30th Annual Mayoral Art Exhibition

Next date: Monday, 22 September 2025 | 09:00 AM to Saturday, 08 November 2025 | 04:00 PM

Image: Elroy Hendricks, When High Tide Turns up (Maroondah Clocktower), 2019, acrylic on canvas, Maroondah City Council Art Collection

The 30th Annual Mayoral Art Exhibition raises funds in support of the Bone Marrow Donor Institute and is supported by Maroondah City Council and Community Bank Ringwood East and Croydon.

The theme for 2025 is Time.

Artist have been encouraged to respond to past, present, future and the passage of time. Call for entries is open until 31 August

We celebrate the contribution that founding partner Bone Marrow Donor Institute (now part of Fight Cancer) and thousands of exhibiting artists have made over three decades in advancing medical research. The vital collective contribution to cancer patients through this work is also, ultimately, time.

This is an acquisitive exhibition and the Mayor of Maroondah and Community Bank Ringwood East and Croydon will announce the chosen works at the exhibition launch. The Mayoral Acquisition will become part of the Maroondah City Art Collection.

About the Bone Marrow Donor Institute

Since the Bone Marrow Donor Institute (BMDI) began in 1989 it has raised over $4 million with a focus on cancer research, initially for Leukemia research which has benefited other serious health conditions including breast and testicular cancer. BMDI has sponsored accommodation units for cancer patients, particularly supporting regional patients with a North Melbourne unit. In another success story, five young mothers who donated bone marrow through the institute discovered they had early stages of cancer and were successfully treated. BMDI has since become incorporated with Fight Cancer Foundation with its broader connection to cancer research.

Further information

The Mayoral Art Exhibition is an annual fundraiser in support of the Bone Marrow Donor Institute, Croydon branch and generously sponsored by Maroondah City Council and the Ringwood East and Croydon Community Bendigo Bank.

For more information please contact Alan Somers from the Bone Marrow Donor Institute on 0419 134 300 or email asom9346@bigpond.net.au.

   

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Location

Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery, 32 Greenwood Avenue, Ringwood, 3134, View map