Sir John Sulman Prize


The Sir John Sulman Prize is one of Australia's longest-running art prizes, having been established in 1936.
It is now held concurrently with the Archibald Prize, Australia's best-known art prize, and also with the Wynne Prize, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

Criteria

The Sir John Sulman Prize is awarded each year for "the best subject/genre painting and/or murals/mural project executed during the two years preceding the date", and as of 2008 is valued at $20,000. Media may be acrylic, oil, watercolour or mixed media, and applicants must have been resident in Australia for five years.
The definition of the terms as given by the AGNSW is:

List of winners

Source:
  • 1939 – Gert Sellheim – Mural decoration on wall of Victorian Government Tourist Bureau, Hotel Australia Building, 272 Collins Street, Melbourne
  • 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
  • 2020 – Marikit Santiago – The divine
  • 2021 – Georgia Spain – Getting down or falling up
  • 2022 – Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro – Raiko and Shuten-dōji
  • 2023 – Doris Bush Nungarrayi – Mamunya ngalyananyi
  • 2024 – Naomi Kantjuriny – Minyma mamu tjuta
  • 2025 — Gene A'Hern — ''Sky painting''