Leongatha Art and
Photography Show 2025
The 2025 Art Show will return to the Leongatha Memorial Hall
from Saturday 18 January to Saturday 8 February 2025.
Click on the link below for full details at the Art Show web site.
More than 24 Awards & Prizes
across 14 Entry Categories
Over more than 48 years, the Rotary Club of Leongatha Art & Photography Show has become one of the major events and art shows in Gippsland.
Over 600 high quality entries have come from all over the region, Victoria and interstate to compete in various award categories including a large youth section, 3D, and All Abilities
This major show attracts many visitors, who come to view the works, all of which are for sale.
The venue is the Leongatha Memorial Hall, at the corner of McCartin Street and Michael Place in Leongatha.
Entry submissions from Artists for the 2025 Art Show are now open and will be accepted until 6:00pm on Friday 6 December 2024.
Click on the links below to go to the on-line entry and payment form or download a printable entry form.
2024 AWARD & PRIZE GALLERY
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Note: Due to lighting and other reflections some images in the gallery do not present the artworks as they appeared to the naked eye.
2024 PHIL RISELEY PEOPLE'S CHOICE
David Alldridge was awarded the 2024 Phil Riseley People's Choice Award for his work 'Old Mate'. This award is determined by votes submitted by visitors to the exhibition.
2025 JUDGE
GREG ALLEN
Greg Allen has earned the reputation as one of Australia’s foremost watercolour artists. He is also a remarkable teacher who can analyse and explain the features of composition and technique which contribute to excellence.
Armed with a passion to draw and blessed with creative parents – his father was a noted architect – Greg Allen began to develop a precocious understanding of design and materials, and the stuff of art, in his teenage years.
Greg was born in Australia in 1958 and studied at the Caulfield Institute of Technology in Melbourne. He established himself as a professional artist when he was 23 and had his first solo exhibition that same year.
In 1982 he was awarded the prestigious Camberwell Rotary Travel Scholarship for five months of study and travel in Europe. In 1990 he studied pastel painting under Daniel Greene in New York. In 1991 he won the Alice Bale Watercolor Prize. He has won the Camberwell Rotary Watercolour Prize twice, in 1990 and 2000, and has 24 other major First Prizes and Best of Show Awards for watercolour.
Greg is a much sought after tutor and has been a guest lecturer at Melbourne University. Greg is also a member of the prestigious Twenty Melbourne Painters Society.
The 2025 Art & Photography Show will be held over three weeks from Saturday 18th January to Saturday 8th February at the Leongatha Memorial Hall.
The Memorial Hall is located at the corner of McCartin Street and Michael Place, Leongatha, Victoria, 3953.
The show will be open to the public from 10:00am to 4:00pm Monday to Sunday.
Entry to the exhibition is $5.00 per person. Young people and exhibiting artists were able to enter the exhibition free of charge.
The Official Opening and announcement of the 2025 awards and prizes will take place on Friday 17th January, with a gathering of artists, guests, Rotarians and our judge for 2025.
Our guest judge will announce the winners of our various Categories as well as the selection of a 'Best in Show' work.
In 2024 the 'Best in Show' major awar was awarded to Susan Hall or her painting, 'Receding Sandcliffs, Inverloch'.
The 2024 AWARDS & PRIZES
BEST IN SHOW
'Receding Sandcliffs, Inverloch' - Susan Hall
PAT WEST BEST OIL
'Afternoon Warmth' - Do Noble
RICHARD PEGLER MEMORIAL BEST WATERCOLOUR
'Beach Scene at Walkerville' - Bob Pelchen
RON & JOY STANLEY AWARD FOR FLORA & FAUNA 'Among the Blooms' - Harris Smith
BEST ACRYLIC
'Lace Monitor' - Tania Moscript
HANDLEY FUNERAL SERVICES AWARD FOR BEST PASTEL
'Shell' - David Alldridge
BEST MIXED MEDIA
'Ocean' - Leilani Hoey
DAVID JOHN MEMORIAL BEST INK, PENCIL, CHARCOAL OR OTHER MEDIUM
'Arduous' - John Reeve
SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE RESIDENT AWARD (Any subject, any category)
'Heavy Metal' - Andy Welsh
BEST MONOCHROME PHOTO
'Silent Echoes of Fortitude' - Jack Gargasz
BEST COLOUR PHOTO
'Cape Sunrise' - Frank Flynn
BEST DIGITALLY MODIFIED PHOTO
'Clockmaker' - Chris Tuttle
BEST 3D
'Peregrine Falcon' - Andrew Noble
SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE COUNCIL AWARD FOR BEST YOUTH UNDER 13 YEARS
'Bee Yourself' - Maddy Clark
SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE COUNCIL AWARD FOR BEST YOUTH 13 TO 18 YEARS
'Untitled' - Alexandra Lawry
BEST ALL ABILITIES AWARD UNDER 18
'Maddie' - Jazmin Magda
BEST ALL ABILITIES AWARD OVER 18
'Cat on the Beach' - Amber Betts
HIGHLY COMMENDED AWARDS (6)
'Magic Hillside' - Julie Coulter
'Crossing the Blue Moutains' - Wendy Fletcher
'Gum Leaves' - Vanessa Kelly
'Adaption - Gang-gang Cockatoos' - Vida Pearson
'The Artist's Materials' - Angus Wishart
'Kilcunda Dune' - Adrian Johnson
'Rapid Water' - John O'Connor
HONOURABLE MENTION
'Owl' - Lucinda Calder
FIONA BILBROUGH ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD
'Blue Wren' - Georgia Perry
LUCIBLOOMS MEMORIAL YOUTH AWARD
'Budgie' - Amber Challis
LUCIBLOOMS MEMORIAL YOUTH AWARD HONOURABLE MENTION
'The Camouflaged Muse' - Nija Manavalan
'Sunset Beach' - Amber Verboon
PHIL RISELEY PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD
'Old Mate' - David Alldridge