Terms and Conditions of Entry
Thinking of entering this year’s bentART visual arts exhibition? All the information you need can be located in the Terms and Conditions of Entry 2024.
News and Updates
Three Sisters Ball 2024
Royal Gala Performance Ball9 June 2024Palais Royal230 Katoomba Street Katoomba NSW6:30 pm – 11 pm
Promotional Opportunities for Members
If you are a bentART member and have an exhibition coming up, have won an award, or another accolade, please email president.bentart@gmail.com and we will promote it through our social media. Between Facebook and Instagram, we have about 2K followers so a great opportunity to spread the word.
2024 Venue and Exhibition Length
We are pleased to be returning to Rex-Livingston Art+Objects for our 2024 exhibition. But the big news is that our 19thexhibition will take place over two weekends. The artist’s and sponsors opening will be on Friday, June 7 (King’s Birthday weekend) and the exhibition will close at 2 p.m. on the following Sunday, June 16. This […]
Survey
Please help us to plan for the 2024 exhibition by completing this anonymous survey. Your feedback is always appreciated.2023 Exhibition Survey here
Membership Renewal
Memberships are now dueThe 2023/24 bentART membership year runs from July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024 (ie. financial year, not calendar year), so it’s time to renew/join.Membership has so many benefits:Required to enter the annual exhibition.Link your online artist profile on the ‘Our Artists’ section of the website.Feature in a Member Monday social media […]
2023 Awards with the Judges’ Comments
Overall bentART 2023 Winner – EGGS #1 #2 & #3 by James Gordon A striking mix of fragility and strength, the quiet moment and playful composition, A great engagement between technical skills and conceptual depth. We felt these 3 still-life works, a series of ethereal vignettes, were very strong when grouped together, and spoke to […]
bentART 2023 Opening and Awards
Spectacular Opening and Presentation Awards evening at the 18th bentART exhibition. Come and visit this June long weekend.When: Saturday 10 th to Monday, 12th June 2023Times: Open from 11 – 5 pm Saturday and Sunday and 11 – 2 pm on Monday.Artists Talk: Saturday and Sunday at 3 pmWhere: Rex-Livingston Art & Objects Gallery, 182/4 Katoomba […]
Artists’ Talks
Artists’ TalksPlease join us at the Rex-Livingston Art+Objects Gallery 182-184 Katoomba St Katoomba Saturday and Sunday to hear some of our talented artists talk about their work.Saturday, June 10 – 3.00 pm Val Ingham (oil painter)Janet Scott (photographer)Sr. Marte Vor De Kaus from The Bleeding Hearts Mission (oil painter)Zoe Nightwalker (oil painter)TJ Johnston (acrylic painter)Sunday, June […]
Exhibition bentART 2023
Over 100 artworks will be displayed in the physical exhibition this year, with more in the virtual gallery. Painting, photography, sketches, digital artwork, glasswork, wearable art, sculpture, creative craft, and mosaics are represented. A fabulous eclectic collection of artwork created by experienced, emerging, young artists, all representing our diverse LGBTQIA+ communities.Come along over the June […]
Awards 2023
The bentART committee is thrilled to have increased the prize pool and the number of awards from last year giving more artists a chance to be recognised by our esteemed judges. Overall bentART winner – $2,000.00Runner Up – $1,000.00Highly commended – $500.00Highly commended – $500.00Highly commended – $500.00Highly commended – $500.00First Time Entrant – $500.00Curators […]
2023 Exhibition Curation
The bentART committee is excited to have two talented young curators this year, one for each exhibition. Amelia will curate and place artworks on the walls of the online virtual gallery while Jacob will be tasked with the curation and hanging of the in-person public exhibition to be held at the REX-Livingston Gallery in Katoomba. […]