VCE Creative Showcase 2025
The Creative Showcase is an annual celebration of the creative talents of visual art students from across the Yarra Ranges. It is an exciting chance to have your final artwork exhibited in a professional exhibition.
Show your artwork in a public gallery, work with professional gallery staff and have your work seen by hundreds of people over the two week exhibition. Presented and hosted by Burrinja Cultural Centre, the exhibition delivers a diverse and exciting collection of works by the region’s most inspiring emerging artists. The exhibition is professionally curated and participation is by application.
2025 will bring together students from the Hills region of the Yarra Ranges, into one dynamic, multi-disciplinary exhibition to be held at Burrinja Cultural Centre.
Important dates and information
Artwork & folio delivery: 23 - 27 April 2025
Exhibition opening event: 6:00pm Friday 2 May 2025
Exhibition dates: 3 - 18 May 2025
Artwork & folio collection: 21 - 25 May 2025
Creative Showcase is a curated exhibition and participation is by application only. Students completing units 3 and 4 in VCE Art and Studio Art, or in final year of VCAL are eligible to apply.
Applications NOW OPEN!
Students must submit an online application by 11:59pm Sunday 17 November 2024.
Please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Community Visual Arts Producer at Burrinja) if you are having any issues.
Artwork will be selected for exhibition based on:
• the quality of the work regarding artistic concept & practice
• the intention to have every school in the region represented
• inclusion of a broad range of artistic practice & outcomes in each region
• inclusion of a diverse range of mediums and styles
• gallery capacity and limitations
Artists selected to be a part of the Creative Showcase exhibition will be notified by email before Friday 29 November 2025. Please note that there is a chance that only a selection of your artwork may be curated into the exhibition. Artists will also be notified if their work is not selected for exhibition.
Artists are responsible for the delivery and pick-up of their artwork. All artwork must be delivered ready to hang or exhibit, this means for two dimensional works; framed or with appropriate hooks or fixtures; for media works on DVD or memory stick in easy to play format. Please contact us if you need to talk about the best way to present your work in our gallery.
Exhibition Terms and Conditions
No fee applies to be part of the Creative Showcase exhibition.
Artwork
• must be clearly labelled with title, artist’s name and contact details (not the school’s contact details)
• must be delivered mounted and ready to hang or exhibit (with any necessary instructions)
• must not infringe upon any third parties copyright is not insured by the gallery and will not be held responsible for any loss or damage to works insurance of artworks is the artist’s responsibility
Hanging
• artwork will be professionally hung and labelled by the gallery
• specific hanging requirements should be provided in application form
• the gallery may request installation assistance if your work is particularly complex to install
Delivery and pick-up of artwork
• delivery and pick-up of artwork is the responsibility of the artist
• artwork not picked up on the due date will be given to the charity
• please pick-up artwork from same location as drop off
Folios
• folios are included as part of the exhibition
• artists should deliver their folio with their artwork
Promotion
• artworks, artists’ names and artists’ statements may be used as promotional material for the exhibition
• exhibitions are broadly promoted by Yarra Ranges Council and Burrinja to community and local media, however artists are encouraged to further promote the exhibition
Exhibition Opening
• an official opening will be arranged by the gallery
• artists are encouraged to attend the opening and to bring along friends and family to share the celebration
If you have any questions about preparing your artwork for exhibition or any of the above terms and conditions, please get in touch on contact details below:
CJ Baxter
Community Visual Arts Producer, Burrinja
Corner Glenfern Road and Matson Drive, Upwey
03 9754 8723 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Big Draw @ Burrinja
How you can take part!
1. DRAW what you love about where you live on the postcards provided at Burrinja.
2. SHARE your drawing by taking part in our BIG DRAW installation – fasten your postcard to one of the pegs attached to the Studio Gallery wall.
3. STAY IN TOUCH by visiting the Yarra Ranges website. www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/bigdraw
What is 'The Big Draw'?
The Big Draw is an international initiative that attracts the participation of over 280,000 people from over 20 countries in a worldwide celebration of drawing. Each year hundreds of drawing activities connect people of all ages with museums, galleries, public spaces, artists and each other. The key message is that everyone can draw if they are given the opportunity.
Why Draw?
Drawing is a universal language that unites people of all ages, abilities and cultures. Drawing can help us to understand our world, to interpret and communicate ideas. Drawing is an accessible, creative and non verbal way to explore and express ideas.
Project Background
The Big Draw is lead by the Campaign for Drawing, an independent charity which aims to raise the profile of drawing as a tool for thought, creativity, social and cultural engagement. The Big draw was established in the UK in 2000 as a one day event with 180 partner organisations and has grown to a be the worlds biggest drawing event with a month long festival involving over 1300 organisations internationally.
The Big Draw in the Yarra Ranges
The Big Draw theme for 2014 is, It's Our World, a celebration of our environment - of urban, rural and coastal landscapes’. The Big Draw @ Burrinja is a part of a shire wide Big Draw project that will see the Yarra Ranges Council deliver a range of mostly free and participatory drawing activities across the region and the opportunity to contribute to a large scale ephemeral art work. The theme offers people the opportunity to celebrate where they live and create a snapshot of the landscape at a time when our environment and sustainability are hot topics.
Global in nature, national in scope and local in action, the Burrinja Climate Change Biennale provides a platform for events addressing one of the most pressing topics of our time.
Uniquely situated in the temperate rainforest micro-climate of the Dandenong Ranges on Melbourne’s eastern fringes, its location offers the perfect backdrop for local and global community knowledge networks to share, learn and expand through the Biennale’s wide-ranging public program and macro-themes.
At the centre of the Burrinja Climate Change Biennale is its Award Exhibition, which provides a space for artists to engage creatively and imaginatively with aspects of climate change. The exhibition invites and encourages the collaboration of science and arts, of critical thought and creative practise.
By tackling the theme every two years, Burrinja’s Biennale is building a valuable archive that documents creative responses , attitudes and intentions. In doing so it provokes and investigates long-term critical and cultural conversations around environmental, political, scientific, social and cultural aspects of climate change.
Observing how local and global perceptions, representations and actions around climate change shift over time, it tracks our choices and actions in the ranges and beyond, as we work towards a more sustainable planet.
For more on the 2022/ 2023 program click HERE
2017 Exhibition
Award Finalists
ADi • Elizabeth Banfield • Jessie Boylan • Kiera Brew Kurec • Carolyn Cardinet • Neville Cichon • Dorota Connellan • Selena de Carvalho • Susan Durham • Kim Flatman • Ali Griffin • Brenda Haas • Andrea Innocent • Clare James • Suzannah Jones • Jessie Yvette Journoud-Ryan • John Krzywokulski • Ted Krzywokulski • Chris Lawry • Brian Looker • Carmel Louise • Chris Mason • Ches Mills • Rachael Ness • Flossie Peitsch • Sean Peoples • Eliza Phillips • Shayla Rance • Gerard Russo • Janita Ryan • Marta Salamon • Luna Sea • Joy Serwylo • Samantha Sommariva • Ian Tully • Hartmut Veit • Liz Walker • Rain White • Megan Williamson • Laura Wills • Book Club artists
WINNER Burrinja Climate Change Biennale $7,500 Award Jessie Yvette Journoud-Ryan
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Project Sponsors
Eastern regional Libraries in collaboration with the National Sustainable Living Festival 2018 ~ Expanding our perceptions, knowledge, networks, and our future options
acquisitive and inquisitive // activated and engaged // local and global // on the fringes and at the core // now and long-term // contemplative and hands-on // sharing and learning
2017: climate change on the fringes
11 November 2017 to 11 February 2018
ART PRIZES
The award exhibition will be on display at Burrinja Gallery from 11 November 2017 to 11 February 2018. Three awards will be offered:
$7,500 Acquisitive Award
$1,000 Young Artist Award (artist under 26)
$500 People’s Choice Award
Judges
Suzannah Davies (RMIT Gallery)
Debbie Symons (artist)
David O'Halloran (Walker St Gallery)
SUPPORT
If you or your group or company want to actively support the 2022 Burrinja Climate Change Biennale and become a partner please get in touch with us: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
2015 Burrinja Climate Change Biennale Information
Burrinja invites you to enter the Burrinja Climate Change Biennale acquisitive art prize.
The Burrinja Biennale invites works that respond to themes of climate change both locally – in the Dandenong Ranges – and globally.
Works may be across any visual arts medium.
The Biennale strives to elicit authentic, non-directed audience responses to art works and the ways in which they provoke responses and contribute to the critical debate and cultural conversations surrounding climate change. The Biennale is an immersive and experiential exhibition incorporating direct and online audience responses and incorporating ongoing responsive art-making activities together with the exhibition.
KEY DATES
Entries Close - August 17, 2015
Finalists Notified – September 7
Finalists Deliver Works to Burrinja – By September 22
Exhibition Opening & Acquisitive Award – Sunday October 11
Exhibition Dates - October 3 to January 31, 2016
Finalists Collect Works – From February 1 to 3, 2016
JUDGES
The panel of judges for the Award will be:
JD Mittmann, Curator and Manager of Collections, Burrinja.
Wendy Garden, Senior Curator at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
One other to be advised
ABOUT
Living with Climate Change - Dandenong Ranges 2050
A cultural project for our community.
Living with Climate Change is a twelve month long Burrinja project exploring through art and creative expression the changes we see on our near horizon: climate, flora and fauna, built environment, social and cultural change.
Living with Climate Change explores and challenges ideas through our community’s artists, composers, performers and environmentalists. The project promotes creative and productive responses to climate change in the region and beyond.
Burrinja’s aim is to engage our community through creative endeavour, expressions and dialogue, allowing the conversation about their own environment to evolve, develop and extend over time.
Projects in the year of Living with Climate Change to date include:
• A subtle exploration of the theme by the Dandenong Ranges Open Studios artists in their 2015 group exhibition at Burrinja: On the Brink: the tensity of change. Artists from 36 studios took many diverse approaches to the theme through their works; from the environmental to the metaphorical.
• The Living with Climate Change Performance. Led by program artistic director Matthew Fagan this event will bring together musicians, choirs, performers and visual artists from across the region for a key participatory creative event at Burrinja. Saturday 10 October. This is to be a co-creation bringing together many different art forms, creativity and perspectives in a framework that encourages participation, improvisation and unknown live art outcomes.
The Burrinja Climate Change Biennale acquisitive art prize will be an ongoing bi-annual outcome of the Project, with an increasing acquisitive award.
HOW TO ENTER
To submit an artwork via our Online Application Form here.
Or you can download printable entry form here for hard copy submission (please include a USB with image files indicated on the application form and/or URL address to online works).
Please note, the fee to enter the Prize is $30.
Please review the Burrinja Climate Change Biennale Terms and Conditions before entering the Prize:
Burrinja Climate Change Biennale –Terms and Conditions
APPLICATION FEE
There is no limit to the number of entries permitted.
A non-refundable payment of $30 including GST is applicable to each artwork entered. A receipt will be issued for each entry. You will be emailed a transaction number that you will be asked to provide in your application form.
By paying the application fee you agreed to the Burrinja Climate Change Biennale –Terms and Conditions of entry.
Entries Close - August 17, 2015
Inquiries to Burrinja: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. // 03 9754 8723
