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Winners for 1996

Wendy Sharpe
Self portrait - as Diana of Erskineville

Winner: Archibald Prize 1996
Robert Hannaford
Self portrait

Winner: People's Choice 1996
Paul Newton
John Laws

Winner: Packing Room Prize 1996

Finalists for 1996

  • Davida Allen - Anne Purves in purple
  • Rick Amor - Portrait of Paul Boston
  • Judy Cassab - Robert Juniper
  • Kordelya Zhansui Chi - 'Wrap time' portrait of John Ruane
  • Kordelya Zhansui Chi - Hon Ms Jan Wade MP
  • Peter Churcher - Betty at home (Betty Churcher)
  • Kevin Connor - Self portrait in the Louvre food hall
  • Graeme Davis - Chris Mann reading murder mysteries with pink curtain
  • Geoffrey Dyer - Claudio Alcorso
  • Joe Furlonger - Dr Harold Schenberg
  • Francis Giacco - Family self portrait
  • Robert Hannaford - Cheryl Hurst
  • Robert Hannaford - Self portrait
  • Nicholas Harding - Portrait of Barry O'Keefe
  • Paul Jackson - Self and Tui
  • Kerrie Lester - James Morrison with flugelhorn
  • Jocelyn Maughan - Paul Ashton Delprat, artist
  • Lewis Miller - Portrait of Allan Mitelman
  • Paul Newton - John Laws
  • Josonia Palaitis - Ray Martin
  • Jenny Sages - Paul Cox
  • Wendy Sharpe - Self portrait - as Diana of Erskineville
  • Garry Shead - Jacqueline McKenzie
  • Jiawei Shen - Self portrait with GE (Chinese) Morrison
  • Andrew Sibley - Mary-Lou Jelbart in the park
  • Eric Smith - Robert Walker
  • Rosemary Valadon - Deborah Conway - in epic mode
  • David Van Nunen - Portrait of the artist with Fauve
  • Wesley Walters - Gary Emery
  • Guy Warren - Portrait of the artist as a young man
  • Margaret Woodward - Self portrait as Sarah Wisse, transported
  • Salvatore Zofrea - Dr Franco Belgiorno-Nettis