SAM Seasonal Exhibition Celebration

Join us at SAM for an evening celebration welcoming a new season of exhibitions. From the opening of Koorie Heritage Trust’s touring show JXSH MVIR: Forever I Live to looking back on another incredible exhibition of talented homegrown artists in SAM Open 2025, as well as new displays from Prue Venables, Philip Hickingbotham, and Yuria Okamura, celebrate the arts with us on Friday 31 October.

Enjoy an evening of art, connection, and conversation as you experience the museum after-hours, with refreshments available from the Elsewhere at SAM team.

Event details:

Date & time: Friday 31 October, 5.30pm – 8pm

Location: Shepparton Art Museum, 530 Wyndham Street, Shepparton

Cost: Free - Registrations encouraged

Evening program details:

5.30PM: Smoking Ceremony and Welcome to Country (to take place on lake side of SAM building)

6.00PM: Official Opening Proceedings

6.30PM: Bar opens

7.30PM: SAM Open – People’s Choice Award announcement

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Featured image credits, clockwise from left: 1. Josh Muir (Gunditjmara, Yorta Yorta, Barkindji), Forever I Live (detail), 2015, digital print on aluminium, Private collection; 2. SAM Open 2025, installation view, Shepparton Art Museum, 2025. Photo: Leon Schoots; 3. Prue Venables, assorted artworks. Image courtesy of the artist and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert; 4. Yuria Okamura, Temple of Nature II, installation View, National Gallery of Victoria as part of Melbourne Now. Image courtesy of the artist; 5. Philip Hickingbotham, Patterned Luminescence (detail), 2025.