List of Archibald Prize 2009 finalists

This is a list of finalists for the 2009 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – Title).

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
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 Safran
Sam Cranstoun – Gyton
Leeanne Crisp – Considering Persephone. Portrait of Gay Bilson
Ngaire Devenport – Ken Done
Vincent Fantauzzo – Brandon (Brandon Walters) (Winner of the People's Choice Award)
Hong Fu – Dame Elisabeth Murdoch
David Griggs – Zoloft nation (self-portrait)
Peter Hanley – Remembering Titian
Robert Hannaford – Self-portrait
Nicholas Harding – Margaret Whitlam
Cherry Hood – David Helfgott
Paul Jackson – Flacco's chariot (Paul Livingston) (Winner of the Packing Room Prize)
Jasper Knight – Jasper Knight
Richard Larter – Portrait of Nell
Sam Leach – Marcia Langton
Mathew Lynn – Heiress
Abbey McCulloch – Nell
Angus McDonald – Beyond
Alexander McKenzie – Richard Clapton
Guy Maestri – Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu (Winner of the Archibald Prize)
Nick Mourtzakis – A portrait of Alex Wodak
Richard Onn – Coupe SX010F
David Paulson & Michael Nelson Tjakamarra – Michael Nelson Jagamarra & singing rain story
James Powditch – Peter Powditch is a dead man smoking
Ben Quilty – Jimmy Barnes – there but for the grace of God no. 2
Megan Roodenrys – Waiting for the day
Paul Ryan – Mountain of Tom
Jenny Sages – Heidi & Sarah-Jane ‘parallel lives’
Megan Seres – The rest is silence (Brendan Cowell as Hamlet)
Garry Shead & Adrienne Levenson – Soffritto di Lucio
Mark Thompson – Greta Scacchi as Queen Elizabeth in Mary Stuart
Jan Williamson – Nancy Kunoth Petyarr
Michael Zavros – Ars longa, vita brevis