Register for MRROS 2024

Code of Conduct for MRROS event

Margaret River Region Open Studios is a not-for-profit organisation that provides 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 2024 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 PRACTICE

• Ceramics

As a small batch potter, I create functional ceramics from my home studio in Broadwater, Busselton. I then glaze and fire my work in my gas kiln, which is located on the beautiful grounds of Kinvarra Park Lodge, Vasse.

In my studios, I work with a range of stoneware and glaze combinations to form unique and individual functional ceramics. I enjoy creating both on the wheel and through hand building. The varied style and structure of my ceramics is designed to reveal differences in form and texture and highlight unique qualities. I find clay a very therapeutic medium, one that translates well to story in artistic expression. My goal in glazing the work is to highlight movement and textural interest, encouraging the viewer to be drawn not only by the eye to my pieces, but also by the touch. Tactile appreciation is encouraged, and, as an artist, this active participation with my work is what immediately motivates me to further continue and extend my own practice.

Currently most of my work is sold through direct contact with customers on my social media pages and website. I also sell my work through an artisan gallery in Bunbury ‘The Red Mill Store’, which focuses on promoting local creators. I enjoy the online connection as much as face-to-face contact, as I have a lot of repeat customers, and fellow potters connecting regularly with me. Locals purchase directly from me through appointment made via direct contact. I have been a participant of Margaret River Region Open Studios for the last two years and had such pleasure meeting all art lovers and appreciators who visit to view, connect, discuss all things clay, and enjoy my work. These connections have enabled me to form relationships of appreciation and understanding through the bond of ceramics both locally, state-wide, nationally, and internationally.

I would love to welcome visitors to my Busselton home studio during this event. I am enjoying creating new works for you to view and am very excited to share my updated making studio. If you have visited me in previous years, you will find my work extended, and my unfinished large urn from last year now glazed and exhibited for the first time. It is always such a joy to connect to art lovers and share the experience of creating, discuss aspects of my creative process, and to have the opportunity to pass my work directly, from my hands to yours.

I make functional ceramics using a range of stoneware and unique glaze combinations. 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

The process has changed a little this year;

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 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 open 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 will have some work in progress, and visitors are encouraged to ask questions and engage in open discussions about all things ceramic. My work, my progress, all fields of clay enquiry and my life as a full time artist.

• carpark
• 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

Georgia Zoric, Mel Jarmin, Nalda Hoskins

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

Event One

This is a free event open to anyone interested in viewing my ceramic pendant lights and lamps at a darker stage of the day. A glass of champagne or cup of tea or coffee will be offered on arrival, and nibbles will be available during the event.

You are all invited and I look forward to seeing you at one of my my Saturday Sundowner Soirees.

Event Two

This is a free event open to anyone interested in viewing my ceramic pendant lights and lamps at a darker stage of the day. A glass of champagne or cup of tea or coffee will be offered on arrival, and nibbles will be available during the event.

You are all invited and I look forward to seeing you at one of my my Saturday Sundowner Soirees.

Event Three

This is a free event open to anyone interested in viewing my ceramic pendant lights and lamps at a darker stage of the day. A glass of champagne or cup of tea or coffee will be offered on arrival, and nibbles will be available during the event.

You are all invited and I look forward to seeing you at one of my my Saturday Sundowner Soirees.

Payment Details

The total fee for participating in the Open Studios Event in 2023 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.