Winner for 1956
Harold GreenhillPrawning at Night
Winner: Sir John Sulman Prize 1956
Finalists for 1956
- Frederic Bates - Rock'n'Roll
- EM Bonham - Ironing Curtains
- Mary Brady - Conflict
- Florence Broadhurst - Rehearsal
- Francis J Broadhurst - Smoke-oh (Construction for Building Trade Exhibition, Circular Quay)
- John Bucklow - Sydney Bar-Room
- Mary Caldersmith - Entertainment
- Robert Curtis - Wine Saloon
- Robert Dickerson - Street Corner
- Ruth Faerber - The Banishment
- Maximilian Feuerring - Picnic
- Roy Fluke - Peak Hour Bus
- Thomas Gleghorn - The Net Menders
- Harold Greenhill - Prawning at Night
- Lorraine Humphreys - Cinema
- Kenneth Jack - The Olympic Stadium, Melbourne, 1956.
- Peter James - An Australian Dream of the Filippina's many Christmases
- Michael Kmit - Conversation
- Cec Knight - Clergyman on a Bus
- Cec Knight - Room at the Cross
- Elwyn Lynn - Fishermen
- Elwyn Lynn - The Raft
- Pamela MacFarlane - The Moirae
- Byram Mansell - The Corroboree
- Herbert McClintock - The Apprentice
- Jon Molvig - The Delinquents
- Jon Molvig - The Bridesmaids
- Miriam Moxham - Jumble Sale
- William Pidgeon - The Sun Bathers
- Carl Plate - Rough Surf
- T John Santry - Diana.
- Theo Scott - Fusion (The Migrant)
- Molly Stephens - Saturday Noon
- Molly Stephens - The Swings
- Edwin Tanner - Professional Engineers
- Wallace Thornton - The Meal, Fruit Pickers' Camp
- Mary Troy - Thanksgiving
- Mary Troy - Artist and Model Relaxing
- E A Douglas Watson - The Grape Pickers
- Bronwyn Yeates - Endurance