No Place Quite Like It: the family history of Walter Withers and Fanny Flinn
Sunday 4 Aug 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Meet author David Rathgen at this free event.
Twenty Melbourne Painters Society Annual Exhibition
9 Aug 2024 – 20 Aug 2024
VAS Gallery
The TMPS is thrilled to announce our return to the Victorian Artists Society Galleries for our 106th annual exhibition.
Watercolour Studio Showcase
22 Aug 2024 – 2 Sep 2024
Cato Gallery
This exhibition celebrates the skills of our teaching watercolour artists & their students from our many watercolour classes, workshops & masterclasses.
Gregory R Smith—Visual Essence
22 Aug 2024 – 9 Sep 2024
Official Opening 2pm Saturday 24 August
Frater, Hammond & McCubbin Galleries, 22 August to 3 September. Cato Gallery, 4 to 9 September.
A solo exhibition of 'Tonal Realist' oil paintings executed during the previous 12 month period. Over 120 works featuring still life, florals and landscapes.
VAS Spring Select Exhibition 2024
6 Sep 2024 – 23 Sep 2024
Frater, McCubbin & Hammond Galleries
One of three Select Exhibitions held each year by VAS. Votes cast by exhibiting artists are used to decide the list of candidates for the Artist of the Year Award Exhibition. The Spring Exhibition features the Gordon Moffatt AM Spring Prizes: Exhibition Winner $1000 and Sculpture prize $500.
Brian Osborne—Landscape Abstracts
12 Sep 2024 – 23 Sep 2024
Cato Gallery
An imagined interpretation of the contemporary Australian landscape.
MSWPS—Changing Perspectives 2024
26 Sep 2024 – 7 Oct 2024
Opening Event Sunday 29 September at 2pm
Frater, McCubbin, Hammond & Cato Galleries
The 115th annual exhibition of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors. Over 90 artists will contribute impressive paintings and drawings, and eye catching sculptures in glass, metal, ceramic and wood.
VAS Edward Heffernan Drawing Exhibition 2024
11 Oct 2024 – 21 Oct 2024
Cato Gallery & Mackley Members' Room
The 'Edward Heffernan Memorial Drawing Prizes' are awarded in honour of Edward Heffernan, past president of VAS from 1977 to 1980. He served on the VAS Council for 12 years and was also awarded the Distinguished VAS Service Award, Honorary life Membership, VAS Fellowship and the Order of Australia Medal for his services to Arts.
VAS Maritime Exhibition 2024
25 Oct 2024 – 5 Nov 2024
Hammond & McCubbin Galleries
This exhibition features artworks including tall ships, peaceful beach scenes and the ever changing moods of the ocean.
THE HYLTON MACKLEY AM (HON) FVAS, VAS ARTIST OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024
8 Nov 2024 – 25 Nov 2024
Frater, Hammond & McCubbin Galleries
This impressive exhibition features artworks by select Victorian Artists Society artists, who have been invited to participate after receiving the highest number of votes from their peers. This is a prestigious award and much sort after.
VAS Art Studio Exhibition 2024
20 Dec 2024 – 13 Jan 2025
Frater, McCubbin & Hammond Galleries
This exhibition showcases the range of artistic practices and mediums that are taught at the VAS Art School. Encompassing oil, watercolour, pastel, drawing, acrylic, gouache and sculpture, both students and teachers works on show will reveal the diversity and creativity within the school.
