Salon des Refusés is a popular Australian art exhibition which shows some of the rejected submissions to the

Archibald Prize The Archibald Prize is an Australian portraiture art prize for painting, generally seen as the most prestigious portrait prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after the receipt of a bequest from J. F. Archibald, J. F. Archib ...

, Australia's most prestigious art prize for portraiture, and also the

Wynne Prize The Wynne Prize is an Australian landscape painting or figure sculpture art prize. As one of Australia's longest-running art prizes, it was established in 1897 from the bequest of Richard Wynne. Now held concurrently with the Sir John Sulman Prize ...

entries for landscape & figure sculpture. The Salon des Refusés exhibition was initiated in 1992 by the S.H. Ervin Gallery in Sydney, in response to the large number of works entered into the Archibald Prize not selected for hanging in the official exhibition. Its name comes from a similar event that started in Paris in 1863, also called

Salon des Refusés The Salon des Refusés, French for "exhibition of rejects" (), is generally known as an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon, but the term is most famously used to refer to the Salon des Refusés of 1863. Today, by ...

(French for "Salon of the Rejected"). S.H. Ervin Gallery is still the venue for Salon des Refusés. Each year, after the judging for the Archibald Prize is done, selectors from the S.H. Ervin Gallery choose a selection of works that are representative of the works submitted for the Archibald Prize, but not accepted for consideration. The selected works are exhibited in the Salon des Refusés. The Salon des Refusés often is the first opportunity that many artists have of broader public attention. The criteria for selection are quality, diversity, experimentation and wit. The Holding Redlich People’s Choice Award commenced in 1999. The award is sponsored by the Sydney based law firm Holding Redlich. The winner is selected by votes from visitors to the Salon des Refusés. In 2016 the prize was AU$2,000.

Past winners of the Salon des Refusés People's Choice Award

*1999 Zhou Xiaoping ''

Jimmy Pike Jimmy Pike (c1940-2002) was a Walmatjarri Aboriginal artist. Life Born east of Japingka, an important jila or permanent waterhole in the Great Sandy Desert, he grew up as a hunter-gatherer. Like many of his people he drifted north toward the ...

& Zhou Xiaoping'' *2000

Evert Ploeg Evert Ploeg (pronounced Ay-vert Plough; born 1963 in Sydney, New South Wales) is one of Australia's most highly regarded portrait painting, portrait painters, who has won a range of painting prizes, such as the 1999 and 2007 Archibald Prize ( Peo ...

''Richard Roxburgh'' *2001 Guy Maestri ''Silent Assembly'' *2002 David Naseby ''Richard Hall'' *2003

Jiawei Shen Shen Jiawei (born 1948) is a Chinese-Australian painter. He is a winner of the 2006 Sir John Sulman Prize. Life and work Shen Jiawei was born in Shanghai and emigrated to Australia in 1989 after he was compelled to leave China because he paint ...

''Edmund Capon'' *2004

Juan Ford ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

''Allan & Goliath'' (Allan Fels) *2005 Margaret Woodward ''The hobby-horse rider'' (Self portrait) *2006 Gillian Dunlop ''Portrait of John Gaden'' *2007

''Tri-selves'' (Self portrait) *2008 Peter Smeeth ''Philip Adams – The Rematch'' *2009 Zhong Chen ''Charles Blackman'' *2010 Ann Cape ''Kevin in his studio'' (Portrait of Kevin Connor) *2011

Robert Hannaford Robert Lyall "Alfie" Hannaford , (born 9 November 1944) is an Australian realist artist notable for his drawings, paintings, portraits and sculptures. He is a great-great-great-grandson of Susannah Hannaford. Family Hannaford was born a ...

''Portrait of Trevor Jamieson'' *2012 Barbara Tyson ''Ita'' *2013 Christopher McVinish ''Portrait of Colin Friels'' *2014

Nick Stathopoulos Nick may refer to: * Nick (given name) * A cricket term for a slight deviation of the ball off the edge of the bat * British slang for being arrested * British slang for a police station * British slang for stealing * Short for nickname Place ...

''Ugly'' (Portrait of author Robert Hoge) *2015 Paul Trefry ''Homeless still human'' (Sculpture of a homeless man) *2016 Tianli Zu ''The senator and Ma'' (Portrait of Senator Penny Wong) *2017 Luke Cornish ''Ben'' (portrait of artist Ben Quilty) *2018 Sally Ryan ''Portrait of the Artist's Son'' (Ben Ryan, Artist)

References

''Let's Face It: The History of the Archibald Prize,'' AGNSW 2009 , pages 98, 105, 110, 157.

External links

S.H. Ervin Gallery website
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stateart.com.au

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