This is a list of finalists for the 2001 Archibald Prize for portraiture (listed is Artist – Title).
Finalists
Bruce Armstrong – Peter Carey in Kelly country
Michael Bell – Kingo and Boofhead, Lavendar Bay
Danelle Bergstrom – The portrait and the painter (John Firth-Smith) David Bromley – Long Tom Tom Carment – John Gaden – summer portrait Brendon Ross Darby – Ian Parmenter Julie Dowling – Sister girl – Carol Dowling Geoffrey Dyer – The director John Clark Martine Emdur – Laughing on the inside – (Peter Berner) Paul Fairweather – Exhibitors of exuberance, Mostyn Bramley-Moore: a tribute to Michael Milburn Margarita Georgiadis – Excelle – Libbi Gorr Guo Hua Cai – Lee Lin Chin Robert Hannaford – Richard Maurovic Nicholas Harding – John Bell as King Lear (Winner: Archibald Prize 2001) Cherry Hood – Matthys Bill Leak – Robert Hughes – nothing if not critical Kerrie Lester – Contemplating the emperor's new clothes – (Akira Isogawa) Mathew Lynn – Hetti Perkins Lewis Miller – Self portrait Henry Mulholland – Michael Snape David Naseby – A blackguard rehearsing – Max Cullen Paul Newton – Roy and HG (John Doyle and Greig Pickhaver) (Winner: People's Choice 2001) Rodney Pople – Head study – Richard Goodwin Sally Robinson – Antony Walker Jenny Sages – Jackie and Kerryn Michael Snape – Paul Hopmeier and Ron Robertson-Swann Kim Spooner – and see the light surrounding you (Daniel Johns) Branca Uzur – Tetsuya Wakuda John R Walker – Portrait of Tony Bilson Greg Warburton – The Public Defender – portrait of John Nicholson S.C. Dick Watkins – Adam Cullen