List of Archibald Prize 2000 finalists

This is a list of finalists for the 2000 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – Title).

Finalists

As well as the usual Archibald with its set criteria, there was a Sporting Archibald which had a focus on sport due to the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Chris Antico – The Captain: Mark Taylor (cricket captain)
Michael Bell – The Sandman (comedian Steve Abbott)
Simon Benz – Anna Wilson (cyclist)
Melissa Beowulf – Ken Done (painter)
David Bromley – Strongest man of the games (Dean Lukin, weightlifter)
Tom Carment – Presbyterian self-portrait
Tom Carment – Don Idle, footballer
Adam Cullen – Portrait of David Wenham (Winner: Archibald Prize 2000)
Adam Cullen – Portrait of Mark Occhilupo (surfer)
Max Cullen – Geoffrey Rush (actor)
Elisabeth Cummings – May Barrie
Geoffrey Dyer – Christopher Koch (author)
Esther Erlich – Never been better
David Fairbairn – Portrait of Victoria Hahn
Nic Fern – Vicki Wilson (netball player)
Julie Fragar – Self-portrait with the artist: Julie Fragar, Chuck Close and security
Nicholas Harding – Portrait of John Bell
Juliet Holmes a Court – Portrait of George (George Gregan, rugby player)
Colin Husband – Paul Bennett
Glenda Jones – Nova Peris-Kneebone (Gold Medalist with Australian Hockey Team)
Robin Lawrence – Andrea Durbach
Bill Leak – 'Are you with me': portrait of Sir Les Patterson
Kerrie Lester – Susie Maroney, True Blue Sue (swimmer)
Barbara Licha – Smile
Keith Looby – Anne Summers (journalist)
Mathew Lynn – Dr John Yu
Lewis Miller – Ronald Dale Barassi (AFL footballer)
Lewis Miller – Self-portrait
Ann Morton – Edwin Carr 'Old Gold' (athletics)
Henry Mulholland – Padriac P. McGuinness
David Naseby – Kostya Tszyu (boxer)
Paul Newton – Portrait of David Campese (rugby player)
Evert Ploeg – Louise Sauvage (wheelchair athlete)
Jenny Sages – Each morning when I wake up I put on my mother's face
Garry Shead – Sasha Grishin (art critic)
Andrew Sibley – Marilyn Peddell (lawnbowls)
Ian Smith – Ray Hughes getting his desserts
Michael Snape – Stephen Mori
Kim Spooner – 'blue' (Kerry O'Brien)
Anne Spudvilas – Leigh Hobbs
Ann Thomson – Portrait of the artist as a painting
Branca Uzur – Paul Byrnes
John R Walker – William Wright
Peter Wegner – Portrait of Professor Graeme Clark
Peter Wegner – Portrait of Darren Gauci (jockey)
Jan Williamson – Tom Carroll (surfer)
Louise Wood – Determination – Michael Klim (swimmer)
Huihai Xie – Johnny Raper – A living legend (rugby league player)