Spring Salon Exhibition
Call for entries
Submit your entries now using the online form below
Online entries for our annual Members’ Exhibition open Friday 1 August.
If you’ve used the HAS Studios this year and have produced interesting art in that time, whether in the Studio or at home, please consider submitting up to four pieces for inclusion in the exhibition. We anticipate a popular exhibition of around 300 works and hope it will represent the full diversity of HAS Members’ 2025 art, including but not limited to life drawing and portraiture, abstract and landscape painting, printing, ceramics and sculpture.Your Entry Form can be found below.
Your entry must be completed and submitted before midnight Sunday 17 August, 2025.
Terms and Conditions apply, however, so please make sure you read and follow them or your submission may not make it into the exhibition. We hope you can join us and look forward to celebrating our HAS art together!
Image used for the Spring Salon ‘25 identity courtesy of Gretchen Kaye.
Terms and Conditions
By submitting artwork and participating in this exhibition, you agree to the following terms and conditions.
You must be a current HAS member to enter. Your membership number will be requested in the Entry Form. Become a new member, or pay your current membership HERE
The following submission and collection dates must be adhered to. Artwork received after this time may not be included in the exhibition:
Your Entry Form and digital imagery must be submitted before midnight Sunday 17 August 2025.
Your artwork must be delivered to the HAS Studio between Monday 25 August and Sunday 31 August 2025, 10:00am and 4:00pm, or by prior arrangement.
Your unsold artwork must be collected from the HAS Studio by 6:00pm Monday 8 September 2025.All digital images submitted on the Entry Form must be supplied in .jpg, .png or .pdf format, maximum 2MB size.
All unsold artwork not collected by the nominated time may be disposed of.
Submit up to 4 pieces of two-dimensional artwork. It is possible not all submissions will be accepted, if the total number of submissions exceeds available space. If this occurs, the number accepted per artist will be reduced.
HAS reserves the right to reproduce and publish (in print and online) images of your artworks, together with your social media username and/ or website URL submitted in the Entry Form. This information will be used as part of the exhibition information (catalogue and related HAS media) and may also be used for general HAS marketing purposes.
HAS respects the privacy of all of our members. All other personal information supplied on the Entry Form is collected only for purposes associated with this exhibition, and will not be disclosed to external parties without your prior consent.
HAS will curate the exhibition as deemed appropriate. No correspondence will be entered into on final locations or lighting of your artwork.
While all care will be taken, HAS and our volunteers take no responsibility for damage to artwork that may occur during hanging or storage. It is your responsibility to insure your artwork against such damage or loss.
We are accepting works on paper and framed artwork. Works in paper must be framed or mounted on stiff board. Framed pieces must have D rings, or D rings and cord/wire. Framed art without this feature cannot be hung.
All artwork must be appropriately packaged for storage when dropped in at the studio. Bubble wrap or cardboard packaging for canvases and similar artworks. A sturdy folio such as cardboard or plastic for unframed works on paper. All artwork must be named on the back and must be signed in. Artwork that is left in the studio and not signed-in, may not make it into the exhibition.
If your application is successful, you will receive a confirmation email containing further information on hanging requirements and labelling. Each artwork delivered to the Studio must comply with our hanging requirements and must be accompanied by an Artwork Label, with your contact details clearly identified.
All sales will be managed by HAS and will incur a commission of 10% to cover handing and finance costs. Please allow for this in your sale price. HAS encourages members to donate part or all income from some sales to HAS to help support similar events in future.
Spring Salon
Opening Night
Friday 5 September 6 - 9pm
Chandelier Room, Hawthorn Arts Centre
Join us for the Opening Night of Hawthorn Artist Society’s annual Members’ Exhibition, held in the beautiful Chandelier Room at the Hawthorn Arts Centre. All welcome.
Over 300 paintings and drawings will be on show, reflecting the breadth of figurative, landscape, and abstract work created through HAS’s studio program and by individual members. Most artworks will be available for sale.
Entry is via the Arts Centre foyer. The exhibition is not in the studio this year.
