People’s Choice winner of the 2025 Loddon Photo Comp

Maryanne Murdoch

People’s Choice Runner-Up

Liam Baker

see 2025 print program

Loddon Valley Arts - was out there all right!

We invited you to bring your best self to Loddon - to exercise your curiosity, your love of history, art and culture and, most important of all, your readiness for a very good time indeed. And that, friends, was exactly what you did. Our new festival of heritage venues, a huge range of art and craft exhibitions, with events to entice you to linger a little longer in Loddon brought artists and visitors to the shire and the locals made it all happen - almost seamlessly!! Huge effort from so many people to make such a success of this arty party.

Eucy Art Show a huge success

Showcasing artworks that featured eucalypts in some way, the dazzling range of entries, from pastels to oils, to imaginative 3-D works, even one that smelt like eucalypts, were judged by Terry Jarvis who did a marvelous job selecting and explaining his choices.

* Best in Show: Terri MacDonald “In the Gums”

* Town Hall Prize: Margaret Hall “Eucalyptus camaldulensis”

* Loddon Landscape: Geoff Hocking “Abandoned Shed”

Encouragement Awards:

* Kaye Dixon “The Alchemy of the Eucalyptus” series - “The Echidna and the Ants”

* Paula Markey “Sleepy Koala”

* Lynda Robinson “Magnificent Red (Trawool)

* Patrick Duffy "Oh Dear Oh Deer "

People’s Choice: Kay Dixon “The Echidna and the Ants”