Sir John Sulman Prize 1996
- Ian Bettinson - Sketches of Spain
- Nicola Brown - Patent leather shoes
- Grace Burzese - Markings
- Gaye Chapman - Seeds for burial
- Philip Cox - Down Steps to the Harbour
- Phillip George - Memory stack
- Robert Hollingworth - Leonardo Project: anatomy of five hearts
- Philip Hunter - Si[gh]te IV
- Roy Jackson - Turning stones into stars
- Janet Laurence - Destilled life
- Dana Lester - Melbourne 1995
- Kerrie Lester - Bathed in moonlight
- Elwyn Lynn - Prisoners
- Noel McKenna - The Jones family out for a walk in their Ken Done outfits
- Euan Macleod - Track (horizontal)
- Sarah Mufford - Maguire Particulate
- Maureen O'Shaugnessy - Subtraction
- Edwina Palmer - Generate and decay
- John Peart - Still life
- Anne Richmond - Duomo
- Allison Rummery - Of cabbages and kings
- Wendy Sharpe - Artist with model and flaming painting
- Garry Shead - Sacred Cow
- Dianne Smith - Black crows
- Adriane Strampp - Cornucopia (painting no 2)
- Aida Tomescu - Grey to grey (Winner: Sir John Sulman Prize 1996)