Entries open for melon art contest

Artists, it's time to turn your creativity to crafting a wonderful watermelon-inspired piece for the Lapunyah Art Gallery Melon Festival Art Competition.

MASTERPIECE: Chinchilla artist Dion Cross won the spatial construction category and the judge's praise at the 2017 Melon Festival Art Competition for "A Slice of Chinchilla”. Picture: Alana Calvert

ASPIRING artists, it's time to turn your creativity to crafting a wonderful watermelon-inspired piece in time for the Lapunyah Art Gallery Melon Festival Art Competition. The biennial event coincides with the Chinchilla Melon Festival and gallery director Helen Dennis said there are plenty of categories to choose from.

"We try to cover all disciplines, so everyone has a chance to enter in their particular choice of art or craft medium,” Mrs Dennis said.

Entry is open not just to Chinchilla or Western Downs residents, but anyone who wants to get involved.

"It's a very popular competition, we get quite a number of entries each year and we're open on Melon Fest Saturday and we usually have, we've had up to 2000 people just come through the doors,” Mrs Dennis said.

The categories include painting, drawing, computer generated, photography, 3D art, ceramics/pottery, woodwork or metalwork, fibre arts, and a youth artists section. Entry forms are available online at https://www.lapunyahart gallery.com/competitions, you can also email or drop into the gallery to get one.