3 Dec 2022 until 12 Feb 2023
Celebrating the artistic friendship of Melbourne artists Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme this exhibition presents the changing face of inter-war Australia through the perspective of these two pioneering artists.
12 Nov 2022 until 27 Nov 2022
Prized Possessions brings together some of the finest pieces from the National Trust collections and is the first major exhibition of our works including the recently revealed Dutch masterpiece.
Portia Geach Memorial Award 2022
16 Sep 2022 until 6 Nov 2022
The annual exhibition of finalists in the Portia Geach Memorial Award.
Heart of Country: Arnhem Land Barks
30 Jul 2022 until 11 Sep 2022
An exhibition of stunning bark paintings from a private collection presented in association with the Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra.
27 May 2022 until 27 May 2022
The Salon des Refusés is the S.H. Ervin Gallery’s ‘alternative’ selection from works entered into the annual Archibald and Wynne Prizes.
26 Mar 2022 11:00 am until 8 May 2022 11:00 am
Steve Lopes Encountered is survey exhibition,presented in association with Orange Regional Gallery, of over 80 paintings, rarely seen drawings, prints and collages, together with the artist’s diaries and drawing books.
Destination Sydney: the natural world
4 Jan 2022 11:00 am until 20 Mar 2022 11:00 am
A collaboration between three Sydney public galleries this summer with one exhibition, three galleries and nine artists. Destination Sydney: the natural world showcases artworks responding to the theme of Sydney as a place of creative endeavours, with a strong focus on the work of nine artists, all connected by their concern for organic forms found in nature and the environment.
Portia Geach Memorial Award 2021
4 Nov 2021 11:00 am until 19 Dec 2021 11:00 am
The Portia Geach Memorial Award is Australia’s most prestigious art prize for portraiture by women artists.
5 Jun 2021 11:00 am until 26 Sep 2021 11:00 am
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.
Tree of Life: a testament to endurance
10 Apr 2021 11:00 am until 30 May 2021 11:00 am
Tree of Life is an exhibition by Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian artists who are concerned for the environment and natural world, and understand the deep spiritual and physical associations that connect all forms of life.
Papunya Tula: 50 years 1971-2021
27 Feb 2021 11:00 am until 4 Apr 2021 11:00 am
An exhibition celebrating 50 years of Papunya Tula artists who 1971 began making paintings that were destined to change the Australian art landscape forever.
First Light: the art of Peter Kingston
5 Dec 2020 until 21 Feb 2021
A major survey exhibition of works by Peter Kingston focusing on his passion for Sydney harbour in his paintings and drawings.
26 Sep 2020 until 29 Nov 2020
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.
Portia Geach Memorial Award 2020
14 Aug 2020 until 20 Sep 2020
The Portia Geach Memorial Award is Australia’s most prestigious art prize for portraiture by women artists and offers a $30,000 non-acquisitive prize.
3 Jul 2020 until 9 Aug 2020
An exhibiiton focusing on the 19th & 20th century worksfeaturing artists including Conrad Martens, George Lambert, Jeffrey Smart, Margaret Preston, Portia Geach, Justin O'Brien, David Strachan and many more gems from the Gallery's collection.
4 Jan 2020 until 22 Mar 2020
This summer the S.H. Ervin Galley is presenting an exhibition celebrating the generosity of Margaret Olley AC (1923-2011) who in the course of her lifetime and following her death donated hundreds of art works to cultural institutions across the country.
23 Nov 2019 11:00 am until 15 Dec 2019 11:00 am
Ever wondered what artists look at in the privacy of their own homes? More often than not, it's the works of their peers, mentors and friends rather than their own. This exhibition gives us the the opportunity to see what's on the walls at the homes of ceramist Merran Esson and painters Steve Lopes and Guy Warren who have gladly shared their private obsessions.
River on the Brink: inside the Murray-Darling Basin
20 Sep 2019 11:00 am until 17 Nov 2019 11:00 am
This timely exhibition presented in collaboration with Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery, focuses on what is the most pressing environmental crisis of our time: the on-going devastation of the Murray-Darling Basin.
Portia Geach Memorial Award 2019
1 Aug 2019 11:00 am until 15 Sep 2019 11:00 am
The Award was established by the will of the late Florence Kate Geach in memory of her sister, Portia Geach. The non-acquisitive prize is awarded by the Trustee for the entry which is of the highest artistic merit, ‘…for the best portrait painted from life of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, or the Sciences by any female artist resident in Australia during the twelve months preceding the close date for entries.’
11 May 2019 until 28 Jul 2019
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. Kerry McInnis was awarded the Holding Redlich People's Choice Award with her portrait of sculptor Harrie Fasher.
The Whiteley at 20: Twenty Years of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship
22 Mar 2019 until 5 May 2019
The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship was established by Ms Beryl Whiteley who generously allocated funds for the scholarship in memory of her son, Brett Whiteley, to provide young painters the opportunity to travel to Paris and explore Europe in order to develop their artistic practice. Since its inception in 1999, 20 young painters have followed in the footsteps if Brett Whiteley who won the Italian Government Travelling Scholarship in 1959. The exhibition features works of the 20 scholarship winning artists, many of whom are well-known, alongside those of Brett Whiteley. Presented with the support of the Art Gallery of New South Wales through the Beryl Whiteley Bequest.
Destination Sydney Re-Imagined
7 Dec 2018 11:00 am until 17 Mar 2019 11:00 am
Destination Sydney Re-imagined brings together three Sydney public galleries - Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Mosman Art Gallery and S.H. Ervin Gallery - in an innovative collaboration to present an exhibition of work by nine eminent artists responding to the important influence of Sydney as subject and theme.
Portia Geach Memorial Award 2018
12 Oct 2018 11:00 am until 2 Dec 2018 11:00 am
The Award was established by the will of the late Florence Kate Geach in memory of her sister, Portia Geach. The non-acquisitive prize is awarded by the Trustee for the entry which is of the highest artistic merit, ‘…for the best portrait painted from life of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, or the Sciences by any female artist resident in Australia during the twelve months preceding the close date for entries.’ The 2018 winner of the Portia Geach Memorial Award is Zoe Young, for her portrait of film and opera director, Bruce Beresford titled ‘Drawing story boards.’
3 Aug 2018 11:00 am until 7 Oct 2018 11:00 am
William Robinson: Genesis explores the rich experimental spirit and inimitable mastery of Robinson’s works on paper to show that rather than being a minor interest, this medium has contributed greatly to the development of his contemporaneous canvases.
12 May 2018 11:00 am until 29 Jul 2018 11:00 am
The alternative Archibald and Wynne Prize selection 12 May – 29 July 2018 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. Of the 859 entries to...
Trust Our Women: Women Artists in the S.H. Ervin Gallery
31 Mar 2018 11:00 am until 6 May 2018 11:00 am
In 2018 the Gallery celebrates 40 years by presenting an exhibition of works by women artists from its collection to mark this important milestone. Featuring modernist women printmakers such as Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor, Ethleen Palmer, Vera Blackburn, Gladys Gibbons, Ailsa Lee Brown, Jessie Mackintosh, Eileen Mayo, Adelaide Perry & Ethel Spowers, and painters such as Ethel Carrick Fox, Clarice Beckett, Jessie Scarvell, Portia Geach and others.
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