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 Sydney Olympics.


 * Chris Antico – The Captain: Mark Taylor (cricket captain)
 * Michael Bell – The Sandman (comedian Steve Abbott)
 * Simon Benz – Anna Wilson (cyclist)
 * Melissa Beowulf – Ken Done (painter)
 * David Bromley – Strongest man of the games (Dean Lukin, weightlifter)
 * Tom Carment – Presbyterian self-portrait
 * Tom Carment – Don Idle, footballer
 * Adam Cullen – Portrait of David Wenham (Winner: Archibald Prize 2000)
 * Adam Cullen – Portrait of Mark Occhilupo (surfer)
 * Max Cullen – Geoffrey Rush (actor)
 * Elisabeth Cummings – May Barrie
 * Geoffrey Dyer – Christopher Koch (author)
 * Esther Erlich – Never been better
 * David Fairbairn – Portrait of Victoria Hahn
 * Nic Fern – Vicki Wilson (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, rugby player)
 * Colin Husband – Paul Bennett
 * Glenda Jones – Nova Peris-Kneebone (Gold Medalist with Australian Hockey Team)
 * Robin Lawrence – Andrea Durbach
 * Bill Leak –  'Are you with me': portrait of Sir Les Patterson
 * Kerrie Lester – Susie Maroney, True Blue Sue (swimmer)
 * Barbara Licha – Smile
 * Keith Looby – Anne Summers (journalist)
 * Mathew Lynn – Dr John Yu
 * Lewis Miller – Ronald Dale Barassi (AFL footballer)
 * Lewis Miller – Self-portrait
 * Ann Morton – Edwin Carr 'Old Gold' (athletics)
 * Henry Mulholland – Padriac P. McGuinness
 * David Naseby – Kostya Tszyu (boxer)
 * Paul Newton – Portrait of David Campese (rugby player)
 * Evert Ploeg – Louise Sauvage (wheelchair athlete)
 * Jenny Sages – Each morning when I wake up I put on my mother's face
 * Garry Shead – Sasha Grishin (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 – Portrait of Professor Graeme Clark
 * Peter Wegner – Portrait of Darren Gauci (jockey)
 * Jan Williamson – Tom Carroll (surfer)
 * Louise Wood – Determination – Michael Klim (swimmer)
 * Huihai Xie – Johnny Raper – A living legend (rugby league player)