2025 Salon des Refusés: The ‘alternative’ Archibald & Wynne Prize selection

10 May 2025 ‐

27 Jul 2025

11:00 am ‐ 5:00 pm

Members – FREE
Adult – $15
Family – $42
Concession – $12
Child (under 5 years) – FREE

NSW

The Salon des Refusés presents an alternative exhibition from the many hundreds of works entered in the Archibald & Wynne Prizes not chosen for the official award exhibition.

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 and experimentation, and which examine contemporary art practices, different approaches to portraiture and responses to the landscape.

Many of the Salon des Refusés works will be available for purchase.

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CYNTHIA BREUSCH, Portrait of an artist Christopher McVinish, acrylic on board, 122.5 x 122 cm

HEATHER MILLER, "though I have closed myself as fingers", oil on clay board, 63 x 48 cm

PAUL MILLER, I am Still (Self-Portrait), varnished egg tempera on wooden panel, 60cm x 25cm

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S.H. Ervin Gallery

Address:

Watson Road, Millers Point (The Rocks) NSW 2000

Open:

Tuesday to Sunday
11am – 5pm, last entry 4pm

Closed:

New Years Day, Australia Day, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Anzac Day

Phone:
Gallery: (02) 9258 0173. Cafe: (02) 9258 0175
Email:
shervingallery@nationaltrust.com.au
Entry Fees:

National Trust members – FREE
Adult - $15
Family - $42
Concession* - $12
Child (under 5 years) - FREE
*Concession applies for full-time students, seniors, pensioners and children aged 5-15 years.

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