List of Archibald Prize 2016 finalists

This is a list of finalists for the 2016 Archibald Prize for portraiture. As the images are copyrighted, an external link to an image has been listed where available (listed is Artist – Title).

• Abdul Abdullah – The cost (Portrait of Craig Campbell)
• Clara Adolphs – Terry Serio
• Benjamin Aitken – Portrait of mentor (Jon Cattapan and self)
• Tony Albert – Tony Albert (after Brownie Downing) (Self-portrait)
• Danelle Bergstrom – Guy Warren
• Kate Beynon – Claudia, Spartacus and the robots
• Natasha Bieniek – Wendy Whiteley
• Chris Bond – The restless dead (portrait of the artist) (Self-portrait)
• Dean Brown – McLean Edwards
• Chris Browne – Krista Brennan
• Daniel Butterworth – Annie Smithers
• Yvette Coppersmith – Rose Burn self-portrait
• Lucy Culliton – Lucy and fans (Self-portrait)
• Sinead Davies – Toni Zeltzer
• Camillo De Luca – Polymath (Portrait of Josh Frydenberg)
• Marc Etherington – King Ken (Ken Done in his studio)
• David Fairbairn – Large head JL no 3 (Portrait of John Lascelles)
• Betina Fauvel-Ogden – George Calombaris, masterchef (Winner of the Packing Room Prize 2016) (Image)
• Carla Fletcher – Twin souls, Linda Jackson
• Prudence Flint – Shower (Portrait of Athena Bellas)
• Juan Ford – Regaining sight (a meditation on Rose Soady) (Self-portrait)
• David Griggs – It's a G thang (Portrait of Max Francois Germanos)
• Guan Wei – Plastic surgery (Self-portrait)
• Tsering Hannaford – Self-portrait with magnolia
• Nicholas Harding – Peter Weiss AO
• Louise Hearman – Barry (Portrait of Barry Humphries) (Winner of the Archibald Prize 2016) (Image)
• Belynda Henry – Louise Olsen, a beautiful summary
• Mark Horton – Troy (Portrait of Troy Grant)
• Alan Jones – Pat (Portrait of Pat Corrigan)
• Guy Maestri – Shattered (Griggs) (Portrait of David Griggs)
• Dean Manning – Maximum Lawrence (Portrait of Lawrence Leung)
• Marie Mansfield – Study of Euan Macleod
• India Mark – Day at the gallery with Dane Taylor
• Michael McWilliams – The usurpers (self-portrait)
• Lewis Miller – Portrait of Bernie Teague
• Nick Mourtzakis – Self-portrait: in violet
• Kirsty Neilson – There's no humour in darkness (Portrait of Garry McDonald)
• William Rhodes – Alice
• Melissa Ritchie – Rhys smart mouth (Portrait of Rhys Nicholson)
• Monica Rohan – Easton Pearson (Portrait of Pamela Easton and Lydia Pearson)
• Sally Ross – Roslyn (Portrait of Roslyn Oxley)
• Marikit Santiago – Blacklustre (Portrait of Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran)
• Nick Stathopoulos – Deng (Portrait of Deng Adut) (Winner of the People's Choice Award 2016) (Image)
• Imants Tillers – Double reality (self-portrait) 2014–2016
• Rosemary Valadon – The Scribbler (Luke Sciberras)
• Natasha Walsh – Self-portrait
• Peter Wegner – John Wolseley
• Mirra Whale – Philip Nitschke
• Marcus Wills – The ersatz (James Batchelor)
• Heidi Yardley – Birth/death – portrait of Nell
• Zoe Young – Sam Harris (Portrait of Samantha Harris)

See also

• Previous year: List of Archibald Prize 2015 finalists
• Next year: List of Archibald Prize 2017 finalists
• List of Archibald Prize winners

External links

• Archibald Prize 2016 finalists, official website, Art Gallery of NSW
• Archibald Prize 2016 finalists, 15 June 2016, abc.net.au