Winner for 1986
Davida AllenDr John Arthur McKelvie Shera
Winner: Archibald Prize 1986
Finalists for 1986
- Margaret Ackland - Beth Mayne
- Davida Allen - Dr John Arthur McKelvie Shera
- Naomi Berns - David Williamson (Playwright/Author)
- Jonathan Bowden - Portrait of Robert Stonjek, Unpublished Poet
- John Caldwell - John Brackenreg
- Fred Cress - David Armstrong
- William Dargie - Tony Rafty The Caricaturist
- Robert Eadie - Portrait of Alex Trompf with Pauline Webber
- David Fairbairn - Three portraits of WCF - my father
- John Gillham - Vermeer Van Meegeren & Van Den Berg, Portrait of Yelle
- Leeka Gruzdeff - Rita Hunter
- Christine Hiller - Homage to Van Gogh: Self Portrait with Peasants
- Frank Hodgkinson - Donald Friend
- Keith Looby - John Bloomfield's Arta Eaten
- Vladas Meskenas - Desiderius Orban
- Robert Morris - Ian Smith, Artist and Self Portrait 1986
- Aileen Rogers - Richard Mackay
- Victor Rubin - Auto-Mask
- Garry Shead - Martin Sharp
- Eric Smith - Richard Hall, Author and Journalist
- Ian Smith - Portrait of Ray Hughes from Life - With Unreliable Photography
- Joshua Smith - Professor Fred Rost
- Nigel Thomson - Kate Grenville - Writer/ Mother
- Wesley Walters - Portrait of William J. Hughes
- Michael Winters - Urban Forms, Primitive Forms & Jim McClelland
- Salvatore Zofrea - Eileen Chanin 1986
