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

• Ceramics

I am a small-batch potter, creating from my home studio—a sea container nestled in my backyard in Broadwater, Busselton. In this practical yet creative space, I craft unique ceramics that balance the sculptural with the functional. Each piece is a personal creation, made with a blend of wheel-throwing and hand-building techniques, then fired in my gas kiln on a family property in Vasse.
I work with a variety of stoneware and develop my own glazes from raw materials. I utilise a variety of glaze applications and combinations, producing ceramics that stand out for their individuality and purpose. I aim to capture a sense of movement, texture, and personality in every piece. Clay, for me, is more than a medium—it’s a way of telling stories and expressing something deeply personal. When glazing, I focus on highlighting the nuances of texture and colour, creating work that invites not just the eye, but the touch. My pieces are meant to be experienced physically as much as visually, and this tactile connection is one of the driving forces behind my art.
I sell most of my work directly through social media and my website, but you can also find my ceramics in Busselton at the Old Courthouse Complex, and in Bunbury at The Red Mill Store. Both spaces focus on showcasing local artisans in historic buildings, making them the perfect home for my pieces.
For the past three years, I’ve had the pleasure of participating in Margaret River Region Open Studios. It’s been an incredible experience sharing my work with visitors and chatting about all things clay. These connections have sparked deep appreciation and lasting relationships with ceramic enthusiasts locally and across Australia.
I’d love to invite you into my home studio during this event. I’m thrilled to share new works, and I can’t wait for you to experience my updated space. There’s nothing quite like the joy of meeting fellow art lovers, diving into the creative process, and passing my work directly from my hands to yours.

I make functional ceramics using a range of stoneware and unique handmade glazes. My work is made using hand building and wheel throwing techniques and is purposely designed to be colourful, textural, welcoming, and tactile.

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

My sea container studio is located at the bottom of my garden. Visitors can walk through a large open gate along a crushed limestone driveway which passes by a front courtyard garden, established trees, fence lined gardens and large pots filled with cacti. This leads to a recycled brick courtyard where people can mingle and view my hanging ceramic planters displayed outside my studio which is flanked by large pots of bamboo. The back doors of my studio opens completely, and I have a large glass sliding door, and sash window for natural lighting. The doors provide breezeways and walk throughs for visitors to enter and exit my space. The undercover alfresco near the back of the house is where I will have my gallery set up using vintage boxes, cane shelves and pine pallet tables. In this way people can amble between the two areas and have space to talk about the art as well as to touch and feel the ceramics. I truly believe ‘every piece finds it’s person’, so in this space there is no pressure to purchase; just an enjoyment of the tactile ceramics, and the space we are connecting in.

I plan to be throwing a large coil and throw piece on the wheel in my studio which can be covered with plastic to ensure the integrity of the piece remains when meeting and greeting visitors.

I will have clay on my wedging table for people to touch and play with imprinted bisqueware.

Discussion of the pottery process will be accompanied by pieces in a range of forms, leather hard, bisqued and of course, the finished products.

• carpark
• buspark
• family
• refreshments

• 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

I am close to a number of regional ceramicists.

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.