Archibald Prize 2005 finalists
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Below is a list of finalists for the 2005 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...
(listed Artist - Title):
- Bruce ArmstrongBruce ArmstrongBruce Charles Armstrong is a former offensive tackle in the National Football League from 1987 to 2000, playing all fourteen seasons with the New England Patriots...
- Self portrait - Rick AmorRick AmorRick Amor is an Australian artist and figurative painter. He was an official war artist.-Life and work:Rick Amor was born in Frankston, Victoria, Australia. He has a certificate in art from the Caulfield Institute of Technology, and Associate Diploma in Painting from the National Gallery School,...
- Shane Maloney - Martin Ball - John Pule
- John BeardJohn Stanley BeardJohn Stanley Beard was a British-born forester and ecologist who resided in Australia. While working with the Forestry Division in Trinidad and Tobago during the 1940s, Beard developed a system of forest classification for Tropical America and described the forests of Trinidad, Tobago, and the...
- Hilarie Mais - Jason BenjaminJason BenjaminJason Benjamin is an Australian painter. Benjamin was born in Melbourne in 1971 and now lives and works in Sydney. He has been exhibiting since 1989 and won the 2005 Packing Room Prize at the Archibald Prize with a painting of actor Bill Hunter titled Staring down the past. He won the 1993, 1994...
- Staring down the past (Winner of the Packing Room Prize) - Annette Bezor - Still posing after all this time (a self portrait)
- Jon Campbell - Double Darren
- Adam Chang - Gene & the doorway
- Peter ChurcherPeter ChurcherPeter Churcher is an Australian artist. He paints portraits and figures in a realistic style.-Life and work:Peter Churcher was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He is the son of Betty Churcher, who was the director of the National Gallery of Australia from 1990-1997. Churcher is currently living and...
- Portrait of Jeffrey SmartJeffrey SmartJeffrey Smart , is an expatriate Australian painter, who is known for his modernist depictions of urban landscapes.His first goal was to become an architect; however, he went on to become an art teacher after studying at Adelaide Teacher's College and the South Australian School of Art and Crafts... - Esther ErlichEsther ErlichEsther Erlich is a Melbourne based Australian artist who has been exhibiting since 1985. She won the 1998 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with her painting, "Gaunt and Glorious" a portrait of Steve Moneghetti....
- Lindy Wills - James Guppy - Chagrin
- 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....
- Bob BrownBob BrownRobert James Brown is an Australian senator, the inaugural Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens and was the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia... - 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,...
- Bob's daily swim (Winner of the People's Choice Award) - Bill HayBill HayWilliam Charles "Red" Hay is a retired Canadian ice hockey centre who played eight seasons in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks. He is the son of Hockey Hall of Fame member Charles Hay.-Playing career:Hay started his junior career with the Regina Pats in the Western Canadian...
- Allan Mitelman - Terrence Hunter Chapter Six - Self portrait
- Paul JacksonPaul JacksonPaul Jackson may refer to:*Paul Jackson , British television producer*Paul Jackson , British video game publisher*Paul Jackson , English rugby league player...
- Gretel KilleenGretel KilleenGretel Killeen is an Australian journalist and author. Killeen is well known for being the primary host of Big Brother Australia from its inception in 2001 until the 2007 season .... - Raymond Kenyon - The architect at home
- 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...
- Richard GillRichard Gill (conductor)Richard James Gill OAM is an Australian conductor who has earned awards for his work. He conducts choral, orchestral and operatic works, and has been involved in music training and education... - Kerrie Lester - Rebel
- Mathew Lynn - Wendy drawing
- Lewis Miller - My dentist - Dr Jonathan Hartley
- Ian NorthIan NorthIan North is an American musician, producer and painter known for being part of the bohemian punk movement in United States with his power pop band Milk 'N' Cookies. A self-taught artist, he was also interested in painting....
- Daniel Thomas at home, Northern Tasmania - John OlsenJohn Olsen (artist)John Henry Olsen, AO, OBE is an Australian artist. Olsen's primary subject of work is landscape.-Biography:John Olsen was born in Newcastle on 21 January 1928 and moved to Bondi Beach with his family in 1935, which began his lifelong fascination with Sydney Harbour...
- Self portrait Janus faced (Winner of the Archibald Prize) - Rodney Pople - Kerrie Lester - after Goya
- 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...
- Beryl - Abdul KarimAbdul KarimAbdul Karim is a Muslim male given name and, in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Karim. The name means "servant of the most Generous", Al-Karīm being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.The letter a of the al-...
- Rahimi John McDonald - David RalphDavid RalphDavid Ralph is a male former field hockey forward from Scotland, who earned his first cap for the Men's National Team in 1993. He played club hockey for Loughborough Students. Ralph became a field hockey coach after his career....
- Imagination - AdamAdam ElliotAdam Elliot is an independent stop-motion animation writer and director based in Melbourne, Australia. His five films have collectively participated in over six-hundred film festivals and have received over one hundred awards, including an Oscar for Harvie Krumpet and the Annecy Cristal for Mary...
and HarvieHarvie KrumpetHarvie Krumpet is an Australian clay animation made in Melbourne written, directed and animated by Adam Elliot and produced by Melanie Coombs. This short film won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film in 2003, in addition to numerous festival awards and the 2004 Australian Film Institute Best... - Paul Ryan - Archibald, Archibald, wherefore art thou Archibald?
- 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...
- Gloria Tamere Petyarre - 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....
- All the World's a Stage - Simon Phillips - Jiawei ShenJiawei ShenShen Jiawei is a Chinese Australian painter. He is a winner of the 2006 Sir John Sulman Prize.-Life and work:Shen Jiawei was born in Shanghai and emigrated to Australia in 1989. He was largely self-taught and became popular with the Chinese government for his 'revolutionary' images of workers and...
- John SoJohn SoJohn Chun Sai So JP is a Chinese-Australian businessman who served as the 102nd Lord Mayor of Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, Australia. He was the first Lord Mayor in the city's history to be directly elected by the people; previously, Lord Mayors were elected by the Councillors.First elected...
, The Lord Mayor of Melbourne - Avril Thomas - The Minister from down under
- Deborah Trusson - Naked
- John R. Walker - Self portrait
- Xu Wang - Jiawei Shen
- 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...
- Portrait of Alex DimitriadesAlex DimitriadesAlex Dimitriades is a Greek Australian film and television actor.-Early life:Dimitriades was born in Sydney, the son of first generation Greek immigrants and is the youngest of three siblings . He grew up in the suburb of Earlwood...
See also
- Previous year: Archibald Prize 2004 finalistsArchibald Prize 2004 finalistsBelow is a list of finalists for the 2004 Archibald Prize :*Richard Bell - I am not sorry*Jason Benjamin - Bread & circuses*Danelle Bergstrom - Franco Belgiorno-Nettis – ‘larger than life’...
- Next year: 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...
- List of Archibald Prize winners