List of Archibald Prize 2005 finalists

This is a list of finalists for the 2005 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – Title).

Rick Amor – Shane Maloney (Image)^[1]
Bruce Armstrong – Self portrait (Image)^[2]
Martin Ball – John Pule
John Beard – Hilarie Mais
Jason Benjamin – Staring down the past – (Bill Hunter) (Image)^[3] (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 Churcher – Portrait of Jeffrey Smart
Esther Erlich – Lindy Wills
James Guppy – Chagrin
Robert Hannaford – Bob Brown
Nicholas Harding – Bob's daily swim – (Robert Dickerson) (Image)^[4] (Winner of the People's Choice Award)
Bill Hay – Allan Mitelman
Terrence Hunter Chapter Six – Self portrait
Paul Jackson – Gretel Killeen
Raymond Kenyon – The architect at home – (Glenn Murcutt)
Jasper Knight – Richard Gill
Kerrie Lester – Rebel
Mathew Lynn – Wendy drawing – (Wendy Sharpe)
Lewis Miller – My dentist – Dr Jonathan Hartley
Ian North – Daniel Thomas at home, Northern Tasmania
John Olsen – Self portrait Janus faced (Winner of the Archibald Prize)
Rodney Pople – Kerrie Lester – after Goya
Ben Quilty – Beryl – (Beryl Whiteley, mother of Brett Whiteley)
Abdul Karim – Rahimi John McDonald
David Ralph – Imagination – Adam and Harvie – (Adam Elliot was the creator of Harvie Krumpet)
Paul Ryan – Archibald, Archibald, wherefore art thou Archibald?
Jenny Sages – Gloria Tamere Petyarre
Garry Shead – All the World's a Stage – Simon Phillips
Jiawei Shen – John So, The Lord Mayor of Melbourne
Avril Thomas – The Minister from down under – (Hon. Alexander Downer M.P.)
Deborah Trusson – Naked
John R. Walker – Self portrait
Xu Wang – Jiawei Shen
Michael Zavros – Portrait of Alex Dimitriades