Castlemaine Art Museum

08/10/2026

✨ Announcing the finalists for Len Fox 2026!

We are so pleased to share with you the finalists for this iteration of the Len Fox Painting Award, kindly supported by the Mona Fox bequest.

The finalists are:

Adrian Corke, Alec Baker and Eric Barney, Kirsty Budge, Ella Dunn, Belinda Fox, Jemi Gale, Bryella Garmanjan Farrell, Camille Hannah, Ash Keating, Anthea Kemp, Natalie Mather, Kate McKenzie Lewis, Jeff McNeill, Elizabeth Nelson, Sally Ross, Sarah Tomasetti, Kate Tucker, Deborah Walker, Stefan Wirihana Mau, Rhett D'Costa, Mark Dober, Ben Fennessy, Peter Graham, Marion Harper, Euan Heng, Amanda Johnson, Fumikazu Kubota, Donna Lougher, Kerry Madawyn McCarthy, David McBurney, Angela Mezzatesta, Grant Nimmo, Stieg Persson, David Ralph, Steven Rendall, Kathryn Ryan, Kate Shaw, Andrew Taylor, Ross Taylor, Helen S Tiernan and Michael Vale.

Congratulations!

Thank you to our fabulous judges Rebecca Coates and Angela Hesson for your considered deliberation and care through the selection process.

And an extra special mention to all those who entered the award, we recognise your time and effort to participate and appreciate the conversation as people who make contemporary paintings, we thank you.

The official opening and prize announcement will take place on Friday 11 December, head to our website for further details.

Exhibition runs from 11 December 2026 to 14 march 2027

24/09/2026

Good news, art lovers! 📰

CAM will be open as per usual on the AFL Grand Final public holiday, with a range of contemporary exhibitions featuring local artists and collection works on show, alongside the historical museum.

We look forward to welcoming you on your visit.

Open from 10am til 4pm, entry is free.

Image credit: A.Verey, No Title (Studio portrait of Foundry Football Club), 1907, black and white original photograph

24/09/2026

✨SONA | Contemporary chamber music at CAM✨

SONA is a new concert series of contemporary chamber music, presenting new, rare, and underperformed repertoire in regional Victoria. Its debut performance at CAM showcases the work of composer, clarinettist, and electroacoustic musician Sam Dunscombe (USA), performing alongside local musicians Natasha Anderson and Lizzy Welsh.

Presented in CAM’s Stoneman Gallery, this program brings together acoustic and electronic instruments in detailed surround sound, with music reflecting through the gallery space, providing an intimate opportunity for regional audiences to connect with some of Australia’s most unique composers and sound artists.

Sam Dunscombe - electronics, clarinets;

Natasha Anderson - electronics;

Lizzy Welsh - violin, producer;

Alexander Garsden - live sound, producer

Date: Friday, October 16
Time: 8:00pm
Location: 14 Lyttleton Street, Castlemaine
Cost: $30/$20

🔗Head to the events page on our website to book your tickets 🎟

Supported by the

Artwork credit: RISO print by Natasha Anderson

13/09/2026

📯Last day to enter the Len Fox Painting Award!

Featured here is previous prize reciepient Ngampa (Nellie) Coulthard with her work Tjuntala Ngurangka - Country with Wattle (Acacia Murrayana).

The Len Fox Painting Award will be made to a painting judged to have addressed the interests of E. P. Fox as an imaginative, inquisitive, and worldly artist. Any style or genre is eligible; however, it is recognised that E. P. Fox is most noted for landscape, figurative and portrait paintings. The painting may be made in any medium, subject to declared practical limitations. This is an acquisitive award, with the winning work becoming part of the Museum’s Art Collection.

Entries close Sunday September 13 at 11:59pm sharp.

🔗Head to our website for further information and to enter https://castlemaineartmuseum.org.au/exhibitions/len-fox-painting-award-2026





Image courtesy of the artist and Gallery

12/09/2026

📯Two days left to enter the Len Fox Painting Award 2026!

Featured here is previous prize recipent Greg Creek with his work 'Killing Jar'.

Open to all painters Australia wide, how will you respond to the nature of E.P Fox with your contemporary understanding?

🔗Head to our website for further information and to enter https://castlemaineartmuseum.org.au/exhibitions/len-fox-painting-award-2026





Image courtesy of the artist .creek.art

11/09/2026

📯Three days left to enter the Len Fox Painting Award!

Sharing here one of the previous prize recipients, Prudence Flint with her stunning work 'Wash'.

This contemporary award is an opportunity to reflect on the elements that inspired E.P. Fox in his practice. These include engagement with colour and light; ambitious connections with international developments in art; and an interest in travel and an engagement with the cultures of diverse regions and peoples.

We look forward to seeing what this year will bring!

🔗Head to our website for further information and to enter https://castlemaineartmuseum.org.au/exhibitions/len-fox-painting-award-2026





Image courtesy of the artist

10/09/2026

30/08/2026

📯Only two more weeks to go to get your entry in for Len Fox!

A contemporary art award commemorating the life and work of E. Phillips Fox, the Len Fox Painting Award and generous acquisitive cash prize of $50,000 is funded through a bequest from Mona Fox.

🔗Visit our website for more details and to enter: https://castlemaineartmuseum.org.au/

26/08/2026

🏺Remembering Colin Levy🏺

A significant figure in the Australian pottery scene who died recently aged 92, leaving behind an incredible legacy of work.

Col Levy was an Australian ceramic artist whose work reflects a deep engagement with both local materials and Asian pottery traditions. Originally trained as a manual arts teacher, he studied pottery at the National Art School in Sydney in 1956 before apprenticing with Ivan McMeekin at Sturt Pottery, Mittagong. In the mid-1960s, Levy established his own kiln and studio at Bowen Mountain in the Blue Mountains. His ceramics, often influenced by Japanese tea wares, reveal a refined understanding of glazing and firing processes. Levy’s work is represented in major public collections across Australia.

Vale Col Levy 1933 – 2026

🔗See the pieces in CAM's collection here: https://collection.castlemaineartmuseum.org.au/

26/08/2026

✨Sharing images from a very special time at the opening of BIYAL last Saturday.

What an incredible turn out of artists, mob, community and supporters for what is an absolutely stunning exhibition, curated with care by Uncle Rick Nelson, Kerry Douglas, Hape Kiddle, Dan Mitchell and the Guildford Biyal Project Team.

The Dja Dja Wurrung Group acknowledge Dja Dja Wurrung People, for their knowledge and guidance given to protect the spirit of the Guildford Biyal. Dumarr (thank you) to the artists, DJAARA Timbers, DUMAWUL, Nalderun Education Aboriginal Corporation, Mount Alexander Shire Council, Regional Arts Victoria, the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) and the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA).

Exhibition runs until 29 November, we look forward to seeing you at CAM



Image credit: James McArdle