Archibald Prize 1988
Entries: 268 (25 selected)
Sponsor: Coles Myer Ltd
Exhibition dates: 17 December 1988 to 29 January 1989
Only selected works were exhibited; each artist could submit up to two works
The People’s Choice was established, and Fred Cress won both the new award and the Archibald Prize for his portrait of artist John Beard.
A portrait of artist Arthur Boyd, by Sidney Nolan was withdrawn from the exhibition after the trustees received a complaint that Nolan had not been resident in Australasia for 12 months preceding the date of entry, as required by the rules.
Artist Vladas Meskenas took legal action against Gallery director Edmund Capon over remarks Capon made about his portrait of financier Rene Rivkin, which had not been selected for the exhibition.
Winner: Archibald Prize 1988 Winner: People's Choice 1988
Fred Cress John Beard
- Margaret Ackland - Richard Wherrett
- Davida Allen - A mum
- Robert Allen - Grandma (Askey)
- Rick Amor - Portrait of Brian Johns OA
- Kevin Connor - Self-portrait (in the Little Sparrow Garden, Erskineville)
- Fred Cress - John Beard (Winner: Archibald Prize 1988 Winner: People's Choice 1988)
- Robert Eadie - Portrait of Kevin Lincoln
- Leeka Gruzdeff - Don Burrows
- Greg Hansell - Self-portrait
- Bill Hay - Portrait of Barry Dickins
- Bill Leak - Portrait and self-portrait of Patrick Cook
- Kerrie Lester - Warren Fahey and Astro the Wonderdog
- Keith Looby - Blanche D'Alpuget
- Sidney Nolan - Arthur Boyd at Fitzroy Falls
- Fiona O'Beirne - Portrait of Alexandra Karpin
- Karen Papacek - Portrait of Robert Mercer
- Aileen Rogers - Assoc Professor Joan Kerr
- Stefan Schmid - Bruce Armstrong series 2
- Andrew Sibley - Charles Nodrum with a toehold on the sixties
- Eric John Smith - Louis James
- Imants Tillers, Marianne Baillieu - Portrait of Paul Cox 1988
- Naomi Ullmann - Portrait of Anna Volska
- Caroline Williams - Georges Mora
- Michael Winters - Fibre artist Inga Hunter and Darling Harbour
- AñA Wojak - Ningali