Victorian Artists Society

Are you looking to further develop your watercolour practice? Our perhaps you'e curious about this tricky medium and are not sure where to start? 🎨🧑‍🎨🤔

VAS Studio has a number of watercolour courses as part of their upcoming Winter Session with highly regarded artists and teachers It Hao Pheh and Nathalie Anne!

Catering to all experience levels, our classes are designed for students to develop a solid foundation and deeper understanding of the techniques of watercolour across a 10 week term beginning on the 15th of July.

Places are limited and book out fast so follow the link in our bio for more information and to enrol!

We are loving seeing all the 9x5 boards coming in!! Don’t forget to bring your finished works into the gallery by the 28th of June ✨

The VAS 9x5 Exhibition pays homage to the historic legacy of impressionists painting on cigar box lids.

The exhibition will run from the 5th July to the 5th of August in our Cato and Mackley Members’ Galleries. Join us for an Official Opening & Awards High Tea on the 13th of July 2pm-4pm! 🎨🧑‍🎨🎉

We can’t wait to see your works!

Interested in working on your own body of work but with one on one guidance and support from a professional artist?

We still have some limited places available in VAS Artist, Lucy Fekete’s ‘Body of Work: Acrylic or Oil Studio Sessions’ 10 week course beginning on the 21st of July held on Sunday mornings 10am-12.30pm ✨🎨

These sessions are operated in a supervised studio-style environment for students who wish to follow their own artistic interests, hone their skills and build their own body of artistic work in the medium of acrylic paint, and now also including oil paint. Lucy will provide one-on-one guidance and support during these sessions encouraging an open atmosphere with the appropriate instruction, critique and assistance for each student’s individual needs.

Suitable for all experience levels, follow the link in our bio to book your place!
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Have you been interested in portraiture but not sure where to start? We have the perfect 5 week short course for you!

There are still some limited placed available in VAS Artist, Swathi Madike’s ‘Portrait drawing Fundamentals’ course beginning on the 15th of July ✨🎨

In this class students will be instructed in the technique of drawing specific to portraiture, studying individual features of the face, working from prints of master drawings and photographs.

Suitable for beginners and intermediates, follow the link in our bio to book your place!

Our next VAS Select Exhibition is right around the corner, with our Winter Select coming up on the 19th of July!

This is the second of three highly anticipated Select Exhibitions from which votes determine the prestigious Artist of the Year finalists and award winners✨

Save the date for the Offical opening Cocktail Event on Saturday the 20th of July from 7pm!

Pictured:
Ulrich Stalph, ‘The Beach’, Winter Select Exhibition 2023.

Can’t make it to our Winter Session classes during the day? Our VAS Studio also offers evening courses!

We still have some limited placed available in VAS Artist, Tim Murphy’s ‘Tonal painting from Life’ course beginning on the 15th of July held on Monday and Wednesday evenings 7pm-9.30pm ✨🎨

In this class students will develop their oil painting practice through observation following traditional tonal realist approaches exploring both portraiture and still life.

Suitable for all experience levels, follow the link in our bio to book your place!
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Have you been interested in portraiture but not sure where to start? We have the perfect short 5 week short course for you!

There are still some limited placed available in VAS Artist, Swathi Madike’s ‘Portrait drawing Fundamentals’ course beginning on the 15th of July ✨🎨

In this class students will be instructed in the technique of drawing specific to portraiture, studying individual features of the face, working from prints of master drawings and photographs.

Suitable for beginners and intermediates, follow the link in our bio to book your place!

We still have some limited places in our ‘Sculpting Torsos’ 10 week course with Hugues Scheid beginning the 15th of July.

Held on Monday mornings from 10am-12.30pm this course will explore the classical methods of sculpture to the intricate details of the human anatomy with a focus on sculpting the torso.

Suitable for all experience levels, this is your chance to delve into the world of 3D art!

Follow the link in our bio to book your place ✨

Our VAS Studio Winter Session courses are now open for enrolments!

Our popular art courses run for 10 weeks and are held in our historic art studio ✨🎨 VAS offers classes that cater to all experience levels across a wide range of mediums including oil, pastel, watercolour, acrylic, and sculpture. Taught by highly regarded VAS Artists, classes cover a range of techniques such as portraiture from a life model, landscapes and still life with morning, afternoon and evening classes available.

Follow the link in our bio to see whats on offer and to book your place - you’re sure to find something for you!

We have some exciting Workshops coming up that are now open for enrolments! ✨

Our popular workshops run over one or two days and offer an opportunity to focus in on a particular skill, subject or material with our VAS Artists and teachers.

In early July we have these three fantastic workshops on offer:

🎨 ‘Abstracting the Landscape’ with Jenny Scholes | 2nd July 10am-3.30pm
Learn to use semi-abstraction to translate a scene beyond a basic visual impression.

🎨 ‘Creating Cards: From Pen & Watercolour to Your Own Artist Cards’ with Elizabeth Moore Golding | 3rd July 10am-3.30pm
Learn to create works with pen and watercolour that can be transferred to a greeting card.

🎨 ‘Still Life in Oils’ with Keming Shen | 4th-5th July 10am-3.30pm
For beginners and experienced students alike, gain a deeper understanding of composition and keeping your colours fresh and bright in your still life works.

🎨 ‘Arts & Proposal Writing’ with Charlotte Watson | 6th July 1pm-3pm
Delivered by an experienced curator and arts writer, this workshop will support you in developing writing skills for communicating your art practice and career.

Available for all experience levels and both VAS members and non-members, follow the link in our bio to enrol!

End of financial year is coming up and as a not for profit all donations to VAS made before the 30th of June are tax deductible!

Plus if you’re a small busniess you can claim 100% deduction for any art purchase. Artwork for your office has never been more affordable!

Check out our online gallery via the link in bio or pop in if you have time to browse✨

Pictured:
Samira Khadivizand, ‘Attempt to Concentrate’, acrylic on canvas. .khz.art

We are so excited for The Association of Sculptors of Victoria’s Annual Awards Exhibition that will be on display in our upstairs galleries form the 13th of June✨

The exhibition features a showcase of more than 100 sculptures by both emerging and professional artists with a rich diversity in style, subject and material.

Complementing the sculptures on display will be works of two VAS Guest Artists, Linda Weil and Samira Khadivizand.

The exhibition will be on until the 1st of July - we can’t wait for this one!



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Last years’ 2023 first prize winner ‘Stacked’ by Anne Anderson.

We have some exciting Workshops coming up in our term break that are now open for enrolments! ✨

Our popular workshops run over one or two days and offer an opportunity to focus in on a particular skill, subject or material with our VAS Artists and teachers.

In early July we have these three fantastic workshops on offer:

🎨 ‘Abstracting the Landscape’ with Jenny Scholes | 2nd July 10am-3.30pm
Learn to use semi-abstraction to translate a scene beyond a basic visual impression.

🎨 ‘Creating Cards: From Pen & Watercolour to Your Own Artist Cards’ with Elizabeth Moore Golding | 3rd July 10am-3.30pm
Learn to. Create works with pen and watercolour that can be transferred to a greeting card.

🎨 ‘Still Life in Oils’ with Keming Shen | 4th-5th July 10am-3.30pm
For beginners and experienced students alike, gain a deeper understanding of composition and keeping your colours fresh and bright in your still life works.

Available for all experience levels and both VAS members and non-members, follow the link in our bio to enrol!

Join us from 1pm today for the Official opening of Margaret Edwards’ solo exhibition ‘Disappearing Landscapes’ in our Cato Gallery!

A stunning showcase of landscapes from her time in Greenland not to be missed✨

Saturday was special day at VAS, celebrating Mai & Luke ❤️
The couple chose a selection of still life and landscape works to create the classic gallery vibe for their ceremony. Special thanks to the VAS Collection team and .fyfe.art as well as to Mary Hyde, and for the loan of their work to complete the exhibition.
The collection works will be on show in the Hammond and McCubbin Galleries until Tuesday afternoon.
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Looking for a relaxing, creative way to unwind over the weekend? Why not join our untutored Life Drawing and Portraiture Sessions on Friday Evenings and Saturdays!

These untutored sessions are open to all experience levels who want to draw paint the human form in a relaxed, quiet, non pressure environment. No bookings are required, just turn up and pay entry at the door ($20 members, $25 non-members). Sessions are held from 4pm on Friday evenings and 1pm on Saturdays.

All welcome ✨ follow the link in our website for more information.

We hope you’ve been studying up because tonight is Trivia Night!

Join us from 7pm in our upstairs galleries for a night of art, trivia and light refreshments!

Follow the link in our bio to register or register at the door✨

All are welcome..we can’t wait to see you there!

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Andddd thats a wrap!!! ✨Artists and .castagnet pictured at the final night of the Luminous Exhibition!

It’s been an absolute pleasure to have the Water Colour Society here at VAS to celebrate their 50th anniversary as well as a spectacular program of free artist demonstrations!

Thank you to everyone that supported the exhibition and to all the exhibiting and demonstrating artists🩵

We love seeing all the 9x5 works coming in..such a great variety of takes on this iconic legacy! Here’s a beautiful one by 😍

Don’t forget to have your works in by the 28th of June and pencil in our Official Opening High Tea on the 13th of July! 🎨🤗🧁

This one is going to be big! ✨

Come on a journey with us to South Eastern Greenland with Margaret Edwards’ solo exhibition ‘Disappearing Landscapes’ in our Cato Gallery form the 6th-17th of June.

This exhibition was inspired by Margaret’s travels to south eastern Greenland in the height of summer in 2019 that had a profound effect on her personally and her painting practice.

‘Disappearing Landscapes’ both encapsulates the spectacular grandeur and beauty of this little known land as well as the confrontation of highly visible impacts of climate change on this fragile and environmentally significant region of our ‘blue planet’.

Join us for the Official Opening Saturday the 8th of June, 1pm-4pm ✨

Save the date for our highly anticipated VAS Portrait Painters in Action Open Day! 🤗✨🎨👀

On Sunday the 7th of July from 11am-4pm our Upper Galleries will be host to a free open day of live painting from live models by some of the top VAS portraiture artists!

This free event offers visitors insight into the diverse ways artists capture their sitters, showcasing their individual styles with mediums including oil, acrylic, pastel, and watercolour.

Visitors are welcome to visit and chat with artists throughout the day as the works take shape and are welcome to sketch along in the upper galleries!

We can’t wait to see you all there😍

Hmm he’s obviously thinking about Trivia…

This will be us this Thursday the 30th for our VAS Trivia Night! ✨🔍📝🎨

Join us from 7pm for a night of art, trivia and light refreshments! Entry is $10 and includes a complimentary glass of wine - all are welcome!!

Follow the link in our bio to sign up✨

✨CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ✨

VAS Gallery is calling all member artists for our next foyer showcase ‘Surface’. We are currently inviting works that relate to notions of surface, whatever that means to you. 

Food for thought might include textures, layers, perspectives, or perception vs reality - all artistic interpretations are welcome. Artists that haven’t had work featured in one of our smaller exhibitions recently are especially encouraged to submit a work.

Our ‘Surface’ showcase will run from 12th June to the 5th August. Applications must be received by Monday the 3rd of June with selected artists being notified on Tuesday the 4th of June.

Follow the link to submit your work. 🎨

We can’t wait to see your submissions!

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VAS artist .wilde_ at work.

We are so pleased to welcome back Hsin Lin for her solo exhibition ‘The First Bloom’ from the 2nd to the 30th of June in our Mackley Members’ Gallery✨

Hsin has been devoting herself for the past 10 years to working on her signature contemporary floral series that features native and common flowers we know; flowers represent life and each different type of flower has a unique symbolic meaning.

“To experience the changing of the seasons and to present moments, it has become a routine of mine to paint the first bloom in my surroundings during its flowering season.”

We can’t wait for this one!

David Taylor’s demonstration at VAS this Sunday is not to be missed! It’s free to attend and presented by the Watercolour Society of Victoria as part of their 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Luminous. Take in the exhibition from 11am and the demonstration scheduled in the Hammond Gallery at 1pm.

Grab your coffee .cafe downstairs and you’ll be all set for a perfect Melbourne afternoon.
We can’t wait to see you there!
*Details of all pictured works by David Taylor available on his VAS artist page https://vasgallery.org.au/David-Taylor~2455

Get ready for another fabulous weekend of demonstrations at VAS, free to attend and presented by the Watercolour Society of Victoria as part of their 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Luminous.
First up, join Ted Dansey in the Hammond Gallery this Saturday from 1pm.

Grab your coffee .cafe downstairs and you’ll be all set for a perfect Melbourne afternoon.
We can’t wait to see you there!
*Details of all pictured works by Ted Dansey available on his VAS artist page https://vasgallery.org.au/Ted-Dansey~17054

Art & Ko exhibition 'Nostalgia of Burma: A visual Voyage to Burmese Art' opens the 6th of June from 5.30pm✨

This unique exhibition presents 62 pieces by 32 artists portraying the soul of Burma. Uncover the spiritual stories, rich customs and traditions of Burma's heritage through an ample collection, highlighting empowerment and celebration as well as reflecting on the resilience of any cultural legacy.

The exhibition runs from the 6th to the 11th of June.

Yaping Jiang’s solo exhibition ‘Paradise Awakened’ opens next Sunday 2nd June at 1pm✨

Yaping is diligent in her pursuit and exploration of art with her exhibition ‘Paradise Awakened’ capturing a spiritual power - “everything awakens, blooms, regenerates and transcends”.

This exhibition will be on display until the 11th of June in our Frater Gallery.

We’re studying up for Trivia next Thursday night the 30th of May!!!!!👀📝🔍

Join us from 7pm for a night of art, trivia and light refreshments and just a hint of competitive spirit😉

Entry is $10 per person and all are welcome, so please bring your friends to join the trivia fun!

To RSVP follow the link in our bio!
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