List of Archibald Prize 1997 finalists
This is a list of finalists for the 1997 Archibald Prize for portraiture.
- Rick Amor – Peter Carey at the VACB Studio, Soho, New York
- Tom Carment – Roger McDonald at work
- Judy Cassab – Elwyn Lynn
- Peter Churcher – Portrait of John S. Levi, first Australian Born Rabbi
- Fred Cress – David Williamson
- Adam Cullen – Portrait of Mikey Robins
- Elisabeth Cummings – Jean Appleton
- Merilyn Fairskye – Jackie 2
- Joe Furlonger – Self-portrait with model
- George Gittoes – John Olsen
- Robert Hannaford – Paul Davies
- Nicholas Harding – Portrait of Kevin Connor
- Bill Leak – Tex '
- Kerrie Lester – Janet Vernon in reflection
- Mathew Lynn – Jeanne Ryckmans ' Highly Commended
- Jocelyn Maughan – Dr John Yu
- Lewis Miller – Portrait of Allan Mitelman II
- Henry Mulholland – Dr Peter Elliott
- Paul Newton – Kate and Barbie
- Rodney Pople –
- Jenny Sages – Greg Weight making a portrait of Tom Bass
- Timothy Schultz – Odalisque – portrait of Wendy Sharpe
- Martin Sharp – Tiny Tim, Eternal Troubadour
- Garry Shead – Carpe Diem – Adam Rish
- Jiawei Shen – Seven self-portraits
- Kim Spooner – Expecting each moment to be his next
- Nigel Thomson – Barbara Blackman
- Imants Tillers – Portrait of a Chancellor
- Greg Warburton – Genni Batterham OAM
- Dick Watkins – Des O'Brien
- Salvatore Zofrea – Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Opera