List of Archibald Prize 2019 finalists

This is a list of finalists for the 2019 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – Title). 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)))
 * 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)
 * 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)