List of Archibald Prize 2015 finalists

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This is a list of finalists for the 2015 Archibald Prize for portraiture. As the images are copyrighted, an external link to an image has been listed where available (listed is Artist – Title).

• Adam Alcorn – Alice Fraser
• John Beard – Bill
• Richard Bell – Me
• Jason Benjamin – I sat by the river. I waited by the road
• Filippa Buttitta – Judy Cassab ‒ portrait of an artist
• Mitch Cairns – Peter Powditch
• Tom Carment – Self-portrait at 60
• Wei Bin Chen – The artist ‒ self-portrait no 6
• Peter Churcher – The last portrait
• Samuel Rush Condon – Jarratt
• Tony Costa – David Fairbairn
• Tony Curran – Luke
• Blak Douglas – Smoke and mirrors (Uncle Max Eulo){{Cite web |title=Archibald Prize Archibald 2015 work: Smoke and mirrors (Uncle Max Eulo) by Blak Douglas |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2015/29625/ |access-date=2022-05-13 |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales |language=en}}
• Marc Etherington – Del Kathryn Barton and Magic Dog
• Carla Fletcher – Jenny Kee
• Prudence Flint – Baby
• Juan Ford – A bungled clairvoyance of William Buckley or Ludwig Leichhardt's most intense moments (I can't decide which, you choose)
• Shaun Gladwell – Mark Donaldson VC (member of the avant-garde)
• Bruno Jean Grasswill – Michael Caton (Winner of the People's Choice Award 2015, Winner of the Packing Room Prize 2015) [http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/2015/29598/ (Image)]
• Tim Gregory – Self-portrait as ancestors
• Leon Hall – Self-portrait
• Robert Hannaford – Robert Hannaford, self-portrait
• Tsering Hannaford – Objet démodé
• Sophia Hewson – Delivered
• Tanja Karl – Laurie
• Matthew Kentmann – Nigel Milsom, Sunday 3 May 2015
• Jeremy Kibel – The portrait of Doctor Dick Quan
• Jessica Le Clerc – Living inside of stories
• Kim Leutwyler – Start the riot
• Stewart MacFarlane – Cory Bernardi
• Angus McDonald – Romanticide ‒ portrait of Abbe May
• Kerry McInnis – Omar Musa, the poetry of unease
• Julian Meagher – Daniel Johns
• Nigel Milsom – Judo house pt 6 (the white bird) portrait of Charles Waterstreet (Winner of the Archibald Prize 2015)
• Guy Morgan – Louise Voigt, CEO Barnardos Australia (after retinal detachment)
• Alicia Mozqueira – Doug Hall
• Jason Phu – Lisa has a much more pleasant face than Glenn. She also doesn't sing horribly while playing a guitar or try to put her cat up a tree while I'm painting her.
• Rodney Pople – Frannie and Brett
• Leslie Rice – Hill End bacchanal (portrait of Luke Sciberras)
• Sally Ross – Eva
• Paul Ryan – Thirteen Noahs
• Andrew Sayers – Portrait of Tim Bonyhady
• Jiawei Shen – How to explain art with a white rabbit
• Kristin Tennyson – Bob Katter, federal MP
• Mirra Whale – Elizabeth
• Marcus Wills – El cabeceo
• Tianli Zu – 'Edmund, your Twomblys are behind you'