Winner for 1988
Bob MarchantCatching rabbits and yabbies at 5 Mile Dam
Winner: Sir John Sulman Prize 1988
Finalists for 1988
- Waldemar Buczynski - Night Visitors
- Robert Eadie - Ship of Fools - Narrabeen
- Ruth Faerber - The Inscription
- George Gittoes - El Tigre - Nicaragua
- Gerard Havekes - Water, Fire and Earth, Design Tapestry, National Australia Bank
- Euan Heng - Only Strangers Travel
- Roy Jackson - Figures by the Sea
- Robert Juniper - Oz - Dance
- Keith Looby - Artmaster at the Burial of Talking Mural
- Victor Majzner - Shooting Gallery 1987
- Bob Marchant - Catching rabbits and yabbies at 5 Mile Dam
- Bob Marchant - The final of the Iron Man Contest at Manly
- Rodney Milgate - Imagine grabbing someone like that on television with everyone watching
- Max Miller - Fragments of Pure Land
- The Prisoners of Long Bay Prison - Rainforest – Symbol of Paradise
- The Prisoners of Long Bay Prison - Bi-Centennial Apocalypse
- Aileen Rogers - Polo 5
- Ann Thomson - The Distant Messengers
- Hadyn John Wilson - Ritual Bearings
- Salvatore Zofrea - Psalm 35: After Uccello 1988
- Reinis Zusters - Symbols of the first encounters