Dates for Your Diary

TREAD SCULPTURES

Saturday 2nd May 11 am
treadsculptures.com.au

Visit Tim Read at his bush gallery and sculpture trail.

225 Catani Boulevard .
Bend of Islands.3097

Bring a packed lunch and a fold up chair.

Enjoy meeting Tim and glass artist Rob Hayley. There is so much to see and learn. Tim has a passion for steel and a talent for repurposing. This should be an inspiring and creative adventure to their studios.

Rain Song Bush Chorus
by Tim Read & Rob Hayley

Annual & Awards Exhibition

Hi everyone, our Annual and Awards exhibition is once again at the Victorian Artists Society at the end of June and entry forms are online now.

Association of Sculptors of Victoria

A few changes for this year as we are not sharing with painters and the exhibition will run for two weeks rather than 3 three. This means we will have unlimited wall space for those of you who like to make pieces that can be hung but please think about how much pieces weigh and have more than one hanging line if necessary.

MIFGS 2026

Here are the results from the People’s Choice Award from MIFGS

Congratulations to :
#39 Jake Mikoda “Into the wind – Red Fox”
#142 Grant Flather “Giant Banksia Tree”
#101 Marilyn and James Larkin “Little Rusty”
#95 Helen Jeffs “Kai”
#105 Mike Maka “Metal Monstera”

View the winners from this year’s exhibition

 

Other Opportunities

Sculptures Out Back

Entries will open on 6 April 2026 and close on 6 May 2026 also via the website
https://sculpturesoutback.com.au/

2026 Deakin Uni Contemporary Small Sculpture Award

2026 Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award

Eltham Rotary Art Show

Eltham Art Show

Melbourne Prize 2026

Melbourne Prize for Music

Toorak Sculpture Exhibition

Call for Entries – Toorak Village

Red Gallery/ SMALL

Open Call submissions for SMALL

Uranga Small Sculpture Prize

2026 entry form and information

Sculpture in the Vineyards

https://sculptureinthevineyards.com.au/ Closing 3rd May

Sculpture by the Sea Bondi

See https://sculpturebythesea.com/

City of Boroondara

Apply for a community exhibition | Boroondara Arts

Information session for 2027: 13th May at Town Hall Gallery 5:30-6:30

Do You Want To Travel To Poland for Art?

Interesting Art

 Bolin Bolin Gallery at Bulleen Art and Garden new exhibition:

“Natural Connections”

Here is some information about Lachlan’s new exhibition in the Ivanhoe Hub 9th April to 10th May. Loft 275 Ivanhoe Library & Cultural Hub, 275 Upper Heidelberg Road, Ivanhoe Hope you manage to see it. It covers sculpture, painting & animation & is unique, original work. CHRYSALIS: exhibition opening https://events.humanitix.com/chrysalis-animation-screening

"Mary Moore, the only child of the sculptor, Henry Moore talks about growing up in an artistic family ahead of the reopening of his studios and a major new show at Kew Gardens" (Try this link or you might have to subscribe to read more. )

The link to the full interview: My dad Henry Moore: ‘He wasn’t nice. He was interested in people’

Sculpture Co

Open Foundry Day 23rd and 24th May

Book: https://www.sculptureco.net/

Members' News and Social Media

Rudi Vass has two plinths for someone to use.
460x460x800 and 460x460x1100
They need a coat of paint but are very sturdy.
Please ring Rudi to arrange pick up in Tyabb.
contact via info@ 

sculptorsvictoria.asn.au



Anne Anderson and Chris Anderson were both lucky to receive awards at the Kilmore Art Exhibition recently.

‘I’m Changing Direction’
by Maria Patterson

Two ASV members pick up two awards in the Blairgowrie Art Show 2026

Highly Commended Indoor Sculpture: (247)
‘I’m Changing Direction’ by Maria Patterson

(51) Mindless by Paul Cacioli

Best Indoor Sculpture:
(51) Mindless by Paul Cacioli 

Social Media- Don’t forget to @ !!

Bonnie Cruickshank has joined the social media team!! I think most of you have noticed how this has given a boost to our social media.

We have a few plans, for when our busy lives give us time to actually get together- but for now- Know that your sculptures are in good hands promotion wise…

Bonnie took on Herring island- and this has led to an increase in visitors and in followers. We both loved seeing all your posts leading up to MIFGS- and the bump in posts were great to see as well. It was such a pity no one invited the sculptors_Victoria to collaborate!

If you @sculptors_victoria in your post - it gets sent to us, and with one click your post is broadcast to all our followers, instead of just your own. This is good for you… And good for us. As we can post without thinking- and are promoting our members to a wide public- which is our aim.

If you have any cool photos of you in your studio- we are also very happy to repost- and… We will approach some of you soonish with a few questions so we can deepen our public’s knowledge about our members' art practices.

Cheers! Bonnie and Aukje

Editor's Quote and President's Letter for March 2026

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” (Henry David Thoreau)

Hello Sculptors Victoria - and Hello Sculptors Victorious!

Sculpture in the Carlton Gardens launched with sales starting before the opening - patience my children there are 155 sculptures - there's plenty to go around. And we launched the new website in time for MIFGS! A few glitches have been ironed out over the days that we have been active and the congratulations have been rolling in - your work is looking great online. Recently we sent out an activation email to members - believe it or not your old password did not translate to the new site so we are asking you to use the accreditation link to set up a password all over again. If you’ve lost that email your option is to use the lost password system. But you’ll need to use whatever email address we have on record… otherwise things get messy and the site can’t recognise you.

Once into the site you will find it easy to see whether your membership is up to date… which means we will be a bit stricter about making you an ex-member if you don’t maintain financial status… obviously let us know if you are having difficulties so we can work something out and remember if you turn 80 you can apply for life membership for the price of one year’s membership… we want you to keep sculpting 🙂

There are other details of your profile page you can attend to - linking a website and social media, whether you work to commission and so on - it is intended as a portal to your information in the rest of the world as well as a record of your activities with the ASV.

Photographing MIFGS 2026

Congratulations to everyone who worked for our exhibition at MIFGS - all you exhibitors, volunteers, partners, our professional supporters - Rob and Alberto, our sponsors and donors and most all our amazing coordinator Yvonne Monik.

Then roll on to the Annual & Awards exhibition <3

Happy Sculpting Jenny Rickards