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 to dress as wonder woman
 * Ann Cape –  Lucy & friend
 * Adam Chang –  Spirit of an ancient culture
 * Mike Chavez –  Portrait of a bad muthaf***a
 * Jun Chen –  Ray Hughes and five other moods
 * Zhansui Kordelya Chi –  Good morning, this is Neil Mitchell
 * Yvette Coppersmith –  John Safran
 * Sam Cranstoun – Gyton
 * Leeanne Crisp –  Considering Persephone. Portrait of Gay Bilson
 * Ngaire Devenport –  Ken Done
 * Vincent Fantauzzo – Brandon (Brandon Walters) (Winner of the People's Choice Award) 
 * Hong Fu –  Dame Elisabeth Murdoch
 * David Griggs –  Zoloft nation (self-portrait)
 * Peter Hanley –  Remembering Titian
 * Robert Hannaford –  Self-portrait
 * Nicholas Harding –  Margaret Whitlam
 * Cherry Hood –  David Helfgott
 * Paul Jackson – Flacco's chariot (Paul Livingston) (Winner of the Packing Room Prize)
 * Jasper Knight –  Jasper Knight
 * Richard Larter –  Portrait of Nell
 * Sam Leach –  Marcia Langton
 * Mathew Lynn –  Heiress
 * Abbey McCulloch –  Nell
 * Angus McDonald –  Beyond
 * Alexander McKenzie –  Richard Clapton
 * Guy Maestri –  Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (Winner of the Archibald Prize)
 * Nick Mourtzakis –  A portrait of Alex Wodak
 * Richard Onn –  Coupe SX010F
 * David Paulson & Michael Nelson Tjakamarra –  Michael Nelson Jagamarra & singing rain story
 * James Powditch –  Peter Powditch is a dead man smoking
 * Ben Quilty –  Jimmy Barnes – there but for the grace of God no. 2
 * Megan Roodenrys –  Waiting for the day
 * Paul Ryan –  Mountain of Tom
 * Jenny Sages –  Heidi & Sarah-Jane ‘parallel lives’
 * Megan Seres –  The rest is silence (Brendan Cowell as Hamlet)
 * Garry Shead & Adrienne Levenson –  Soffritto di Lucio
 * Mark Thompson –  Greta Scacchi as Queen Elizabeth in Mary Stuart
 * Jan Williamson –  Nancy Kunoth Petyarr 
 * Michael Zavros –  Ars longa, vita brevis