Winner for 1982
Eric SmithPeter Sculthorpe
Winner: Archibald Prize 1982
Finalists for 1982
- Irena Creedon - Portrait of David Williamson
- Richard Crichton - Albert Tucker, Reminiscing
- Ray Crooke - Dick Roughsey, OBE
- Rex Dupain - Max's Muse
- Christine Hiller - Self Portrait
- Frank Hodgkinson - John Firth-Smith at Jim Jim
- Ken Johnson - The Conservationist. Vincent Serventy
- Geoff La Gerche - Patrick White
- Franco Marinelli - Michael Saker
- Ted Markstein - The Great White Hope in the Land of the Blind
- Jocelyn Maughan - Dr Philip Rundle, FRACP
- Sally Therese Montague - Col in Still Life
- Alan Muller - Portrait of George Haynes
- Brian Perrett - Self Portrait - Asleep under a Patchwork Quilt
- Clifton Pugh - Albert Tucker
- Michael Shannon - Portrait of Jan Senbergs
- Andrew Sibley - Frank Hardy
- Eric Smith - Peter Sculthorpe
- Joshua Smith - Dr Frances Frohlich, D.Sc, (Syd)
- Nigel Thomson - Salvatore Zofrea
- Harold L Thornton - Al Grassby
- Wesley Walters - Portrait of Arthur Boyd
- Peter Wilde - Premonition Portrait
- Margaret Woodward - Halliday and Lucy
- Salvatore Zofrea - Mr Justice R. St. John
- Reinis Zusters - Robert Dickerson with Daphne
