Sculpere Newsletter: 2026

Editor's Quote and President's letter for April 2026

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

Hello Sculptors!

This month you have two tasks:

Get your entry in to the Annual & Awards Exhibition and
Activate and update your presence on the ASV website

The entry forms for the Annual & Awards Exhibition hit the website as soon as MIFGS finished - they were ready even earlier. It is not ideal rolling from one exhibition to the next with little time to think about lessons learned and impressions created. At the moment we don’t have much choice - MIFGS is when it is and the Annual & Awards Exhibition currently has to fit into the Victorian Artists Society gallery availability. The ASV committee is looking at options - and if you have ideas that could help please let us know.

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 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.

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/

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?

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 @ !!

“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

Dates for your diary

Saturday 2 May 11am start

Visit Tim Read at his bush gallery and sculpture trail.

225 Catani Boulevard Bend of Islands 3097

Bring 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.

treadsculptures.com.au

Thursday 14 May 7:30pm

ASV Committee meeting

Monday 18 May

entries close Annual & Awards Exhibition https://sculptorsvictoria.asn.au/exhibitions/call-for-entries/2026-annual-awards-exhibition

MIFGS 2026

The set up...

and the prize winners...

Sculptors Victoria - 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 will go online at the beginning of April.

A few changes for this year as we are not sharing with painters and the exhibition will run for two weeks rather than 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.

I would also like to ask people to please give the person doing the roster for minding the exhibition more than one option as it makes their job much easier. For MIFGS we had 80 sculptors but 19 of them wanted the same time slot and only gave one option which was just not workable.

Eltham Rotary Art Show

Eltham Art Show

Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2026

Melbourne Prize for Music

Kerang Rotary Art Show

There is an art show on 3,4,&5th April in Kerang Basketball Stadium
Entries close 20th March
Kerang Annual Easter Art Show 2026 - 1332 3SH

Toorak Sculpture Exhibition

Call for Entries – Toorak Village

“NEXUS” EXHIBITION - GIPPSLAND ART GALLERY

For anyone interested in seeing a really inspiring feast for the eyes, I strongly suggest you visit this wonderful exhibition created by our very talented fellow member, Gavin Roberts, along with glass artist, Crystal Stubbs and ceramic artist, Cindy Tong.

New Members and Members' News

A very warm welcome to :

Rick Robertson & Aytac Ishik Mit

Wishing you all the best and happy creating

Members' News

Neerim Artsfest Awards
Congratulations to the winners of this Artfest who are ASV members. Well done.

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

Are you ready for MIFGS 2026? Is your entry in and your plinth weather proof?

Wrapping up Herring Island had its complications… we have yet to assign the voter’s prize because the first email drew a blank… back to random numbers and the big box of votes…. And a sculpture broke in transit to its new home so we had the soul searching of who owed what to whom…. In the end the broken sculpture remains the property of the artist - but it is all very sad. Packing and posting sculpture is a dangerous undertaking - could your item survive being dropped a metre? I’ve used Pack and Send in the past but for commission work where the customer paid - it works out to a considerable sum - but perhaps we need to value our own work more?

As we speak the new website draws ever closer. The committee has been testing - making fake purchases, sending emails through the system, making pretend donations and checking through our sculptor’s profiles - it is looking amazing - but you are fed up with being told how good it is going to be, right? Just do it, they cry!*

Sculpture @ Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show

Entries close Monday 2 March
set up Saturday and Sunday 21 and 22 March
Photography and Judging Monday and Tuesday 23 and 24 March
Exhibition Wednesday 25 March to Sunday 29 March
Dismantling evening 29 March and morning 20 March

More activities coming soon....

MIFGS

Hi to all sculptors.

This is a reminder that the MIFGS 2026 entries close on Monday 2nd March.

Hope that you all had a break over December to plan what you will be entering into the MIFGS exhibition.

Once again, we have Daisy Richmond-Smith as our judge. She did an amazing job last year.

Looking forward to another exciting show where you can all showcase your wonderful sculptures.

Happy Sculpting.