Wynne Prize 1996
Winner: Pring Prize 1996
Jane Bennett Rain, Spit Bridge
Winner: Trustees' Watercolour Prize 1996
John Wolseley Clumner Bluff Tasmania under snow with spores and pollen
- Suzanne Archer - Pond over Cerberus (Wedderburn series)
- John Bartholomew - Circus McGurkus (Juggling Figure)
- Jane Bennett - Moon, Middle Harbour
- Jane Bennett - Rain, Spit Bridge (Winner: Pring Prize 1996)
- Tom Carment - From the rowboat, leaving Currawong
- Judy Cassab - Luminous Light, Rainbow Valley
- Judy Cassab - Hill of Caves, Rainbow Valley
- Paul Ching Bor - Evening - Southbank
- John Coburn - The Burning Land
- Elisabeth Cummings - Bird in the bush (diptych)
- Marguerite Derricourt - The Cage
- Ken Done - Harbour and beach, 1995
- George Gittoes - Puppyscape
- Greg Hansell - Tin shed no 1
- Nicholas Harding - Near Wooli 1995
- John Kelly - Liberator and cow
- Ildiko Kovacs - Bonvoyage (diptych)
- Geoff La Gerche - Evening storm (Bell Creek WA)
- Peter Latona - Trust me
- Kerrie Lester - Landscape
- Sandra Leveson - Tramontana
- Elwyn Lynn - Fire and drought
- Victor Majzner - A track under heavy sky
- Henrietta Manning - City wedge
- Ted May - Swan Reach (Murray River SA)
- Angus Nivison - Storm warning
- John Peart - Nocturne
- Wayne Roberts - Antiphon
- William Robinson - Creation landscape: earth and sea
- James Rogers - Phantom's daughter (seated)
- Jenny Sages - On the Mail Run
- David Serisier - Grey painting - Deluge
- Peter Sharp - Fare weather
- Eric John Smith - Landscape at dusk
- Ann Thomson - Pier II
- Anna Van Der Mark - Woman I
- Hadyn Wilson - Meganesian farewell (a landscape of extinction)
- John Wolseley - Clumner Bluff Tasmania under snow with spores and pollen
- Luke Wrencher - Untitled