Image above (left to right): Graeme Drendel Portrait of Rick 2024 oil on canvas 41 x 31 cm | Michelle Hiscock The Director 2024 oil on canvas 45.5 x 35.5 cm | Paul S. Miller I am still 2024 egg tempera on wooden panel 60 x 60 cm
Congratulations to Graeme Drendel, Michelle Hiscock, Paul S. Miller, Lewis Miller, Rodney Pople, and Mary Tonkin whose works are included in the 2024 Salon des Refuses at S.H. Ervin Gallery.
Salon des Refusés 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.
Congratulations to our represented artists who were included in this year’s Salon des Refusés for the following works:
Graeme Drendel Portrait of Rick 2024 oil on canvas 41 x 31 cm
Michelle Hiscock The Director 2024 oil on canvas 45.5 x 35.5 cm
Paul S. Miller I am still 2024 egg tempera on wooden panel 60 x 60 cm
Lewis Miller Portrait of Graeme Drendel II 2024 oil on Belgian linen 172 x 82 cm
Rodney Pople High as a kite 2024 oil on linen 159 x 136 cm
Mary Tonkin A scream, Kalorama 2023 oil on linen 214 x 366 cm
Image above: Lewis Miller Portrait of Graeme Drendel II 2024 oil on Belgian linen 172 x 82 cm
Image above: Mary Tonkin A scream, Kalorama 2023 oil on linen 214 x 366 cm
Image above: Rodney Pople High as a kite 2024 oil on linen 159 x 136 cm