Lists of Archibald Prize finalists

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The page List of Archibald Prize winners provides a summary of Archibald Prize winners.
This page provides directions to Lists of finalists of the annual Australian Archibald Prize for portraiture.

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Lists of 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:

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[ by whom? ] ones: (listed Artist – Subject)

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1991/1992

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Euan Macleod 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 College in 1975 and a Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from the University of Canterbury in 1979. As well as pursuing his art he also teaches painting at the National Art School in Sydney.

Keith Looby, is an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1984 with a portrait of Max Gillies.

Andrew Scott Pendlebury is an Australian guitarist-songwriter. From 1977 to 1981 was a member of The Sports and from 1986 to 1988 he joined Slaughtermen. He has undertaken other projects and issued four solo albums. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1993, Pendlebury's solo work, Don't Hold Back That Feeling, won the ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album. From 2003 he has been a member of The Mercurials.

Vladimir Meškėnas was an Australian expressionist painter and portraitist in oil and pastel, who has been a frequent Archibald Prize finalist.

Fiona Lowry is an Australian painter who airbrushes pale colours to portray landscapes with people in them. The landscapes are beautiful and ambiguous, provoking the dangerous side of wilderness. Lowry also paints portraits and won the 2014 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales with a portrait of Penelope Seidler. She is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, as well as the state galleries of Australia and in private collections.

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L. Scott Pendlebury or Laurence Scott Pendlebury was an Australian landscape and portrait artist and teacher. He married fellow artist Eleanor Constance "Nornie" Gude in January 1943 and they were the parents of Anne Lorraine Pendlebury, a stage, film and TV actress; and Andrew Scott Pendlebury a guitarist-songwriter.

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 Refusés, an exhibition of Archibald entries", and in 2015 they were the first father and daughter selected as finalists for the Archibald Prize. Tsering is a great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Susannah Hannaford.

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Kim Leutwyler, is an emerging artist based in Sydney, Australia. She has exhibited her work in multiple galleries across both Australia and the United States. While creating a collection of pieces that utilize different mediums, she most frequently displays paintings that focus on progressive ideas of gender and beauty, as well as people who identify as queer.

Sally M. Nangala Mulda is an Arrernte and Southern Luritja artist who lives and works in Alice Springs. She paints for Tangentyere Artists.

Joan Ross is an Australian artist based in Sydney who works across a range of mediums including drawing, painting, installations, sculpture and video. Her work investigates the legacy of colonialism in Australia, particularly the effects colonialism has had on Indigenous Australians.

Marikit Santiago is a Filipina-Australian artist and winner of the 2020 Sir John Sulman Prize.

Eryn Jean Norvill, sometimes spelt Eryn-Jean Norvill, is an Australian stage and television actress. She has mostly performed in Sydney Theatre Company productions, and frequently collaborated with STC artistic director Kip Williams. In May 2022 she played all 26 characters in an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray.

References

  1. 1921 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  2. 1922 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  3. 1923 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  4. 1924 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  5. 1925 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  6. 1926 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  7. 1938 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  8. 1939 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  9. 1946 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  10. 1960 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  11. 1966 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  12. 1973 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  13. 1986 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  14. 1990 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  15. 1991/92 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  16. 1993 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  17. 1994 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  18. 1995 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  19. 1996 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  20. 1997 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  21. 1998 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  22. 1999 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  23. 2000 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  24. 2001 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  25. 2002 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  26. 2003 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  27. 2004 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  28. 2005 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  29. 2006 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  30. 2007 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  31. 2008 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  32. 2009 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  33. 2010 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  34. 2011 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  35. 2012 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  36. 2013 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  37. 2014 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  38. 2015 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  39. 2016 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  40. 2017 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  41. 2018 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  42. 2019 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW]
  43. 2020 finalists, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
  44. "Archibald prize 2021: Grace Tame, Ben Quilty, Eryn Jean Norvill and more – in pictures". The Guardian. 2021-05-27. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2021-05-27.
  45. "Portraits of Grace Tame, Eryn Jean Norvill announced as 2021 Archibald Prize finalists". The Sydney Morning Herald. 27 May 2021. Retrieved 2021-05-27.
  46. "Archibald Prize finalists 2022". Art Gallery of New South Wales. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  47. The work depicts the artist's two children: Anne Pendlebury, who acted in 1979 TV drama series, Twenty Good Years; and Drew Pendlebury, who was a band member of The Sports). "L Scott Pendlebury: Anne and Drew Pendlebury (actress and musician respectively)". Archibald Prize 1979. Art Gallery of New South Wales . Retrieved 15 November 2012. Pendlebury was a finalist 24 times but never won the prize.
  48. 15' x 5' oil on canvas. Lost by the University of NSW about 11 years ago.[ when? ][ citation needed ](How can you "lose" a painting nearly 5m by 2m?)

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