Winner for 1983
Nigel ThomsonMarat, the Unsophisticated will be Shocked at the Depiction of your...
Winner: Sir John Sulman Prize 1983
Finalists for 1983
- Judith Alexandrovics - Assasination [sic]
- Suzanne Archer - Grave Hearts for Little Children - Soweto
- Ian Bent - Cariadwen – Earth Mother
- Fred Cress - Rich Friends
- Peter Day - King George V Activity Centre Mural
- Noela Hjorth - Floating Images, Within, Without
- Tony Irving - The Artist's Studio
- Robert Juniper - Genesis: Let Us Go Out Into The Open Country
- Colin Lanceley - Dust in Sunlight and Memory in Corners
- Janet Laurence - Blodeuwedds Night
- Keith Looby - Painta-‘o’-us
- Jeffrey Makin - Large Bather
- Stuart Maxwell - Homage to Sandy Skogland (Revenge of the Cats)
- Noel McKenna - Manning River Crossing Incident
- Ross Mellick - Garment on Painted Surface with Poem
- Max Miller - Noh
- Nigel Murray-Harvey - Captain Consensus or Liberty Leading the People
- Public Art Squad - Sydney Opera House Tenth Anniversary Mural
- Arthur Leeds Schmidt - Crown St Logo
- Tim Storrier - The Club Mogambo
- Nigel Thomson - Marat, the Unsophisticated will be Shocked at the Depiction of your Death: or, the Artist Answers His Critics
- Brett Whiteley - Bondi
- Salvatore Zofrea - Saint Francis & Saint Clare
- Reinis Zusters - The Newcastle Cathedral War Memorial Mural