Showing at Clayton Utz, Sydney until October 2025
Steve Lopes is a Sydney based painter and printmaker known for his figurative landscapes. 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 representations of what he sees, the figures are often imagined personalities, or placed into the composition after the fact. He often depicts isolated figures to emphasise the displacement of the human figure within the world.
Lopes has travelled extensively, and his paintings are based on personal experiences and interactions with people and places that he sees as existing beyond borders.
Steve Lopes has exhibited nationally and internationally for over three decades, staging more than 50 solo shows and undertaking a number of prestigious residencies.
He was recently awarded the prestigious Kings School Art Prize and was the winner of the 2018 Gallipoli Art Prize.
His survey exhibition 'Steve Lopes- Encountered' was held at Sydney’s SH Ervin Gallery and Orange Regional Gallery in 2022.
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