Art Gallery - Autumn Festival Art Exhibition

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Since 1985, our annual Arrowtown Autumn Festival Art Exhibition has been a feature of Arrowtown’s Autumn Festival. This competition attracts the highest calibre of professional and amateur artists from around New Zealand.

Our 2025 award winners are:

Bayleys Arrowtown Premier Painting Award: Jane Burdon

Berry & Co. Premier Applied Art Award:  Lynne Fellowes

Print Central Best Local Painting Award: Jade Barclay

Lakes District Museum Ceramics Award: Diana Turnbull Anderson

Arrowtown Autumn Festival Young Artist Award: Olivia Pickney

Millbrook Innovative Use of Materials Award: Lynn Brocherie Millar

Arrowtown Gallery Merit Awards: Tracey Morrow and Jos Browning

Berry & Co. Merit Awards: Jenny Hill & Gus Milne

Premier Painting Award winners include:

2024 - Rachel Hirabayashi, Cromwell

2023 - Tony Stanford Shields, Oturehua

2022 - Nigel Wilson, Clyde

2021 - David John, Arrowtown

2019 - Jillian Porteous, Bendigo

2018 - Maurice Middleditch, Bannockburn

2017 - Laura Cahill

2016 - Jasmine Middlebrook

2015 - Jasmine Middlebrook

2014 - Maurice Middleditch, Bannockburn

2013 - Lorainne Higgens, Cromwell

2012 - Liz Kempthorne, Clyde

2012 - Gold 150 award section: Ben Ho, Queenstown 

2011 – Rachel Hirabayshi 

2010 – Wallace T. Keown