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

• Metalwork
• Painting
• Sculpture

I have always been interested in drawing, ever since I was very young and chose architecture as my career where those drawing skills were developed. Later in life and with a little more time I explored painting (water colour and acrylic) and more recently took this to the next level with my sculpture! (clay, resin)
I believe I was lucky enough to be born with the gift of creativity and perhaps a little less lucky to have a brain that never stops (exhausting sometimes). I have been privileged to be mentored by Robert Hitchcock – an accomplished Australian (Perth based) sculptor and have continued to learn and develop my craft.
I am inspired by everything around me and I am always looking, taking in the light, the landscape and movement - inspiration is everywhere when you look.
I really appreciate and feel passionate about design.
I tell anyone that will listen that when you buy something that is designed or created you get to wake up every morning and get pleasure from just seeing it. Over and over again.
I would hope those that give my art a new home simply get immense pleasure from looking at it, taking it in and appreciating it.
I don’t really have a typical day of creating art.
As a creative, I work when the mood is right.
I find it almost impossible to make art happen when or if I am not in the right space. When I am, I like to work with music and lose myself in the process. Time falls away and it is a completely therapeutic or zen-like experience. I often create something and then look at it almost incredulously. It is as though I have been channeling someone and the piece created is outside of me.

I work in both cold bronze (resin) and metal (oxidised copper) to create pieces that are hand-made, unique and full of personality.

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 partner Shelley and I bought a property on several acres halfway between Margaret River and Prevelly and spent a year designing and extending the existing cottage.
We are now in the process of building my new studio, a very minimalist building with North facing glass, bi-fold doors and a timber deck, all looking out over the pasture and the billabong that we created and which in the early morning and the late afternoon we share with a family of kangaroos that wander in to graze and enjoy the peace and quiet with us.
The studio wont be ready for Open Studios 2024 and so a good friend and fellow artist, Kerry Sibly is sharing his studio space with me.
Heronsbrook Studio off Old Ellenbrook Road is a VERY atmospheric quaint old 'shearing shed' of wonderful timber, beautiful light and a setting by the creek that just calls for you to sit, ponder and enjoy the space!

I will be available to speak with and explain my artwork to the visitors.
I will have examples of my original sculptures, the silicon molds that I make and use and other materials integral to the process of creating my artworks.

Heronsbrook Studio will be well sign-posted but in the first instance is accessed from Old Ellenbrook Road off Caves Road.
Once on Old Ellenbrook Road look for the Heronsbrook Studio sign on the left hand side.
Parking (and the Studio) are just inside the gate!

• carpark
• 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

I will be sharing studio space this year with my good friend and fellow artist, Kerry Sibley.

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.