2024 Annual
Rotary Hamilton Art Show
Exhibition Opened on
THURSDAY 10 OCTOBER 2024 - 7:00PM
THURSDAY 10 OCTOBER 2024 - 7:00PM
Friday 11 & Saturday 12 October 2024
10:00am to 5:00pm
Sunday 13 October 2024
10:00am to 3:00pm
10:00am to 5:00pm
Sunday 13 October 2024
10:00am to 3:00pm
Entries Close
Delivery Date
Collection Date
Welcome
Hamilton Rotary President, Noel Howard and Art Show Director, Brian Jenkins, are pleased to announce that the Rotary Hamilton Art Show will once again take place in October 2024.
The Rotary Hamilton community is grateful for the support of our sponsors, artists, and the public who have been instrumental in making this show a success for over four decades. We eagerly anticipate this beloved event for the Hamilton community and our club.
This year's major art prize, Best Work - Any Medium, offers a generous prize of $2,500. This serves as a great incentive for artists to showcase their talents and creativity at the 2024 show.
The Young Artist Awards have been specifically designed to recognize the talent of young artists aged 15 to 21. The first prize in this category is valued at $500, with the second prize at $250.
As always, the proceeds from the art show will enable our club to support a wide range of projects and programs, both locally and globally. This year, our focus will be on initiatives related to the environment, youth, mental health and domestic violence.
The Rotary Hamilton community is grateful for the support of our sponsors, artists, and the public who have been instrumental in making this show a success for over four decades. We eagerly anticipate this beloved event for the Hamilton community and our club.
This year's major art prize, Best Work - Any Medium, offers a generous prize of $2,500. This serves as a great incentive for artists to showcase their talents and creativity at the 2024 show.
The Young Artist Awards have been specifically designed to recognize the talent of young artists aged 15 to 21. The first prize in this category is valued at $500, with the second prize at $250.
As always, the proceeds from the art show will enable our club to support a wide range of projects and programs, both locally and globally. This year, our focus will be on initiatives related to the environment, youth, mental health and domestic violence.
Art Show Judge 2024
Joshua White
Director of Hamilton Gallery, Joshua White has a Master of Creative Industries from the University of Newcastle and more than 14 years’ experience in the culture sector. Prior to joining Hamilton Gallery, Joshua held senior positions in the public gallery sector in New South Wales, including Public Art Project Leader for Lake Macquarie City Council, Curator at Gosford Regional Gallery and Technical Officer of Newcastle Art Gallery.
At Hamilton Gallery, Joshua and his team delivers an engaging visual arts program and is responsible for one of regional Victoria’s most unique and important collections. Spanning almost 10,000 objects, the collection has four key collection areas with strengths in Japanese, Chinese, Australian and European Art.
Joshua and his team are focused on building and developing a New Hamilton Gallery to increase the gallery’s the cultural offerings of the region and ability to positively impact the community.
Art Show Guest Artist
Vida Pearson
Vida has been a professional artist/printmaker for 40 years and a regular exhibitor in our art shows.
Early in her career her favoured mediums were screen printing and etching. However, in the last 25 years she has concentrated almost exclusively on linocuts. She has a very distinctive style with her brightly coloured strongly designed works – mostly hand coloured.
Upon joining the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia (now defunct) many years ago her images naturally took a turn in that direction. This enabled her to combine a love of birdwatching, photography and travel with her art practice.
She spends approximately two months each year on various field trips within Australia, and overseas. collecting material for new images. She finds observing all types of wildlife exhilarating – even those she observes daily on her five acre bush block. She hopes that by creating beautiful images of the natural world she may cause people to reflect on how amazing our planet is.
Her work can be found in galleries throughout Australia. She has won over 150 prizes in art competitions and exhibits regularly in group and solo shows.
She has been selected for the internationally judged “Birds in Art” exhibition in the US in 2014, 2021 and 2022 as well as being voted “Wildlife Artist of the Year” by the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia in 2014 and 2015. She is featured in “Inspiration Wild: An Artistic Celebration of Nature and Environment” published by the Wildlife Art Museum of Australia Foundation and “Feather and Brush – 3 Centuries of Australian Bird Art” by Penny Olsen – a CSIRO Publication. Her work was also featured in the 2017 Australian Geographic Art Calendar.
https://www.vidapearson.com/
Early in her career her favoured mediums were screen printing and etching. However, in the last 25 years she has concentrated almost exclusively on linocuts. She has a very distinctive style with her brightly coloured strongly designed works – mostly hand coloured.
Upon joining the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia (now defunct) many years ago her images naturally took a turn in that direction. This enabled her to combine a love of birdwatching, photography and travel with her art practice.
She spends approximately two months each year on various field trips within Australia, and overseas. collecting material for new images. She finds observing all types of wildlife exhilarating – even those she observes daily on her five acre bush block. She hopes that by creating beautiful images of the natural world she may cause people to reflect on how amazing our planet is.
Her work can be found in galleries throughout Australia. She has won over 150 prizes in art competitions and exhibits regularly in group and solo shows.
She has been selected for the internationally judged “Birds in Art” exhibition in the US in 2014, 2021 and 2022 as well as being voted “Wildlife Artist of the Year” by the Wildlife Art Society of Australasia in 2014 and 2015. She is featured in “Inspiration Wild: An Artistic Celebration of Nature and Environment” published by the Wildlife Art Museum of Australia Foundation and “Feather and Brush – 3 Centuries of Australian Bird Art” by Penny Olsen – a CSIRO Publication. Her work was also featured in the 2017 Australian Geographic Art Calendar.
https://www.vidapearson.com/
