List of Archibald Prize 2008 finalists

This is a list of finalists for the 2008 Archibald Prize for portraiture. As the images are copyrighted, an external link to an image has been listed where available (listed is Artist – Title).

Martin Ball – Neil Finn (Winner of the Packing Room Prize 2008) Image
Phillip Barnes – Black: White: Red all over (portrait of Red Symons)
Del Kathryn Barton – You are what is most beautiful about me, a self portrait with Kell and Arella (Winner of the Archibald Prize 2008) Image
Anthony Bennett – Portrait of Jon Farriss in a Kylie T-shirt
Danelle Bergstrom – Two movements – Peter Sculthorpe
Roger Boreham – Dad, what a smile (portrait of his father)
Eolo Bottaro – The Archibald
Joanna Braithwaite – Chook, chook, chook (self-portrait)
David Bromley – Louise Olsen
Jun Chen – Ian Smith
Zhong Chen – Nicholas Harding
Zhansui Kordelya Chi – Julius (portrait of Julius Reade)
Peteris Ciemitis – Grabowsky (portrait of Paul Grabowsky)
James Cochran – Akira (portrait of Akira Isogawa)
Yvette Coppersmith – In the garland (portrait of Paul Capsis)
Richard Dunlop – Tim Olsen: the man in black
Evans Neil – Blue days, black nights (self-portrait)
Vincent Fantauzzo – Heath (portrait of Heath Ledger) (Winner of the People's Choice Award 2008) Image
Hong Fu – Dr Joseph Brown Image
Robert Hannaford – Alison Mitchell (portrait of artist’s wife)
Zai Kuang – The sisters – Celia and Julia
Sam Leach – Self in uniform (self-portrait)
Barry McCann – Simpatico (portrait of Maggie Beer and Simon Bryant)
Neil McIrvine – David Disher
Alexander McKenzie – Sarah Blasko
Lewis Miller – Tom Lowenstein
Anna Minardo – The question (portrait of Bryan Dawe)
Paul Newton – Portrait of Donald McDonald AC
John Phillips – Wendy after two cups of coffee (portrait of Wendy Whiteley) Image
Rodney Pople – Art is what you can get away with (self portrait)
James Powditch – Aden Young in 'Once upon a time in the inner west'
Ben Quilty – Self-portrait after Madrid
Leslie Rice – Quartered, drawn and hung: Adam Cullen on public display
Ryan Paul – Peter Booth, study with Cuban
Jenny Sages – Anita and Luca (portrait of Anita and Luca Belgiorno-Nettis)
Song Ling – Angelina Pwerle
Nick Stathopoulos – At the movies with David Stratton (aka The big sleep)
Xu Wang – Nick Waterlow
Jan Williamson – Sue McPherson – artist
Yi Wang – Long hair (self-portrait)