Register for MRROS 2025

Welcome! Thank you for joining us in 2025 and so generously sharing your studio as part of Australia’s largest open studios event. We are thrilled to have you on board, and we’re here to support you on this exciting adventure. The Registration form has save-and-complete-later functionality and can take a couple of hours to complete. Some sections can be updated as the event draws nearer – these are noted below.

Code of Conduct for MRROS event

Margaret River Region Open Studios is a not-for-profit organisation that provides event management and marketing for a 16-day event to promote artists at all stages of their career living between Busselton and Augusta and west of Sues Road.

As a participant in the 2025 MRROS event, you are expected to show respect and courtesy to others. All interactions should be professional regardless of platform: either online or in-person. In order to foster a positive and professional event, we ask you to confirm your agreement to our Code of Conduct.

I agree to:

1. Show courtesy and respect towards the MRROS Administration and Marketing team, Board members and any other volunteers working on or associated with this event.
2. Use welcoming and appropriate language at all times.
3. Be respectful of different viewpoints in a constructive and respectful manner.
4. Focus on what is best for the whole event.

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ABOUT YOUR ART

• Drawing
• Painting

Sue Strizek (BA Australian History Grad. Dip Ed) was a first-time exhibitor in the 2024 Lester Prize, having invested in daily art practice since 2023 that is energetic, unapologetic and intentional through pen, with pops of colour in acrylic or watercolour mediums. Born in the NSW outback town, Broken Hill, Sue moved to outback WA in 1996 after serving in the RAAF as an officer. Sue attended a community TAFE drawing class in Kalgoorlie, that saw her receive a ‘Highly Commended’ prize for her work on butchers’ paper, ‘Ink with Sticks’ (1997).
Sue describes her artistic practice as intense and, more often she works from her intuition.
"The magic of immediacy can fill me with an intensity that is transmitted to the paper. My pen drawings vary from sparse and pared back to a riot of suggested detail." Her 2024 Lester Prize finalist portrait “You Can Call me Viktor Stronger” attracted the judge's attention due to it's immediacy.
When painting on paper her palette work is at times brutal and this contributes to the texture of a work. Paper is flimsy, sometimes rough, coarse, and frail at the same time and this contributes to how her works are received by the viewer.

Drawing quickly and energetically with a pen, highlighting with colour sticks, Sue's fast method of drawing is pure instinct, brain and hands working in sync. The pen is jagged, with scratching’s and suggestions.

Sue was a first time exhibitor in the 2024 Lester Prize with her portrait "You can call me Viktor Stronger". Sue is an emerging artist who draws with pen and highlights in paint stick. Her acrylic painting is on canvas and paper.

Uploading your images

Step 1 – Add 1 image that best represents your work for the printed Event Guide

Step 2 – Add an additional 9 artwork images and studio portraits for our marketing team

Step 3 – Add up to 10 images for your website listing – they can be the same or different to the images above

Step 4 – Add one main image for your website listing.

Each image must be 300dpi, between 2.5MB and 5MB, and formatted as a jpeg file.

Re-name all files to include your name, artwork title, year created, medium and size before uploading e.g., Jane Doe_Wild Seascapes_2018_Oil on canvas_10x10cm.

Please ensure the filenames contain only alphanumeric characters, underscores or hyphens. Special characters such as punctuation will cause the upload to fail.

Please add a photographer credit to the file name if required by the photographer.

(Note: we love to use smiling, welcoming studio portraits to promote MRROS on social media)

Studio Details

Visitors to Sue's studio will be welcomed into the suburban parts of Dunsborough. Nestled in a cul-de-sac in the old part of the Dunsborough Lakes is a typical house built in the 1990's. No 5 Ribbonvale Rise seems innocuous but entering into the family living space with soaring raked ceilings the visitor will be struck by Sue's artistic works peppering the walls. Sue's studio is in the dining room and most painting is completed on an old jarrah dining table given to Sue by neighbours. Afternoon light comes into the window and strikes the fluorescent frames of some of Sue's works on canvas giving the illusion of a light show.

Sue will be painting on paper with acrylics, drawing in her journal from a snug chair or demonstrating the use of paint sticks. Paint sticks are an affordable and portable art medium that Sue uses when travelling or completing her "At Home" series of works.

• carpark
• buspark
• access
• family

• No steps or barriers, steep inclines, uneven or loose surfaces
• Paths are clear from the carpark
• Suits a walking frame or wheelchair

• There is a sign that everyone can see for emergency evacuation

• Ensure that there is adequate space between your furniture and displays

• Perhaps this is mitigated by a ramp.

MARKETING AND PUBLICITY

Events, Workshops, 'In-conversation' events and Special Activities

Event One

Sue will show you how to use the easily transportable mediums of pen and paint sticks on paper.

Break down the barriers to daily artistic practice for enjoyment or mindfulness by participating in this workshop. All materials will be supplied.
This workshop is suitable for beginners to intermediate

Event Two

Event Three

Payment Details

The total fee for participating in the Open Studios Event in 2025 is $935 including GST, and made up as follows:

• Membership renewal $132
• Participation fee $803, includes compulsory Public Liability Insurance

Full payment is required upfront by credit or debit card.