President's Letter for May 2014

Dear all,

Welcome to another Sculpere. Another month has flown by and progress has been made. The website issues are almost resolved, and the plans for the Annual Exhibition and Awards are well under way. Renewals for membership will be sent out at the end of June together with entries for the exhibition.

Dates for Your Diary

ASV meetings are being held in the Ashburton Baptist Church Meeting Rooms, enter from the Marquis Street carpark Melway 60D9

• 11 June we will meet at the Ashburton Meeting Rooms - at home as it were - and we’ll have a mystery speaker - to be announced!
• Membership renewals 30 June
• 9 July monthly meeting
• 31 July entries close Annual and Awards Exhibiton 2014
• Coming up - the ASV Annual Exhibition, Tesselaar Sculpture Prize - and more!

The ASV Annual Exhibition

The Annual and Awards Exhibition 2014 - 23 August to 13 September

The Annual and Awards Exhibition 2014 will be at 120 Collins St (St Michael’s Church). The opening will be on Friday 29 August by Dr J Patrick Greene OBE, CEO of Museum Victoria. Entry forms and Conditions of Entry are being prepared and our publicity campaign is imminent. It is not too late to put your hand up to help! There are lots of jobs that can be shared - in social media and publicity generally, putting entry forms into envelopes, helping at set up, advice on building really good plinths - don’t forget a fresh coat of white paint! As he mentioned at our visit to his studio Andrew could organise plinth building when we cooperate to build plinths to good standard and share the work. Contact mail@sculptorsvictoria.asn.au or 0418 971 897 to join in.

Contact any committee member with suggestions and offers of help.

The May Meeting

The May Meeting


The May meeting of the ASV was held in the Newport studio of the well-known sculptor Robert Hague on Wednesday 21st.


Members were well aware that they were not only going to see the works of a highly accomplished sculptor in metal, but a multi talented artist with a high standard of works in drawing, draughtsman ship, print making and a new venture in ceramics.

Specialist Conservator

Jill Meggs Objects Conservator/Restorer

If any of your artists require some restoration work or general advice on matters such as which conservation grade materials are best for their artworks or advice on display, storage and packaging for their artworks they can contact me on 0411 290 586 and my email is jill.meggs1@gmail.com.

I am a member of AICCM (Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material) and fully insured.