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The Sir John Sulman Prize is one of Australia's longest-running art prizes, having been established in 1936.
It is now held concurrently with the
Archibald Prize , Australia's best-known art prize, and also with the
Wynne Prize , at the
Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Sydney.
Criteria
The Sir
John Sulman Prize is awarded each year for "the best subject/genre painting and/or murals/mural project executed during the two years preceding the [closing] date", and as of 2008 is valued at $20,000. Media may be acrylic, oil, watercolour or mixed media, and applicants must have been resident in Australia for five years.
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The definition of the terms as given by the AGNSW is:
A genre painting is normally a composition representing some aspect or aspects of everyday life, and may feature figurative, still-life, interior or figure-in-landscape themes. A subject painting, in contrast to a genre painting, is idealised or dramatised. Typically, a subject painting takes its theme from history, poetry, mythology or religion. In both cases, however, the style may be figurative, representative, abstract or semi-abstract. A mural is a picture that is affixed directly to a wall or ceiling, as part of an architectural and/or decorative scheme.
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List of winners
Source:
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1939 –
Gert Sellheim – Mural decoration on wall of Victorian Government Tourist Bureau, Hotel Australia Building, 272 Collins Street, Melbourne
1940 –
Harold Abbott – Vaucluse Interior (painting)
1941 –
Douglas Annand – Historical Mural at Bathurst Public School
1942 –
Jean Bellette – For Whom the Bell Tolls (painting)
1943 –
Elaine Haxton – Mural at le Coq D'Or Restaurant, Sydney
1944 –
Jean Bellette – Iphigenia in Tauris (painting)
1945 –
Virgil Lo Schiavo – Tribute to Shakespeare, Mural at Sydney University Union
1946 –
Sali Herman – Natives carrying wounded soldiers (painting)
1947 –
Douglas Annand – Mural, Messrs. Jantzen (Aust.) Pty. Ltd., Lidcombe.
1948 –
Sali Herman – The Drovers (painting)
1949 –
J. Carrington Smith – Bush Pastoral, Mural design for New State Building, Hobart
1950 –
Harold Greenhill – Summer Holiday (painting)
1951 –
Douglas Annand – Mural, Restaurant, R.M.S. "Oronsay"
1952 –
Charles Doutney – Darlinghurst Road (painting)
1953 –
Eric Smith – Convicts Berrima 1839, Mural at Old Court House, Berrima
1954 –
Wallace Thornton – Sculptor and Model (painting)
1955 –
Wesley Penberthy – Oriental Mural (mural design)
1956 –
Harold Greenhill – Prawning at Night (genre painting)
1957 –
Michael Kmit – The Voice of Silence (subject painting)
1958 – No Award
1959 –
Susan Wright – The Circus (genre painting)
1960 –
Leonard French – The Burial (subject painting)
1961 –
Robin Norling – Sea Movement and Rocks (mural design)
1962 –
John Rigby – Children Dancing (genre painting)
1963 –
Roy Fluke – Spring Walk (subject painting)
1964 –
Ken Reinhard – The Private Public Preview (genre painting)
1965 –
Gareth Jones-Roberts – Grape-pickers and Vineyards (subject painting)
1966 –
Louis James – It's Hot in Town (genre painting)
1967 –
Cec Burns – Exercise in Variegation (subject painting)
1968 –
Tim Storrier – Suzy 350 (genre painting)
1969 –
Louis James – Spyhole (subject painting)
1970 –
Michael Kmit – Philopena (genre painting)
1971 –
James Meldrum – Pyramid Shelf (subject painting)
1972 –
Peter Powditch – Sun-torso 128 (Bunch) (genre painting)
1973 –
Eric Smith – The Painter Transmogrified and Mrs. Smith (subject painting)
1974 –
Keith Looby – Still Life and Comfy II
1975 – (joint)
Alan Oldfield Transvestite (for Diane Arbus)
1975 – (joint)
Geoffrey Proud – Untitled Jane
1976 –
Brett Whiteley – Interior with time past
1977 –
Salvatore Zofrea - Woman's life, woman's love 3
1978 –
Brett Whiteley – Yellow Nude
1979 –
Salvatore Zofrea – The water trap (subject painting)
1980 –
Brian Dunlop – The old physics building (genre painting)
1981 –
William Delafield Cook – A French family (subject painting)
1982 –
Salvatore Zofrea – Psalm 24 (genre)
1984 –
Tim Storrier – The Burn
1986 –
Wendy Sharpe – Black Sun – Morning and Night,
Nigel Thomson – The State Institution
1987 –
Marcus Beilby – Crutching the Ewes,
Bob Marchant – The Grand Parade Sydney Show
1988 –
Bob Marchant – Catching rabbits and yabbies at 5-mile dam
1989 –
John Olsen – Don Quixote Enters the Inn
1990 –
Robert Hollingworth – Going Away/Looking Back
1991/92 –
Kevin Connor – Najaf (Iraq) June 1991
1992/93 –
John Montefiore – Life Series
1993/94 –
Noel McKenna – Boy Dressed as Batman 2 (Diptych)
1995 –
Juli Haas – By the Banks of Her Own Lagoon
1996 –
Aida Tomescu – Grey-to-Grey
1997 –
Kevin Connor – The Man with itchy fingers and other figures Gare du Nord
1998 –
Robert Jacks – Changed into a weeping willow
1999 –
Anne Wallace – Secret Paintings
2000 –
John Peart – Snailsnake
2001 –
Euan Macleod – Exquisite Corpse with Fire, Highly commended: Elisabeth Cummings Harbour Light
2002 –
Guan Wei – Gazing into deep space no. 9
2003 –
Eric Smith – Reflection
2004 –
Allan Mitelman – Untitled
2005 –
Sandro Nocentini –
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2006 –
Jiawei Shen – Peking treaty 1901
2007 –
David Disher – Axis of Elvis
2008 –
Rodney Pople – Stage fright
2009 –
Ivan Durrant – ANZAC Day Match
2010 –
Michael Lindeman – Paintings, prints & wall hangings
2011 –
Peter Smeeth – The artist's fate
2012 –
Nigel Milsom – Judo House pt 4 (Golden mud)
2013 –
Victoria Reichelt – After (books)
2014 – Andrew Sullivan – T-rex (tyrant lizard king)
2015 – Jason Phu – I was at yum cha when in rolled the three severed heads of Buddha: fear, malice and death
2016 –
Esther Stewart – Flatland dreaming
2017 –
Joan Ross – Oh history, you lied to me
2018 –
Kaylene Whiskey – Kaylene TV
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2020 –
Marikit Santiago – The divine
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2021 – Georgia Spain – Getting down or falling up
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2022 –
Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro – Raiko and Shuten-dōji
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2023 –
Doris Bush Nungarrayi – Mamunya ngalyananyi (Monster coming)
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2024 –
Naomi Kantjuriny – Minyma mamu tjuta
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Notes and references
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