“Steve Lopes, who remains staunchly figurative, painting realistic figures in the landscape and studies of the detritus that accumulates around any settlement. His most fanciful and rather touching work is Memory Painting for Sam Byrne, which incorporates an imaginary portrait of the great naive painter of Broken Hill. One wonders what Byrne would have produced on an artists’ excursion to Fowlers Gap…” – John McDonald
Review: John McDonald, Outback Expression, SMH Spectrum, 16 June 2012.