This is a list of finalists for the 2017 Archibald Prize for portraiture. As the images are copyright, an external link to an image has been listed where available (listed is Artist – Title).
Tony Albert – Self-portrait (ash on me) Jessica Ashton – Self-portrait as a clown Kate Beynon – With amulets and their shadows (Self-portrait) Andrew Bonneau – Portrait of Ayako Saito Boys of Sydney Grammar Edgecliff Preparatory School – Goodbye, Sir! (Portrait of Dr John Vallance) Keith Burt – Bare Tarragh (Portrait of Tarragh Cunningham) Mitch Cairns – Agatha Gothe-Snape (Winner of the Archibald Prize 2017) Jon Campbell – Two sunny boys (Peter Oxley and Jeremy Oxley) Jun Chen – Ray Hughes Yvette Coppersmith – Professor Gillian Triggs Tony Costa – Simon Chan Lucy Culliton – Finished packing (Portrait of Steve Peters) Jonathan Dalton – Lottie and James (Portrait of Lottie Consalvo and James Drinkwater) Anh Do – JC (Portrait of Jack Charles) (Winner of the People's Choice Award 2017) (Image) Marc Etherington – Paul (Paul Williams in his studio) Prudence Flint – The meal (Portrait of Athena Bellas) Ashley Frost – Janet Dawson at the doorway to her studio Andrew Lloyd Greensmith – The inner stillness of Eileen Kramer David Griggs – Twisting Cain with a brown eye while lacking a constitution for darkness (Self-portrait) Robert Hannaford – Michael Chaney Tsering Hannaford – Self-portrait Nicholas Harding – John Olsen AO, OBE Sophia Hewson – Untitled (Richard Bell) Tjungkara Ken – Kungkarangkalpa tjukurpa (Seven Sisters dreaming), a self-portrait Julius Killerby – Paul Little Kim Leutwyler – Heyman (Portrait of Michelle Heyman) Richard Lewer – Liz Laverty Luke, William H – Remy QC (Portrait of Remy van de Wiel) Robert Malherbe – Self-portrait Phil Meatchem – Aah yeah, that guy (Portrait of Francis Greenslade) Vincent Namatjira – Self-portrait on Friday Paul Newton – Portrait of Rupert Myer AO Jordan Richardson – John (Portrait of John Bell) Dee Smart – The mayor of Bondi (Portrait of John Macarthur) Peter Smeeth – Lisa Wilkinson AM (Winner of the Packing Room Prize 2017) (Image) Gerard Smith – Elizabeth St over Hyde Park (Portrait of Helen Littleton) Loribelle Spirovski – John Bell at home Vanessa Stockard – Self-portrait as new mum Noel Thurgate – Homage to Peter Powditch Natasha Walsh – The scent of rain (self-portrait) what – Robert Forster Marcus Wills – Protagonist, antagonist (Thomas M Wright) Madeleine Winch – Facing the canvas (Self-portrait)
See also Previous year: List of Archibald Prize 2016 finalists Next year: List of Archibald Prize 2018 finalists List of Archibald Prize winners
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