Sir John Sulman Prize

Criteria

List of winners

• 1940 – Harold Abbott – Vaucluse Interior
• 1941 – Douglas Annand – Historical Mural at Bathurst Public School
• 1942 – Jean Bellette – For Whom the Bell Tolls
• 1943 – Elaine Haxton – Mural at le Coq D'Or Restaurant, Sydney
• 1944 – Jean Bellette – Iphigenia in Tauris
• 1945 – Virgil Lo Schiavo – Tribute to Shakespeare, Mural at Sydney University Union
• 1946 – Sali Herman – Natives carrying wounded soldiers
• 1947 – Douglas Annand – Mural, Messrs. Jantzen Pty. Ltd., Lidcombe.
• 1948 – Sali Herman – The Drovers
• 1949 – J. Carrington Smith – Bush Pastoral, Mural design for New State Building, Hobart
• 1950 – Harold Greenhill – Summer Holiday
• 1951 – Douglas Annand – Mural, Restaurant, R.M.S. "Oronsay"
• 1952 – Charles Doutney – Darlinghurst Road
• 1953 – Eric Smith – Convicts Berrima 1839, Mural at Old Court House, Berrima
• 1954 – Wallace Thornton – Sculptor and Model
• 1955 – Wesley Penberthy – Oriental Mural
• 1956 – Harold Greenhill – Prawning at Night
• 1957 – Michael Kmit – The Voice of Silence
• 1958 – No Award
• 1959 – Susan Wright – The Circus
• 1960 – Leonard French – The Burial
• 1961 – Robin Norling – Sea Movement and Rocks
• 1962 – John Rigby – Children Dancing
• 1963 – Roy Fluke – Spring Walk
• 1964 – Ken Reinhard – The Private Public Preview
• 1965 – Gareth Jones-Roberts – Grape-pickers and Vineyards
• 1966 – Louis James – It's Hot in Town
• 1967 – Cec Burns – Exercise in Variegation
• 1968 – Tim Storrier – Suzy 350
• 1969 – Louis James – Spyhole
• 1970 – Michael Kmit – Philopena
• 1971 – James Meldrum – Pyramid Shelf
• 1972 – Peter Powditch – Sun-torso 128
• 1973 – Eric Smith – The Painter Transmogrified and Mrs. Smith
• 1974 – Keith Looby – Still Life and Comfy II
• 1975 – Alan Oldfield Transvestite
• 1975 – Geoffrey Proud – Untitled Jane
• 1976 – Brett Whiteley – Interior with time past
• 1977 – Salvatore Zofrea- Woman's life, woman's love 3
• 1978 – Brett Whiteley – Yellow Nude
• 1979 – Salvatore Zofrea – The water trap
• 1980 – Brian Dunlop – The old physics building
• 1981 – William Delafield Cook – A French family
• 1982 – Salvatore Zofrea – Psalm 24
• 1984 – Tim Storrier – The Burn
• 1986 – Wendy Sharpe – Black Sun – Morning and Night, Nigel Thomson – The State Institution
• 1987 – Marcus Beilby – Crutching the Ewes, Bob Marchant – The Grand Parade Sydney Show
• 1988 – Bob Marchant – Catching rabbits and yabbies at 5-mile dam
• 1989 – John Olsen – Don Quixote Enters the Inn
• 1990 – Robert Hollingworth – Going Away/Looking Back
• 1991/92 – Kevin Connor – Najaf June 1991
• 1992/93 – John Montefiore – Life Series
• 1993/94 – Noel McKenna – Boy Dressed as Batman 2
• 1995 – Juli Haas – By the Banks of Her Own Lagoon
• 1996 – Aida Tomescu – Grey-to-Grey
• 1997 – Kevin Connor – The Man with itchy fingers and other figures Gare du Nord
• 1998 – Robert Jacks – Changed into a weeping willow
• 1999 – Anne Wallace – Secret Paintings
• 2000 – John Peart – Snailsnake
• 2001 – Euan Macleod – Exquisite Corpse with Fire, Highly commended: Elisabeth Cummings Harbour Light
• 2002 – Guan Wei – Gazing into deep space no. 9
• 2003 – Eric Smith – Reflection
• 2004 – Allan Mitelman – Untitled
• 2005 – Sandro Nocentini – :File:SandroNocentini MySonHasTwoMothers2005.jpg#filelinks
• 2006 – Jiawei Shen – Peking treaty 1901
• 2007 – David Disher – Axis of Elvis
• 2008 – Rodney Pople – Stage fright
• 2009 – Ivan Durrant – ANZAC Day Match
• 2010 – Michael Lindeman – Paintings, prints & wall hangings
• 2011 – Peter Smeeth – The artist's fate
• 2012 – Nigel Milsom – Judo House pt 4
• 2013 – Victoria Reichelt – After
• 2014 – Andrew Sullivan – T-rex
• 2015 – Jason Phu – I was at yum cha when in rolled the three severed heads of Buddha: fear, malice and death
• 2016 – Esther Stewart – Flatland dreaming
• 2017 – Joan Ross – Oh history, you lied to me
• 2018 – Kaylene Whiskey – Kaylene TV