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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

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.

Other Opportunities

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

Interesting Art

 

“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.

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

“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!*

Dates for Your Diary

 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.

Other Opportunities

Eltham Rotary Art Show

Eltham Art Show

Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2026

https://www.melbourneprize.org/

Kerang Rotary Art Show

There is an art show on 3,4,&5th April in Kerang Basketball Stadium 
Entries close 20th March

Aust Antarctic Arts Fellowship



https://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-us/antarctic-arts-fellowship/

New Members and Members' Matters

Welcome to new member Phillip Howe and to Yvonne George and Cetta Pilati who are re-joining us after a break.

Wishing you all the best and happy sculpting.

Where is our next treasurer coming from?

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

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” (Henry David Thoreau)
Welcome to 2026 fellow sculptors!

Already we are half way through the exhibition in the Herring Island Gallery. The work has been admired by hundreds of lovely visitors, Jude Bridges-Tull has inspired creativity with environmental clay in the courtyard, and a few brave souls have signed up as new members. It makes me proud of the ASV that we continue to offer inspiring exhibitions in a diversity of venues. The work is amazing!

This morning I posted the heat plan for Herring Island on the Festival website and had an online meeting with Alberto about the new website - it certainly keeps us living in the moment! The website is happening - brighter, faster and more under our control… but there are so many little details to keep track of at this stage…. so watch this space!

Dates for Your Diary

  •  1 and 2 February Dismantle Herring Island
  • 2 March 2026 Entries close for MIFGS 2026
  • Meet and Greet If you would like to host a Meet & Greet afternoon or evening, please contact me. It could have an artistic base, or a social or an informative session.

Sculptors Victoria at 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.

  1. Download the information and conditions of entry here
  2. Complete the entry form here
  3. Pay your entry fees here

Yvonne Monik ASV COORDINATOR MIFGS


Daisy Richmond-Smith
Associate, Landscape Architect at DKO Architecture

New Members and Members' News

 We welcome new members 

Lorraine Le Plastrier, Judy Witherdin, Piotr Sobiesiak, Alastair Gratton and Therese Coffey

Wishing you all the best and happy sculpting.

Where is our next treasurer coming from?

Our current treasurer, John Ride, joined us after retiring from a different job more than ten years ago.

He has developed all the skills we need using MYOB and so we know where we stand financially.

Editor's Message and President's Letter for December 2025

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” (Henry David Thoreau)
Most of us operate on the comfortable assumption that today is a continuation of yesterday and tomorrow will continue from today - this is horribly untrue for us in December 2025 - tragedy close to home overwhelms tragedy in far off places even for the most humane of us.

The first blow to normalcy came with the unexpected death of Maudie Palmer AO. Maudie was instrumental in the creation of Heide Museum of Modern Art, Tarra Warra Museum of Art, and she helped McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery - all as well as being the driving force in the creation of Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park. At the time of her death Maudie was engaged in work and film making with Friends of the Yarra Birrarung. We can miss Maudie for her dynamic leadership in the arts - and we can mourn her mentorship and friendship to many artists and friends of the arts.

Dates for Your Diary

10 January to 1st February
Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park exhibition part of Herring Island Summer Arts Festival 
Open 11am to 4:30pm weekends and public holidays - images online @ https://sculptorsvictoria.asn.au/virtual-exhibition/2026-herring-island-summer-arts-festival/

Monday 2 March

ASV Castlemaine Exhibition

Patrick Duffy's sculpture ‘EQUUA MACHINA’ has won the Castlemaine Exhibition People's Choice Award and will receive the $250 prize.🙂

Other Opportunities

REGISTER YOUR INTEREST

Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2026 & Awards – $60,000
Additional categories to be offered
Open to Victorian residents only

Click here to register your interest to receive entry information for the Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2026 & Awards when it becomes available.

Click here for information on the annual Melbourne Prize 2005–2025.

Season’s greetings! With thanks,
Melbourne Prize Trust


Quadrant Gallery

Enter the 2026 Feel Good Art Prize at Quadrant Gallery

Here are some different opportunities for members and friends.

Interesting Art

Big build ART Kent Morris

https://bigbuild.vic.gov.au/projects/metro-tunnel/community/art/kent-morris-where-we-walk

The Melbourne Art Library

Piotr Sobiesiak at R.L.Foote Design Gallery

Piotr came to our ASV Christmas gathering and chatted about his journey and his art exhibition.

Dec 13 to Jan 13th
1 Parslow St Clifton Hill
This is “ I have gazed upon the face of Agamemnon’
https://www.sobiesiak.com/sculptures

Gippsland Art Gallery

Gippsland Art Gallery

The Melbourne Art Library | Black Mark

New Members

I have been delighted with the number of new members welcomed into our ASV this year. I wish you all a wonderful Christmas time and would love to see your entries in various exhibitions we offer.


Anne Anderson Membership Officer Carmel Ritchie Newsletter Editor