Congratulations to Steve Lopes on his selection as a finalist in the 2025 Paddington Art Prize in Sydney.
The Paddington Art Prize is a National acquisitive prize, awarded annually for a painting inspired by the Australian landscape.
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.
"These works deal with our defiance of fate and our essential vulnerabilities,” Lopes says. “In the increasingly shattered world we find ourselves in, this is an intangible attempt to capture visually the very fleetingness of our being.”
The 2025 Paddington Art Prize Exhibition is on view from 17- 25 October 2025.
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Image: Steve Lopes, 'Millambri', 70 x 50cm oil on canvas (2025)