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 the Packing Room Prize 2008) Image
 * Phillip Barnes – Black: White: Red all over  (portrait of Red Symons)
 * Del Kathryn Barton –  You are what is most beautiful about me, a self portrait with Kell and Arella (Winner of the Archibald Prize 2008) Image
 * Anthony Bennett –  Portrait of Jon Farriss in a Kylie T-shirt 
 * Danelle Bergstrom –  Two movements – Peter Sculthorpe 
 * Roger Boreham –  Dad, what a smile  (portrait of his father)
 * Eolo Bottaro –  The Archibald 
 * Joanna Braithwaite –  Chook, chook, chook  (self-portrait)
 * David Bromley – Louise Olsen 
 * Jun Chen – Ian Smith 
 * Zhong Chen – Nicholas Harding 
 * Zhansui Kordelya Chi – Julius  (portrait of Julius Reade)
 * Peteris Ciemitis –  Grabowsky  (portrait of Paul Grabowsky)
 * James Cochran – Akira  (portrait of Akira Isogawa)
 * Yvette Coppersmith – In the garland  (portrait of Paul Capsis)
 * Richard Dunlop –  Tim Olsen: the man in black
 * Evans Neil – Blue days, black nights  (self-portrait)
 * Vincent Fantauzzo – Heath  (portrait of Heath Ledger) (Winner of the People's Choice Award 2008) Image
 * Hong Fu – Dr Joseph Brown Image
 * Robert Hannaford – Alison Mitchell  (portrait of artist’s wife)
 * Zai Kuang –  The sisters – Celia and Julia 
 * Sam Leach –  Self in uniform  (self-portrait)
 * Barry McCann –  Simpatico (portrait of Maggie Beer and Simon Bryant)
 * Neil McIrvine – David Disher 
 * Alexander McKenzie – Sarah Blasko 
 * Lewis Miller –  Tom Lowenstein
 * Anna Minardo –  The question (portrait of Bryan Dawe)
 * Paul Newton – Portrait of Donald McDonald AC 
 * John Phillips –  Wendy after two cups of coffee (portrait of Wendy Whiteley) Image
 * Rodney Pople –  Art is what you can get away with (self portrait)
 * James Powditch –  Aden Young in 'Once upon a time in the inner west' 
 * Ben Quilty –  Self-portrait after Madrid
 * Leslie Rice – Quartered, drawn and hung: Adam Cullen on public display 
 * Ryan Paul – Peter Booth, study with Cuban 
 * Jenny Sages – Anita and Luca  (portrait of Anita and Luca Belgiorno-Nettis)
 * Song Ling – Angelina Pwerle 
 * Nick Stathopoulos – At the movies with David Stratton (aka The big sleep) 
 * Xu Wang – Nick Waterlow 
 * Jan Williamson – Sue McPherson – artist 
 * Yi Wang – Long hair  (self-portrait)