NICOLE KELLY EXHIBITED IN 2025 SALON DES REFUSES AT S.H. ERVIN GALLERY

Nicole Kelly’s painting ‘Waterhole gums’ is exhibited in the 2025 Salon des Refusés at S.H. Ervin Gallery

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. Each year the 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.

Exhibition current 10 May to 27 July

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Nicole kelly
Waterhole gums
2024
oil on polyester
168 x 198 cm