9 May – 26 July The alternative Archibald and Wynne Prize selection ARCHIBALD PRIZE SELECTIONS ROGER BERRY One Yolk Portrait (Self portrait) egg tempera on board 12.5 x 10cm ALANAH ELLEN BRAND Seeking (Hang Vo, CEO Sacred Heart Mission; President of the Australian Council of Social Service; director, Respect Victoria and =member of the Australian Multicultural Council) oil on aluminium panel 83 x 63cm CYNTHIA BREUSCH Man with a woollen scarf – Portrait of artist, Christopher McVinish acrylic on board 150 x 74.5 cm JON CAMPBELL Jon Luvs Annie (Annie Grant) acrylic paint, linen 120 x 90cm ANN CAPE Jumaadi in his studio (Jumaadi, artist) oil on canvas 150 x 120cm JUN CHEN Red Rock – Selma Coulthard (Selma Coulthard, artist) oil on canvas 200 x 150cm JULIA CICCARONE This is what I saw (Anu Kumar, photographer) oil on linen 122 x 137cm TIM GREGORY and MELLETIOS KYRIAKIDIS Non-consensual Self-portrait oil and acrylic on cotton and linen 29 x 21cm JONATHAN DALTON The Shadow of a Labyrinth. Simone Kessell after Ariadne (Simone Kessell, actor) oil on linen 213 x 137cm GRAEME DRENDEL Self portrait in clown shirt watercolour on paper, 21 x 27 cm DAVID FAIRBAIRN Head of A.M. No. 2 (Anthony Mitchell, cultural heritage manager) acrylic, gouache, pastel, charcoal ink 115 x 130cm CHELSEA GUSTAFSSON Gustafsson oil on board 30 x 40cm ROBERT HANNFORD Dr Guy Rees oil on canvas 122 x 100cm JACQUELINE HENNESSY Eliza (Eliza Gosse, artist) oil on linen 102 x 102cm JOHN HONEYWILL Stumbling block (KB’s wrapped painting of me) (Self-portrait) oil on linen 71.5 x 61.5cm ANDREA HUELIN Good With This (Nikki Gemmell, writer) oil on linen 61 x 81cm KATHRIN LONGHURST Keeping Count (Sherele Moody, journalist, women’s rights activist and femicide researcher) oil and mixed media on linen 124 x 94cm STEVE LOPES The Little Blowhole- portrait of the artist & son (Steve & Ben Lopes) oil on canvas 140 x 140cm STEWART McFARLANE Scott Hicks (Scott Hicks, film director) oil on canvas 61 x 51cm ALEXANDER McKENZIE Susi Muddiman at Ngununggula (Susi Muddiman, gallery director) oil on linen 220 x 167cm JULIAN MEAGHER Foz (Craig Foster, footballer & human rights advocate) oil on linen 153 x 122cm PAUL MILLER To crumble – I am Crumbling (Self portrait) varnished egg tempera on panels 120 x 120cm LEWIS MILLER Self portrait in the studio oil on Belgian linen 41 x 25.5cm XANTHE MUSTON The ABCs of ACB (Amber Creswell Bell, writer & artist mentor) watercolour, gouache, ink, carbon transfer, and salt on paper 75.9 x 57.1cm ADAM NORTON Richard, with Andy, Tom and Comme des Garçons (Richard Perram, retired gallery director) synthetic polymer paint on canvas 202 x 136cm DANIEL PATA Kevin Connor (Kevin Connor, artist 1932-2025) oil 120 x 90cm JENNY RODGERSON Mitch (Mitch Nivalis, filmmaker & photographer) oil on linen 137 x 167cm RAE RYLKO Ben Smith: Artist, Teacher oil on canvas 95 x 65cm EVAN SALMON Self x four oil on linen on 4 panels 83.5 x 71cm WENDY SHARPE Patricia Piccinini (Patricia Piccinini, artist) oil on linen 137 x 122cm PETER SMEETH Miah, Between Two Worlds (Miah Scorgie, student) oil on linen 92 x 66cm LIZ STUTE Exit Stage Right (Self-portrait) oil on canvas 61 x 51cm TRISH TAIT Poolside Reconsidered (After Aarons) (Self-portrait) watercolour 73 x 60cm NOEL THURGATE Self Portrait, In Search of Balance oil and acrylic on plywood 204 x 83cm MICHAEL VALE Self portrait (with friends) oil on linen 183 x 152cm CHRISTINE WREST-SMITH Self Portrait After Hilda Rix Nicholas oil on linen 92 x 76cm WYNNE PRIZE SELECTIONS GINA BRUCE The Palace and the Shade Tree II oil on canvas 200 x 144cm TONY COSTA Angophora oil on canvas 182 x 152cm PAUL DAVIES Spicer Street, Woollahra acrylic on linen 101 x 72 cm KATIE FIRTH Raglan oil on board 36 x 28 x 4.5cm CRAIG HANDLEY Bank Ad oil on board 120 x 120cm JOHN HONEYWILL Ground oil on linen 71.5 x 71.5cm ROB HOWE Tarago (Spring) oil on board 40.5 x 30.5cm ROSS LAURIE Morning Chorus oil on canvas 147 x 183 cm EUAN MACLEOD Sea Cave oil on polyester 213 x 151cm ROBERT MALHERBE The Silver Lake oil on linen 183 x 137cm BAMBARRARR MARWILI Currents of Fire earth pigments on stringybark 187.5 x 79cm CHRISTOPHER McVINISH Sugar Mill oil on canvas 152 x 101.5cm NICOLA MOSS Redleaf – City and Nature acrylic, conte and paper on linen 231 x 115 cm KATHRYN RYAN Sanctuary oil on linen 137 x 183cm ZOE SERNACK Dreaming Under the Same Moon acrylic on birch board 40 x 40cm ROBYN SWEANEY Chasing butterflies acrylic on board 94 x 122cm JOHN WEST TJUPURRULA Untitled acrylic on linen 183 x 153cm MARY TONKIN Arachne, Kalorama 2026 oil on linen 278 x 224cm JOHN R WALKER Dawn Forest archival oil on polyester 198 x 244cm JOE WHYTE Last Moments oil on linen 63 x 63cm CHRISTOPHER ZANKO Wandering (Mount Donna Buang) acrylic on carved woodblock, acrylic rhinestones 150 x 122cm Exhibition touring to The David Roche Gallery, Adelaide 14 August – 24 October 2026 Retford Park, Bowral 28 November 2026- 31 January 2027 (Archibald selection)   PUBLIC PROGRAM Sunday 21 June at 3pm Join artists Christopher Zanko, Zoe Sernack, Katie Firth as they discuss their landscape works in the Salon des Refuses. Sunday 28 June at 3pm   Alexander McKenzie and Julian Meagher will speak about their portraits in the Salon. Sunday 5 July at 3pm  Jacqueline Hennessy and Kathrin Longhurst discuss their portraits and will be joined by Kathrin’s sitter, Sherele Moody, journalist, women’s rights activist and femicide researcher. Sunday 12 July at 3pm  Peter Smeeth, Trish Tait and Steve Lopes approach portraiture in diverse ways and will talk about their works in the exhibition. FREE with gallery admission, no bookings   The Salon des Refusés was initiated by the S.H. Ervin Gallery in 1992 in response to the large number of works entered into the Archibald Prize which were not selected for display in the official exhibition. The Archibald Prize is one of Australia’s most high profile and respected awards which attracts hundreds of entries each year and the S.H. Ervin Gallery’s ‘alternative’ selection has become a much-anticipated feature of the Sydney scene. Each year our panel is invited to go behind the scenes of the judging process for the annual Archibald Prize for portraiture and Wynne Prize for landscape painting and figure sculpture at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, to select an exhibition from the many hundreds of works entered in both prizes but not chosen for the official award exhibition. The Salon des Refusés exhibition at the S.H. Ervin Gallery has established an excellent reputation that rivals the selections in the ‘official’ exhibition, with works selected for quality, diversity, humour and experimentation, and which examine contemporary art practices, different approaches to portraiture and responses to the landscape. featured image: KATHRIN LONGHURST Keeping Count (Sherele Moody, journalist, women’s rights activist and femicide researcher) oil and mixed media on linen 124 x 94cm