S.H. Ervin Gallery

17/10/2026

Join exhibiting artists Carmel Byrne, Katherine Edney and Jane Guthleben on Sunday 18 October at 3pm as they discuss contemporary portraiture.

image: Carmel Byrne Adrick in the Studio
(Sheung Chun Adrick Lui, artist) oil on canvas

21/09/2026

Entries to the $60,000 Evelyn Chapman Art Award close soon. To enter you must be a painter in oil or tempera, and between the ages of 18-44.
Enter today - https://www.shervingallery.com.au/evelyn-chapman-art-award-2026/

18/09/2026

We’re thrilled to share that the recipient of the 2026 Portia Geach Memorial Award is Natasha Bieniek for her painting, The folding (self portrait).

The finalist exhibition is now on view until Sunday 1 November.

10/09/2026

It’s the last few days to catch this stunning exhibition before it closes on Sunday afternoon.

Olive Cotton and her contemporaries - a luminous look at one of Australia's greatest photographers and her international peers who shaped modernist vision.

Olive Cotton and her contemporaries is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition presented as part of the Bowness Family Foundation Photography Touring Program.

image: OLIVE COTTON Teacup ballet, 1935, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1983

02/09/2026

Congratulations to the 55 finalists in the 2026 Portia Geach Memorial Award.
Full list of artists at https://www.shervingallery.com.au/event/portia-geach-memorial-award-2026/

Exhibition on view Friday 18 September - 1 November.

26/08/2026

Wonderful to welcome Sally McInerney, daughter of Olive Cotton, and Rex Dupain, son of Max Dupain, to the gallery today to visit Olive Cotton and her contemporaries.

The Definitive Dupain exhibition has now opened at The State Library of New South Wales so you have just over two weeks to see both exhibitions before Olive Cotton heads home to the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

25/08/2026

24/08/2026

‘Light brings a subject to life … That’s the main thing about all my photographs, the light no matter what it’s of. That’s what draws me to take a photograph.’
Olive Cotton

Now on view - Olive Cotton and her contemporaries - a National Gallery Touring Exhibition presented as part of the Bowness Family Foundation Photography Touring Program - until 13 September.

image: Olive Cotton, Glasses, 1937 prtd 1997, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2016