Sir John Sulman Prize 1956
- Frederic Henry Bates - Rock'n'roll
- E M Bonham - Ironing curtains
- Mary Brady - Conflict
- Florence Broadhurst - Rehearsal
- Francis J Broadhurst - Smoke-oh (construction for Building Trade Exhibition, Circular Quay)
- John Bucklow - Sydney bar-room
- Mary Caldersmith - Entertainment
- Robert Curtis - Wine saloon
- Robert Dickerson - Street corner
- Ruth Faerber - The banishment
- Maximilian Feuerring - Picnic
- Roy Fluke - Peak hour bus
- Thomas Gleghorn - The net menders
- Harold Greenhill - Prawning at night (Winner: Sir John Sulman Prize 1956)
- Lorraine Humphreys - Cinema
- Kenneth Jack - The Olympic Stadium, Melbourne, 1956
- Peter James - An Australian dream of the Filippina's many Christmases
- Michael Kmit - Conversation
- Cec Knight - Room at the Cross
- Cec Knight - Clergyman on a bus
- Elwyn Lynn - Fishermen
- Elwyn Lynn - The raft
- Herbert McClintock - The apprentice
- Pamela MacFarlane - The moirae
- Byram Mansell - The corroboree
- Jon Molvig - The delinquents
- Jon Molvig - The bridesmaids
- Miriam Moxham - Jumble sale
- William Pidgeon - The sun bathers
- Carl Plate - Rough surf
- John Santry - Diana
- Theo Scott - Fusion (the migrant)
- Molly Stephens - The swings
- Molly Stephens - Saturday noon
- Edwin Tanner - Professional engineers
- Wallace Thornton - The meal, fruit pickers' camp
- Mary Troy - Thanksgiving
- Mary Troy - Artist and model relaxing
- Douglas Watson - The grape pickers
- Bronwyn Yeates - Endurance