Archibald Prize 2009 finalists
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Below is a list of finalists for the 2009 Archibald Prize
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Archibald Prize
The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after a bequest from J. F. Archibald, the editor of The Bulletin who died in 1919...
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- Anthony BennettAnthony Bennett (Australian artist)Anthony Bennett is an Australian artist born in Mackay Queensland in 1966. He has lived and worked in Tokyo, Rome and London and has exhibited nationally in Australia and internationally. He was a finalist in the Archibald Prize in 2009 for the second year running and was also a finalist in both...
- 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 SafranJohn SafranJohn Safran is an Australian documentary maker and radio broadcaster, known for combining humour with explorations into religion and other issues...
- Sam Cranstoun - GytonGyton GrantleyGyton Grantley is a Logie Award and AFI Award-winning Australian actor, best known for his portrayal of convicted murderer and drug trafficker Carl Williams in the hit Australian television show Underbelly, for which he was nominated for both Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series and Most...
- Leeanne Crisp - Considering Persephone. Portrait of Gay Bilson
- Ngaire Devenport - Ken DoneKen DoneKen Done, AM is an Australian artist best known for his design work. His simple, brightly coloured images of Australian landmarks have adorned a very popular range of clothing and homewares sold under the "Done Design" brand.-Early life:...
- Vincent Fantauzzo - BrandonBrandon WaltersBrandon Walters is an Indigenous Australian child actor known for his performance as Nullah in the 2008 film Australia.-Life and career:...
(Brandon WaltersBrandon WaltersBrandon Walters is an Indigenous Australian child actor known for his performance as Nullah in the 2008 film Australia.-Life and career:...
) (Winner of the People's Choice Award) - Hong Fu - Dame Elisabeth Murdoch
- David Griggs - Zoloft nation (self-portrait)
- Peter Hanley - Remembering Titian
- Robert HannafordRobert HannafordRobert Lyall Hannaford , is an Australian realist artist.Known as Alfie, Hannaford was born and grew up on his family farm in Riverton, South Australia....
- Self-portrait - Nicholas HardingNicholas HardingNicholas Harding is an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 2001 with a portrait of John Bell as King Lear. He also won the People's Choice Award at the 2005 Archibald, with Bob's Daily Swim. He has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize for thirteen years in a row, from 1994 to 2006,...
- Margaret WhitlamMargaret WhitlamMargaret Whitlam AO is a prominent Australian personality and the wife of former Prime Minister of Australia Gough Whitlam... - Cherry HoodCherry HoodCherry Hood is an Australian artist, and sometimes a portraitist. She won the 2002 Archibald Prize for her portrait, Simon Tedeschi Unplugged.- Biography :...
- David HelfgottDavid HelfgottDavid Helfgott is an Australian concert pianist. He is as well known for having schizoaffective disorder as he is for his piano playing. Helfgott's life inspired the Oscar-winning film Shine, in which he was played by Geoffrey Rush.... - Paul Jackson - FlaccoFlaccoFlacco is a fictional character played by Australian author and political cartoonist Paul Livingston.Livingston created the character in 1985, when he got up on stage as part of a bet, and the audience mistook his nervousness for a comedic character...
's chariot (Paul LivingstonPaul LivingstonPaul Livingston, popularly known as his alter ego Flacco, is an Australian comedian who has regularly appeared on many television shows, predominantly on ABC TV and Network Ten, including Good News Week, The Sandman and Flacco Special, The Big Gig, DAAS Kapital, The Money or the Gun, The Fat and...
) (Winner of the Packing Room Prize) - Jasper KnightJasper KnightJasper Knight is an Australian artist based in Sydney. He is the brother of Chaser writer Dominic Knight.Knight was a finalist in the 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010 Archibald Prize with portraits of Richard Gill, Bob Carr, his grandfather Sir Harold Knight, himself and Bill Wright AM respectively...
- Jasper Knight - Richard LarterRichard LarterRichard Larter is an Australian painter, often identified as one of Australia's few highly recognizable pop artists. Larter has also frequently painted in a Pointillist style. He took advantage of unusual techniques with painting: using a syringe filled with paint to create his early works, and...
- Portrait of Nell - Sam LeachSam LeachSam Leach is an emerging Australian contemporary artist. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. Leach worked for many years in the Australian Tax Office after completion of a degree in Economics. He also completed a Diploma of Art, Bachelor of Fine Art degree and a Master of Fine Art degree at...
- Marcia LangtonMarcia LangtonMarcia Lynne Langton is one of Australia's leading Aboriginal scholars. She holds the Foundation Chair in Australian Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia... - Mathew Lynn - Heiress
- Abbey McCulloch - Nell
- Angus McDonald - Beyond
- Alexander McKenzie - Richard ClaptonRichard ClaptonRichard Clapton is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist from Sydney, New South Wales. His solo top 20 hits on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart are "Girls on the Avenue" and "I Am an Island"...
- Guy MaestriGuy MaestriGuy Maestri is an Australian contemporary artist who won the 2009 Archibald Prize for a portrait of Australian singer and musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu....
- Geoffrey Gurrumul YunupinguGeoffrey Gurrumul YunupinguGeoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is an Indigenous Australian musician, who sings in the Yolngu language.He was born in Galiwin'ku , off the coast of Arnhem Land, Northern Australia about 350 miles from Darwin. He is from the Gumatj clan of the Yolngu and his mother from the Galpu nation...
(Winner of the Archibald Prize) - Nick Mourtzakis - A portrait of Alex Wodak
- Richard Onn - Coupe SX010F
- David Paulson & Michael Nelson JagamarraMichael Nelson Jagamarra-Biography:Tjakamarra was born at Vaughan Springs in the Northern Territory around 1949. He first saw white men at Mt Doreen station and remembers hiding in the bush in fear! Michael lived at Haasts Bluff for a time with the same family group as Long Jack Phillipus Tjakammara. Later his parents...
- Michael Nelson Jagamarra & singing rain story - James Powditch - Peter Powditch is a dead man smoking
- Ben QuiltyBen QuiltyBen Quilty is an Australian artist who won the 2011 Archibald Prize.-Biography:Quilty grew up in Kenthurst in Sydney's north-west. He lives and works in Robertson, New South Wales. He is a graduate of the Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney...
- Jimmy BarnesJimmy BarnesJames Dixon Swan , better known as Jimmy Barnes, is a Scottish-born Australian rock singer-songwriter. His father Jim Swan was a prizefighter and his older brother John Swan is also a rock singer. It was actually John who had encouraged and taught Jim how to sing as he wasn't really interested at...
– there but for the grace of God no. 2 - Megan Roodenrys - Waiting for the day
- Paul Ryan - Mountain of Tom
- Jenny SagesJenny SagesJenny Sages is an Australian artist born 1933 in Shanghai, China, who arrived in Australia in 1948. After being expelled from East Sydney Tech, Jenny moved to New York to study at Franklin School of Art...
- Heidi & Sarah-Jane ‘parallel lives’ - Megan Seres - The rest is silence (Brendan CowellBrendan CowellBrendan Cowell is an Australian actor, screenwriter and director. Cowell was born in Sydney. He stumbled upon acting by accident while waiting for his sister to come out of a rehearsal; he was then cast in a commercial at age 8...
as Hamlet) - Garry SheadGarry SheadGarry Shead is an Australian artist and filmmaker who won the Archibald Prize in 1992/93 with a portrait of Tom Thompson, and won the Dobell Prize in 2004 with Colloquy with John Keats....
& Adrienne Levenson - Soffritto di Lucio - Mark Thompson - Greta ScacchiGreta ScacchiGreta Scacchi is an Italian-Australian actor.-Early life:Scacchi was born Greta Gracco in Milan, Italy, on 18 February 1960, the daughter of Luca Scacchi Gracco, an Italian art dealer and painter, and Pamela Carsaniga, an English dancer and antiques dealer...
as Queen Elizabeth in Mary Stuart - Jan WilliamsonJan WilliamsonJan Williamson is an Australian artist. She is a mother of nine children. She is known for winning the Archibald Prize Packing Room Prize twice in a row: in 2002 with a portrait of Jenny Morris —which also won the People's Choice Award— and again in 2003 with a portrait of actor Rachel...
- Nancy Kunoth Petyarr - Michael ZavrosMichael ZavrosMichael Zavros is an Australian artist.Zavros studied printmaking at Queensland College of Art in the 1990s. Zavros has won three Australian drawing prizes: The Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize and the Kedumba Prize...
- Ars longa, vita brevis
See also
- Previous years: Archibald Prize 2006 finalistsArchibald Prize 2006 finalistsBelow is a list of finalists for the 2006 Archibald Prize . Note that unlike in the previous year, the winner of the packing room prize for 2006 is not part of the finalists...
- Next year: Archibald Prize 2010 finalistsArchibald Prize 2010 finalistsBelow is a list of finalists for the 2010 Archibald Prize ;* Giles Alexander - The alternative ambassadors * Martin Ball - Jacqueline Fahey...
- List of Archibald Prize winners