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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.
ONLINE ENTRY FORM
PRINTABLE ENTRY FORM

 2025 AWARD & PRIZE GALLERY

(Click on image to enlarge)

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

Old Mate - David Alldridge - Phil Riseley People's Choice Award.jpg

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'.

 
Blue Gum Haze - Fiona Bilbrough.jpg
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

‘??' - ?? ?? (Not yet awarded)

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