Sir John Sulman Prize 1985
- Suzanne Archer - Market - Harare
- John Baily - Blue Whale
- Frederic Henry Bates - Advance Australia
- Marcus Beilby - The man and the moment
- Stephen Caldor - The Zealot
- Rosetta Carriero - Mural for Foyer of St George Technical College, Kogarah, NSW
- Stephen Copland - Sexus
- Ken Done - Manly morning
- Frank Hodgkinson - Leichhardt’s grasshopper – and dilemma
- Geoff Levitus - Passage
- Keith Looby - Radical arteater, eats, paint
- Stuart Maxwell - Homage to Manet, dejeuner sur la rive du Namoi pres de Bendemeer
- Victor Morrison - Western suburbs magi (Winner: Sir John Sulman Prize 1985 Joint winner)
- Jane O'Hara - Waiting
- Public Art Squad - Children of the billabong – Darwin
- Public Art Squad - Think globally, act locally – Redfern
- David Rankin - Australian summer – learning to swim
- Victor Rubin - Like Luddites near a New Age dreaming
- Wendy Sharpe - The crack up
- Andrew Sibley - Picnic in November
- Eric John Smith - Implosian
- Maggie Thompson - Oppression
- Ann Thomson - Tandum
- Graeme Townsend - Night Walk
- Jelle van den Berg - De Emmaus Gangers, Han Van Meegeren and J.
- Wes Walters - Triptych
- Guy Warren - People I know
- Brett Whiteley - The Olgas
- Reinis Zusters - Mural project – Christening of the Croatians
- Reinis Zusters - Lament II