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

• Drawing
• Mixed Media
• Painting

Nari grew up on land, in regional & remote Western Australia. As a direct result, she has a deep reverence for patterns in nature & cycles of life, death & rebirth. Choosing to become an Occupational Therapist she has searched for best ways of being with others through their periods of deep & seemingly impossible challenge, while also honourably dealing with her own life transitions. She is passionate about the ways that these often painful times of transition become creative opportunities for growth & healing. We can rediscover our humanness, grow our creative capacities, & truly heal our lives.

In her mid 50's, having completed post graduate studies in Integral Wholeness Facilitation, Nari continues this empowering work alongside individuals & groups, while practicing her own art. She was a contributing member of Margaret River Artisans for a number of years & more recently became involved in a social art project - co-creating & facilitating with colleagues & community leaders, a public meditative & healing place in Western Australia - Bunbury Garden Labyrinth. With Nari serving as Chairperson & Secretary, the successful project was nominated for the City of Bunbury Australia Day Citizen of the Year Awards, in the Community Groups/Events category.

Nari will continue to enjoy the challenge of balancing artful, solitary time with engagement in community work. As a therapist, she is well aware that artworks have the potential to transform our home & work spaces, having the power to shape how we feel, think and construct reality. Further to this, especially at times of transition, when we are rendered incapable of expressing the ineffable, an artwork can often convey something beyond the words and the obvious.

Nari is a Social Artist, passionate about exploring times of transition, as creative opportunities for growth & healing. She balances her own art practice with community work.

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 home studio is nestled on the edge of a beautiful Wilyabrup Valley, facing towards the ocean. I splash paint around messily in my cave-like shed & then bring the artworks up into my light-filled Studio/House for further refining and detailing. I also create labyrinths, spirals & mandalas on the earth, with found objects. Visitors will experience a sense of the reverence of nature & expansive space, as they explore both inside & out. The National Trust & Land for Wildlife have also recognised the value of this wilderness valley & listed it for conservation, which I just love.

I will be working on artworks throughout Open Studios, so visitors will get to witness this. There will also be the opportunity to share intimate conversations on what drives my practice, which is definitely contemplative in nature. With a career as an Occupational Therapist & Integral Wholeness Facilitator I am interested in creativity & mindfulness as pathways to Wellness & Healing. I will also be offering a couple of events where visitors can come and share a guided walk of a labyrinth, followed by a brief talk on its application in the modern world.

• 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 used to be in the MR Artisans (as Treasurer) so am familiar with a lot of those artists of 10-15 years ago. I've been invited this year to collab with Christian Fletcher, but otherwise my art practice itself is intentionally quite solitary.

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 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.