winner of the 2012 Archibald Prize)''
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Kate Tucker Kate Tucker is an American songwriter, singer and producer. She is lead singer and guitarist of Kate Tucker and the Sons of Sweden and is also one half of the pop duLittle Reader. History Formed in 2007, Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden's eponymo ...

– ''Melody (you’re the only one who saves me) – portrait of

Missy Higgins Melissa Morrison Higgins (born 19 August 1983), known professionally as Missy Higgins, is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. Her Australian number-one albums are ''The Sound of White'' (2004), ''On a Clear Night'' (2007) and ''The Ol ...

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Michael Vale Michael Vale (June 28, 1922 – December 24, 2005) was an American character actor famous for being the longtime sleepy-eyed mascot "Fred the Baker" for donut chain Dunkin' Donuts, with his famous catchphrase "Time to make the donuts." He was fe ...

– ''Night of the wolverine – a portrait of

Dave Graney Dave Graney is an Australian rock musician, singer-songwriter and author from Melbourne. Since 1978, Graney has collaborated with drummer-multi instrumentalist Clare Moore. The pair have fronted or been involved with numerous bands including Th ...

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Craig Waddell Craig Waddell (born 18 January 1995) is a Scotland, Scottish Curling, curler, a . He is from Stirling. Teams Men's Mixed Mixed doubles Personal life Waddell is the grandson of 1979 European champion Jimmy Waddell. His older brother Kyle W ...

– '' I see myself in you – self-portrait '' *

Rose Wilson Rose Wilson is a fictional character appearing in American comic book, American comic books published by DC Comics. She was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Art Nichols, first appearing in a 1992 issue of ''Deathstroke the Terminator'' #1 ...

– '' Brother of John'' (Portrait of Dan Flynn
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External links

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