Archibald Prize 2006 finalists
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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). Note that unlike in the previous year, the winner of the packing room prize for 2006 is not part of the finalists. The winner of the packing room prize was Michael Mucci's portrait of Scott Cam
Scott Cam
Scott Cam is an Australian television personality appearing on several lifestyle programmes on the Nine Network.-Early career:Scott is a qualified carpenter who did a three-year apprenticeship with his brother’s business....
titled A working class man.
- Catherine Abel - Portrait of Julia Leigh
- John Beard - Ken Unsworth
- Danelle Bergstrom - Back to front - Kevin ConnorKevin Connor (artist)Kevin Connor , Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize twice; in 1975 for The Hon Sir Frank Kitto, KBE, and in 1977 for Robert Klippel. He won the Sulman Prize in 1991/92 with Najaf June 1991 and again in 1997 with The Man with itchy fingers and other figures Gare du Nord .He won a Harkness...
- Kate Beynon - Year of the dog self-portrait
- Tom Carment - Professor Muecke
- Jun Chen - Joe Furlonger
- 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...
- Bruce, Linde and me on the road to Guadelupe - Adam CullenAdam CullenAdam Cullen , Australian artist, most known for winning the Archibald Prize in 2000 with a portrait of actor David Wenham. He is also known for his controversial subjects or work...
- Edmund - Geoffrey Dyer - The Abstractionist Graham Fransella
- McLean Edwards - Cate BlanchettCate BlanchettCatherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian actress. She came to international attention for her role as Elizabeth I of England in the 1998 biopic film Elizabeth, for which she won British Academy of Film and Television Arts and Golden Globe Awards, and earned her first Academy Award...
and family - Prudence Flint - Four wheel drive #2
- 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....
- Tim FlanneryTim FlanneryTimothy Fridtjof Flannery is an Australian mammalogist, palaeontologist, environmentalist and global warming activist.... - 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,...
- Robert DreweRobert DreweRobert Duncan Drewe is an Australian journalist, novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Drewe was born in Melbourne, but moved with his family to Perth, Western Australia at the age of six. He was educated at Hale School, and in his final year was appointed School Captain...
(in the swell) 2006 - Weaver Jack - Weaver Jack in Lungarung
- Paul Jackson - Garry McDonaldGarry McDonaldGarry George McDonald, AO is an Australian stage and screen actor.-Early life and career:McDonald was born in Sydney and was educated at Cranbrook School and National Institute of Dramatic Art....
"All the world's a stage..." - Jasper Knight - Sir Harold Knight KBE DSC
- Kerrie Lester - Phillip NoycePhillip NoycePhillip Noyce is an Australian film director.-Life and career:Noyce was born in Griffith, New South Wales, attended Barker College, Sydney, and began making short films at the age of 18, starting with Better to Reign in Hell, using his friends as the cast...
- in the picture - Paul Newton - Portrait of Pat Corrigan
- Josonia PalaitisJosonia PalaitisJosonia Palaitis is an Australian artist living in Sydney, Australia. She won the 1994 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with a portrait of her father artist John Mills. In 1995 she won the Archibald Prize People's Choice award with a portrait of artist and cartoonist for the Australian Newspaper...
- Justice Michael Kirby - Rodney Pople - Artist and Curator, after GainsboroughThomas GainsboroughThomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter.-Suffolk:Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He was the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woolen goods. At the age of thirteen he impressed his father with his penciling skills so that he let...
- 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...
- CullenAdam CullenAdam Cullen , Australian artist, most known for winning the Archibald Prize in 2000 with a portrait of actor David Wenham. He is also known for his controversial subjects or work...
- before and after - Craig RuddyCraig RuddyCraig Ruddy is an Australian artist.In 2004 Ruddy won the Archibald Prize for his charcoal drawing of David Gulpilil entitled Two Worlds...
- Self-portrait - into the box - Paul Ryan - Nicholas in Nowra
- 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...
- Hossein Valamanesh - Gillie and Marc Schattner - John and his black dog
- Jiawei Shen - This is not a photo
- Peter Smeeth - Clover MooreClover MooreClover Moore , is an Australian politician, the Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney and an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Sydney. Moore is the first publicly elected female Lord Mayor of Sydney. Prior to the 2007 NSW state election, she...
with Sheba and Bruno - Kathleen Vafiadis - Julia
- Craig Waddell - Portrait of JC
- John R. Walker - Martin Armiger
- Greg Warburton - Jim Conway
- Marcus Wills - The Paul Juraszek Monolith (after Marcus GheeraertsMarcus GheeraertsMarcus Gheeraerts may refer to:*Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder , Flemish engraver and illustrator*Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger , English portrait painter and son of the above...
) (Winner of the Archibald Prize) - Bin XieBin XieBin Xie is a Chinese born and originated artist with an Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts and a Masters Degree of Studio Art with honours from Sydney University, Australia....
- Bright smile - Huihai Xie - A groom
- 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...
- Michael Zavros can't paint / the wind is whistling through the house
See also
- Previous year: Archibald Prize 2005 finalistsArchibald Prize 2005 finalistsBelow is a list of finalists for the 2005 Archibald Prize :*Bruce Armstrong - Self portrait*Rick Amor - Shane Maloney*Martin Ball - John Pule*John Beard - Hilarie Mais...
- Next years: Archibald Prize 2009 finalistsArchibald Prize 2009 finalistsBelow is a list of finalists for the 2009 Archibald Prize ;* Anthony Bennett - self-portrait in the bathroom discussing beauty, bukowski and brett whiteley with my ex, now a stripper, who likes to dress as wonder woman...
- List of Archibald Prize winners