List of Archibald Prize 2000 finalists

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

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)

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