The alternative Archibald and Wynne Prize selection
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.
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2020 Salon Archibald Selection
MARGARET ACKLAND Jennifer at work (Jennifer Keeler-Milne, artist)
J VALENZUELA DIDI Anatomically correct (a portrait of Dave McCormack) (musician)
MARTIN EDGE Martin (self portrait)
DAVID FAIRBAIRN T.J.K.3 (Tony James Kidd, motor mechanic)
PETER GARDINER Sharon and the East Coast low (Sharon Claydon, Federal Member for Newcastle)
TOM GERRARD Donny Benet (musician)
JENNI GRAY The winter beanie (self porttrait)
CRAIG HANDLEY it is what it is … (self portrait)
NICOLE KELLY Domestication (self portrait)
CAROLINE KENNEDY Ben and Rosie (in iso) 2020 (Ben Morieson and Rosie Kennedy, artist/ production designer and therapist)
JASPER KNIGHT Euan Macleod (artist)
RAY LAWRENCE Leah (Leah Purcell, actor, writer and director)
ALISON MACKAY Triple Flanny – a winter poisoning (self portrait)
EUAN MACLEOD Art collector Gordon Elliott (dancer and art collector)
SAMUEL MASSEY Portrait of Guy Maestri (artist)
GLENN MORGAN Covid self portrait
JAMES NEEDHAM Long day at home (self portrait)
CLINTON NG Tea with Liz (Elizabeth Laverty, philanthropist/art collector)
SUSAN O’DOHERTY Merran Esson (artist)
NICOLE O’LOUGHLIN Tom in a studio that no longer exists. (Tom O’Hern, artist)
EVERT PLOEG Unheroic materialism – little harmless fragments of memory and association -a portrait of Angus Trumble (former Director, National Portrait Gallery, art historian, author, curator)
RODNEY POPLE I did it my way (self portrait)
LESLIE RICE Self Portrait 2020
NIGEL SENSE Marrickville Bowlo Portrait – Jack Sniff (Jack Sniff, musician, lead singer of Pist Idiots)
LIZ STUTE See through me (self portrait)
ANDREW SULLIVAN Guy Brown in his studio at 5 Eliza (artist)
TRISH TAIT The unwitting guarantor (Hugh McCorkell Tait, pharmacist/musician)
CLARE THACKWAY Self portrait at 35
STEPHEN TIERNAN After Lyndal (Professor Ross Fitzgerald, author)
MICHAEL VALE Mick Harvey (with guitar and cockatoos) (musician)
DANIEL VUKOVLJAK Self portrait
OLIVER WATTS Alexandra Keating and Rupert Sanders on a yacht in Sydney Harbour (producer)
ANDREA WILSON Integrifolia (Janet Laurence, artist)
CHRISTINE WREST-SMITH Portrait of Bruce Shillingsworth (Bruce Shillingsworth, First Nations activist)
ZOE YOUNG The Playwright (David Williamson AO, playwright)
2020 Salon Wynne Selection
JO BERTINI The golden cradle
TOM CARMENT Calitris Pine, Oratunga
ELISABETH CUMMINGS Darling River bank
SINEAD DAVIES Treescape
PETER GARDINER Nocturne ll (Barrington)
STEVE GOUGH Treetops, dawn to dusk; Darwin river
GEOFFREY HARVEY Ash landscape
SUSAN HIPGRAVE Abundance
CHRISTOPHER HODGES Courtesan
JOANNA LAMB Industrial streetscape
JANE LANDER The fall
STEVE LOPES Last witness landscape
ROBERT MALHERBE Street landscape 3
HARLEY MANIFOLD They went over and had tacccooosss…uggghhh
PAUL MILLER Dark trees – dry field
RACHEL MILNE Evening walk
STEPHEN NOTHLING Tasmanian pastoral
EVAN SALMON A copse of trees (Warrawong)
NICK SANTORO Slacky flat
PETER STEVENS Gorge-falling water
SALLY STOKES Among the mangroves
PAUL TREFRY Man in a cube
MATTHEW TUMBERS Rope off the removable sea
GUY WARREN Orange rock with dead trees Ross River series
JOSHUA YELDHAM Phantom limb – Smith’s creek
ZOE YOUNG Crackenback
Featured image: OLIVER WATTS Alexandra Keating and Rupert Sanders on a yacht in Sydney Harbour