Additional Categories
Since 1935 there have been two extra categories added to the Archibald prize event. Both are more likely than the main prize to award the portrait of a celebrity. In 1991 the Packing Room Prize was established, in which the staff who receive the portraits and install them in the gallery, vote for their choice of winner. Although the prize is said to be awarded by the staff, the gallery's head storeman – as of 2011, Steve Peters – holds 51% of the vote. The other category is the People's Choice Award in which votes from the viewing public are collected to find a winner. This award also comes with a monetary prize of $2,500. To date, there has never been a matching Archibald Prize winner and a Packing Room Prize chosen in the same year, but there were two People's Choice Awards given to Archibald Prize winners in 1988 and 2004.
Twice there has been a matching Packing Prize winner and People's Choice Award (neither won the main prize), to Paul Newton's portrait of Roy Slaven and HG Nelson in 2001, and to Jan Williamson's portrait of singer/songwriter Jenny Morris the following year in 2002.
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