Intrepid Women: Australian women artists in Paris 1900-1950
2 Dec 2017 11:00 am until 25 Mar 2018 11:00 am
The captivating allure of Paris has intrigued Australian artists throughout our history and this exhibition focuses on 30 women artists who travelled there to study, paint, visit galleries, salons, and artists’ studios. Freed from the conventions of home, they immersed themselves in the rich cultural milieu of Paris. Presented with the assistance of the Jolimont Foundation.
Portia Geach Memorial Award 2017
20 Oct 2017 11:00 am until 26 Nov 2017 11:00 am
The Portia Geach Memorial Award is Australia's most prestigious art prize for portraiture by female artists. The Award was established by the will of the late Florence Kate Geach in memory of her sister, Portia Geach. The non-acquisitive award of $30,000 is awarded by the Trustee for the entry which is of the highest artistic merit. Tasmanian based artist Amanda Davies has been announced as the 2017 winner.
29 Jul 2017 11:00 am until 15 Oct 2017 11:00 am
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 S.H. Ervin Gallery’s ‘alternative’ selection has become a much anticipated feature of the Sydney art scene. The winner of the Holding Redlich People's Choice Award for 2017 was Luke Cornish, with his portrait of artist Ben Quilty.
Elisabeth Cummings Interior Landscapes
26 May 2017 11:00 am until 23 Jul 2017 11:00 am
In a lifetime devoted to art making art Elisabeth Cummings is being celebrated with a retrospective exhibition that features a selection of sixty paintings, prints and ceramics from her opus of the past fifty years. Curated by Sioux Garside
Coast: Peter Powditch retrospective
31 Mar 2017 11:00 am until 21 May 2017 11:00 am
This exhibition will reveal an extraordinary insight into the personal and creative journey of an artist whose contribution to Australian creative life has yet to be fully understood or appreciated.
Margaret Olley: painter, peer, mentor, muse
7 Jan 2017 11:00 am until 26 Mar 2017 11:00 am
This major exhibition celebrates the influence of Margaret Olley as an artist from her student days and continued throughout her life. It explores the influences of her teachers on her practice, the inspirations that shaped her as a painter and finally her legacy to those artists she championed. Curated by Renee Porter
Portia Geach Memorial Award 2016
4 Nov 2016 11:00 am until 18 Dec 2016 11:00 am
The annual award exhibition for portraiture by contemporary Australian women artists. The award, which was first given in 1965 in memory of the artist Portia Geach, displays selected entries from artists across the nation representing diversity in contemporary portraiture. Melbourne artist Jenny Rodgerson has been announced as the winner of the 2016 Portia Geach Memorial Award.
Black Mist Burnt Country: Testing the Bomb Maralinga and Australian Art
24 Sep 2016 11:00 am until 30 Oct 2016 11:00 am
Black Mist Burnt Country: Testing the Bomb. Maralinga and Australian Art is a national touring exhibition of artworks by over 30 Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists commemorating the British atomic test series in Australia. Sixty years after the events this exhibition revisits the history of the test program at places such as Maralinga, Emu and Montebello Island.
16 Sep 2016 11:00 am until 18 Sep 2016 11:00 am
Each year the Salon panel goes behind the scenes of the Archibald Prize judging process, to select an ‘alternative’ exhibition from the many works not chosen as finalists for the official exhibition. The criteria for works selected are quality, diversity, humour and experimentation. The winner of the 2016 Holding Redlich People's Choice Award was Tianli Zu for her portrait of Senator, Penny Wong, titled The Senator and Ma.
Revealed: the gallery collection & conservation in action
7 Jun 2016 11:00 am until 24 Jun 2016 11:00 am
Revealed: the Gallery collection and conservation in action presents an insight into the gallery’s permanent collection and understand the process behind maintaining one of Sydney’s greatest collections of Australian colonial and twentieth century art.
Genesis of a painter: Guy Warren at 95
15 Apr 2016 11:00 am until 29 May 2016 11:00 am
At the grand age of 95, artist Guy Warren is celebrating with a special focus exhibition featuring work from his earliest days in London during the 1950s and after his return to Sydney in 1958, together with recent works. These show the enduring imagery of the relationship between the figure and background that signifies not only a timeless aspect of the language of painting but also the mystical connection between man and the environment.
(more) Private Lives: The artist as collector
27 Feb 2016 11:00 am until 10 Apr 2016 11:00 am
This is the second exhibition that presents the fascinating personal collections of leading contemporary artists including Guy Maestri, Idris Murphy, Nicholas Harding and Tom Carment.
11 Dec 2015 11:00 am until 21 Feb 2016 11:00 am
Destination Sydney is the result of the collaborative efforts of three of Sydney’s leading public art galleries – Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Mosman Art Gallery and the S.H. Ervin Gallery – along with luminary curator Lou Klepac,to presentsa unique perspective on the exchange of selected twentieth century artists from inside and outside Sydney, from its unrivalled landscape and how their contributions have become synonymous with the visual culture of Sydney.
Country and Western: Landscape re-imagined
30 Oct 2015 11:00 am until 6 Dec 2015 11:00 am
Country & Western: landscape re-imagined brings into focus the contrasting insights and cultural imperatives, both Indigenous (Country) and non-Indigenous (Western), that have given shape and substance to our evolving attitudes and perceptions of the national landscape over the past 25 years.
Portia Geach Memorial Award 2015
18 Sep 2015 11:00 am until 25 Oct 2015 11:00 am
The annual award exhibition for portraiture by contemporary Australian women artists. The award, which was first given in 1965 in memory of the artist Portia Geach, displays selected entries from artists across the nation representing diversity in contemporary portraiture. Melbourne artist Natasha Bieniek, with her portrait 'Sahara' (pictured), has been announced as the winner of the 2015 Portia Geach Memorial Award.
18 Jul 2015 11:00 am until 13 Sep 2015 11:00 am
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 winner of the 2015 Holding Redlich People's Choice Award was Paul Trefry, for his Homeless still human, sculpture from the Wynne Prize selection.
Painter in Paradise: William Dobell in New Guinea
29 May 2015 11:00 am until 12 Jul 2015 11:00 am
In May 1949, renowned Australian painter William Dobell (1899 – 1970), in an endeavour to escape publicity after his 1948 Archibald Prize win, left Australia with his friend, writer Colin Simpson, in the company of philanthropist and trustee of Taronga Park Zoo, Sir Edward Hallstrom.
17 Apr 2015 11:00 am until 24 May 2015 11:00 am
Your Friend the Enemy features artworks by 16 significant Australian and New Zealand contemporary artists, commemorating the ANZAC legend and the 2015 centenary of the Gallipoli campaign. The exhibition title originates from a series of letters written by Idris Charles Pike, the grandfather of artist Idris Murphy, the 2014 Gallipoli art prize winner.
Roy Jackson – Retrospective 1963-2013
27 Feb 2015 11:00 am until 12 Apr 2015 11:00 am
This retrospective exhibition spans fifty years of painting and drawing, by one of the most distinctive abstract painters in Australia. Roy Jackson (1944-2013) was regarded as a "painter's painter" - a rare talent whose work explored and challenged the possibilities of representation and abstraction.
Private Lives – The artist as collector
24 Jan 2015 11:00 am until 22 Feb 2015 11:00 am
This is the first exhibition to present the fascinating personal collections of leading contemporary artists including Wendy Sharpe and Bernard Ollis, Michael Kempson, Leo Robba and Adrienne Roberts, Peter Sharp, Euan Macleod, and Henry Mulholland.
Portia Geach Memorial Award 2014
7 Nov 2014 11:00 am until 14 Dec 2014 11:00 am
The annual award exhibition for portraiture by contemporary Australian women artists. The award, which was first given in 1965 in memory of the artist Portia Geach, displays selected entries from artists across the nation representing diversity in contemporary portraiture. Sydney-based artist Sophie Cape has been announced as the winner of the 2014 Portia Geach Memorial Award.
Five Decades at Watters Gallery
19 Sep 2014 11:00 am until 2 Nov 2014 11:00 am
Watters Gallery opened in Darlinghurst in November 1964, and since then has become one of the leading galleries on the Sydney visual arts scene. Led by Frank Watters, Geoffrey Legge & Alexandra Legge, Watters Gallery has represented significant artists of every era and this exhibition celebrates its 50th anniversary.
19 Jul 2014 11:00 am until 14 Sep 2014 11:00 am
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. The S.H. Ervin Gallery’s ‘alternative’ selection has become a much anticipated feature of the Sydney art scene. The winner of the 2014 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award was Nick Stathopoulos for his portrait of Robert Hoge.
Arthur Boyd: An Active Witness
6 Jun 2014 11:00 am until 12 Jul 2014 11:00 am
This is the first major exhibition to consider the social consciousness that infused Arthur Boyd’s life and art from the point of view of his private, but passionate, political and social consciousness. This exhibition explores the ways in which Boyd, as a clear-eyed witness to his times, wove into his lyrical landscapes, and his masterly visual representations of ancient narratives, his personal responses to the ethical challenges facing his world. A Bundanoon Trust touring exhibition.
19 Apr 2014 11:00 am until 1 Jun 2014 11:00 am
Bill Brown is one of the most respected figures in Australian visual arts. A precocious talent in the sixties and seventies, Brown achieved a sophistication, depth and distinctive voice until progressively retreating as an exhibiting artist in the 1980s. This exhibition celebrated his contribution as an artist in a career spanning over forty years. Works from state and national galleries across Australia, and from private collections, will be presented in this first ever survey of his considerable oeuvre. Curated by Christopher Hodges.
7 Mar 2014 11:00 am until 13 Apr 2014 11:00 am
Reality in flames examines the different ways in which Australian modern artists responded creatively to the Second World War. Works created in this period explored the major social themes of the time as artists sought to comprehend the war’s events and consequences.
24 Jan 2014 11:00 am until 2 Mar 2014 11:00 am
In recent years Sydney has become renowned for its diverse public sculpture festivals and this exhibition presents the work of leading sculptors including Paul Bacon, Anne Ferguson, Christopher Hodges, Paul Hopmeier, Jan King, Kevin Norton, James Rogers, Hui Selwood, Paul Selwood & Michael Snape for an overview of the dynamic and evolving Sydney sculpture scene.
22 Nov 2013 11:00 am until 19 Jan 2014 11:00 am
The S.H. Ervin Galley is honoured to present the exhibition Utzon’s Opera House to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Opera House in 1973 and to celebrate its significance for Australian visual artists.
Portia Geach Memorial Prize 2013
4 Oct 2013 11:00 am until 17 Nov 2013 11:00 am
The annual award exhibition for portraiture by contemporary Australian women artists. The award, which was first given in 1965 in memory of the artist Portia Geach, displays selected entries from artists across the nation representing diversity in contemporary portraiture. Hélène Grove has been named winner of 2013 Portia Geach Memorial Award.
30 Aug 2013 11:00 am until 29 Sep 2013 11:00 am
Windows to the Sacred: An exploration of the Esoteric includes major Australian artists such as James Gleeson whose works will be re-examined in the context of their esoteric influences
12 Jul 2013 11:00 am until 25 Aug 2013 11:00 am
Widely regarded as the ‘father’ of Australian studio ceramics, in a career spanning over six decades, Peter Rushforth has sustained an enduring commitment to the pursuit of ‘the good pot’. His resolve has always been to create works that employ native Australian materials, in order to develop unique forms of art particular to the environment in which he lives.
23 Mar 2013 11:00 am until 19 May 2013 11:00 am
Each year the Salon panel goes behind the scenes of the Archibald Prize judging process, to select an ‘alternative’ exhibition from the many works not chosen as finalists for the official exhibition. The criteria for works selected are quality, diversity, humour and experimentation. The winner of the 2013 Holding Redlich People's Choice Award was Christopher McVinish with his painting, Portrait of Colin Friels.
Capturing Flora: Australian Botanical Art 1700–1900
15 Feb 2013 11:00 am until 17 Mar 2013 11:00 am
The works in this exhibition cover the first 200 years of image-making inspired by the Australian flora, from the early European exploration of this continent down to Federation. They have been selected for this display from the exhibition Capturing Flora: 300 years of Australian Botanical Art, presented at the Art Gallery of Ballarat in 2012.
5 Jan 2013 11:00 am until 12 Feb 2013 11:00 am
Walcha based artist Angus Nivison creates large scale works, drawing inspiration from the Australian landscape. This survey exhibition, curated by Sandra McMahon, Director, Tamworth Regional Gallery, brings together key paintings from Nivison’s over twenty year career.
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