Winners 2026

2026 Winners

Congratulations to all the winners in this year’s show.

 

Oils/Acrylic Angelo Quabba 'Humble Remains' Still Life Autumn The	Watercolour Nina Volk 'Wildfowers' The Sight to Remember, Castlemain	Pastel Jo-Anne Seberry 'Stormy Day' The Cream Rob
Drawing It Hao Pheh 'Treasure Hunt, Gulf Station' Grevillea Insignis - Cranbourne Gardens	Photography Mario Mirabile "The Pear Thief Strikes Again" Spoken	People’s Choice Cathy Wilson "Mossy Rocks, Cradle Mountain" Feline
Best Artwork Under $500 Jenny Pihan "Views, Great Ocean Road" Joker of the Bush
School Years 4-6 Karen Xu 'Ember Sky, Silent Trees' Desert Cactus	School Years 7-9 Evie Bowe "Skate Deck" Untitled	School Years 10-12 Abby Hosie 'Escape' Streets of Home

 

Highly Commended Geoff Sargeant 'From Calypso's Cave'	Honourable Mention Sue Rouette 'Long Way Home'	Highly Commended Dennis Murnane 'Hattah Lakes'	Highly Commended Rosemary Parrant 'Tara'	Highly Commended Liz Turner 'Students in the Place De La Sorbonne'
Highly Commended Lyn Mellady 'Skenes Creek Outflow'	Highly Commended Max Lane 'Langur Triptych'	Highly Commended Wayne McAliece 'Moon Bathing'	Highly Commended Brian Randall 'Pastel Beauty'	Highly Commended Lyla James 'La Bella Chella Madonna'
Highly Commended Xavier Singh 'The All-Seeing Angel'	Highly Commended Baz Scroggie 'Untitled'	Highly Commended Isla Coleman-Kearney 'La Luna'	Highly Commended Charlise Scott 'Mama'	Highly Commended Hayley Hammond 'Dawn of the Hyacinth'
Highly Commended Claire Jiang 'Bittersweet Silence'	Highly Commended Frankie Walker 'UFO'	Highly Commended Craig Davy 'Ravine Shadows'	Highly Commended Annee Kelly 'From Mornington and Beyond'	Highly Commended Hugh Foster 'Low Tide, Shoreham'
Highly Commended Vivi Palegeorge 'late Afternoon Light, Mornington'

2026 Art Show Beneficiaries

The beneficiaries from this year’s 49th Art Show were the Long Beach RSL Golf Group, the Chelsea Historical Society, the Edithvale CFA and the Special Olympics, with the major beneficiary being Pantry 5000.

We were delighted to be able to present each of our beneficiaries with their “cheques” at our recent meeting.

Thanks again to our sponsors Ray White Chelsea, Bendigo Bank Aspendale Gardens – Edithvale, Patterson River Golf Club, Lowe Living, Lowe Design and Build, and Humpy Co. These pictures from the meeting show our beneficiaries being presented their “cheques” with Ray White Chelse presenting the “cheque” to Pantry 5000 and the Edithvale CFA. Unfortunately the Chelsea Historical Society were unable to attend on the night.

Fiji School Painting expedition

In the Last 2 weeks of January 2026, Noel Jenkinson, Denise Carroll and Peter Washington from Chelsea Rotary with Peter’s son in law Stuart Murphy and Peter Brown’s son in law Julius, assisted former Chelsea Rotarian Peter Brown in painting a newly built school in Dreketi Village on the remote Fijian island of Vanua Leva.

Peter Brown, a retired Builder, moved to Fiji, joining the Rotary club of Taveuni island and has worked on many Fijian Rotary projects over the past 10 years. Finally completing the Dreketi School rebuild project has been a 4.5-year project after the original school was destroyed by a landslide 8 years ago.

Taveuni Island is the closest island with 2,000 inhabitants, an hour flight north from Nandi, which has an international airport. To get to the island of Dreketi Village, from Taveuni, is a 40-minute boat ride on a restive 40 horsepower boat. Dreketi Villiage has no power, cars, communications, no batteries, only a few solar panels and of the 200 inhabitants of which 50 are children who need the school.
Fijians excel at collaborative teamwork, like the rendering required. When it comes to individual work, they lose focus and tend to just walk off, leaving the job undone. Hence Pete’s call out for an international painting team.

 

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Family Care Uganda provides hope and a future for children coming from a hopeless place

Chelsea Rotary Australia was honoured to have Marg Vesey from Rotary Club of Rowville-Lysterfield join us last night! Marg shared such heartwarming, uplifting stories of life changing moments created at the Family Care Uganda project.

Founded in 2009 by Australian local, Robin Yamaguchi, they rely completely on private donations to sustain and educate over 200 orphans. Children of child soldiers too poor to pay fees, children homeless on the streets or girls fleeing the prospect of being sold for a dowery find refuge and thrive in the safe opportunity to get an education that opens a world of career opportunities. Robin has passionately committed to raise funds to source books, clothes, shelter, food and even purchased the land to bring sustainable farming. All to give these needing children the chance to learn, from grade 1 through to high school. Robin then actively works to get students sponsorship into further studies.

So many uplifting stories on how one woman with conviction, love and dedication can rally us all to help make a phenomenal difference to the children and future of Uganda. Thank you Marg, for taking the time to share the vital work Family Care Uganda is doing!

It takes money to keep this school going- their immediate list for 2025

1. Purchasing 1.5 tons of beans $850
2. Buying 4 tons of maize/corn $1088
3. Fees for 33 of our students in Secondary school $3800
4. Fees for 12 of our students in tertiary $2,800
5. Renovation of staff house roofing $800
6. Construction of staff latrine $470
7. Construction of boys bathing shelter $390

You can read more inspirational updates here https://www.facebook.com/familycareuganda

Pictured are Nancy and Omen, celebrating graduating as Midwife and Nurse, two young children brought in and sponsored for the past 10 years now bringing their education and knowledge to support their remote community in far North East Uganda.