Dobell Prize for Drawing 1996
There were 472 drawings entered in the 1996 Dobell Prize for Drawing, which were judged by a guest judge, artist Kevin Connor (himself a Dobell winner in 1993 and 2005), with Pam Hallandal the first woman to win the prize. Hallandal would later judge the prize herself in 1999.
- Rick Amor - The long sea
- John Caldwell - Boulder hillside
- Judy Cassab - Nightfall in Rainbow Valley
- John Coburn - Ceremony
- Rachel Ellis - Running taps
- David Fairbairn - Portrait of Brian Luckett
- Joe Furlonger - Kangaroo and emu
- Pam Hallandal - Self-portrait (Winner: Dobell Prize for Drawing 1996)
- Pam Hallandal - The outsider (Supermarket series)
- Nicholas Harding - Seated nude
- Patrick Henigan - After Grünewald
- Peter Kingston - Jan and Denton at Haefliger Cottage, Hill End
- Alun Leach-Jones - The body transcribed
- Daniel Moynihan - Truffaut's tigerman
- Terry O'Donnell - Rocks and distance, Mootwingee
- Wendy Sharpe - Lounge room
- Wendy Sharpe - Lounge room
- Ann Thomson - Wind cycle
- Guy Warren - From Russia with love: fish women, Moscow
- David Brian Wilson - The woman
- John Wolseley - The action of glaciers in Tasmania
- Salvatore Zofrea - Study for 'The faith healer (Psalm 53)'