Leongatha Art and
Photography Show 2025
The 2025 Art Show returned to the Leongatha Memorial Hall
from Saturday 18 January to Saturday 8 February 2025.
Click on the link below for full details from 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 700 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 closed at 6:00pm on Friday 6th December.
The links below to the on-line entry and payment form and the printable entry form are no longer available.
2025 AWARD & PRIZE GALLERY
THE LEONGATHA ROTARY CLUB AWARD FOR BEST 3D OBJECT
HIGHLY COMMENDED AWARD
THE LEONGATHA ROTARY CLUB AWARD FOR BEST IN SHOW (ANY MEDIUM)
THE LEONGATHA ROTARY CLUB AWARD FOR BEST 3D OBJECT
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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 took place on Friday 17th January, with a gathering of artists, guests, Rotarians and our judge for 2025.
Our guest judge, Greg Allen announced the winners of our various Categories as well as the selection of a 'Best in Show' work.
In 2025 the 'Best in Show' major award went to Fiona Bilbrough for her painting, 'Blue Gum Haze'.
The 2025 AWARDS & PRIZES
BEST IN SHOW
‘Blue Gum Haze’ – Fiona Bilbrough
PAT WEST BEST OIL
‘Dunescape Bass Coast’ – Adrian Johnson
RICHARD PEGLER MEMORIAL BEST WATERCOLOUR
‘Leongatha Memorial Hall’ – Nina Volk
RON & JOY STANLEY AWARD FOR FLORA & FAUNA
‘Holly Leafed Grevillia – Mary Hennekam
BEST ACRYLIC
‘Sophie and Budgie’ – Sharon Wooton
BEST PASTEL
‘Rainbow Companion’ – Ling Wang
BEST MIXED MEDIA
‘Playtime’ – Cathy Harris
DAVID JOHN MEMORIAL BEST INK, PENCIL, CHARCOAL OR OTHER MEDIUM
‘Boots’ – John Reeve
SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE RESIDENT AWARD (Any subject, any category)
‘Spectrum of Spirits’ – Leongatha Painters
BEST MONOCHROME PHOTO
‘Over the hills and far away’ – Sherie Howard
BEST COLOUR PHOTO
‘High Country Sunset’ – Lotje McDonald
BEST DIGITALLY MODIFIED PHOTO
‘Apologies to Jan Van Eyck (and the entire Amolfini Family)’ – Chris Tuttle
BEST 3D
‘Under the Sea’ – Andrew Noble
SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE COUNCIL AWARD FOR BEST YOUTH UNDER 13 YEARS
‘Life’ – Toanui H
SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE COUNCIL AWARD FOR BEST YOUTH 13 TO 18 YEARS
‘Untitled 2’ – Lucinda Calder
ALL ABILITIES AWARD UNDER 18
‘Water Rocks’ – Hayley Spencer
ALL ABILITIES AWARD OVER 18
‘Untitled’ – Bill Jordan
HIGHLY COMMENDED AWARDS (6)
‘Not a day for a picnic’ – Kate Taylor
‘The Cross, Rawnsley Park, Flinders Ranges’ – Bob Pelchen
‘Tussock Terrain’ – Janie Frith
‘Tanjil Valley’, Willow Grove, Gippsland’ – Ken Downs
‘Mediterranean View’ – Alexandra Leti
‘Tramore 2’ – Maureen Harley
LUCIBLOOMS MEMORIAL YOUTH AWARD
‘Paradiso Italiano’ - Ghun Phokaphol
LUCIBLOOMS MEMORIAL YOUTH AWARD HONOURABLE MENTION
‘Ebony’ – Emma Murphy
‘Dinosaur Teapot & Baby Dinosaur Teacup’ – Elana Abicare
PHIL RISELEY PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD
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