Community Arts Calendar
Photo: "Salty" by DeeDee Abel. The 2024 People's Choice Cover Winner.
The 2025 Surf Coast Community Arts Calendar Competition gives artists from across the Shire an opportunity to submit an artwork for exhibition and inclusion in a free publication available to the general public.
It's time to get ready!
Registrations open on this page Friday 16 August and close Friday 13 September.
- A high quality image of the artwork you wish to enter must be provided when you register.
This image will be used for the online voting process.
View a video about how to take quality photos with your smartphone here.
- Horizontal artworks are preferred over vertical works to fit the format of the calendar.
- Please read the eligibility criteria and category details below.
- Full terms and conditions will be added soon.
Exhibition
Location: Anglesea Art Space, 2/103 Great Ocean Rd, Anglesea (corner of Noble Street)
Opening event and announcement of winners: 6pm Friday 11 October
Exhibition: Saturday 12 October - Saturday 26 October
Open hours: Tuesday - Sunday 10am-4pm
Selection of winners
- 12 winning entries will be selected by a panel of judges.
- The winning cover will be awarded through a People’s Choice vote that closes 4pm Saturday 26 October.
- The 13 winning artists will receive a cash prize and their artwork will be displayed in the calendar.
Eligibility
- 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).
- If your work has appeared in the calendar in the last two years, you are not eligible to enter.
- Artists can submit one entry only.
- Artworks will be no larger than 1m x 1m.
- 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)
- 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.
Categories
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).
Judging process
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.
2024 Surf Coast Community Arts Calendar winners