BRISBANE.- Steve Lopes returns to Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley Brisbane with a new exhibition capturing the rich experience of our existence.

Steve Lopes is a Sydney based painter and printmaker known for his figurative landscape. In a career spanning over 25 years, the figure has always been central to Lopes’ oeuvre. Filled with expressive colour and bold imagery, Lopes combines complex compositions and narrative figures close to the artist’s life.

While Lopes' landscapes are representations of what he sees, the figures are often imagined personalities subsequently placed into the composition. He often works en plein air, painting vignettes of a place which are used as references for large-scale studio works. The depiction of isolated figures emphasises the displacement of the human figure within the world.

“These works deal with our defiance of fate and our essential vulnerabilities,” Lopes says. “In the increasingly shattered world we find ourselves in, this is an intangible attempt to capture visually the very fleetingness of our being.”

An avid traveller, Lopes’ insatiable curiosity for new experiences drives his art, through which he connects the threads of history and place with the people who have shaped them.

His work is constantly evolving. This is as much due to creative inspiration as self-challenge. “I’ve learnt painting is hard, to never give up, to compete with myself,” he says

Steve Lopes has won the Gallipoli Art Prize and the Kings School Art Prize in Sydney. His works have been acquired in collections such as the National Art Gallery of Australia, Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra, BHP Billiton Art Collection and the Time Warner Collection in New York.

The exhibition is showing from 21st October to 15th November 2025.