List of Archibald Prize 1986 finalists

This is a list of finalists for the 1986 Archibald Prize for portraiture, listed by Artist and Title. As the images are copyright, an external link to an image has been listed where available.

Artist	Title	Subject	Notes
Margaret Ackland	Beth Mayne
Davida Allen	Dr John Arthur McKelvie Shera		[1] Winner: Archibald Prize 1986
Naomi Berns	David Williamson (Playwright/Author)
Jonathan Bowden	Portrait of Robert Stonjek, Unpublished Poet
John Caldwell	John Brackenreg
Fred Cress	David Armstrong
William Dargie	Tony Rafty The Caricaturist
Robert Eadie	Portrait of Alex Trompf with Pauline Webber
David Fairbairn	Three portraits of WCF	my father
John Gillham	Vermeer, Van Meegeren and Van den Berg: portrait of Yelle		[2]
Leeka Gruzdeff	Rita Hunter		[3]
Christine Hiller	Homage to Van Gogh: self-portrait with peasants
Frank Hodgkinson	Donald Friend
Keith Looby	John Bloomfield's Arta Eaten
Vladas Meskenas	Desiderius Orban
Robert Morris	Ian Smith, artist and self-portrait 1986
Aileen Rogers	Richard Mackay
Victor Rubin	Auto-mask		[4]
Garry Shead	Martin Sharp
Eric John Smith	Richard Hall, Author and Journalist
Ian Smith	Portrait of Ray Hughes from life	with unreliable photography
Joshua Smith	Professor Fred Rost
Nigel Thomson	Kate Grenville	Writer/ Mother
Wes Walters	Portrait of William J. Hughes
Michael Winters	Urban forms, primitive forms and Jim McClelland		[5]
Salvatore Zofrea	Eileen Chanin 1986

See also

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• List of Archibald Prize winners
• Lists of Archibald Prize finalists