Winner for 1965
Gareth Jones-RobertsGrape-pickers and Vineyards
Winner: Sir John Sulman Prize 1965
Finalists for 1965
- Edgar Edward Aavik - The Eternal Circle, Australiana
- Norma Allen - Stony Creek, 6th March
- Frederic Bates - The Saints Came Marching In
- Joan Beck - Desperate Bird
- Mary Beeston - Life and Leaf IV
- Roberta Bell - The Polaroid Weird Mob
- Beverley Bruen - Narcissus to Pygmalion
- Charles William Bush - Dawning Man
- HS 'Bill' Clayton - 24 Hour Shift
- John Coburn - Primordial Garden
- Peter Creet - Lemnos 65
- Edith Croaker - Junk Metal
- Ross Davis - Visit to the Zoo
- George B Duncan - Night in a City
- Maximilian Feuerring - The Family
- Robert Finlayson - Prelude to Man
- Herbert Flugelman - Breakthrough
- Roy Fluke - Myself Playing
- Margaret Fromel - Rhythm of Life
- Samuel Fullbrook - Nocturne with Aeroplane and Fishes
- Anne Marie Graham - Joyride in Suburbia
- Tom Green - Duenna
- David Harrison - Encounter
- Hart Kevin 'Pro' - The Chop Picnic at Pine Creek
- H F Weaver Hawkins - Rehearsal
- Carmen Houliston - Metropolis
- Carmen Houliston - Children in the Sun
- Roy Hutchison - Organic Planting
- Gareth Jones-Roberts - Grape-pickers and Vineyards
- Bozidar Latkovic - Keeping in Touch with Civilization
- Clem Millward - The Ordeal 6. "Summer"
- Gabriel Pearl - The Poet Paints II
- Lesley Pockley - Still Life
- Ken Reinhard - Jim's Still Life
- John Rigby - Nude on a Balcony
- John Rigby - The Garden
- Elizabeth Rooney - Night Journey 2
- Joe Rose - The Fountain-head
- Alexander Sadlo - Figures in Motion
- Nettie Skillen - The Table
- Arnold St Claire - Little People
- Edwin Tanner - Philosophers with No Flies On
- Ilse Tauber - Fun Parlour
- C G Taylor - A.I.F. Landing, Muara Island, 10th June 1945
- Mary-Anne Telfer - I Caught My Yellow Cat
- Leonas Urbonas - The Cross
- Nell Van Der Zwan - A Discussion Night at the Art Gallery
- Lyn Woodger - Harmony
