2025 Surf Coast Community Arts Calendar Competition

1. Artists who live or pay rates in the Surf Coast Shire are encouraged to enter (with the exception of Surf Coast Shire Council employees, who are not eligible to enter).
2. If your work has appeared in the calendar in the last two years, you are not eligible to enter.
3.  Artists can submit one entry only.
4. Artworks will be no larger than 1m x 1m.
5.  Artwork must be ready to hang. Work cannot be accepted if it is not easily displayable. 
   How to prepare your work for hanging(PDF, 251KB)
6.  Where an artwork references First Nations Peoples or Culture, artists must demonstrate appropriate consultation with the applicable Registered Aboriginal Party (RAP), Traditional Owner consultant or First Nations organisation.

Thirteen artworks will be selected from four categories:

• Child
• Youth
• Open 2D - all media (eg  painting, printmaking, textiles, photography, collage, etc.)
• Open 3D (eg sculpture, ceramics, textiles) including installed works submitted as a photograph - (art which has been installed in public/private spaces).

Entries will be selected by Council’s appointed Judging Panel prior to the Exhibition Launch. The decision of the judging panel is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

A People’s Choice category will decide the Community Arts Calendar cover. The cover artwork will be voted by the community as the most popular from the remaining works.

The People’s Choice vote will take place during the exhibition period and will be determined at the close of the exhibition (4.00pm, Saturday 26 October).

Winners will be contacted by email and announced via Council’s social media channels.

All winning entries will be awarded $300.

Entries open: Friday 23 August

Entries close 5:00pm, Sunday 15 September. No late entries will be accepted.

Works submitted for exhibition: 4:00 – 6:00pm Sunday 6 October or 10:00 – 12:00noon Monday 7 October 

Exhibition launch and announcement of winners: 6pm Friday 11 October

People's Choice voting opens: 6pm Friday 11 October

Exhibition and People's Choice voting closes:  4pm Saturday 26 October

Collection of Sold Artworks/Bump Out: 2 – 4pm Sunday 27 October

People's Choice Award announced: Thursday 31 October

Council invites participating artists to help mind the Community Arts Calendar Exhibition - a wonderful opportunity to gain experience in a small community gallery, meet visitors and other artists.

Duties include: opening or closing the Anglesea Art Space, encouraging visitors to vote in the People’s Choice Competition, processing sales through the Eftpos machine, end of day sales reconciliation, recording number of visitors.

Shifts are for three hours duration from
10AM–1PM and 1PM–4PM on:

• Saturday 12 October
• Sunday 13 October
• Saturday 19 October
• Sunday 20 October
• Saturday 26 October

Please select shift dates and times in the onlineRegistration Form.