Sir John Sulman Prize 1978
- John Bloomfield - Breakfast on the terrace
- Kevin Connor - Decade – Mosman
- Charles Cooper - Two Gallants
- Frederick Frizell - Sarah and Colin at Bondi
- Christopher Gray - Ferry Connections
- Gerard Havekes - The beautiful people of Nimbin
- Michael Kmit - Gossip
- Alan Lee - The striped swimmers
- Keith Looby - Smile
- Keith Looby - X wife and photo
- Rodney Milgate - Family day
- Denese Oates - Me and the Colonel
- Alan Oldfield - Two figures and an abstract device
- Geoffrey Proud - Grey lady 5
- Janet Rentz - Newcastle to Sydney before dawn
- John Thomas Rigby - Crossing – shadow into light
- Martin Sharp - The Art Gallery
- Eric John Smith - Studio dialogue
- Tim Storrier - The studio camp Relay
- Cornelius van Sebille - Interchange
- Brett Whiteley - The yellow nude
- James Willebrant - Gymnastic display
- Salvatore Zofrea - Bordello (Che Dice Donna Dice Donna?)
- Salvatore Zofrea - Girls at Clontarf (Sunday afternoon)