Wynne Prize 1979
Winner: Pring Prize 1979
Eva Kubbos Shadows in the sand
Winner: Trustees' Watercolour Prize 1979
Guy Warren Mort Bay (2)
- David Aspden - Waterside no 1
- John Baily - Keppel Sands – with reef herons
- John Baily - The Basin
- Bob Baker - Devil's Marbles VII
- Frederic Henry Bates - Catherine Hill Bay
- John Caldwell - Erosion
- Peter Chapman - In Passing
- Phil Clarke - Hinchinbrook Island
- Martin Collocott - Summer High
- Graham Cox - Beneath the Western Tiers
- Paul Delprat - Balmoral
- Margery Dennis - Understorey
- John Firth-Smith - Spring Cove
- Robert H Grieve - Burnt Landscape
- Greg Hansell - Bankcard welcome
- Ron Hogan - Marks of our lives - no. 1
- Allan Hondow - Earthscape
- Allan Hondow - On stone and sour ground
- Kenneth Jack - Cue, Western Australia
- Robert Andrew Johnson - Night Iris
- Paul Eugene Jones - CSR Factory
- Robert Juniper - Flood Creek
- Eva Kubbos - Shadows in the sand
- Geoff La Gerche - Katherine River - everchanging
- Roma Lewington - Fire devastation, Warringah Shire, December 1979
- Elwyn Lynn - Mountain snow after fiery summer
- Frank McNamara - Hill series - Molonglo
- Max Miller - Jamberoo
- Clem Millward - Murchison Gorge
- Clem Millward - Red track, SA
- John Parkinson - Calm before the storm – Long Reef, NSW
- David Preston - Little Sugarloaf
- Clifton Pugh - The Town of Tibooburra
- Clifton Pugh - An Emu on the Road to Tibooburra
- John Thomas Rigby - Palmwoods country
- William Salmon - Sun in the Valley
- Venita Salnajs - Water-hole
- David Schlunke - Acacia portrait
- John Scurry - Playscape
- Michael Shannon - Suburban landscape, Melbourne, spring 1979
- Susan Sheridan - Lichen Country Granite
- Fernando Strauss - Opera House
- Neil Taylor - Sand dunes
- David Van Nunen - Sydney Harbour: a landscape
- Guy Warren - Mort Bay (1)
- Guy Warren - Mort Bay (2)
- James Willebrant - A northern beach scene
- Fred Williams - Strath Creek Falls
- Reinis Zusters - Last summer of Franklin River