Dobell Prize for Drawing 2003
This was the first year that the Dobell was staged independently to the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes exhibition. There were 577 drawings entered in the 2003 Dobell Prize for Drawing, which were judged by a guest judge, curator Roger Butler. He chose a work by Aida Tomescu, who would judge the prize herself in 2012.
- John Aland - Hopscotch at the old brickworks
- Tony Ameneiro - Location - detail
- G W Bot - Garden
- M Bozzec - Billboard prose
- Godwin Bradbeer - Constellation portrait
- Spencer Calveley - Captive
- Judy Cassab - Scherzo, Rainbow Valley
- Kevin Connor - The apartment
- Radha Coomaraswamy - Something unspoken
- Tim Courtney - Plaster forms
- Lucy Culliton - Cacti, mail order
- John Fitzgibbon - Pallet
- Graham Fransella - Head on wall
- Salvatore Gerardi - Conversations with light
- Geoff Harvey - The circus is in town
- Katherine Hattam - Fiction/Nonfiction
- Bernd Heinrich - A friend
- Robert Jacks - Solero
- Anne Judell - Indigo #1
- Jennifer Keeler-Milne - Surrender II
- Matthew Kentmann - ARK
- Bruno Leti - Surviving trace.com
- Kevin Malloy - Study: Untitled spaces II
- Terry Matassoni - Country visitor
- Max Miller - Pure land mandala
- Nick Mourtzakis - Study for a portrait of Alex Wodak
- Daniel Moynihan - The Atherton thylacine at the palmetum
- Bernard Ollis - The Ultimo walk
- Paul Procèe - Blue (from the Faces series)
- Amanda Robins - Tudor rose
- David Rose - Large angophora drawing
- Jenny Sages - Desert crossing!
- Kurt Schranzer - Pages from 'The book of veils'
- Jan Senbergs - The office kiss
- Wendy Sharpe - Interior
- Guy Stuart - Marching trees at Turondale
- Aida Tomescu - 'Negru IV and Negru III' (A candle in a dark room) (Winner: Dobell Prize for Drawing 2003)
- Ingrid Van Dyk - The coalition
- John Winch - Study for deluge - third draft
- Michael Winters - Why do these monsters and creatures of memory visit me here?
- Gosia Wlodarczak - North wall/ground level