Archibald Prize 1989
Entries: 332 (24 selected)
Sponsor: Coles Myer Ltd
Exhibition dates: 16 December 1989 to 28 January 1990
Only selected works were exhibited; each artist could submit up to two works
Robert Campbell Junior became the first known Indigenous artist to exhibit in the Archibald Prize.
For the first time the Gallery charged an admission fee ($3 full price, $2 concession and $6 for a family) for the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes exhibition.
Vladas Meskenas, still in the process of suing Gallery director Edmund Capon over his remarks the previous year, won the People’s Choice award for his portrait of artist Donald Friend.
Winner: People's Choice 1989
Vladas Meskenas Donald Friend 1989
- Robert Campbell Junior - My Brother Mac Silva
- Graham Cheney - Self-portrait with Bronwyn and Cat, Saturday 10am
- John Dent - Portrait of Doc Hartley
- Ken Done - Meeting Michael Jagamara Nelson
- Brian Dunlop - Justin O'Brien and Jeffrey Smart
- Kris Harriman - Jennifer Drummond BA LLB (Mrs Michael Hershon)
- Tim Harris - The Doug Anthony Allstars with the Risen Elvis
- Bill Hay - The poet Robert Harris
- Bernd Heinrich - Thomas Keneally
- Bill Leak - Sir Donald Bradman
- Kerrie Lester - Trent Nathan
- Mathew Lynn - Albertina Viegas
- Vladas Meskenas - Donald Friend 1989
- John Olsen - Dónde voy? Self-portraits in moments of doubt
- William Robinson - Self-portrait with goose feathers
- Aileen Rogers - Ruth Faerber
- Jenny Sands - Alex Karpin
- Andrew Sibley - Myself and other animals
- Imants Tillers - My wife as an apparition
- Wes Walters - Fred Schepisi
- Bryan Westwood - Portrait of Elwyn Lynn (Winner: Archibald Prize 1989)
- Brett Whiteley - Portrait of Francis Bacon 1989
- Wolfgang Widmoser - Sheila Florance
- AñA Wojak - Dancer (Janet Vernon)