Sir John Sulman Prize 1983
- Judith Alexandrovics - Assassination
- Suzanne Archer - Grave Hearts for Little Children - Soweto
- Ian Bent - Cariadwen – Earth Mother
- Fred Cress - Rich friends
- Peter Day - King George V Activity Centre Mural
- Noela Hjorth - Floating Images, Within, Without
- Tony Irving - The Artist's Studio
- Robert Juniper - Genesis: Let us go out into the open country
- Colin Lanceley - Dust in sunlight and memory in corners
- Janet Laurence - Blodeuwedds Night
- Keith Looby - Painta-‘o’-us
- Noel McKenna - Manning River crossing incident
- Jeffrey Makin - Large Bather
- Stuart Maxwell - Homage to Sandy Skogland (Revenge of the Cats)
- Ross Mellick - Garment on Painted Surface with Poem
- Max Miller - Noh
- Nigel Murray-Harvey - Captain Consensus or Liberty Leading the People
- Public Art Squad - Sydney Opera House tenth anniversary mural
- Arthur Leeds Schmidt - Crown St congo
- Tim Storrier - The Club Mogambo
- Nigel Thomson - Marat, the unsophisticated will be shocked at the depiction of your death: or, the artist answers his critics (Winner: Sir John Sulman Prize 1983)
- Brett Whiteley - Bondi
- Salvatore Zofrea - Saint Francis and Saint Clare
- Reinis Zusters - The Newcastle Cathedral war memorial mural