1996 – Pam Hallandal – Self portrait 1997 – Peter Bonner – Interior 1998 – Godwin Bradbeer – Man of paper VII 1999 – David Fairbairn (artist) – Portrait of Tao Triebels 2000 – Nick Mourtzakis – Untitled study 2001 – Nicholas Harding – Eddy Avenue (3) 2002 – Mary Tonkin – Rocky outcrop, Werribee Gorge 2003 – Aida Tomescu – "Negru III and Negru IV" (A candle in a dark room) 2004 – Garry Shead – Colloquy with John Keats (diptych) 2005 – Kevin Connor – Le Grand Palais, Clémenceau, de Gaulle and me 2006 – Nick Mourtzakis – nature. insects plants flowers. shell fish corals. the microscopic creatures. dreams 2007 – Ann Pollak – Mullet Creek 2008 – Virginia Grayson – No Conclusions Drawn + ABC coverage 2009 – Pam Hallandal – Tsunami 2010 – Suzanne Archer – Derangement 2011 – Anne Judell – Breath 2012 – Gareth Sansom – Made in Wadeye 2019 – Justine Varga – Photogenic drawing 2021 – Euan Macleod – Borderlands – Between NSW and QLD Additional works acquired The Dobell Trustees occasionally buy some of the works which have not won the main prize but have been exhibited, or they acquire them for other reasons, such as: Colin Lanceley's The garden between the mountains and the sea 1992 (bought) Daniel Moynihan's Tasmanian tiger in Paris, Canal St. Martin 1992 (bought) Dog by Rachel Ellis in 1992, which was admired by Arthur Boyd was bought by finalist Peter Kingston and donated to the gallery. Margaret Woodward's In the penumbra of perfumes and songs, 1993, a gift of Dr Roderick Bain. A gouache, Man on the beach, by Joe Furlonger, 1993 David Brian Wilson's The woman 1996 (bought) Judy Cassab donated two of her drawings, which were exhibited as finalists in 1997 Transparent landscape, Rainbow Valley and 2002 Temple, Udaipur. Another entry of hers, Incredible lightness, Rainbow Vallery, 1998, was purchased in 1999. In 2000, the Art Gallery Society supported the purchase of drawings Visibility/Invisibility by Jennifer Keeler-Milne and Urban landscape II by Sallie Moffat. Anne Judell's Mute 1999 was gifted to the gallery by an anonymous donor. Margaret Olley, the judge in 2001, purchased two drawings. One by Margaret Woodward, Francisco Lezcano riding the unicycle, and one by Amanda Robins, Linen dress, and gave them to the gallery. External links AGNSW: The 2005 Dobell Prize for Drawing Artnews 2004 prize SMH – Dobell