Golden Grevillea In A Blue Cup Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Golden Grevillea In A Blue Cup
Golden Grevillea In A Blue Cup 2021
Golden Grevillea In A Blue CupJane GuthlebenGolden Grevillea In A Blue Cup
Golden Grevillea In A Blue Cup2021
oil on linen
35 x 30 cm
SOLD 
What Banks Saw Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - What Banks Saw
What Banks Saw 2021
What Banks SawJane GuthlebenWhat Banks Saw
What Banks Saw2021
Oil On Linen
180 x 120 cm
SOLD 
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - 'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW 2021
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEWJane Guthleben'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW2021
Study In White With Wattle After Morandi Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Study In White With Wattle After Morandi
Study In White With Wattle After Morandi 2021
Study In White With Wattle After MorandiJane GuthlebenStudy In White With Wattle After Morandi
Study In White With Wattle After Morandi2021
Oil On Linen On Board
22.5 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Black Wattle At Bustard Bay Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Black Wattle At Bustard Bay
Black Wattle At Bustard Bay 2021
Black Wattle At Bustard BayJane GuthlebenBlack Wattle At Bustard Bay
Black Wattle At Bustard Bay2021
Oil On Linen On Board
44 x 31 cm
SOLD 
Sydney Golden Wattle And Mullet Vase Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Sydney Golden Wattle And Mullet Vase
Sydney Golden Wattle And Mullet Vase 2021
Sydney Golden Wattle And Mullet VaseJane GuthlebenSydney Golden Wattle And Mullet Vase
Sydney Golden Wattle And Mullet Vase2021
oil on linen
81 x 81 cm
SOLD 
Bustard Bay Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Bustard Bay
Bustard Bay 2021
Bustard BayJane GuthlebenBustard Bay
Bustard Bay2021
Oil On Linen
120 x 180 cm
SOLD 
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - 'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW 2021
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEWJane Guthleben'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW2021
CHOGM A Federal Arrangement Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - CHOGM A Federal Arrangement
CHOGM A Federal Arrangement 2021
CHOGM A Federal ArrangementJane GuthlebenCHOGM A Federal Arrangement
CHOGM A Federal Arrangement2021
Oil On Linen
120 x 120 cm
SOLD 
Floramagloria Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Floramagloria
Floramagloria 2021
FloramagloriaJane GuthlebenFloramagloria
Floramagloria2021
oil on linen
81 x 81 cm
SOLD 
Coastal Arrangement At Bustard Bay Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Coastal Arrangement At Bustard Bay
Coastal Arrangement At Bustard Bay 2021
Coastal Arrangement At Bustard BayJane GuthlebenCoastal Arrangement At Bustard Bay
Coastal Arrangement At Bustard Bay2021
Oil On Linen
180 x 120 cm
SOLD 
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - 'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW 2021
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEWJane Guthleben'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW2021
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - 'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW 2021
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEWJane Guthleben'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW2021
Portrait Of Ellen Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Portrait Of Ellen
Portrait Of Ellen 2021
Portrait Of EllenJane GuthlebenPortrait Of Ellen
Portrait Of Ellen2021
oil on linen
120 x 100 cm
SOLD 
Morning Glory Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Morning Glory
Morning Glory 2021
Morning GloryJane GuthlebenMorning Glory
Morning Glory2021
oil on linen
180 x 120 cm
SOLD 
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - 'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW 2021
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEWJane Guthleben'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW2021
Banksia On A Checked Cloth Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Banksia On A Checked Cloth
Banksia On A Checked Cloth 2021
Banksia On A Checked ClothJane GuthlebenBanksia On A Checked Cloth
Banksia On A Checked Cloth2021
Oil On Linen
81 x 81 cm
SOLD 
Singing Budgie Arrangement Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Singing Budgie Arrangement
Singing Budgie Arrangement 2021
Singing Budgie ArrangementJane GuthlebenSinging Budgie Arrangement
Singing Budgie Arrangement2021
oil on linen
120 x 100 cm
SOLD 
Australian Royalty Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Australian Royalty
Australian Royalty 2021
Australian RoyaltyJane GuthlebenAustralian Royalty
Australian Royalty2021
Oil On Linen
120 x 120 cm
SOLD 
Florilegium Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Florilegium
Florilegium 2021
FlorilegiumJane GuthlebenFlorilegium
Florilegium2021
Oil On Linen
100 x 360 cm
SOLD 
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - 'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW 2021
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEWJane Guthleben'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW2021
Banksia Sketch Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Banksia Sketch
Banksia Sketch 2021
Banksia SketchJane GuthlebenBanksia Sketch
Banksia Sketch2021
Oil On Board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
Florilegium Arrangement With Dark Emu Wallpaper Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Florilegium Arrangement With Dark Emu Wallpaper
Florilegium Arrangement With Dark Emu Wallpaper 2021
Florilegium Arrangement With Dark Emu WallpaperJane GuthlebenFlorilegium Arrangement With Dark Emu Wallpaper
Florilegium Arrangement With Dark Emu Wallpaper2021
oil on linen
180 x 120 cm
SOLD 
Hibbertia Scandens And Hibbert Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Hibbertia Scandens And Hibbert
Hibbertia Scandens And Hibbert 2021
Hibbertia Scandens And HibbertJane GuthlebenHibbertia Scandens And Hibbert
Hibbertia Scandens And Hibbert2021
oil on board
40 x 40 cm
SOLD 
Regent Honeyeater Forgetting How To Sing Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Regent Honeyeater Forgetting How To Sing
Regent Honeyeater Forgetting How To Sing 2021
Regent Honeyeater Forgetting How To SingJane GuthlebenRegent Honeyeater Forgetting How To Sing
Regent Honeyeater Forgetting How To Sing2021
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - 'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW 2021
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEWJane Guthleben'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW2021
Regent Honeyeater Listening For Its Song On The Radio Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Regent Honeyeater Listening For Its Song On The Radio
Regent Honeyeater Listening For Its Song On The Radio 2021
Regent Honeyeater Listening For Its Song On The RadioJane GuthlebenRegent Honeyeater Listening For Its Song On The Radio
Regent Honeyeater Listening For Its Song On The Radio2021
Oil On Aluminium
38.5 x 35 cm
SOLD 
Rugged Little Blossom Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Rugged Little Blossom
Rugged Little Blossom 2021
Rugged Little BlossomJane GuthlebenRugged Little Blossom
Rugged Little Blossom2021
Oil On Board
18 x 12.5 cm
SOLD 
Moonlight Grevillea Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Moonlight Grevillea
Moonlight Grevillea 2021
Moonlight GrevilleaJane GuthlebenMoonlight Grevillea
Moonlight Grevillea2021
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Birds To Men Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Birds To Men
Birds To Men 2021
Birds To MenJane GuthlebenBirds To Men
Birds To Men2021
Oil On Linen
120 x 120 cm
SOLD 
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - 'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW 2021
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEWJane Guthleben'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW2021
Remembering The Pink Flannel Flowers Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Remembering The Pink Flannel Flowers
Remembering The Pink Flannel Flowers 2021
Remembering The Pink Flannel FlowersJane GuthlebenRemembering The Pink Flannel Flowers
Remembering The Pink Flannel Flowers2021
oil on board
20 x 20 cm
SOLD 
Strawflowers In Kangaroo Urn Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Strawflowers In Kangaroo Urn
Strawflowers In Kangaroo Urn 2021
Strawflowers In Kangaroo UrnJane GuthlebenStrawflowers In Kangaroo Urn
Strawflowers In Kangaroo Urn2021
oil on board
40.5 x 20 cm
SOLD 
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - 'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW 2021
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEWJane Guthleben'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW
'FLORILEGIUM' INSTALLATION VIEW2021
Pale Pink Grevillea In A Votive Vase Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Pale Pink Grevillea In A Votive Vase
Pale Pink Grevillea In A Votive Vase 2021
Pale Pink Grevillea In A Votive VaseJane GuthlebenPale Pink Grevillea In A Votive Vase
Pale Pink Grevillea In A Votive Vase2021
oil on board
18 x 12.5 cm
SOLD 
Black Cockatoo With Red Tail Named After Banks Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Black Cockatoo With Red Tail Named After Banks
Black Cockatoo With Red Tail Named After Banks 2021
Black Cockatoo With Red Tail Named After BanksJane GuthlebenBlack Cockatoo With Red Tail Named After Banks
Black Cockatoo With Red Tail Named After Banks2021
Oil On Linen On Board
43 x 32 cm
SOLD 
Flannel Flowers In A Cream Urn Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Flannel Flowers In A Cream Urn
Flannel Flowers In A Cream Urn 2021
Flannel Flowers In A Cream UrnJane GuthlebenFlannel Flowers In A Cream Urn
Flannel Flowers In A Cream Urn2021
Oil On Board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
Cape Barren Tea And Cape Barren Goose Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Cape Barren Tea And Cape Barren Goose
Cape Barren Tea And Cape Barren Goose 2021
Cape Barren Tea And Cape Barren GooseJane GuthlebenCape Barren Tea And Cape Barren Goose
Cape Barren Tea And Cape Barren Goose2021
Oil On Linen On Board
40 x 40 cm
SOLD 
Swift Parrot Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Swift Parrot
Swift Parrot 2021
Swift ParrotJane GuthlebenSwift Parrot
Swift Parrot2021
oil on board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
Banksia In Egg Vase Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Banksia In Egg Vase
Banksia In Egg Vase 2021
Banksia In Egg VaseJane GuthlebenBanksia In Egg Vase
Banksia In Egg Vase2021
Oil On Board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
Grevillea And Greville Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Grevillea And Greville
Grevillea And Greville 2021
Grevillea And GrevilleJane GuthlebenGrevillea And Greville
Grevillea And Greville2021
Oil On Board
40 x 40 cm
SOLD 
Grevillea And Greville's Mistress Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Grevillea And Greville's Mistress
Grevillea And Greville's Mistress 2021
Grevillea And Greville's MistressJane GuthlebenGrevillea And Greville's Mistress
Grevillea And Greville's Mistress2021
Oil On Board
40 x 40 cm
SOLD 
White Ibis With Wing Jewellery Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - White Ibis With Wing Jewellery
White Ibis With Wing Jewellery 2021
White Ibis With Wing JewelleryJane GuthlebenWhite Ibis With Wing Jewellery
White Ibis With Wing Jewellery2021
Oil On Board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
Tiny Grevillea In An Egg Cup Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Tiny Grevillea In An Egg Cup
Tiny Grevillea In An Egg Cup 2021
Tiny Grevillea In An Egg CupJane GuthlebenTiny Grevillea In An Egg Cup
Tiny Grevillea In An Egg Cup2021
oil on board
18 x 12.5 cm
SOLD 
Snake Vine In A Skinny Vase (Pink) Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Snake Vine In A Skinny Vase (Pink)
Snake Vine In A Skinny Vase (Pink) 2021
Snake Vine In A Skinny Vase (Pink)Jane GuthlebenSnake Vine In A Skinny Vase (Pink)
Snake Vine In A Skinny Vase (Pink)2021
oil on board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
Snake Vine In A Skinny Vase (Orange) Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Snake Vine In A Skinny Vase (Orange)
Snake Vine In A Skinny Vase (Orange) 2021
Snake Vine In A Skinny Vase (Orange)Jane GuthlebenSnake Vine In A Skinny Vase (Orange)
Snake Vine In A Skinny Vase (Orange)2021
oil on board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
Snake Vine At 1770 Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Snake Vine At 1770
Snake Vine At 1770 2021
Snake Vine At 1770Jane GuthlebenSnake Vine At 1770
Snake Vine At 17702021
oil on linen on board
45 x 31 cm
SOLD 
Pink Flannel Flowers At Narrow Neck Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Pink Flannel Flowers At Narrow Neck
Pink Flannel Flowers At Narrow Neck 2021
Pink Flannel Flowers At Narrow NeckJane GuthlebenPink Flannel Flowers At Narrow Neck
Pink Flannel Flowers At Narrow Neck2021
oil on board
18 x 12.5 cm
SOLD 
Paperbark Bloom Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Paperbark Bloom
Paperbark Bloom 2021
Paperbark BloomJane GuthlebenPaperbark Bloom
Paperbark Bloom2021
oil on board
18 x 12.5 cm
SOLD 
Paper Daisies For Josephine Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Paper Daisies For Josephine
Paper Daisies For Josephine 2021
Paper Daisies For JosephineJane GuthlebenPaper Daisies For Josephine
Paper Daisies For Josephine2021
oil on linen on board
44.5 x 30.5 cm
SOLD 
Last Of The Ficifolia Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Last Of The Ficifolia
Last Of The Ficifolia 2021
Last Of The FicifoliaJane GuthlebenLast Of The Ficifolia
Last Of The Ficifolia2021
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Wattle From Sunnyside Crescent Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Wattle From Sunnyside Crescent
Wattle From Sunnyside Crescent 2021
Wattle From Sunnyside CrescentJane GuthlebenWattle From Sunnyside Crescent
Wattle From Sunnyside Crescent2021
Oil On Board
40 x 40 cm
SOLD 

In 1769, Lieut. James Cook sailed to Tahiti to record the Transit of Venus, an astronomical phenomenon that would help to determine longitude. The second part of his mission, partly funded by Botanist Joseph Banks, would also send them to Terra Australis Incognita, the Great Southern Land, which under the King’s orders, Cook would claim for the British in 1770.

Banks, along with his small team of botanical artists, encountered and recorded hundreds of floral species on the voyage that were new to European eyes. Banks’s aim was to publish a collection of engravings for enthusiastic European collectors who were hungry to learn about flora from the New World. However, Banks wasn’t able to achieve this in his lifetime. The first reproduction of the 1770 artworks, Banks’s Florilegium, was published in the 1980s.

This exhibition continues Guthleben’s ongoing project based on Banks’s botanic encounters from the 1770 voyage. Working from the list of species that Banks collated from his voyage, Guthleben has recreated imaginary floral arrangements, landscapes and collections of flora from 250 years ago. If a painting captures a moment in time, these works aim to pause the clock at 1770, before the advent of the new colony and the dramatic changes to the environment that came with colonisation. Works such as What Banks Saw, and Florilegium, a 3.6 metre panorama, are mythical places where flora abounds in one verdant never-ending scene. Impossibly large arrangements such as Florilegium Arrangement with Dark Emu Wallpaper and Coastal Arrangement at Bustard Bay 2021 show the bounteous nature of the landscape and suggest how it is seen through European eyes.

The exhibition also includes some other personal works, such as the large bird paintings, White ibis with wing jewellery, the Regent Honeyeater works, and a family portrait the Portrait of Ellen. Each of the works harks back to Banks’s voyage in that they each derive from the impacts of colonisation. The exhibition also includes studies in preparation for the larger works.

The exhibition title, Florilegium (pronounce flori – lee – gium), is a term given to a collection of writings or literary extracts, or to the visual records of a collection of plants. Like a botanical name, it comes from the Latin; from flos (flower) and legere (to gather). It is also the name of the beautiful book of Banks’s engravings project first published just 40 years ago.

Jane Guthleben, July 2021

Guthleben would like to acknowledge traditional owners whose way of life was immediately impacted by the 1770 encounters, and catastrophically changed by the subsequent colonisation in 1788. Banks, later head of the Royal Society, was hugely influential in promoting the continent’s virtues for a future penal settlement. Now, after 200 plus years of settlement, the flora and fauna he encountered is under pressure from dramatic changes in land use, population growth and climate change.

Jane Guthleben 'Florilegium'

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 Mosman Art Prize (2019,2012), the Portia Geach Memorial Portrait Prize (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

2023

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

2022

  • SCRUB, M Contemporary, Sydney
  • 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 CSydney 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 Gallery, 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
  • '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
  • Finalist, Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

2022

  • Semi-Finalist, Moran Portrait Prize
  • Finalist, BigCi Residency, Bilpin, NSW

2021

  • Finalist, Archibald Prize Salon des Refuses

2020

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

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
  • UNSW Academic Award
  • UNSW Painting Prize, Artscene Derivan Award
  • Finalist, Fishers Ghost Art Prize
  • Finalist, UNSW Jenny Birt Award

2014

  • Highly Commended, UNSW Jenny Birt Award

2013

  • UNSW Fowlers Gap Scholarship

2012

  • Finalist, Mosman Art Prize

2011

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

JANE GUTHLEBEN IN CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD MORECROFT

15 – 31 August 2024
JANE GUTHLEBEN

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'