Winners for 1980
William Delafield CookA Waterfall (Strath Creek)
Winner: Wynne Prize 1980
Ruth FaerberTimeless Land
Winner: Pring Prize 1980
Elwyn LynnFoothill Field and Cloud
Winner: Trustees' Watercolour Prize 1980
Finalists for 1980
- Suzanne Archer - Beach (Harbord)
- David Aspden - Pond II
- John Caldwell - Cliff in Shadow
- Cam Clarke - Aftermath, Near Eden
- William Delafield Cook - A Waterfall (Strath Creek)
- William Delafield Cook - Some Houses at Gundagai
- Ruth Faerber - Timeless Land
- Ronald John Feast - Woman combing her hair (sculpture)
- Samuel Fullbrook - The South Brisbane Reach
- Richard Goodwin - Prindy (sculpture)
- Edward Hall - Illawarra Escarpment
- Edward Hall - Beehives
- Greg Hansell - The tin wall
- Ronald Hawke - Urban Pyramids
- Bernd Heinrich - Hill of Dreams II
- Bernd Heinrich - Hill of Dreams I
- Frank Hodgkinson - The Arnhem Land wet
- Bela Ivanyi - On the Pier
- Kenneth Jack - Twilight – Sydney
- Robert Jacks - Hue and Cry ZigZag Rock Face
- Robert Juniper - Uanna
- Eva Kubbos - Nightfall - Inland
- Judy Lane - Blue Harbour
- Keith Looby - Last South Head Summer
- Elwyn Lynn - Mountain and Field
- Elwyn Lynn - Foothill Field and Cloud
- Victoria Lynn - Visionary Olgas
- Andrew McLean - Hillside near Yea (3)
- Rod McMahon - Landscape in 5 parts
- Frank McNamara - Mine Landscape
- Clem Millward - Burnt out scrub. Mundayong Creek
- Lesley Pockley - Lighthouse
- David Preston - Didjeridoo Hill
- David Rankin - Ridge - Wild Apple
- William Salmon - Winter Sky
- David Schlunke - Tree contemplated
- Michael Shannon - Summer storm
- Tim Storrier - Sunrise
- Lillian Sutherland - Salt Bush Country
- Neil Taylor - Creek Swipe
- Ann Thomson - Sydney Waterfront II
- John Wolseley - Forty eight days in Tnorula – Gosses Bluff, Northern Territory
- Margaret Woodward - The Pool
- Reinis Zusters - Deserted Gully