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''