Spring Sculpture Prize

Spring Sculpture Prize 2023

Since its inception in 2006, The Spring Sculpture Prize has been a key event in the Central Victorian artistic calendar. Featuring over $8,000 worth of prizes, independent judges and a three-week exhibition, the prize is beloved by artists and visitors alike.

The judges for the 2023 Lot 19 Prize were Naomi Cass (Castlemaine Art Museum), and multi-disciplinary visual artists Lucas Maddock and Zoe Amor.

As well as the major Lot 19 Prize, we are grateful to our many partners who also donated prizes this year: The Anstey Family, The Mill Castlemaine, The Hub, Shedshaker Brewing, Art Supplied Castlemaine, The Salvage Yard, Jeremy Forbes, Theatre Royal Castlemaine, Boomtown Wines, Healing Well and The Green Folly, The Bridge Hotel, Tom Chippendall and an anonymous donor.

Lot 19 Major Prize $2,000

Taron Stanley, Sick, $1,500 AND Nicola Jayne, Fall of the Death Mother, $500
Ron Anstey Prize $1,000

Sime Nugent, World's Ugliest Vase, $600 AND Kathy Landvogt, Making Good, $100 AND Josie Turner, The Real Surfers Paradise, $100 AND Jackie Gorring, Kia Lyre, $100
The Castlemaine Mill Prize $1,500

Ales Sanson, Manifold, $250 AND Bethia Lord, Balance, $250 AND Craig Stephens, I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings (2), $250 AND Soiled Doilies, Trampolina Dolly Elephant Stone, $250 AND Candy Stevens, Slow Boat to China, $250
Green Folly Prize $1000

John Murphy, Faith Construct, $500 AND Vicky Combridge, Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner, $500
ShedShaker Brewing Prize $300

Melissa Clark, Take the Skinheads Bowling, $300
Salvage Yard Prize $500

Diane Thompson, From the Darkness, $350 AND Steve Futo, Untitled, $250
The Bridge Hotel Prize $400

Alex Sanson, Manifold, $400
The Hub Prize $250

Candy Stevens, Slow Boat to China, $250
Art Supplies Castlemaine Prize $250

Kathy Landvogt, Making Good, $250
Jeremy Forbes (Emerging Artist Award) $250

Brija Davies, Stages of Grief, $250
Theatre Royal Castlemaine Prize $250

Kathy Landvogt, Making Good, $250
Boomtown Wines Prize $184

Tobias Richardson, In the Church of the Poison Mind, $184
Tom Chippendall Kids Prize $150

Maya Forbes, Lumi, $50 AND Josie Turner, The Real Surfers Paradise, $50 AND Ada Turner, Piggie Castle, $50
Anonymous Prize $100

Alvin Darcy, Blue Belly Black Snake, $100
Healing Well Prize for soft sculpture $100

Bethia Lord, Balance, $250