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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9. City: Yelverton
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13. Postcode / Zipcode: 6280
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ABOUT YOUR ART PRACTICE

• Furniture
• Upcycling
• Woodwork

I am a semi-retired teacher of woodworking and furniture design, with students aged from 12 to 79 years, and have a degree in Industrial Arts and have been exploring my artistic side since I first began studying in 1980. Over the years I have completed many studio furniture commissions and continue to explore in that area. I have always been drawn back to the wood lathe, as a means to shape wood and bring to fruition my ideas for functional and sculptural objects.
I have been enthusiastically exploring the possibilities of the lathe and revealing the inner secrets of both local and other sourced timbers using a blend of traditional and innovative techniques. I believe I have been producing an eclectic range of strikingly beautiful and sometimes quirky pieces of work. Functionality is not high on my design fundamentals list. Aesthetic value and clever use of both the lathe and the raw material to produce pieces to be treasured and appreciated is my main commitment when designing.
A pivotal moment in my development as an artist was reading a book called the “Purpose of the Object” by a Canadian designer/maker named Steven Hogbin. He was cutting and segmenting his turned work and re-assembling to produce some very different pieces, conjuring images of movement and intriguing the viewer to wonder how? My take on his cut and re assembled technique was to create boats by removing a wedge section from a textured bowl to create a sweeping curvilinear formed hull. I have always loved this “Tumble Home” yacht hull profile with its curvaceous and billowy form. I think, that within all of us, there is a sense of wonderment when seeing a boat sail purposefully out to sea. The image raising several question: Who is on board? Where are they going? What is their cargo? Where have they been?
The transference of this intrigue has led me to use my boats as an extended metaphor to make statements and observations on many topics: Global Financial crisis, vanity, global warming international politics, human nature or just to stimulate the human predilection with sailing away to another life place or reality!
I have always had an interest in the environment and making the most of products, resources and materials. Over the last few years I have been creating some 2 and 3D sculptures from treasures found along our coast. From Driftwood birdhouses to box frame compositions of some of the plastic waste landed on our shores.

I am very honoured and grateful to work with wood, always finding fascination with its unique aesthetic and textural qualities revealed in this transformational process.

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

Our studio/workshop is also our home. We operate a small arts and woodworking business from there.
We live on a 3 Ha bush block between Margaret River and the coast.

I will be running demonstrations and workshops if required during open studios.

• carpark
• buspark
• 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

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.