Our 37th Annual Exhibition in 2024

Important Dates

Our 37th Annual Exhibition will held at Sherbrooke Art Gallery, in Belgrave.

Please pop these dates in your calendar/diary

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Intake: Sat 26 and Sun 27 October
Hanging: Mon 28 October
Judging: Tues 29 Oct or Wed 30 Oct
Opening: Saturday 2 November 2pm
Exhibition ends: Saturday 16 Nov
Collect paintings: Sunday 17 Nov
Exhibition will run from Friday 1 November until Saturday 16 November.

History of our Annual Exhibition

The Pastel Society of Victoria, Australia (also known as the PSVA) has been holding Annual Exhibitions since its inception in 1986. The Annual Exhibition is designed to showcase the talents & skills of the members of the Society and the quality of the works exhibited is extremely high.

Works are entered in a number of categories including Landscape (includes Cityscapes), Waterscape, Portrait/Figurative, Still Life/Floral/Interior, Animal/Wildlife & Abstract/Non-Representational. Prizes are awarded in each of these categories, as well as Best in Show, Runner Up Best in Show, The PSVA Award, Margaret Lourey Award and President’s Choice.

All paintings are available for sale and there are some amazing works for your to view. See Purchasing an Artwork.

Pastel is a particularly robust medium and has been used in the fine art world for centuries. More about Pastel as a fine art medium can be found on our home page.

More information

Judging & Categories

All paintings submitted are eligible for Awards.

All visitors to the Exhibition will be able to vote for the Ming Mackay Award. visitors and members are asked to vote for ONE painting only for this Award

Judging

  • The Committee appoints an Annual Exhibition Judge who is independant from the Pastel Society of Victoria, Australia
  • Judging takes place on the date specified in the Important Dates webpage

Painting Categories

Your entry must indicate which Category you are entering for each painting eg. A or C. Only allocate one category per painting for Categories A to F.

  • Category A: Landscape (includes Cityscapes)

  • Category B: Waterscape (paintings dominated by water in any setting eg. sea, river, lake, pool)

  • Category C: Portrait / Figurative

  • Category D: Still Life / Floral / Interior

  • Category E: Animal/Wildlife

  • Category F: Contemporary/Abstract

You can also enter your painting into the three additional awards list below if you are eligible. you will be asked to indicate your eligibility when you complete the online entry form

  • PSVA Award – open to artists who have not previously won a major award at a PSVA exhibition – please send an email to exhibition@vicpastel.com.au

  • Margaret Lourey Award – open to artists who have not won an award at any exhibition

  • John Withers Scholarship Award -open to current participants of the John Withers Emerging Pastellist Scholarship Program.

Joan Tallent – Flowering Gum

Award Categories

  • Best in Show

  • Best in Show Runner Up

  • There will be a ‘Best of’ awarded for each of the Categories A-F

  • Paintings in Categories A-F will be eligible to be selected for the 10 Highly Commended Awards

  • PSVA Award – open to artists who have not previously won a major award at a PSVA exhibition

  • Margaret Lourey Award – open to artists who have not won an award at any exhibition

  • John Withers Scholarship Award -open to current participants of the John Withers Emerging Pastellist Scholarship Program.

  • Ming Mackay Award – ‘Peoples’ Choice’ (voted for during the Exhibition) and awarded at the December PSVA Monthly Meeting

  • President’s Choice

No painting shall win more than one Award, excluding the Ming Mackay Award

Our Exhibitions

 To view the awarded paintings from our Annual Exhibitions, click on the individual year link or Best in Show painting

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2023

Winner 2023 – Rodney Edelsten – Friday Portrait 1

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2022

Winner 2022 – Grace Paleg – Seagull Shindig

2021

Winner 2021 – Linda Finch – Smile

2020

Winner 2020 – Heather Peberdy – Coco in Sunlight

2019

Regina Hona - As The Sun Goes Down

Winner 2019 – Regina Hona – As The Sun Goes Down

2018

Winner 2018 – Barbara Beasley-Southgate – Grazing Cattle, Mansfield

2017

Winner 2017 – Professional
Barbara Beasley-Southgate – Receding Storm, Pambula

Winner 2017-Amateur Helen Permezel, Last Light

2016

Winner 2016 – Grace Paleg – Earthscape, Bateman’s Bay

2015

Winner 2015 –  Lynette Orzlowski – Otterly Blissful

2014

Winner 2014 Rodney Edelsten – Tommy