ESTHER ERLICH CV
MAJOR PRIZES & EXHIBITIONS
March 2023 Shortlisted for “Goddess” public art hoarding for Metro Tunnel project Melbourne
October 2022 Semifinalist Doug Moran National portrait Prize
September 2022 Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Award, National Trust Sydney
June 2022 Finalist Darling Portrait Prize At National Portrait Gallery Canberra
June 2022 Henley festival with Panter and Hall UK
April 2022 Finalist Percival Portrait Painting Prize Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Qld
April 20-24 2022 London Art Fair, 4 works with Panter and Hall London
March 2022 Melbourne Art Book Fair NGV
August 2020 Finalist in the Kilgour Prize, Newcastle Art Gallery NSW
May 2020 Finalist The Percival Portrait Painting Prize at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Qld
February exhibiting in the 2020 L.A. Art Show USA – represented by Panter and Hall London
August 2019 Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Award (Sydney)
November 2018 Finalist Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton regional Gallery
November 2018 Finalist Black Swan Prize AGWA (Perth)
October 2018 Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Award (Sydney)
April 2018 Finalist, Highly Commended, Percival Portrait Prize QLD
October 2017 Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Prize (Sydney)
October 2017 Semi-Finalist Doug Moran national portrait Prize (Sydney)
August 2016 Finalist Kilgour Prize Newcastle Art Gallery
August 2016 Finalist Paul Guest Drawing Prize Bendigo Art Gallery
May 2016 Finalist in the Percival Portrait Painting Prize Perc Tucker Regional Gallery QLD
May 2016 Residency at the Art Vault (Mildura)
September 2015 Finalist in the Hobart City Art Prize (TMAG Tasmania)
August 2015 exhibiting in “Pain/ting” curated by Juan Arata. at Open Walls Gallery Berlin
March 2015 New York AAF with Panter and Hall Gallery London.
Finalist in the 2014 Portia Geach Memorial Award (Sydney)
Finalist for the 2014 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing (Sydney)
Finalist for the 2014 Rick Amor Drawing Prize (Ballarat Art Gallery)
PLAIN curated by Dr Guy Morag 2013 international artists touring exhibition (Israel)
Finalist in the 2012 Black Swan Prize (WA)
Finalist in the 2011 Swan Prize (WA)
Finalist in the 2009 Banyule Works on Paper Award
Exhibited in the 2009 James Farrell Invitation Self Portrait Award (Castlemaine Art Gallery)
Finalist in the 2009 Black Swan Art Prize (WA)
Selected for the 2009 Archibald salon des Refuse (National Trust SH Ervin Gallery Sydney)
Finalist in the 2008 Black Swan Prize for Portraiture (WA)
Finalist in the 2008 Shirley Hannan Art prize.
Selected for the 2008 Salon des Refuse exhibition (National Trust SH Ervin Gallery & Tweed River Art Gallery)
Finalist in the 2007 Archibald Prize with “Tim” (portrait of Tim Rogers)
Finalist in the 2007 Dobell Prize at the AGNSW
Finalist in the 2007 Hutchins Art Prize (Tasmania)
Finalist in the 2007 Whyalla Art Prize (South Australia)
Finalist in the 2007 Portia Geach Memorial Award
Exhibited in the 2006 Delhi Art & Design Fair, and Australian High Commission Delhi India.
Exhibited in Art Singapore, stand AP03 Suntec Singapore
Exhibited March 2007 in group show at New Delhi India, Gurgaon (Gallery Alternatives)
Finalist in the 2006 Doug Moran National Portrait prize.
Finalist in the 2005 Archibald Prize with “Lindy Wills”
Finalist in the 2005 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
Finalist in the 2005 Banyule Works on Paper Art Award
Curated in “Lost and Found” digital sequences of images displayed at Federation Square (Melb)
Finalist in the 2002 Archibald Prize with “Deborah Conway” & included in the Salon des Refuse with “Man Working”( portrait of Colin Hay).
Finalist in the 2002 Portia Geach Memorial Award
December 2001, painting of Lynne Golding exhibited as Victorian Arts Centre’s Artwork of the Month”
2001 invited to exhibit in the National Tour of, “Portraits 2001 – An Australian Odyssey”
Finalist in the 2001 Portia Geach Memorial Award
Winner of the 2000 Archibald Prize Peoples’ Choice Award in Sydney & Melbourne with ”Never Been Better”,( portrait of Bill Leak).
Finalist in the 2000 Portia Geach Memorial Award
Finalist in the 1999 Portia Geach Memorial Award
Winner of the 1998 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with “Gaunt and Glorious”,( portrait of Steve Moneghetti)
Finalist in the 1998 Portia Geach Memorial Award
Finalist in the 1996 Portia Geach Memorial Award
Finalist in the 1995 Portia Geach Memorial Award
1993 included in the Salon des Refuses (Archibald)
1993 exhibited at the International Womens’ Exhibition in Kyushu’ Japan
Finalist in the 1990 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize .
Finalist in the 1989 Winsor Newton Prize (Sydney);
Finalist in the 1989 Portia Geach Memorial Award
Second prize winner of the 1987 VTU Art Prize.
ESTHER ERLICH
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
DATE GALLERYJune 2019
May 2022 ” Eye Can See Your Halo” Fox Galleries (Melbourne)
June 2021 “Fashion Dictates” Harvey Galleries (Sydney)
September 2020 “An Intimate Distance” as part of The Great Curve, at Fox galleries (Melbourne)
June 2020 “The Beholder” Panter and Hall (London)
June 2019 “Audacious” Fox Galleries (Melbourne)
June 2018 “The Female Gaze” Fox Galleries (Melbourne)
Dec 2016-Jan 2017 Qdos Gallery (Lorne)
June 2016 Work on Paper Frances Keevil Gallery (Sydney)
Feb 2015 Frances Keevil Gallery (Sydney)
August 2014 “Ensemble” Frances Keevil Gallery (Sydney)
April 2014 “4 works” Panter and Hall London
March 2014 “Invisible” Libby Edwards Gallery (Melbourne)
November 2013 “Farenheit” 19 Karen (Queensland)
August 2013 Perth Concert Hall -in conjunction with Gadfly Gallery (WA)
December 2012 “Rapscallions” Libby Edwards Galleries (Melbourne)
October 2012 “Sirens Ablazing” Gadfly Gallery (Perth)
July 2012 “Traffic Jam” Richard Martin Art (Sydney)
September 2011 “Curiouser” Libby Edwards Galleries (Melbourne)
November 2010 “Animal Instinct” Richard Martin Art (Sydney)
October 2010 “Menagerie” Gadfly Gallery (Perth)
April 2010 Jinks Creek Winery Gallery (Vic)
March 2010 “You Know You Want To” Libby Edwards Galleries (Melbourne)
June 2009 “Hand in Glove” Gadfly Gallery (Perth)
September 2008 “Subtext” Libby Edwards Galleries (Brisbane)
February 2008 “Tiaras and Boxing Gloves” Libby Edwards Galleries (Sydney)
November 2007 “Works on Paper” Libby Edwards Galleries (Brisbane)
November 2007 “Encore” Perth Concert Hall (WA)
October 2007 Jinks Creek Winery “Superheroes & Celebrities”
July 2007 “Human Kinds” Gadfly Gallery (Perth)
February 2007 “Ties that Bind” Libby Edwards Galleries (Melbourne)
September 2006 “Modest” Libby Edwards Galleries (Brisbane)
February 2006 “Emancipated” Libby Edwards Galleries (Sydney)
April 2005 “Go Figure” Gadfly Gallery (Perth)
May 2005 Perth Concert Hall
November 2004 “Rumors” Libby Edwards Galleries (Melbourne)
May 2004 “Confection” Barry Newton Gallery (Adelaide)
September 2003 “Wall Flowers” Libby Edwards Galleries (Sydney)
August 2003 Portraits Retrospective Libby Edwards Galleries (Melbourne)
May 2003 “Hairspray” Bark Modern Art (Hong Kong)
October 2002 Barry Newton Gallery (Adelaide)
July 2002 “Basic Black” Libby Edwards Galleries (Melb)
February 2002 “Pick-up Lines’ Libby Edwards Galleries (Sydney)Works on Pap
August 2001 “Hoopla” Libby Edwards Galleries (Sydney)
September 2000 Libby Edwards Galleries (Sydney) Miniatures
August 2000 “No Standing” Libby Edwards Galleries (Melbourne)
December 1999 Libby Edwards Galleries (Sydney) Recent Acrylics
February 1999 “Suburban Spectacles” Libby Edwards Galleries
March 1996 Convent Gallery (Daylesford) “Realm of the Knave’
April 1994 “The Joker is Wild” Libby Edwards Galleries
December 1993 New Robin Group (Japan)
July 1993 Barry Newton Gallery (Adelaide)
November 1992 Barry Newton Gallery (Adelaide)
June 1991 Libby Edwards Galleries
March 1990 Libby Edwards Galleries
April 1989 Weather Vane Gallery (Flinders)
May 1988 Toorak Library
November 1987 Graphic Illusions
September 1986 Graphic Illusions
July 1984 Young Originals
ESTHER ERLICH
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
February 2022 ” Things I Didn’t Know” Fox Galleries
February 2020 “Sparks” Fox Galleries (Melbourne)
October 2018 Frances Keevil Gallery (Sydney)
October 2017 Pop up Show 550 Swan Street Richmond (Melbourne)
March 2014 Guest Artist, Panter and Hall (London)
February 2014 Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing (Sydney)
January 2014 Rick Amor Drawing Prize (Art Gallery of Ballarat)
July 2012 Gallery One (gold coast)
October 2011 “Plain” curated by Dr Guy Morag exhibiting 240 international artists in a touring exhibition in Israel
Nov 2010 “Hang Your Doodle” Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
July 2010 Richard Martin Art, Sydney
November 2009 Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
November 2009 Castlemaine Art Gallery- J.F. Invitation Self Portrait Award
March 2009 SH Ervin Pavillion National Trust Salon des refuse
June 2008. Bega Valley regional Gallery, portrait exhibition.
March 2008 Salon Des Refuse at SH Ervin Gallery & Tweed River Regional Gallery
October 2007 Hutchins Art Prize at The Long Gallery (Tasmania)
October 2007 Chairs for Charity at Flemington Atrium
September 2007 Portia Geach Award at SH Ervin Gallery
August 2007 Dobell Prize for drawing at the Art Gallery of NSW
March 2007 Archibald Prize at AGNSW; Mural Hall Melb; Manning , Grafton, Bega Valley and Broken hill Regional Galleries,
October 2006 Artwork for Baby Proms at Sydney Opera House
September 2006 Art Singapore at Stand AP03 Suntec Singapore
October 2006 Art and design Fair New Delhi at the Australian High Commission
April 2006 Moments in Art at Chapel Galleries- Chapel off Chapel
March 2006 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize at State Library of NSW
October 2005 Banyule Works on Paper at Banyule Art Space
April 2005 “The Body in Question” G.W.Bot, Esther Erlich, Barbie Kjar at Gadfly Gallery Perth
April 2005 Archibald Prize at AGNSW; Newcastle & Albury Regional Art Galleries; Moree Plains Gallery; Cowra Art Gallery & Victoria Arts Centre
October 2005 National Small Sculpture Prize at Woollahra Municipal Council
March 2005 Lost and Found”, Curators & Artists digital sequences of images and text creating double narratives for 3 artists; Olive Cotton, Rosalie Cogan and Esther Erlich, out of the Archives of the Women’s Art Register. Displayed at Federation Square Melbourne, Gertrude St Contemporary Art Spaces, RMIT Gallery.
February 2004 “Precious Platters “ Jewish Museum of Australia, at Sotheby’s
April 2003 Kosher Culture The Jewish Museum
July 2003 Superstars Unzipped , , Jeans for Genes Retrospective Sydney Town Hall
April 2003 Jewish Museum of Australia, Kosher Culture
September 2002 Portia Geach Award at SH Ervin Gallery
August 2002 Gadfly Gallery (WA)
July 2002 AGNSW Jeans for Genes Generations Art Exhibition
June 2002 Archibald Prize AGNSW; George Adams Gallery (Melb) & regional tour
June 2002 Salon des Refuse at SH Ervin Gallery Sydney
December 2001 Portraits 2001 – An Australian Odyssey touring Logan, Toowoomba, Shepparton and Tamworth City Art Galleries and, Dalby, Hervy Bay, Manning, Port Macquarie-Hastings, Tweed River; Port Pirie, and Albury Regional Art Galleries
December 2001 Victorian Arts Centre selected as artwork of the month.
September 2001 Portia Geach Award at SH Ervin Gallery
July 2001 Jeans for Genes, Sydney
September 2000 Portia Geach award at SH Ervin Gallery
March 2000 Archibald Prize at AGNSW , George Adams Gallery and Regional Tour
September 1999 Portia Geach Award SH Ervin Gallery (Sydney)
July 1999 Jeans for Genes- Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney)
April 1999 Marymount Arts Festival (Queensland) featured artist
October 1998 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize at National Gallery Victoria & State Library of NSW
September 1998 Portia Geach Award at SH Ervin Gallery
August 1998 Mary Place Gallery (Sydney)
March 1998 Retrospecta II. Motorworks Gallery featured artist
December 1997 Libby Edwards Galleries
September 1996 Portia Geach Award at SH Ervin Galllery
February 1996 Grand Central Gallery, World in a Matchbox
October 1995 Portia Geach Memorial Award exhibition; SH Ervin Gallery (Sydney)
January 1995 Ten New Artists , Holdsworth Gallery (Sydney)
March 1994 “The Nude in Art” Barry Newton Gallery (Adelaide)
December 1993 Libby Edwards Galleries
November 1993 Libby Edwards Galleries
July 1993 International Womens Exhibition at the Kyushu Municipal Gallery Japan.
March 1993 Salon des Refuse at SH Ervin Gallery Sydney
March 1993 Holdsworth Gallery (Sydney)
October 1992 Libby Edwards Gallery
December 1990 Portraits of Australia DMNPP Sydney Opera House
September 1989 Portia Geach Award at SH Ervin Gallery (Sydney)
June 1989 Figurative Exhibition Libby Edwards Galleries
December 1988 National Gallery of Vic, On a Clothesline
March/July 1986 Freeman Gallery (Hobart)
April/July/Oct. 1983 Young Originals Gallery
PUBLIC ACQUISITIONS
National Portrait Gallery , “The Hon. Jim Carlton AO with Cravat” “Portrait of a Lady” (Sonia McMahon)
Tweed Valley Regional Art Gallery , “Gaunt and Glorious”(Steve Moneghetti)
National Library ACT , “Louis Kahan”, “Andrew Sibley” and pencil study for Gaunt and Glorious.
Hutchins Foundation Collection, “Grunt II”
Holocaust Museum Vic. “Mr Socolovitz”
ALP Building Canberra, “Barry Jones”
Royal Overseas League, Australian Collection, “Nine Two Nine”
Performing Arts Museum, Victorian Arts Centre, “Lynne Golding”
Council for Adult Education, “Warming Up”
Macrobertson Girls High School, portrait of Leslie Boston
Mentone Girls High School, portrait of Jill Dargue
St Catherine’s School, portrait of Laraine Sharr
PUBLICATIONS
The Intimate Distance, Spring as part of The Great Curve, Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer set of books by Rebecca Agnew
Illustration for Jonathan’s Thongs by Susan Kliman
Let’s Face It – The History of the Archibald Prize by Peter Ross and AGNSW.
Gallery (Dec.2000 – Jan.2001 edition) National Gallery of Victoria publication.
Portrait of Louis Kahan front and back covers of The National Library of Australia’s 38th Annual Report 1997 – 1998.
Illustrations for,”Making Conversation” 1996 ,Intercom Publishing House, Japan.
Included in Who’s Who of Australian Visual Artists by D.W. Thorpe, November 1995
Cover, Artwork and Article feature in,”Generation Journal’ November 1993, March 1995 and September 1998 issues.
Illustration featured in,”Marmalade’s Book of Cats” distributed by Tower books
Cover and Article – 1991 December Issue of Australian Artist
Included in,”Portraits of Australia” 1990 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Collection
Cover Illustration – Angus and Robertson’s “Middle Aged Maidens by Gwen Kelly
SAA Painters “Video into Art Series”, Schmelling Artvideo Australia.