List of Archibald Prize 2019 finalists

This is a list of finalists for the 2019 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – Title).^[1] As the images are copyrighted, an external link to an image has been listed where available.

• Clara Adolphs – Rosemary Laing and Geoff Kleem (in their garden)
• John Beard – Edmund (+ Bill) (Portrait of Edmund Capon)
• Natasha Bieniek – Waiting for Arden (Self-portrait)
• Shane Bowden – Self-portrait sitting in a red chair, Avalon
• Keith Burt – Benjamin Law: happy sad
• Tom Carment – Katoomba portrait – James Scanlon
• Jun Chen – Mao's last dancer – Li Cunxin
• Erika Cholich – Unadorned (self-portrait)
• Samuel Rush Condon – Self-portrait, Paris
• Luke Cornish – Cato, Callie and Comet (Portrait of Sue Cato)
• Tony Costa - Lindy Lee (Winner: Archibald Prize 2019)^[2]
• Jonathan Dalton – Sally. And her boys. (Portrait of Sally Anderson)
• David Darcy – Tjuparntarri – women's business (Portrait of Daisy Tjuparntarri Ward) (Winner: People's Choice Award 2019)^[3]
• Sinead Davies – The endocrinologist – Professor Katherine Samaras
• Anh Do – Art and war (Portrait of George Gittoes)
• Blak Douglas – White shells, black heart (Portrait of Esme Timbery)
• Katherine Edney – Self-portrait with Ariel
• Marc Etherington – Idris Murphy and his dog Wally
• Carla Fletcher – Charge of the Star Goddess (((Del Kathryn Barton)))^[4]
• Prudence Flint – The stand (Portrait of Richard Stringer)
• Kendal Gear – Self-portrait
• Kate Gradwell – Yindyamarra: a portrait of Professor Michael McDaniel
• David Griggs – Tracing the antiquity of Jewish alchemy with Alexie Glass-Kantor
• Tsering Hannaford – Mrs Singh (Portrait of Anant Singh)
• Laura Jones – Nakkiah in her dressing room (Portrait of Nakkiah Lui)
• Kirpy – Dylan (Portrait of Dylan Alcott)
• Jasper Knight – Jason Phu
• Kim Leutwyler – Faustina (Portrait of Faustina Agolley)
• Mathew Lynn – Crow (Maddy Madden)
• Tessa MacKay – Through the looking glass (Portrait of David Wenham) (Winner: Packing Room Prize 2019)^[5]
• Angus McDonald – Mariam Veiszadeh
• Euan Macleod – Four Rodneys (Portrait of Rodney Pople)
• Bridgette McNab – Karla (Portrait of Karla Špetić)
• Nigel Milsom – Judo house part 8 (a perfect light) (Self-portrait)
• Vincent Namatjira – Art is our weapon – portrait of Tony Albert
• Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran – Multi-limbed self-portrait (after ceramic figures)
• Adam Norton – David Griggs, outta space
• Thea Anamara Perkins – Christian (Portrait of Christian Thompson)
• Jude Rae – Sarah Peirse as Miss Docker in Patrick White's 'A cheery soul'
• Jordan Richardson – Annabel (Portrait of Annabel Crabb)
• Paul Ryan – Self-portrait in the studio with the Beastie Boys, painting James Drinkwater for the Archibald Prize (Los amigos)
• Loribelle Spirovski – Meg and Amos (and Art) (Portrait of Megan Washington)
• Vanessa Stockard – McLean (Portrait of McLean Edwards)
• Clare Thackway – Billow and tide (Portrait of Lauren Brincat)
• Imants Tillers – All hail Greg Inglis
• Michael Vale – Kid Congo on the island of the pink monkey birds
• Natasha Walsh – A liminal space (Self-portrait)
• Mirra Whale – Leigh (Portrait of Leigh Sales)
• Karyn Zamel – My self (Self-portrait)

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• List of Archibald Prize winners

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