Floralscape Wollemi Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Floralscape Wollemi
Floralscape Wollemi 2022
Floralscape WollemiJane GuthlebenFloralscape Wollemi
Floralscape Wollemi2022
oil on linen
102 x 408 cm
SOLD 
Dutch Still Life with Saltbush and Mistletoe Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Dutch Still Life with Saltbush and Mistletoe
Dutch Still Life with Saltbush and Mistletoe 2022
Dutch Still Life with Saltbush and MistletoeJane GuthlebenDutch Still Life with Saltbush and Mistletoe
Dutch Still Life with Saltbush and Mistletoe2022
oil on linen
122 x 102 cm
SOLD 
Mount Tootie Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Mount Tootie
Mount Tootie 2022
Mount TootieJane GuthlebenMount Tootie
Mount Tootie2022
oil on linen
153 x 153 cm
SOLD 
Forty Three Florae and a Moth Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Forty Three Florae and a Moth
Forty Three Florae and a Moth 2022
Forty Three Florae and a MothJane GuthlebenForty Three Florae and a Moth
Forty Three Florae and a Moth2022
oil on linen
153 x 153 cm
SOLD 
Bilpin Floralscape with White Waratahs Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Bilpin Floralscape with White Waratahs
Bilpin Floralscape with White Waratahs 2022
Bilpin Floralscape with White WaratahsJane GuthlebenBilpin Floralscape with White Waratahs
Bilpin Floralscape with White Waratahs2022
oil on linen
153 x 153 cm
SOLD 
Ikara Bouquet Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Ikara Bouquet
Ikara Bouquet 2022
Ikara BouquetJane GuthlebenIkara Bouquet
Ikara Bouquet2022
oil on linen
122 x 102 cm
SOLD 
Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 1 Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 1
Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 1 2022
Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 1Jane GuthlebenFloralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 1
Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 12022
oil on linen
102 x 102 cm
Ikara Arrangement and a Ground Parrot Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Ikara Arrangement and a Ground Parrot
Ikara Arrangement and a Ground Parrot 2022
Ikara Arrangement and a Ground ParrotJane GuthlebenIkara Arrangement and a Ground Parrot
Ikara Arrangement and a Ground Parrot2022
oil on linen
153 x 153 cm
SOLD 
Wilpena Arrangement with Saltbush, Native Cranberry and Bush Tomato Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Wilpena Arrangement with Saltbush, Native Cranberry and Bush Tomato
Wilpena Arrangement with Saltbush, Native Cranberry and Bush Tomato 2022
Wilpena Arrangement with Saltbush, Native Cranberry and Bush TomatoJane GuthlebenWilpena Arrangement with Saltbush, Native Cranberry and Bush Tomato
Wilpena Arrangement with Saltbush, Native Cranberry and Bush Tomato2022
oil on linen
102 x 102 cm
SOLD 
Saltbush and Bush Tomatoes Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Saltbush and Bush Tomatoes
Saltbush and Bush Tomatoes 2022
Saltbush and Bush TomatoesJane GuthlebenSaltbush and Bush Tomatoes
Saltbush and Bush Tomatoes2022
oil on linen
183 x 122 cm
SOLD 
A Chattering Arrangement Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - A Chattering Arrangement
A Chattering Arrangement 2022
A Chattering ArrangementJane GuthlebenA Chattering Arrangement
A Chattering Arrangement2022
oil on linen
183 x 122 cm
SOLD 
Wilpena Arrangement with Kangaroo Grass and Saltbush Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Wilpena Arrangement with Kangaroo Grass and Saltbush
Wilpena Arrangement with Kangaroo Grass and Saltbush 2022
Wilpena Arrangement with Kangaroo Grass and SaltbushJane GuthlebenWilpena Arrangement with Kangaroo Grass and Saltbush
Wilpena Arrangement with Kangaroo Grass and Saltbush2022
oil on linen
122 x 102 cm
SOLD 
Wilpena Everlastings in a Grecian Urn Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Wilpena Everlastings in a Grecian Urn
Wilpena Everlastings in a Grecian Urn 2022
Wilpena Everlastings in a Grecian UrnJane GuthlebenWilpena Everlastings in a Grecian Urn
Wilpena Everlastings in a Grecian Urn2022
oil on linen
122 x 102 cm
SOLD 
Living Wall with Bush Tomato Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Living Wall with Bush Tomato
Living Wall with Bush Tomato 2022
Living Wall with Bush TomatoJane GuthlebenLiving Wall with Bush Tomato
Living Wall with Bush Tomato2022
oil on board
90 x 60 cm
SOLD 
Arid Champagne Bucket Arrangement Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Arid Champagne Bucket Arrangement
Arid Champagne Bucket Arrangement 2022
Arid Champagne Bucket ArrangementJane GuthlebenArid Champagne Bucket Arrangement
Arid Champagne Bucket Arrangement2022
oil on linen
122 x 102 cm
SOLD 
The Lawyer Vine Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - The Lawyer Vine
The Lawyer Vine 2022
The Lawyer VineJane GuthlebenThe Lawyer Vine
The Lawyer Vine2022
oil on board
60 x 60 cm
SOLD 
The Waratah Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - The Waratah
The Waratah 2022
The WaratahJane GuthlebenThe Waratah
The Waratah2022
oil on board
60 x 60 cm
SOLD 
Wildflower Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Wildflower
Wildflower 2022
WildflowerJane GuthlebenWildflower
Wildflower2022
oil on board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
The Twenty-eight Parrot (Australian Ringneck) Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - The Twenty-eight Parrot (Australian Ringneck)
The Twenty-eight Parrot (Australian Ringneck) 2022
The Twenty-eight Parrot (Australian Ringneck)Jane GuthlebenThe Twenty-eight Parrot (Australian Ringneck)
The Twenty-eight Parrot (Australian Ringneck)2022
oil on board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
Native Hibiscus Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Native Hibiscus
Native Hibiscus 2022
Native HibiscusJane GuthlebenNative Hibiscus
Native Hibiscus2022
oil on board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
Acacia Linifolia Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Acacia Linifolia
Acacia Linifolia 2022
Acacia LinifoliaJane GuthlebenAcacia Linifolia
Acacia Linifolia2022
oil on board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
Native Cranberry Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Native Cranberry
Native Cranberry 2022
Native CranberryJane GuthlebenNative Cranberry
Native Cranberry2022
oil on board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
The Red Browed Finch Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - The Red Browed Finch
The Red Browed Finch 2022
The Red Browed FinchJane GuthlebenThe Red Browed Finch
The Red Browed Finch2022
oil on board
30 x 30 cm
SOLD 
Hairpin Banksia Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Hairpin Banksia
Hairpin Banksia 2022
Hairpin BanksiaJane GuthlebenHairpin Banksia
Hairpin Banksia2022
oil on board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
Epacris Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Epacris
Epacris 2022
EpacrisJane GuthlebenEpacris
Epacris2022
oil on board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
My Pink Grevillea Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - My Pink Grevillea
My Pink Grevillea 2022
My Pink GrevilleaJane GuthlebenMy Pink Grevillea
My Pink Grevillea2022
oil on board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
The Yellow Robin Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - The Yellow Robin
The Yellow Robin 2022
The Yellow RobinJane GuthlebenThe Yellow Robin
The Yellow Robin2022
oil on board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
The Eastern Rosella Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - The Eastern Rosella
The Eastern Rosella 2022
The Eastern RosellaJane GuthlebenThe Eastern Rosella
The Eastern Rosella2022
oil on board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
Pineleaf Geebung Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Pineleaf Geebung
Pineleaf Geebung 2022
Pineleaf GeebungJane GuthlebenPineleaf Geebung
Pineleaf Geebung2022
oil on board
40 x 20 cm
SOLD 
The Gull Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - The Gull
The Gull 2022
The GullJane GuthlebenThe Gull
The Gull2022
oil on linen
30 x 40 cm
SOLD 
Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 2 Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 2
Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 2 2022
Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 2Jane GuthlebenFloralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 2
Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 22022
oil on linen
102 x 102 cm
Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 3 Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 3
Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 3 2022
Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 3Jane GuthlebenFloralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 3
Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 32022
oil on linen
102 x 102 cm
Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 4 Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 4
Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 4 2022
Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 4Jane GuthlebenFloralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 4
Floralscape Wollemi (detail) - panel 42022
oil on linen
102 x 102 cm
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - ‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view 2022
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation viewJane Guthleben‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view2022
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - ‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view 2022
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation viewJane Guthleben‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view2022
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - ‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view 2022
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation viewJane Guthleben‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view2022
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - ‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view 2022
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation viewJane Guthleben‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view2022
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - ‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view 2022
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation viewJane Guthleben‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view2022
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - ‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view 2022
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation viewJane Guthleben‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view2022
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - ‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view 2022
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation viewJane Guthleben‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view
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‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view Jane Guthleben Jane Guthleben - ‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view 2022
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation viewJane Guthleben‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view
‘WOLLEMI TO WILPENA’ Installation view2022

WOLLEMI TO WILPENA

As state borders reopened after their viral hiatus, artist Jane Guthleben found herself visiting two starkly different landscapes half a continent apart in a short period of time. One arid, the other lush, each salved the jaded eye after months of covid isolation and government travel restrictions. What followed is the series WOLLEMI TO WILPENA, 33 paintings that serve as a visual diary transcribing both places, a record of two diverse landscapes perceived through observation of flora and fauna and conceptualised in imaginary compositions and impossible arrangements.

The first excursion was a (covid postponed) month-long residency in Sydney’s Blue Mountains at BigCi in Bilpin, where much time was spent walking through the rainforests, hanging swamps, heaths and sclerophyll bush in Wollemi National Park.

Immediately afterwards came a long-awaited road trip from Sydney via Broken Hill to Ikara-Flinders Ranges in South Australia for a hike in the arid Wilpena Pound and surrounds. In these two regions recognized by indigenous names the historical presence of First Nations peoples was keenly felt, as we learned about art, foods and stories about Country.

Guthleben made small studies of birds and flora she experienced, using them to compose larger formal still life arrangements and gargantuan bouquets bursting with species. The largest piece is a 4 metre immersive floralscape, that is neither a landscape – though it is in format – or a still life but rather a chronological collage of flora diarising her encounters in the landscape. The large floralscapes have no focal point or horizon and direct the eye to this twig or that bloom, just as you would when passing through space.

Guthleben is obsessed with how Australia would have looked at the moment of contact with Europeans, recorded first around the early 1600s when Dutch Still Life flower painting was highly prized and prominent in Europe, particularly tulip painting. Using this genre as her starting point, she reinterprets the Australian landscape in formal floral arrangements, willing the indigenous blooms to communicate their language to the European eye. If a rose means love or a lily means the Virgin Mary’s purity in Western floriography, what does a banksia say, or a wattle sprig, an epacris or a xanthorrhoea?

In recent series, when making work about a place, Guthleben has tried to reimagine it by turning to written historical accounts of flora or paintings by botanists, convicts or other artists to collate lists of what was there and how it appeared to the colonisers. In WOLLEMI TO WILPENA she presents her own accounts of flora and fauna as she experienced them first hand. She would like to acknowledge elders past and present in and the incredible environments that she has travelled through and where she lives in Cammeraygal/Sydney in creating this body of work.

July 2022

Jane Guthleben 'Wollemi to Wilpena'

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.

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

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'