Exhibit with Us!

There are plenty of reasons to exhibit your art at the Arts Centre.

The West Gippsland Arts Centre is a Gippsland landmark, with thousands of tourists and locals regularly interacting with our spaces – and potentially viewing your art! We can also host an opening night for your exhibition to promote your art to a wider audience.

If your exhibition is part of our annual exhibition program, your art will also be displayed on our website. The Art Centre’s website is a hive of web traffic and can see 5,000 unique visits in a month, both from inside and beyond Baw Baw Shire.

Finally, our social media accounts are extensively followed with over 14,000 followers. It is our pleasure to share the art of our exhibiting artists via our social media and help to grow their social media audience.

Exhibiting your art at the West Gippsland Arts Centre has many benefits for enhancing the visibility of your work, and also for the broader community.

No, expressions of interest are welcome from artists both inside and outside of Baw Baw Shire.

West Gippsland Arts Centre is a place for both emerging and experienced artists. We are just as proud to work with an emerging artist on their first exhibition as we are showcasing an artist with forty years’ experience. The Arts Centre is, and always will be, a community space supporting the creative arts at all levels of skill and experience.

All of our exhibition spaces are equipped with hanging systems designed for 2D artworks. Sculpture or 3D work can also be displayed, but where plinths or free-standing display cases are required, these should be supplied by the artist and must be signed off for compliance with OH&S standards before installation.

We have a limited number of screens to display digital or multimedia artwork. If you are interested in displaying your work in this way, please provide detailed information regarding its requirements, so that we can properly assess whether our space is a good fit for your work.

As the West Gippsland Arts Centre is a family-friendly and accessible community space, all exhibition content must be suitable for general audiences.

There is no set number of artworks required for an exhibition. We have multiple exhibition spaces that can suit both large and small exhibitions.

We do not charge any fees to exhibit in our spaces.

Yes, artists are welcome to sell some, none, or all of the works in their exhibition. However, all administration and communication related to these sales are the artist’s responsibility. The Arts Centre is not involved in any part of the sales process, including the collection of funds or the supply of artworks to their buyers.

No, we do not collect a commission.

We are happy to support opening nights for exhibiting artists. We may also be able to work with you to develop and run a workshop or community event related to your exhibition, although this is not guaranteed. Opening nights and workshops must be planned well in advance of the exhibition’s starting date to allow us to organise elements such as staff, catering, and marketing activities.

It is the responsibility of all exhibiting artists to complete and return their paperwork within the agreed-upon timelines supplied by the Arts Centre. This includes providing items such as an exhibition description, promotional images, and the details of the works that will be exhibited.

Exhibiting artists will also be required to meet with the Arts & Culture Coordinator for a curatorial meeting before their exhibition.

Finally, it is the sole responsibility of the artist (and their team) to hang/display all their artwork and then remove it at the end of the exhibition. West Gippsland Arts Centre will provide you with ladders where required; however, our staff are unable to assist you with the actual hanging/display of your work.

The number and length of exhibitions vary depending on the nature of the exhibitions that have been programmed.

An exhibition will usually be showcased for at least a few weeks and may be displayed for multiple months.

Large exhibitions may be the only exhibition on display at the Arts Centre, while a smaller exhibition may fill one level of our community exhibition space, with another exhibition on a different level.

Exhibition installations and de-installations are always on Mondays.

Our exhibition program opens for Expressions of Interest every year around August/September. While Expressions of Interest are open, artists are welcome to fill out the Expressions of Interest form to tell us about their art and proposed exhibitions.

These submissions are then reviewed and selected by the Arts & Culture Advisory Committee (ACAC) and Arts & Culture Coordinator, who schedule the Arts Centre’s exhibitions program for the following calendar year. Artists are encouraged to sign up to our Creatives Mailing List to hear about when the Expressions of Interest next open for the exhibitions program.

Yes, artists who have exhibited with us before are welcome to request to exhibit again with new work.

Visit the Baw Baw Shire’s Arts & Culture hub! There, you’ll find everything you need to know about local grants, venues, promotional resources, and also a Local Directory where you can search for related terms like ‘art’, ‘photography’, ‘music’, ‘local theatre’, and anything else you’re interested in!