List of Archibald Prize 2011 finalists

This is a list of finalists for the 2011 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – Title).


 * Abdul Abdullah – Waleed Aly
 * Giles Alexander – Space or bust (portrait of Sam Leach)
 * Del Kathryn Barton – Mother (a portrait of Cate)
 * Jason Benjamin – It's not all Henry bloody Lawson (portrait of musician Gareth Liddiard)
 * Kate Beynon – Painting shirt (self-portrait)
 * Natasha Bieniek – October (self-portrait)
 * Deidre But-Husaim – Roy Ananda (chin support)
 * Marcus Callum – Portrait of a seated woman (portrait of Vanessa Callum)
 * Adam Chang – John Coetzee (Winner of the 2011 People's Choice Award)
 * Zhong Chen – Self-portrait on a horse
 * Adam Cullen – Charlie (portrait of barrister Charles Waterstreet)
 * Lucy Culliton – Ray in Paris (portrait of art dealer Ray Hughes)
 * Susanne de Berenger – Ted Robinson
 * Ken Done – Me, March 2011 (self-portrait)
 * Matt Doust – White Cocoon (portrait of actress Gemma Ward)
 * Geoffrey Dyer – The collector, David Walsh
 * Vincent Fantauzzo – Matt Moran (Winner of the 2011 Packing Room Prize)
 * Nicholas Harding – Hugo at home (portrait of actor Hugo Weaving)
 * Jeremy Kibel – Portrait of Robert Jacks AO
 * Sonia Kretschmar – The heart of things (portrait of Cassandra Golds)
 * Michael Lindeman – Portrait of Wilfred (portrait of actor Jason Gann)
 * Song Ling – My name is Fartunate – self-portrait
 * Fiona Lowry – Portrait of Tim Silver
 * Tom Macbeth – Jessica (portrait of sailor Jessica Watson)
 * Amanda Marburg – DA (portrait of writer David Astle)
 * Angus McDonald – Dr Ann Lewis AO
 * Alexander McKenzie – Richard Roxburgh
 * Christopher McVinish – Portrait of Robyn Nevin
 * Andrew Mezei – Professor Penny Sackett, astronomer and physicist
 * Lewis Miller – Small self-portrait
 * Rodney Pople – Artist and family (after Caravaggio) (portrait of artist, his wife Felicity Fenner and their two sons)
 * Ben Quilty – Margaret Olley (Winner of the Archibald Prize)
 * Craig Ruddy – Cathy Freeman
 * Jenny Sages – My Jack (portrait of artist's husband, Jack Sages)
 * Jiawei Shen – Self-portrait as Quong Tart's contemporary (after John Thomson), 2010
 * Xenia Stefanescu – Woven in tapestry of life (self-portrait)
 * Tim Storrier – Moon boy (self-portrait as a young man)
 * Pam Tippett – Self-portrait (for a change)
 * Barbara Tyson – The country's woman: Her Excellency, Ms Quentin Bryce AC, Governor-General of Australia
 * Peter Wegner – Richard Morecroft
 * Apple Xiu Yin – Hearing • Meditation (portrait of operatic soprano Cheryl Barker)