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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Enter Georgette Way off Mitchell drive in Prevelly, and drive up Georgette way; then around the right hand bend into the cul-de-sac. The studio is immediately on the right, Number 24. Visitors will note a low limestone fence, a mosaic number 24 and a limestone nature strip they can park on.

ABOUT YOUR ART

• Ceramics
• Sculpture

I have been fortunate enough to have lived in Margaret River since 1983, and in the coastal hamlet of Prevelly since 1999. Over these years I have witnessed the exciting development and growth of the creative culture of the town. For 12 of these years, I co-directed Margaret River Galleries and was closely exposed to the excitement, passion and drive of artists, while being surrounded by the diverse results they achieved. When the business was sold on, I finally had the time to explore my own creativity and found the joy of working with the tactile medium of clay.
Once my hands were immersed in clay, I re-discovered my basic skills of constructing which had been honed as an owner builder during the 1980’s. Thankfully the ceramic community offered fantastic mentoring to grow these skills into a new phase. For subject matter, my imagination constantly returned to what I feel it means to be an Australian in these post colonial times. I wanted to celebrate the every day life of those around me, and the culture we are living in.
In 2017 I had an opportunity to establish the Clay House in Margaret River, a gallery that showcased ceramic artists of Western Australia. While there, I worked as the artist-in-residence, creating my pieces in full view of the public. This experience was invaluable in my creative development as it forced me to constantly push my skill levels while receiving daily feed back from an ever-changing audience.
Clay is an incredibly malleable medium which gives me the opportunity to explore my interest of iconography and symbolism. I am able to explore how motifs and symbols become representative of certain cultural concepts over time.
My process involves creating figurative sculptures from clay using an intuitive process of hollow form construction, that is then filled out. I create my artworks with the intention of them being displayed indoors or outdoors, treating them with sealants and finishes to allow them to live amongst the gardens or inside the houses of their eventual owners.
My career has spanned almost two decades, including solo exhibitions at Jahroc Gallery and Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, working as an artist-in-residence at the Clay House in Margaret River, participating in the Southwest Survey at Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, and participating in the Margaret River Open Studios several times.

I look forward to welcoming you to my Prevelly studio where I create figurative sculptures, birdbaths and potheads from clay. Each piece is then fired and finished in a variety of patinas.

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

Nestled in our garden in Prevelly, my studio encourages my creative practice by offering me a sense of comfort by being only a few spaces from my back door. Internally it is a constantly evolving environment as my artistic needs change. Sometimes I create multiple pieces, or have finished ones drying for the kiln alongside newly begun forms. Everything I need is within walking distance – a permanent cup of tea, the inviting ocean, a large peppi tree brushing the verandah as the sea breeze moves it and a vegie garden out the window that changes with the seasons. I love that the studio is located in a small courtyard that allows me both a display area and a space to expand into when necessary, and also have many of my works exhibited throughout our garden which you may stroll through to view. I feel lucky to be able to create on my home block with my family close by and am looking forward to welcoming visitors.

I will be creating new works during Open Studios which will give visitors an opportunity to interact with me and discuss my techniques with them.

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• 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

My daughter Ellen Broadhurst is participating for the first time this year.

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

Event One

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.