The finalists were:^[1]

Davida Allen – hey, Betty – Portrait of Betty Churcher
Marcus Beilby – Hal Missingham
Robert Campbell Junior – Sammy Alfie Drew, local Macleay Aboriginal sporting identity (football and cricket)
Reg Campbell – Self-portrait (Winner: The People's Choice Award)
Judy Cassab – Portrait of Jeff Smart
Kevin Connor – Portrait of Margaret Connor
Fred Cress – The Working Day (Len Evans)
Brian Dunlop – Tony Irving (artist and geometer)
Geoffrey Dupree – Mike (Portrait of Mike Hamilton, writer and journalist)
Steve Gorton – Leigh Johnson
Hadyn Wilson and students of the Julian Ashton School – Portrait of Paul Delprat image
Bill Hay – Darren Knight, Art Bookmaker
Glenda Jones – Kaz Cooke image
Kerrie Lester – Colleen Clifford
Wendy Li – Eunice Gardner F.R.A.M.
Geoffrey Lowe – Irene Bolger a drawing
Lewis Miller – Portrait of Ray Hughes
Mary Pace – Self-portrait image
Geoffrey Proud – Dorothy Hewett (Winner: Archibald Prize 1990) image
Aileen Rogers – Dr Susi Erika Phillips, Specialist in Child Development
Jenny Sages – Adele Weiss and Benjamin
Jenny Sands – Portrait of Alexandra Karpin
Eric John Smith – Hector Gilliland
David Thomas – Pain in the Art, Portrait of Claire St. Claire
Imants Tillers – Portrait of Murray Bail 1990
Rosemary Valadon – One flesh ll – portrait of Frances Joseph (sculptor) and son image
David Van Nunen – Self-portrait of the artist at Litchfield Park
Wes Walters – Kenneth Myer
Anna Wojak – Pan Tanca
Salvatore Zofrea – Psalm 44: after Uccello – self-portrait
Susanne de Berenger – Margaret Fink image

Prize winners

Finalists

See also

References