VAS Edward Heffernan Drawing Exhibition 2025
20 Aug 2025 – 31 Aug 2025
Opening Caricature Event Sunday 24 August from 2pm, Awards Presentation from 3:30pm
Location: 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.
This exhibition is made possible through a bequest from the estate of his wife Maree Elizabeth Heffernan, who was the proprietor of the Gordon Edgerton Gallery and assisted Edward with editing the Victorian Artists Society’s Journal.
The Edward Heffernan Memorial Drawing Exhibition features Prizes for:
- 1st prize, $900
- 2nd prize, $400
- 3rd prize $200
Image: A Study of Hands by Alice Martin.
A Caricature Sketching Event with Lucy Fekete
We invite you to join us on Sunday 24 August from 2pm for an out of the box session with award winning artist and Illustrator Lucy Fekete, on how to draw Caricatures with a twist!
Is stylistic cartoon portraiture an art form? We encourage you to come along and participate in this colourful fun session. Free and a VAS family friendly experience. Spaces are limited, so bookings are essential.
This is a free event. Drawing boards, paper and crayons will be provided.
Following this drawing session will be the awards presentation for the 2025 VAS Edward Heffernan Drawing Exhibition at 3:30pm.
This caricature session will be facilitated by award winning artist and Illustrator Lucy Fekete.
Lucy exhibits and teaches regularly at VAS, covering classes in oil painting, acrylic painting and also drawing. Her experience includes 15+ years as a very versatile and creative freelance Illustrator.
In 2024 and 2023 she received Highly Commended for her work in the VAS George Hicks Contemporary Exhibition and the 2023 VAS Portrait Exhibition. Lucy was also a 2023 Kennedy Prize Finalist, and a 2024 Hylton Mackley Artist of the Year Finalist.
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Acknowledgment of traditional owners.
We would like to pay our respects to the traditional owners of the land on which our building stands, their leaders, past, present and emerging.