Tag Archives: S.H. Ervin Gallery

Lori Pensini wins the 2024 Portia Geach Memorial Award

25 October 2024 | Art Almanac

The $30,000 Portia Geach Memorial Award is presented annually to a female Australian artist for the best portrait painted from life of a man or woman distinguished in art, letters or the sciences....

Nicole Kelly wins the 2024 Evelyn Chapman Art Award for young painters

25 October 2024 | Art Almanac

The biennial award provides a $50,000 scholarship to support a young Australian painter working in oil or tempera, to further their artistic knowledge and practice internationally or in Australia....

Ann Thomson

3 February 2024 | Victoria Hynes

Ann Thomson's expressive, fluid imagery could be described as an amalgamation of abstraction and figuration, evoking a passing moment in time or a visual memory of a place or environment....

Mary Tonkin wins the 2022 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

22 July 2022 | Art Almanac

Tonkin paints extraordinarily detailed compositions in response to the surrounding bushland, grappling with changing light over the weeks and months creating the work....

Marie Mansfield wins the 2021 Portia Geach Memorial Award

5 November 2021 | Art Almanac

Marie Mansfield has won the 2021 Portia Geach Memorial Award, the pre-eminent portraiture prize for women in Australia, for her portrait of artist Matilda Michell entitled Tilly....

TREE of LIFE: a testament to endurance

1 May 2021 | Art Almanac

‘TREE of LIFE: a testament to endurance’ is an exhibition of powerful artworks by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists committed to the environment. ‘TREE of LIFE’ drives positive energy towards the reclamation of diminishing natural resources....

Joshua Yeldam wins the 2020 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

27 November 2020 | Art Almanac

'It's a real buzz to know that my painting has been selected as the Holding Redlich People's Choice Award for the Salon des Refusés 2020.' – Joshua Yeldham...

First Light: the art of Peter Kingston

5 November 2020 | Art Almanac

This major survey exhibition of works by Peter Kingston focuses on his passion for Sydney Harbour, its character and energy driven by its inhabitants and its iconic landmarks....

Portia Geach Memorial Award 2020 winner announced

13 August 2020 | Art Almanac

Caroline Zilinsky has been announced as the winner of the 2020 Portia Geach Memorial Award; find out more about her winning work....

Kylie Melinda Smith wins the 2019 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award

13 September 2019 | Art Almanac

Sydney-based artist Kylie Melinda Smith has won this year's $1,000 'Portia Geach People’s Choice Award' with a portrait of 104-year-old dancer Eileen Kramer....

Kerry McInnis wins 2019 Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award

25 July 2019 | Art Almanac

Kerry McInnis has won this year’s Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award with a portrait of fellow artist Harrie Fasher, from works in the 2019 Salon des Refusés....

Destination Sydney: Re-imagined

29 November 2018 | Art Almanac

'Destination Sydney' comprises 130 works from Ken Done, Adrian Feint, Ethel Carrick-Fox, Nicholas Harding, Michael Johnson, Robert Klippel, Roy de Maistre, Wendy Sharpe and Jeffrey Smart....