Sir John Sulman Prize 1997
- Rick Amor - The waiter
- Suzanne Archer - Black Horse
- Jane Bennett - The closing of the gap
- Marion Borgelt - Icons and emblems: silent sound No. 1
- Jun Chen - Studio model - December
- Kevin Connor - The man with itchy fingers and other figures - Gare du Nord (Winner: Sir John Sulman Prize 1997)
- Fred Cress - Critics
- Liz Cuming - Bircyh of Adelaide
- Karl de Waal - Reflector
- Geoffrey Dyer - Is Paris burning?
- Robert Eadie - Strange tree – light and snow
- Ruth Faerber - Guardian spirits
- Andrew Frost - Babsi on the thin wire
- Joe Furlonger - Artist and model in the studio
- George Gittoes - Rwanda maconde
- Robert Hannaford - Reflection
- Kerrie Lester - Boo
- Bruno Leti - Nowhere is everywhere by now
- Keith Looby - Mister Auty, Olsen, Storrier, begin to turn the desert into art
- James Meldrum - Meditation studio
- Mervyn Moriarty - "And they were not ashamed"
- John Peart - Mantra ray
- Wendy Sharpe - Dinner at Hill End
- Garry Shead - The visitation
- Andrew Sibley - The human zoo / the feel-good factor
- Ian Smith - Twelve disciples in shadows and sensible shoes
- Ann Thomson - Quijotesco
- Dick Watkins - Three
- Salvatore Zofrea - Midnight minuet, after Tiepolo (Psalm 64)
- Reinis Zusters - Urban encounters