A Very tall Arrangement Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - A Very tall Arrangement
A Very tall Arrangement 2018
A Very tall ArrangementJane GuthlebenA Very tall Arrangement
A Very tall Arrangement2018
oil on board
180 x 120 cm
SOLD 
Dutch Still Life With Top End Flora And Quandongs Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Dutch Still Life With Top End Flora And Quandongs
Dutch Still Life With Top End Flora And Quandongs 2018
Dutch Still Life With Top End Flora And QuandongsJane GuthlebenDutch Still Life With Top End Flora And Quandongs
Dutch Still Life With Top End Flora And Quandongs2018
oil on board
90 x 60 cm
SOLD 
Everything I Ever Painted (Part 3) Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Everything I Ever Painted (Part 3)
Everything I Ever Painted (Part 3) 2018
Everything I Ever Painted (Part 3)Jane GuthlebenEverything I Ever Painted (Part 3)
Everything I Ever Painted (Part 3)2018
oil on canvas
120 x 90 cm
SOLD 
Installation view Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Installation view
Installation view 2019
Installation viewJane GuthlebenInstallation view
Installation view2019
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019 Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019Jane GuthlebenJane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Paper Daisies In Pink Cup Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Paper Daisies In Pink Cup
Paper Daisies In Pink Cup 2018
Paper Daisies In Pink CupJane GuthlebenPaper Daisies In Pink Cup
Paper Daisies In Pink Cup2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
The Banksia And The Queen Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - The Banksia And The Queen
The Banksia And The Queen 2018
The Banksia And The QueenJane GuthlebenThe Banksia And The Queen
The Banksia And The Queen2018
oil on board
40 x 40 cm
SOLD 
Black and White Arrangement Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Black and White Arrangement
Black and White Arrangement 2018
Black and White ArrangementJane GuthlebenBlack and White Arrangement
Black and White Arrangement2018
oil on linen
120 x 120 cm
SOLD 
Shapely Blossom Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Shapely Blossom
Shapely Blossom 2018
Shapely BlossomJane GuthlebenShapely Blossom
Shapely Blossom2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Fantasmafloria Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Fantasmafloria
Fantasmafloria 2018
FantasmafloriaJane GuthlebenFantasmafloria
Fantasmafloria2018
oil on linen
120 x 120 cm
SOLD 
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019 Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019Jane GuthlebenJane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
The Blossom And The Queen Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - The Blossom And The Queen
The Blossom And The Queen 2018
The Blossom And The QueenJane GuthlebenThe Blossom And The Queen
The Blossom And The Queen2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Dutch Still Life With Nsw Flowers And Parrot Vase Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Dutch Still Life With Nsw Flowers And Parrot Vase
Dutch Still Life With Nsw Flowers And Parrot Vase 2018
Dutch Still Life With Nsw Flowers And Parrot VaseJane GuthlebenDutch Still Life With Nsw Flowers And Parrot Vase
Dutch Still Life With Nsw Flowers And Parrot Vase2018
oil on board
90 x 60 cm
SOLD 
Blossom In Minty Cup Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Blossom In Minty Cup
Blossom In Minty Cup 2018
Blossom In Minty CupJane GuthlebenBlossom In Minty Cup
Blossom In Minty Cup2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Shrapnel Digger And Kangaroo Paw Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Shrapnel Digger And Kangaroo Paw
Shrapnel Digger And Kangaroo Paw 2018
Shrapnel Digger And Kangaroo PawJane GuthlebenShrapnel Digger And Kangaroo Paw
Shrapnel Digger And Kangaroo Paw2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Magenta Bottlebrush Jane Guthleben - Magenta Bottlebrush
Magenta Bottlebrush 2018
Magenta BottlebrushMagenta Bottlebrush
Magenta Bottlebrush2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019 Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019Jane GuthlebenJane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Larrikin Arrangment With Cicada Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Larrikin Arrangment With Cicada
Larrikin Arrangment With Cicada 2018
Larrikin Arrangment With CicadaJane GuthlebenLarrikin Arrangment With Cicada
Larrikin Arrangment With Cicada2018
oil on board
120 x 120 cm
SOLD 
Beetroot Grevillea Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Beetroot Grevillea
Beetroot Grevillea 2018
Beetroot GrevilleaJane GuthlebenBeetroot Grevillea
Beetroot Grevillea2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Flannel Flowers In Pink Cup Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Flannel Flowers In Pink Cup
Flannel Flowers In Pink Cup 2018
Flannel Flowers In Pink CupJane GuthlebenFlannel Flowers In Pink Cup
Flannel Flowers In Pink Cup2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Blue Sky Arrangement Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Blue Sky Arrangement
Blue Sky Arrangement 2018
Blue Sky ArrangementJane GuthlebenBlue Sky Arrangement
Blue Sky Arrangement2018
oil on board
120 x 120 cm
SOLD 
Apple Gum Blossom Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Apple Gum Blossom
Apple Gum Blossom 2018
Apple Gum BlossomJane GuthlebenApple Gum Blossom
Apple Gum Blossom2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Dutch Still Life With Tasmanian Flora And Fauna Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Dutch Still Life With Tasmanian Flora And Fauna
Dutch Still Life With Tasmanian Flora And Fauna 2018
Dutch Still Life With Tasmanian Flora And FaunaJane GuthlebenDutch Still Life With Tasmanian Flora And Fauna
Dutch Still Life With Tasmanian Flora And Fauna2018
oil on board
90 x 60 cm
SOLD 
Blossom In Lustre Fish Vase Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Blossom In Lustre Fish Vase
Blossom In Lustre Fish Vase 2018
Blossom In Lustre Fish VaseJane GuthlebenBlossom In Lustre Fish Vase
Blossom In Lustre Fish Vase2018
oil on board
60 x 60 cm
SOLD 
Everything I Ever Painted (Part 1) Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Everything I Ever Painted (Part 1)
Everything I Ever Painted (Part 1) 2018
Everything I Ever Painted (Part 1)Jane GuthlebenEverything I Ever Painted (Part 1)
Everything I Ever Painted (Part 1)2018
oil on canvas
120 x 90 cm
SOLD 
Little Cup Of Blossom Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Little Cup Of Blossom
Little Cup Of Blossom 2018
Little Cup Of BlossomJane GuthlebenLittle Cup Of Blossom
Little Cup Of Blossom2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Tall Posy Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Tall Posy
Tall Posy 2018
Tall PosyJane GuthlebenTall Posy
Tall Posy2018
oil on board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
Little Banksia In Diana Vase Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Little Banksia In Diana Vase
Little Banksia In Diana Vase 2018
Little Banksia In Diana VaseJane GuthlebenLittle Banksia In Diana Vase
Little Banksia In Diana Vase2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Grevillea And Greyhound Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Grevillea And Greyhound
Grevillea And Greyhound 2018
Grevillea And GreyhoundJane GuthlebenGrevillea And Greyhound
Grevillea And Greyhound2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019 Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019Jane GuthlebenJane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Blossom And Parrot Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Blossom And Parrot
Blossom And Parrot 2018
Blossom And ParrotJane GuthlebenBlossom And Parrot
Blossom And Parrot2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Everything I Ever Painted (Part 2) Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Everything I Ever Painted (Part 2)
Everything I Ever Painted (Part 2) 2018
Everything I Ever Painted (Part 2)Jane GuthlebenEverything I Ever Painted (Part 2)
Everything I Ever Painted (Part 2)2018
oil on canvas
120 x 90 cm
SOLD 
Blossom In Facet Glass Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Blossom In Facet Glass
Blossom In Facet Glass 2018
Blossom In Facet GlassJane GuthlebenBlossom In Facet Glass
Blossom In Facet Glass2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Blossom Study Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Blossom Study
Blossom Study 2018
Blossom StudyJane GuthlebenBlossom Study
Blossom Study2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Still Life With Possum Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Still Life With Possum
Still Life With Possum 2018
Still Life With PossumJane GuthlebenStill Life With Possum
Still Life With Possum2018
oil on board
20 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Banksia And Tiles Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Banksia And Tiles
Banksia And Tiles 2018
Banksia And TilesJane GuthlebenBanksia And Tiles
Banksia And Tiles2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019 Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019Jane GuthlebenJane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
Jane Guthleben Installation view 'Posy' 2019
It's Blossom Season Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - It's Blossom Season
It's Blossom Season 2018
It's Blossom SeasonJane GuthlebenIt's Blossom Season
It's Blossom Season2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Creamy Banksia Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Creamy Banksia
Creamy Banksia 2018
Creamy BanksiaJane GuthlebenCreamy Banksia
Creamy Banksia2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Red Arrangement On White Table With Birds Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Red Arrangement On White Table With Birds
Red Arrangement On White Table With Birds 2018
Red Arrangement On White Table With BirdsJane GuthlebenRed Arrangement On White Table With Birds
Red Arrangement On White Table With Birds2018
oil on linen
120 x 120 cm
SOLD 
Kangaroo Paw In Flask Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Kangaroo Paw In Flask
Kangaroo Paw In Flask 2018
Kangaroo Paw In FlaskJane GuthlebenKangaroo Paw In Flask
Kangaroo Paw In Flask2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Feral Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Feral
Feral 2018
FeralJane GuthlebenFeral
Feral2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Flopsy Mopsy Cottontail And Blossom Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Flopsy Mopsy Cottontail And Blossom
Flopsy Mopsy Cottontail And Blossom 2018
Flopsy Mopsy Cottontail And BlossomJane GuthlebenFlopsy Mopsy Cottontail And Blossom
Flopsy Mopsy Cottontail And Blossom2018
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 

‘Posy’ is a series of paintings exploring the role that the landscape plays in Australian identity. Through still life paintings of indigenous flowers, birds, and insects, Guthleben uses the traditions of vanitas and its messages of the transience of life to present a painted vernacular that spans humour, kitsch, and historical and environmental themes.

She reinterprets the delicate floral masterpieces of Dutch Golden Age painting by amping up the colour and light in response to the Australian environment and emphasising the texture and diversity of indigenous flora in brushy impasto. Guthleben has, in particular, referred to the work of 17thCentury Dutch painter Rachel Ruysch, who famously painted for European royalty (as well as having 10 children). Ruysch was acclaimed not only for her painting but also for her skill in composing the asymmetrical arrangements favoured in the late Baroque period. Guthleben remakes the work of Ruysch, substituting local blooms in the place of European ones. She sees echoes of the late Baroque period that spawned Tulipmania in Holland – a speculative bubble in the prices for tulips, which appeared in many Dutch masterpieces – in the boom–bust mentality of 21stcentury Australia.

The works in 'Posy' comprise many small studies of sprigs gathered by Guthleben on daily walks in her bushy Sydney suburb. She uses the studies to construct large floral arrangements that would be almost impossible to recreate in real life. Parrots or insects sometimes roost amongst the abundant foliage, and kitsch such as locally made, mid-century ornaments or souvenir pottery add a certain familiarity and humour to the compositions.

'Posy' shows a domesticated and stylised view of the Bush – flowers are plucked, wrangled and tamed into an arrangement that is a proxy for the landscape. They sit in empty coloured space, representing a psychological void or non-place; all foreground and no background. Guthleben uses this not only to contrast with the busy detail of the arrangement, but also as a nod to European attitudes to the Australian interior and environment, and the historical wrongs of terra nullius. For non-indigenous Australians, how do we imagine the interior compared with the verdant coastal fringes where most of us live? How can we relate to a place we so clearly identify with and yet hardly ever enter?

The idea of being a stranger in the Australian landscape/sublime has been tackled under the unofficial banner of the Australian Gothic by many artists, writers and filmmakers. Films such as Picnic at Hanging Rock, Jindabyne, and Wake in Fright, books such as The Secret River, and plays such as the The Drover’s Wife traverse the uncomfortable beauty and terror of our landscape. Yet our genuine affection for the archetypal blooms seen in 'Posy' shows we have come some way in 200 years towards understanding place and our identity.

JANE GUTHLEBEN 'Posy'

Through still life paintings of indigenous flowers, birds, and insects, Guthleben uses the traditions of vanitas and its messages of the transience of life to present a painted vernacular that spans humour, kitsch, and historical and environmental themes.

She reinterprets the delicate floral masterpieces of Dutch Golden Age painting by amping up the colour and light in response to the Australian environment and emphasising the texture and diversity of indigenous flora in brushy impasto.

Jane Guthleben studied a Bachelor or Fine Arts with honours at the University of New South Wales in 2015. Guthleben has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize (2020), Mosman Art Prize (2019, 2012), the Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize (2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018), Eutick Memorial Still Life Award (2018), Ravenswood Women's Art Prize (2019, 2017) and the Fisher's Ghost Art Prize (2015) among others.

Jane Guthleben

EDUCATION

2015

  • Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons), University of New South Wales
  • Short courses at National Art School, Willoughby Workshop Art Centre

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

  • 'Sea Flower', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • 'All My Flowers', M. Contemporary, Sydney

2023

  • 'Evergreen', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • 'SCRUB', M. Contemporary, Sydney

2022

  • 'Wollemi To Wilpena', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • 'BIRD IN HAND', M. Contemporary, Sydney

2021

  • 'Florilegium', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • 'An Evening at Mt Wilson' M. Contemporary, Sydney

2020

  • 'Bush Chorus', M. Contemporary, Sydney
  • 'Grandiflora', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane

2019

  • 'Ornament', M. Contemporary, Sydney
  • 'Posy', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane

2018

  • 'Floralia', M. Contemporary, Sydney

2017

  • 'Flora Domestica', M. Contemporary, Sydney
  • 'Remote', Incinerator Art Space, Sydney, (with Peta Dzubiel)

2016

  • 'Object & Image', Incinerator Art Space, Sydney (with Peter Finlay)

2011

  • 'Home', Charles Hewitt Gallery Sydney

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

  • Sydney Contemporary, M. Contemporary, Carriageworks
  • On the Edge: Species at Risk, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
  • XV, Gallery Smith, Melbourne

2022

  • Sydney Contemporary, M. Contemporary, Carriageworks

2021

  • Sydney Contemporary, M. Contemporary, online

2020

  • Retracing, Art Space on the Concourse, Sydney
  • Frontlines: Takayana to Adani, Hobart

2019

  • Sydney Contemporary, M. Contemporary, Carriageworks
  • 'Heroine', M. Contemporary, Sydney
  • 'The New Gallery Show', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane

2018

  • Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, M. Contemporary, Sydney
  • 'The Platform 10', EDWINA CORLETTE, Brisbane
  • St Kevin's Art Show, Melbourne
  • 'At the End of the World', M. Contemporary, Sydney

2017

  • 'Multitasking', 107 Projects, Redfern, Sydney
  • 'Three Painters Sharing a Studio', Ewart Gallery, Sydney

2016

  • Ravenswood Art Show, Sydney
  • Balmain Art Show, Sydney
  • 'Object & Image', Incinerator Art Space, Sydney
  • 'Interior Motives', 107 Projects, Sydney
  • 'Young Artists Initiative', M. Contemporary, Sydney
  • 'Internal Affairs', Art Month, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney

2015

  • 'Holiday', 107 Projects, Sydney
  • UNSW Honours Annual, UNSW Galleries, Sydney

2014

  • UNSW Graduate Exhibition, UNSW, Sydney
  • 'Expanded Painting', Kudos Gallery, Sydney

2013

  • 2nd Year Painting, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
  • '1200KWest', COFAspace, Sydney
  • 'Small is Beautiful', Charles Hewitt Sydney
  • Lindfield Art Show, Sydney

2012

  • Victor Harbour Art Show, Victor Harbour, South Australia
  • 'Views and Visions', Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney

2011

  • Balmain Art Show, Sydney
  • 'Think Big', Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney

2010

  • 'About Flowers', Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney
  • 'Something Personal 2', Charles Hewitt Gallery, Sydney

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2023

  • Finalist, Archibald Prize Salon des Refuses, Sydney
  • Finalist, Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

2022

  • Semi-Finalist, Moran Portrait Prize, New South Wales
  • Finalist, BigCi Residency, Bilpin, New South Wales

2021

  • Finalist, Archibald Prize Salon des Refuses, Sydney
  • Finalist, Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

2020

  • Finalist, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • Finalist, Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
  • Finalist, Waverley Art Prize, Sydney
  • Finalist, 2020 Chateau d’Orquevaux Residency Prize, France

2019

  • Highly Commended, NG Art Creative Residency Art Prize, France
  • Finalist, Archibald Prize Salon des Refuses, Sydney
  • Finalist, Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
  • Finalist, Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, New South Wales
  • Finalist, Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize, Sydney
  • Finalist, Korea-Australia Arts Foundation Art Prize, Sydney
  • Semi-Finalist, Doug Moran Portrait Prize, Sydney

2018

  • Finalist, Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize, S.H. Ervin Gallery, New South Wales
  • Finalist, Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Project Contemporary Art Space, New South Wales
  • Finalist, Little Things Art Prize, Saint Cloche Gallery, Sydney
  • Residency, UNSW Greenhouse Residency, Flowers Gap, New South Wales

2017

  • Finalist, Ravenswood Australian Women's Art Prize, Sydney

2016

  • Finalist, Young Artist Initiative Contemporary Art Award, M. Contemporary, Sydney

2015

  • Recipient, UNSW Greenhouse Residency
  • Recipient, UNSW Academic Award
  • Winner, UNSW Painting Prize, Artscene Derivan Award
  • Finalist, Fishers Ghost Art Prize
  • Finalist, UNSW Jenny Birt Award

2014

  • Highly Commended, UNSW Jenny Birt Award, New South Wales

2013

  • Recipient, UNSW Fowlers Gap Scholarship, New South Wales

2012

  • Finalist, Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, New South Wales

2011

  • Finalist, National Trust NSW Harper's Mansion Art Prize, New South Wales

2010

  • Finalist, ABC 702 Art Prize

October 20, 2023

JANE GUTHLEBEN IS A FINALIST IN THE 2023 PORTIA GEACH MEMORIAL AWARD

Jane Guthleben has been selected for the Portia Geach Memorial Award, for her painting of the bird photographer, Leila Jeffreys.

Renowned photographic artist Leila Jeffreys is internationally recognised for her bird portraiture, video installations, books, films and her contribution to bird conservation. Recently she undertook an assignment in sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, where she observed penguin populations. She sent me pictures from the trip of penguin parents doting on their fluffy brown babies. With recent news that shrinking ice has had a devastating impact on penguin populations in Antarctica this year, her trip and research couldn’t have been timelier.

For our Portia Geach sitting we went to Sydney Aquarium where we spent a few hours looking at penguins. Leila is a bird whisperer, and the penguins there climbed all over her and were fascinated by her camera equipment. It seemed right that a portrait of Leila would include a bird.

This painting is part of an ongoing series of portraits of women I admire that I call ornament-portraits; small in size and designed to be the opposite of monuments (which have historically been mostly of men). The subject stands on a little plinth, rather like an ornament on a shelf. In this case the plinth can also be read as a shrinking iceberg floating in Antarctic waters.

Image:

'Leila and the Baby King' 2023
oil on marine ply
40.2cm x 22.6cm

READ MORE HERE

May 6, 2023

JANE GUTHLEBEN FEATURED IN SYDNEY MORNING HERALD ARTICLE

Jane Guthelben was featured in the Sydney Morning Herald article 'How does it feel to be painted for the Archibald Prize? Terrifying' by Helen Pitt.

You can read the article here.

July 28, 2021

JANE GUTHLEBEN: FINALIST IN THE SALON DES REFUSES 2021

The alternative Archibald and Wynne Prize selection

5th June – 26 September 2021

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

JANE GUTHLEBEN Greetings from Bibbenluke (Lucy Culliton, artist)

July 1, 2020

JANE GUTHLEBEN: FINALIST IN THE ARCHIBALD PRIZE 2020

ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Jane Guthleben’s subject is author and journalist Annabel Crabb, who is also known for her cookbooks and TV shows about cooking, Australian politics and history. The pair met some years ago when Annabel bought one of Guthleben’s paintings.

‘I admire Annabel because she energetically juggles full-time work and excellent cooking and has written about the pressures of modern domesticity in The wife drought,’ says Guthleben. ‘The painting aims to portray the public persona of Annabel as a baker, while celebrating the domesticity she writes and podcasts about.

‘I’ve painted her as an ornament on a small pedestal, wearing an apron and holding a wooden spoon – part of a series of ornament-portraits where the subject is transformed into a shelf ornament in a mundane pose. The work is deliberately small in scale to be the opposite of monumental, and pastel colours play upon the stereotype of woman as homemaker, which Annabel somehow manages to transcend.’

A former journalist herself, Guthleben was born in 1966 in Bairnsdale, Victoria. This is her first time in the Archibald Prize.

November 30, 2019

JANE GUTHLEBEN RESIDENCY IN FRANCE

Jane Guthleben was the recipient of the international NG Art Creative Residency which is a two week placement at the 15th century Provincial homestead in Eygalières, Provence, Southern France in November 2019.

Directed and founded by Nicky Ginsberg, the NG Art Creative Residency is a prize that aims to provide creatives an opportunity to embark on imaginative endeavours and immerse themselves in an environment of reflection and creative freedom in the studio and en plein air.

Jane's new body of work from Eygalières will be exhibited in her upcoming show, Grandiflora at Edwina Corlette Gallery 17 March - 9 April 2020.

READ MORE HERE

August 30, 2019

JANE GUTHLEBEN: FINALIST IN THE MOSMAN ART PRIZE

As an acquisitive art award for painting, the winning artworks in the Mosman Art prize form a splendid collection of modern and contemporary Australian art, reflecting all the developments in Australian art practice since 1947. Artists who have won the Mosman Art Prize include Margaret Olley, Guy Warren, Grace Cossington Smith, Weaver Hawkins, Nancy Borlase, Lloyd Rees, Elisabeth Cummings, Adam Cullen, Michael Zavros and Natasha Walsh.

In 2019 Jane Guthleben is a finalist with her work 'North Shore arrangement with superb fruit doves'. She says of the painting:

This work is based on the 17 century Dutch still life floral works by Rachel Ruysch, which have inspired my large floral compositions. For this work I have researched indigenous flora and birds from the Mosman Municipal area that are under pressure from urban encroachment and weeds.

READ MORE HERE

July 11, 2019

JANE GUTHLEBEN FINALIST IN THE PORTIA GEACH PRIZE

Jane Guthleben is a finalist in 2019 with her work The scratching post (self, artist).

The Award was established by the will of the late Florence Kate Geach in memory of her sister, Portia Geach. The non-acquisitive prize is awarded by the Trustee for the entry which is of the highest artistic merit, ‘…for the best portrait painted from life of some man or woman distinguished in Art, Letters, or the Sciences by any female artist resident in Australia during the twelve months preceding the close date for entries.’

The 2019 exhibition will run from August 2 to September 15, 2019 at Sydney's S.H. Ervin Gallery.

READ MORE HERE

May 22, 2019

JANE GUTHLEBEN: SALON DES REFUSES 2019

The alternative Archibald and Wynne Prize selection

11 May – 28 July 2019

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. Of the 978 entries to the Archibald Prize the AGNSW Trustees selected 52 works, and from 734 entries to the Wynne Prize the Trustees selected 29 works.

From the remaining submission our selectors have chosen 30 works from the Archibald Prize entries and 23 works from the Wynne Prize entries for this alternative exhibition. The 2019 selectors were Brian Langer, director, Cowra Regional Art Gallery and Jane Watters, director, S.H. Ervin Gallery

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.

15 – 31 August 2024
Jane Guthleben ‘Sea Flower’

7 – 21 December 2023
SMALL WORKS - Click and Collection

17 August 2023 – 5 September 2023
Jane Guthleben ‘Evergreen’

19 July 2022 – 6 August 2022
Jane Guthleben ‘Wollemi to Wilpena’

3 – 21 August 2021
Jane Guthleben ‘Florilegium’

17 March 2020 – 15 April 2020
Jane Guthleben ‘Grandiflora’

26 June 2019 – 17 July 2019
THE NEW GALLERY SHOW — A Group Exhibition

30 January 2019 – 16 February 2019
JANE GUTHLEBEN 'Posy'