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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 File:1922 Archibald McInnes Moore.jpg , 1922 (McInnes) File:1923 Archibald McInnes Lady ...

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*1920s ** List of Archibald Prize 1921 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 1922 finalists **

List of Archibald Prize 1923 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 1923 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 1924 finalists ** List of Archibald Prize 1925 finalists ** 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 Archibal ...

List of Archibald Prize 1939 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 1939 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 ...

*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 This is a list of finalists for the 1973 Archibald Prize for Portrait, 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 o ...

*1980s ** List of Archibald Prize 1986 finalists *1990s **

List of Archibald Prize 1990 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 1990 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). Prize winners The 1990 Archibald Prize winners were:

List of Archibald Prize 1991/92 finalists A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...

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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) B ...

** List of Archibald Prize 1995 finalists **

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 This is a list of finalists for the 1997 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). * Rick Amor – Peter Carey at the VACB Studio, Soho, New York * Tom Carment – Roger McDonald at work * Judy Cassab – Elwyn Lynn * ...

List of Archibald Prize 1998 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 1998 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). * Rick Amor – Portrait of Bruce Pollard * Danelle Bergstrom – JF-S transposition * Steve Bowden – Images in the mirror * Wa ...

List of Archibald Prize 1999 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 1999 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). Prize winners The Prize winners were: * Euan MacLeod – Self-portrait/head like a hole (Winner: Archibald Prize 1999) * Deny Christian – ...

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List of Archibald Prize 2000 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2000 Archibald Prize 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 S ...

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 (artist), David Bromley – Charles Blackman * Tom Carment – Richard N ...

List of Archibald Prize 2003 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2003 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). Finalists *Davida Allen – Philip Bacon, art dealer; reading a letter from Barry... * Rick Amor – Portrait of Lewis Miller *Danelle Bergs ...

List of Archibald Prize 2004 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2004 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). * Richard Bell – ''I am not sorry'' – (self-portrait) * Jason Benjamin – ''Bread & circuses'' – ( John Olsen)Image *Danelle Bergstro ...

List of Archibald Prize 2005 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2005 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). * Rick Amor – ''Shane Maloney''Image *Bruce Armstrong – ''Self portrait''Image *Martin Ball – ''John Pule'' *John Beard – '' Hilarie ...

List of Archibald Prize 2006 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2006 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). *Catherine Abel – ''Portrait of Julia Leigh'' *John Beard (artist), John Beard – ''Ken Unsworth'' *Danelle Bergstrom – ''Back to fr ...

List of Archibald Prize 2007 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2007 Archibald Prize for portraiture. *Martin Ball – ''Mark McClean'' *Del Kathryn Barton – ''Vasili Kaliman and contained familiar together within the Dreaming '' *John Beard – '' Janet Laurence '' (Win ...

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 of th ...

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 This is a list of finalists for the 2011 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). *Abdul Abdullah – ''Waleed Aly'' *Giles Alexander – ''Space or bust (portrait of Sam Leach (artist), Sam Leach)'' *Del Kathryn Barton � ...

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 This is a list of finalists for the 2013 Archibald Prize for portraiture. As the images are copyrighted, an external link to an image has been listed where available (listed is Artist – ''Title''). *Abdul Abdullah – ''The man'' (Portrait of A ...

List of Archibald Prize 2014 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2014 Archibald Prize for portraiture. As the images are copyrighted, an external link to an image has been listed where available (listed is Artist – ''Title''). *Abdul Abdullah – ''I wanted to paint him as ...

List of Archibald Prize 2015 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2015 Archibald Prize for portraiture. As the images are copyrighted, an external link to an image has been listed where available (listed is Artist – ''Title''). * Adam Alcorn – '' Alice Fraser '' *John Be ...

List of Archibald Prize 2016 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2016 Archibald Prize for portraiture. As the images are copyrighted, an external link to an image has been listed where available (listed is Artist – ''Title''). *Abdul Abdullah – ''The cost '' (Portrait of C ...

** List of Archibald Prize 2017 finalists **

List of Archibald Prize 2018 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2018 Archibald Prize for portraiture, listed is Artist – ''Title''. (As the images are copyright, an external link to an image has been listed where available.) * Benjamin Aitken – ''Natasha'' (Portrait of N ...

List of Archibald Prize 2019 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2019 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). As the images are copyrighted, an external link to an image has been listed where available. * Clara Adolphs – '' Rosemary Laing and Geoff ...

*2020s **

List of Archibald Prize 2020 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2020 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). As the images are copyrighted, an external link to an image has been listed where available. * - ''Untitled self-portrait'' * - ''Self-port ...

List of Archibald Prize 2021 finalists This is a list of finalists for the 2021 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – ''Title''). 52 artworks were selected from the 938 entries received. 2021 was the first year with gender parity among the artists. As the images are cop ...

** List of Archibald Prize 2022 finalists

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 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 ...

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 L. Scott Pendlebury or Laurence Scott Pendlebury (21 April 1914 – May 1986) was an Australian landscape and portrait artist and teacher. He married fellow artist Eleanor Constance "Nornie" Gude (8 December 1915 – 24 January 2002) ...

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 ...

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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 wit ...

– ''The Honourable

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Anne Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female given name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie. Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the ...

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Pendlebury (Actress and Musician respectively)'' ; 1980 * Charles William Bush – ''

Sir John Kerr Sir John Robert Kerr (24 September 1914 – 24 March 1991) was an Australian barrister and judge who served as the 18th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1974 to 1977. He is primarily known for his involvement in the 1975 constit ...

'' ; 1981 *

William Dargie Captain (armed forces), 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 ...

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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 – ''

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, ...

'' * Ted Markstein – ''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''. Life ...

'' ; 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), ''Witness ...

'' ; 1986 * Naomi Berns – ''

David Williamson David Keith Williamson Officer of the Order of Australia, AO (born 24 February 1942) is an Australians, Australian dramatist and playwright. He has also written screenplays and teleplays. Early life David Williamson was born in Melbourne, Vi ...

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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 Stanley Beard, John Beard. Cress was born in Pune, Poona, British Raj, but w ...

– 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 a ...

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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 ...

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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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Bernd Heinrich Bernd Heinrich (born April 19, 1940 in Bad Polzin, Germany), is a professor emeritus in the biology department at the University of Vermont and is the author of a number of books about nature writing and biology. Heinrich has made major contribut ...

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Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael Keneally, 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 rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, wh ...

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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 batting average of 99.94 has bee ...

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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 exhibitions ...

– ''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 * Glenda Jones – ''

Kaz Cooke Kaz Cooke (born Karen Cooke; 17 December 1962) is an Australian author, cartoonist and broadcaster. She has written several bestselling advice books for girls and women, including ''Real Gorgeous'', ''Up the Duff'' (also published under different ...

'' ; 1991/1992 *

Vladas Meskenas Vladas is a Lithuanian given name. Notable people with the name include: *Vladas Česiūnas *Vladas Drėma *Vladas Mikėnas *Vladas Mironas *Vladas Petronaitis *Vladas Tučkus *Vladas Zajanckauskas *Vladas Žulkus See also

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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 ...

'' * Rosemary Valadon – ''The Long Afternoon – Portrait of Dr

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