Art Gallery - Autumn Festival Art Exhibition

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

Our 2023 opening evening was a great night! We are thrilled with the standard of art submitted, the number of art lovers who came to the opening, and the quality of the award winners this year.

Many thanks to our guest artists Russell Hollings and Judith Moresby from Auckland who judged the art and presented the awards.

The Public Choice Award 2023

Congratulations to Anne Barwood for winning the Public Choice Award. Visitor voted over the month of the exhibition and Anne's work 'Mist inthe Valley' was a clear winner. 

Premier Painting Award winners include:

• 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