Wynne Prize 1997
Winner: Pring Prize 1997
Judy Cassab Distant Horizon, Rainbow Valley
Winner: Trustees' Watercolour Prize 1997
Noel McKenna The river (diptych)
- Rick Amor - Storm over coast
- David Aspden - Storm warning
- Jane Bennett - Night, Spit Bridge II
- Kate Briscoe - Striped cliff, Murramakang
- Peter Brookes - Angel's trumpets
- Judy Cassab - Distant Horizon, Rainbow Valley
- Robert Clinch - Soliloquy
- Liz Cuming - Wilpena moment
- Elisabeth Cummings - Lake Mungo landscape (diptych)
- Karl de Waal - Botany
- Geoffrey Dyer - King River or homage to landscape and memory
- Janenne Eaton - Antipodes – from the penal colony series
- Robert Hannaford - Maslins
- Greg Hansell - The dairy
- Jodi Heffernan - Scape
- Roy Jackson - Gilgai, Gibber Plains
- Robert Juniper - Abandoned garden
- John Kelly - Camouflaged cow on trestles
- Gunther Kopietz - Vanity and gossip
- Noel McKenna - The river (diptych)
- Michael Nicholls - Working out
- John Olsen - Summer at Rydal
- John Peart - Nandi Moon (Winner: Wynne Prize 1997)
- James Rogers - Parenthesis
- Jenny Sages - The wet
- David Serisier - Across the big red
- Jeannette Siebols - Night and day, stream hiding in grasses, water on its way
- Sarah Warner - Seed
- Dick Watkins - Looking west
- John Wolseley - Two weeks at Emily Gap, Northern Territory – a survey
- Barbara Wulff - The Fontanelle closes