The alternative Archibald and Wynne Prize selection
8 June – 25 August 2024
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.
This year’s selectors were Brad Hammond, director Orange Regional Gallery and Jane Watters, director, S.H. Ervin Gallery.
MEDIA
John McDonald – Do we care about the Archibald too much? – The Sydney Morning Herald 29 June
Nick Galvin – The ‘reject’ show that artists love to be seen in – The Sydney Morning Herald
SUNDAY AFTERNOON @ THE GALLERY
Free with Gallery admission
Salon Archibald Selection
DAVID BEAUMONT The Whisper: Portrait of Dr David Brumley OAM oil on linen 150 x 120 cm
SHARON BILLINGE Celeste (Celeste Chandler, artist) oil on wood 22.5 x 15.5 cm
JOANNA BRAITHWAITE Memory Lane (Self-portrait) oil on canvas 110 x 210 cm
CYNTHIA BREUSCH Portrait of artist Christopher McVinish acrylic on board 122.5 x 122 cm
CARMEL FRANCESCA BYRNE Sarah (Sarah Greenwood, actor) oil on canvas 183 x 137 cm
TOM CARMENT James Scanlon, Gates Avenue oil on linen 51 x 41 cm
JUN CHEN Michael Wardell (Michael Wardell, gallery director) oil on canvas 188 x 132 cm
MELISSA CLEMENTS My Grandfather Died Today (Self-portrait) oil on paper 10 x 7.5 cm
TONY COSTA Professor Veena Sahajwalla oil on canvas 182 x152 cm
SINEAD DAVIES Heather Ewart oil on canvas 94 x 94 cm
AMANDA DAVIES Self-Portrait with a lazy eye and satin gloves oil on linen 52.5cm x 42 cm
GRAEME DRENDEL Portrait of Rick (Rick Amor, artist) oil on canvas 41 x 31 cm
DAVID EASTWOOD Verso (Self-portrait) acrylic on polyester 61 × 71 cm
KATHERINE EDNEY Lynda dreaming in pink and blue (Lynda Draper, artist) oil on birch panel, enamel and glazed ceramics 84 x 61 cm
NICOLETTE EISDELL Larry, at home in Leura (Larry Buttrose) oil on stretched canvas 40 x 61 cm
ANDY FACKRELL Self-Portrait oil on canvas 30 x 25 cm
ELIZA GOSSE Emma and Norby on holiday (Emma Mulholland) oil on birch plywood 180 x 115 cm
SAMANTHA GROENESTYN Addiction (Self-portrait) oil on linen 34 x 21.5 cm
MICHELLE HISCOCK The Director (Samuel Lucas Allen, writer/director) oil on canvas 45.5 x 35.5 cm
ZAI KUANG Back to Medieval oil on board, 22.5 x 20.3 cm
MARIE MANSFIELD Caroline Zilinsky (Artist), oil on board, 60 x 50 cm
ANNE MCCAUGHEY Blight (Self-portrait) oil on board, 25.5 x 20 cm
PAUL MILLER I am Still (Self-Portrait) varnished egg tempera on wooden panel, 60 cm x 2.5c
LEWIS MILLER Portrait of Graeme Drendel II, oil on Belgian linen, 172 cm x 82 cm
HEATHER MILLER “though I have closed myself as fingers” (Self-portrait) oil on clay board, 63 x 48
ELIZABETH NELSON Self-Portrait, oil on canvas, 69 x 59 cm
PAUL NEWTON Self-Portrait – 2024, oil on linen canvas, 41 cm x 36 cm
LORI PENSINI Free Bird (Self-portrait) oil on linen, 55 x 50 cm
RODNEY POPLE High as a kite (Self-portrait) oil on linen, 159 x 136 cm
IMOGEN EVE ROWE Pop watercolour on yupo 79 x 109 cm
JACK RUBIN & PIP EDWARDS COLLABORATION Louis Roller OAM, canvas, 62 x 50 cm
EVAN SALMON Studio interior, reflection (self-portrait), oil on linen, 122.5 x 137.5 cm
WENDY SHARPE Self-Portrait with Improbable Beings, oil on canvas, 76 x 61 cm
ALISON SMITH Face XXXVI (self) oil on paper 76 x 56 cm
PHOEBE STONE Self-Portrait. Crying in the bathroom again. oil on board 64 x 49 cm
LIZ STUTE Revolving door (Self-Portrait) oil on canvas 101 x 76 cm
TRISH TAIT Me Myself I (Self-portrait) oil on board 30cm x 30 cm
NOEL THURGATE Portrait of Ann Thomson oil, acrylic and collage on hardboard 155 x 120 cm
Salon Wynne Selection
JO BERTINI Singing Up Country – each phrase the size of a red stone – Turraburra.’ (Iningai Country, QLD) oil on Belgian linen 158 x 204 cm
KATJARRA BUTLER Papuun acrylic on canvas 147.3 x 177.8 cm
CHARLES COOPER Tick tock oil on canvas 147 x 168 cm
MARK DOBER Lake Daylesford,Autumn gouache on paper 56 x 76 cm
JACQUI DRIVER Thicket Thinking oil and watercolour on paper 132 x 75 cm
KATIE FIRTH Sea from Birkley Road oil 101 x 91 cm
ROB HOWE South Coast Beach and Pines oil on board 83 x 117 cm
DAVID HURWITZ Cape Paterson watercolour on paper 90 x 130 cm
LAURA JONES Slow Burn oil on linen 183 x 152 cm
STEVE LOPES Australian Gothic oil on canvas 90 x 90 cm
HARLEY MANIFOLD No calls, no texts, speeding tickets and one brake light. Fml. oil on canvas 46 x 61 cm
AVA MCCLURE Nepalese theme park oil on canvas 24 x 17 cm
CHRISTOPHER McVINISH The silent street oil on canvas 101.5 x 152.5 cm
MANTUA NANGALA Untitled acrylic on linen 183 x 244cm
CHRIS O’DOHERTY Cruciform eucalypt with doomsday clock house enamel and oil paint on canvas 100 x 70 cm
KATHRYN RYAN Drift oil on linen 137 x 183 cm
MARY TONKIN A scream, Kalorama oil on linen 214 x 366 cm
JOHN R. WALKER Goat Made Wilderness archival oil on linen 183 x 243 cm
KIM WESTCOTT Forest of Light acrylic on aluminium panels 160 x 240 cm
JO WHITE Last roar of the dinosaur mixed media 52 x 62 cm
JOE WHYTE Memory and Light oil on linen 75 x 126 cm
CHEE YONG Garden 3 a.m. oil on wood 10 x 10 cm
featured image: SINEAD DAVIES Heather Ewart 2024 oil on canvas 94 x 94 cm