America Decides
I’ve always had a fascination with America, especially through its literature, reading Burroughs, Kerouac, and my favourite, Hunter S. Thompson. I studied art in New York at the Art Students League and ended up working with American satirical institution Mad magazine, a potent mirror of daily American society and its tropes. As a young artist […]
Steve Lopes: Shapes For Gods
The exhibition title Shapes For Gods is taken from the painting of the same name. It is the pivotal work amongst a field of twenty-three figurative paintings, a print and a drawing. Shapes For Gods is Lopes’ fourth solo exhibition at Mitchell Fine Art and follows last year’s Encountered, a twenty-five-year survey (which this writer […]
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Steve Lopes Encountered
I go backwards and forwards . . . I live between two worlds, in my head. Steve Lopes is an artist who finds himself at once both everywhere, and nowhere. An inveterate traveller since his youth, his insatiable curiosity for new experiences drives his art and desire to tell stories, connecting the threads of history […]
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Steve Lopes
Asking where expressionist painting began is like asking who invented drawing. Historically, the Western expressionist artist is individualistic, the work not readily situated in specific art periods and countries: both El Greco and Bosch were expressionists. In the early twentieth century, artists embracing revolutionary ideals were given this label. Expressionism, using form and structure to […]
Steve Lopes
Steve Lopes constructs a world of transitory figures, travellers and storytellers searching for the unknown.
Jamberoo Mountain Road
An exhibition presenting contemporary Australian artists’ reactions to the lush rainforest escarpment at Jamberoo.
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Steve Lopes wins the 2018 Gallipoli Art Prize
Congratulations to Steve Lopes, who has won the 2018 Gallipoli Art Prize.
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‘Kakadu’ – An artist’s perspective
An artists trip into remote Kakadu results in an exhibition filled with poignant encounters and quiet reflections.
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Island of Misfits | Steve Lopes
Steve Lopes returns with ‘Island of Misfits’, exploring mysterious, imagined landscapes and their curious newcomers.
Steve Lopes | The Late Riser
Lopes returns to the Italian Islands from which his family hails, exploring the experiences of the immigrants who left and those who chose to stay at home.
Peaks and Valleys
Carrying on from the tradition of the literati and classical painters, Steve Lopes, Tim Allen and Dapeng Liu visited China to paint the changing landscapes of China.
Gallipoli | Steve Lopes
Taking notes with his brushes, Steve Lopes presents a series of emotionally charged works of a landscape that is not far from Australia’s mind.
Arthur Boyd: Agony and Ecstasy
At the National Gallery of Australia Canberra is a major showcase of Arthur Boyd’s art, an intense poetic visionary who was capable of plumbing the depths and vicissitudes of human emotions.
Steve Lopes
Steve Lopes is a painter and printmaker known for his figurative landscape works.
Insight Radical: where art meets science
Throughout 2012, six artists – Tony Lloyd, Steve Lopes, Anna Madeleine, Natalie O’Connor, Peter Sharp and Ruth Waller – took part in a residency program, Insight Radical, which saw each of them spend time with a group of scientists all working on and developing research around free radicals. The scientists worked with the artists, giving demonstrations of their experiments and discussing the ‘real world’ impact of their research.
On This Island at Hazelhurst
An artist forum with Euan McDonald, Ann Thomson, Peter Simpson and Steve Lopes.
