2026 Finalists Archives - Brisbane Portrait Prize

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Performing Arts + Music: The Fabric of Resistance by Dane Beesley

39 (self portrait) by Anne Smerdon

Highly Commended: Self Portrait… with Reservations by David Paulson

Queen Leigh by David Hayes

West End Woman by Dane Beesley

Ruddy Man by Conor Knight

Meeting Mona Ryder by Charmaine Lyons

Emergence – A Self-Portrait by Catherine Jorissen

Inherit by Bronwyn Hill

Kate & Babyshakes by Brad Collins

Monica by Ashlee Becks

The Elohim Dance by Arthur de Laforcade

Like Seeing Clearly in A Snowstorm by Anthony Moy

Carolyn by Anne-Marie Zanetti

Paul by Adam Southgate

God is a Mathematition by Jamie Congdon

Emerging Artist: Quiet Company by Kate Wigginton

Stagecraft (Interior with Plant, Reflection Listening) by Karla Marchesi

Ancestral Integrity. by Kane Brunjes

Highly Commended: Portrait of the Artist’s Wife by Joseph Furlonger

I Am Ugarapul by Jim Filmer

Leonard Brown by Jason McNamara

Between the Wall and the Way Forward by Jane Booty

Sky Parra by J F Fitz-Walter

Very Serious Artist by Grant x Wilkes & Micah Rustichelli

Digital & Photography Prize: Dean by Glenn Hunt

Shimmer by Gerwyn Davies

Josephine by Emily Stainer

Emerging Artist: Reflections by Elysia Love-Anderson

Bear and I by Ellenie Kirkman

Aunty Lena at Home by Dolor Milford

The Catch by Jackie Ryan

Ode to Odie – a Self Portrait by Margaret Ingles

Packer’s Prize: George Gittoes after Grünewald by Matthew Cheyne

Homesick by Liam Nunan

Portrait of Bruce Heiser by Lewis Miller

The Studio of Dreams by Leo Herreygers

Busty Baby Doll by Khristie Barratt

Lord Mayor’s Prize: Family Birthday (QLD) by Pat Hoffie

What a Fool Believes (Self Portrait) by Peter Hudson

Experimental Portraiture Prize: Between The Lines by Rachel Dioso-Villa

After Warhol by Rae Rylko

Solid Gold – Portrait of David Broker by Rebecca Davis

Women’s Prize: Heal-All by Rebekah Walkarden

Roby by Ross Leondiou

The Heavyweight by Stephen Tiernan

Virtually Here by Stephen Hart

Moore (the map is not the territory) V1 by Walter Stahl

Soft Light by Martina Clarke