Congratulations to Steve Lopes on his selection as a finalist in the 2025 Kedumba Drawing Award.
The Kedumba Drawing Award is one of the longest running, and most prestigious, drawing prizes in Australia. Kedumba is a Gundungurra word meaning ‘shiny, falling waters’, reflecting the gallery’s location in Wentworth Falls, NSW.
Steve Lopes is a Sydney based painter and printmaker known for his figurative landscape. He often works en plein air, painting vignettes of a place which are used as references for large-scale studio works.
While Lopes' landscapes are often a representation of what he saw, the figures are often imagined personalities, or placed into the composition after the fact. He often depicts isolated figures to emphasize the displacement of the human figure within the world.
The Finalist Exhibition is on view 15 November 2025 - 28 January 2026.
An Opening Event will be held Saturday 15 November at 2pm at Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls, NSW.
To view more Steve Lopes artworks - click here
Image: Steve Lopes, 'Untitled Figure with mask', 60 x 50cm charcoal, texta and pencil (2025)