List of Archibald Prize 2023 finalists

This is a list of finalists for the 2023 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed as Artist – Title). Of the 949 entries received for the Archibald Prize, 57 artworks were selected as finalists. As the images are copyrighted, a link to each image is available through its reference.

• Abdul Abdullah – Self-portrait after MD 2
• Matt Adnate – Echoes of a teenage superstar
• Jill Ansell – Looking east
• Natasha Bieniek – Self-portrait, after Nora Heysen
• Alanah Ellen Brand – Solomon Kammer: never enough
• Angela Brennan – Portrait of Erik Jensen
• Keith Burt – Sam Leach in his studio chair
• Mitch Cairns – Elizabeth Pulie
• Melissa Clements – In the driveway, 40°
• Yvette Coppersmith – Lady Primrose Potter AC
• Luke Cornish – Barrambiyarra (Awaken) (Yvonne Weldon)
• Emily Crockford – Jeff’s pink daisy eyelash clash
• Cameron Dimopoulos – Limbo
• Anh Do – Seeing Ruby (Archie Roach)
• David Fenoglio – Christopher Bassi
• Eliza Gosse – Breakfast at ours
• Jaq Grantford – Through the window (Noni Hazlehurst) (Winner: People's Choice Award 2023)
• David Griggs – The melanoma and the stitches
• Julia Gutman – Head in the sky, feet on the ground (Winner: Archibald Prize 2023)
• Tsering Hannaford – Nanna Mara
• Katherine Hattam – The nightingale and the kookaburra – portrait of Drusilla Modjeska
• John Hillier – There’s something about Harry (Harry Garside)
• Michelle Hiscock – The songwriter
• Andrea Huelin – Clown jewels (Cal Wilson) (Winner: Packing Room Prize 2023)
• Laura Jones – Claudia (the GOAT) (Claudia Karvan)
• Jason Jowett – Alex Greenwich
• Daniel Kim – Self-portrait, holding memories, my mentor Greg Warburton
• Kim Leutwyler – Zoe (Zoe Terakes)
• Sarah McCloskey – Social distancing
• Catherine McGuiness – Lucky (Kylie Kwong)
• William Mackinnon – Rich Lewer, friend and rival in sport and art
• Marie Mansfield – Ronni Kahn AO (founder OzHarvest)
• Danie Mellor – A portrait of intimacy (Gene Sherman)
• Lewis Miller – Self-portrait
• Charles Mouyat – As below, so above (ut infra, sic supra) (Michelle Simmons)
• Paul Newton – Portrait of John Symond
• Jason Phu – cameras are the best, cameras are the worst
• James Powditch – Sam I Am (Sam Neill)
• Ryan Presley – Blood money – infinite dollar note – Aunty Regina Pilawuk Wilson
• Thom Roberts – In the future there might be new tall buildings built by Bert (Farhad Haidari)
• Charlotte Ruth – Painting with toothbrush
• Sally Ryan – Year of the Rabbit (Claudia Chan Shaw)
• Marikit Santiago – Hallowed Be Thy Name (collaboration with Maella Santiago, Santi Mateo Santiago and Sarita Santiago)
• Kirthana Selvaraj – Ramesh and the blue figure with snake
• Oliver Shepherd – Maestro (portrait of Jessica Cottis)
• Michael Simms – Zaachariaha Fielding
• Judith Sinnamon – Katharine Murphy
• Randall Sinnamon – Portrait of Joseph Tawadros
• Clare Thackway – Lottie
• Natasha Walsh – Dear Ben, ‘The scream’ (after Pope Innocent X)
• Oliver Watts – Heidi May, Elle Charalambu and the artist at Redleaf Pool
• Kaylene Whiskey – Cooking my famous Indulkana soup
• Marcus Wills – Jack and Nikki
• Patrice Wills – No place like home
• Shevaun Wright, Sophia Hewson (aka Dirty talk) – Atong (Atong Atem)
• Tiger Yaltangki – Ngayulu munu papa kutjara (Me with two dogs)
• Zoe Young – Latrell and Winmarra (Latrell Mitchell)

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