Congratulations to Sophie Cape and Steve Lopes on their selection as finalists in the 2026 Kedumba Drawing Award showing at Kedumba Gallery, NSW.
Sophie Cape is a Sydney based painter who creates her works by taking canvases into the landscape and working directly on the ground, exposing both herself and the artwork to the outside elements. Free from constraints, using unconventional mediums and reveling in their gross materiality, her works oscillate between abstraction and figuration.
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 his landscapes are often a representation of what he saw, the figures are often imagined personalities, or placed into the composition after the fact.
The Kedumba Drawing Award is one of the longest running, and most prestigious, drawing prizes in Australia. Managed by the Kedumba Collection, it features a $20,000 acquisitive prize where the winning artwork joins a permanent public collection housed at Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains.
An exhibition of finalists will be exhibited from 22 August – 27 September 2026, with the opening and awards ceremony taking place on Saturday 22 August, 2:30pm.
To view more Sophie Cape artworks - click here
To view more Steve Lopes artworks - click here
Image: Sophie Cape [left], Steve Lopes [right]