Rodney Pople, FF descending a staircase (Felicity Fenner, curator). Oil on linen, 207 x 141cm. Courtesy: the artist and S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney.

The S.H. Ervein Gallery presents Salon des Refusés, the ‘alternative’ Archibald and Wynne Prize selection.

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 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.