
Archibald prize 2023 finalists: Sam Neill, Archie Roach, Claudia Karvan and more – in pictures
Kirthana Selvaraj’s painting ‘Ramesh and the blue figure with snake’, of artist Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran. Photograph: Jenni Carter/AGNSW
The 57 finalists for the 2023 Archibald prize have been revealed by the Art Gallery of NSW. Here is a selection of this year’s finalists, including portraits by Anh Do, Sarah McCloskey and Oliver Watts. The full group can be seen at the gallery’s website.
On 5 May the winning painting will be announced. The $100,000 prize is awarded to the best portrait of a person ‘distinguished in art, letters, science or politics’ painted by an Australian resident.
The finalists for the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes will be on show at AGNSW from 6 May to 3 September
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- Claudia (the GOAT) by Laura Jones Sitter: Claudia Karvan Photograph: Jenni Carter/AGNSW
- Seeing Ruby by Anh Do Sitter: Archie Roach Photograph: Jenni Carter/AGNSW
- Katharine Murphy by Judith Sinnamon Photograph: Jenni Carter/AGNSWSha
- Through the window by Jaq Grantford Sitter: Noni Hazlehurst Photograph: Jenni Carter/AGNSW
- Sam I Am by James Powditch Sitter: Sam Neill Photograph: Jenni Carter/AGNSW
- The songwriter by Michelle Hiscock Sitter: Don Walker Photograph: Jenni Carter/Image © Art Gallery of New South
- Clown jewels by Andrea Huelin Sitter: Cal Wilson Photograph: Jenni Carter/AGNSW
- Echoes of a teenage superstar by Matt Adnate Sitter: Daniel Johns Photograph: Jenni Carter/AGNSW
- Self-portrait after MD 2 by Abdul Abdullah Photograph: Jenni Carter/AGNSW
- Zoe by Kim Leutwyler Sitter: Zoe Terakes Photograph: Jenni Carter/AGNSWS
- Nanna Mara by Tsering Hannaford Sitter: Berry Malcolm Photograph: Jenni Carter/AGNSW
- Heidi May, Elle Charalambu and the artist at Redleaf Pool by Oliver Watts Photograph: Jenni Carter/AGNSW
- Solomon Kammer: never enough by Alanah Ellen Brand Sitter: Solomon Kammer Photograph: Jenni Carter/AGNSW
- The nightingale and the kookaburra by Katherine Hattam Sitter: Drusilla Modjeska Photograph: AGNSW
- Social distancing by Sarah McCloskey Sitter: Omar Musa Photograph: Jenni Carter/AGNSW