Herring Island Summer Arts Festival

Herring Island Summer Arts Festival runs from 18 January to 13 April 2020. The festival website www.herringislandfestival.org.au will be updated soon - but the news is that there will be three exhibitions in the series: four weekends for the ASV's "Ebb and Flow"; another four weekends for the ceramacists Valley Potters and five weekends for the CAS A4 Art Australia.

Tesselaar Sculpture Prize

Tesselaar Sculpture Prize 2019

Vicki Combridge "The Mermaid's Message"

Michael Sibel "Rising Angel"

Judge and retiring curator, Mark Cowie, commented on and commended all the works in the Tesselaar Sculpture Prize 2019. The work was well displayed against the back drop of tulips and there appeared to be quite a few sales.

News, Exhibitions and opportunities

As usual there are lots of item of interest here - well worth exploring....

Artists, Liz Walker and Avis Gardner, will host a series of community workshops using found, natural and recycled items to create a large Sea Forest or Garden.

From the President

Hi All,
As you all know by now the Association has been through quite a turbulent period. I would like to thank all exhibitors and members for their support of the organising committee. Mainly I would like to express my appreciation to Yvonne Monik who bore the brunt of the situation. Undaunted we are already looking to 2020. We will be holding a committee meeting very soon and the future Terms and Conditions etc will be discussed. All members are of course welcome to join the discussion.You are also welcome to send letters to the editor at newsletter@sculptorsvictoria.asn.au or to our secretary@sculptorsvictoria.asn.au. Here’s to a future of pleasure and enjoyment in our creativity..

Gillian Govan

President

Members may also be interested in a podcast concerning the censorship of work at the Annual and Awards Exhibition. Here is the podcast link: https://insidethegallery.com.au/e/inside-the-gallery-australia-banned/

Dates for Your Diary

• On Wednesday 11th September we will meet in the workshop space of Bulleen Art and Garden (thank you Meredith Plain) 6 Manningham Rd W, Bulleen VIC 3105 when Carl Lutz will demonstrate and talk about wood carving - tools, techniques and care of chisels... an evening not to be missed. We'll meet at 7:30pm - see you there.
•  Following on in October we'll have our AGM - venue and speaker to be announced 
• and in November... wait and see... it will be fun

Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show

Dear fellow artists,

Next year will be the 25th Anniversary of Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show MIFGS). IMG the organising company are wanting to make it the best show ever and are inviting back previous years’ show garden winners and sites have been rearranged to accommodate the expanded show. The result of this rearrangement is that the ASV exhibition will not be located in the Central Boulevard. We have been given a site located towards the corner of Rathdowne and Victoria Street (site 77A). The site is well located and as large as our normal site. IMG are trying to create an art precinct around our exhibition so that it becomes a destination within MIFGS. With this in mind we are planning to hold more workshops as well as including street art. We will also be calling for artists to do some sculptures that would be suitable for the entrances to the ASV exhibition.

As more details are finalised we will keep you posted.

Best wishes
Paul Cacioli
Coordinator ASV Exhibition, MIFGS

Exhibitions to view and enter - open studios...

Spring has arrived with artists all over Victoria offering open studios. There are exhibitions opening and life is inspirational... art can overcome obstacles? We don't know but it seems a good time to be active. so read on...