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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Turn left off Devon Drive at number 41. Use the bitumen driveway up hill 100m to the blue roof studio. Parking is available at the studio.

ABOUT YOUR ART PRACTICE

• Ceramics
• Installation
• Pottery
• Sculpture

Ian began a lifelong involvement with clay and fire in 1970. He began working professionally in 1976 with Joan Campbell in her Fremantle workshop. The Greenough River Pottery was established as a “pioneer” pottery workshop where clay and glaze materials were collected locally and the high temperature stoneware was fired using a large wood-fired kiln, built on site.

In 1982 Ian and family moved to a bush block near Margaret River and he continued developing his understanding of materials, firing, form and surface. The Margaret River Pottery was established that year first working in the bush, then at various workshops around the Margaret River area.

During the 1990s a large studio and gallery was established on the main street and continued for about 10 years then Ian moved to a quiet studio at home. At this time he completed a Master of Visual Arts at Monash University in Victoria.

Pots began as individual functional pieces, developed into decorative and sculptural pieces and began to complement the public art work undertaken from 2000. Many large public art projects were completed up until the last in Sydney Barangaroo in 2020. Some involved thousands of smaller pieces on textured wall arrangements, others are more sculptural large forms but always using ceramics with other materials.

Observation of patterns and the progressive development of these are things Ian likes to include in his ceramic work. He particularly works toward developing rhythmic surfaces. This applies whether he’s making a small porcelain teacup, larger sculptural single forms or an arrangement of several thousand pieces. Ian’s experience in arranging multiple modular pieces for public art commissions has influenced the way these individual sculptural forms have evolved. The work has become more visually complex with interacting patterns on the surfaces of symbolic forms.

There is a range of making techniques drawn on to achieve these pieces. They begin on the potters wheel, are added to, subtracted from and reshaped using hand-building, slab work and cast sections. The physical process of the making of the work is as important as the final result.

Ian is gradually returning to a more sustainable way of working, using local materials for making and glazing, re-using and reclaiming materials and firing to high temperature with wood sourced from coppiced trees onsite.

The work displayed at MRROS in 2024 will include decorative, sculptural and functional pots.

Ian has worked with clay and fire for most of his life. He presents many functional pots, decorative and sculptural forms. Form and surface are the main focus with patterns indicating connections to his location.

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

The studio is purpose built, separate from the home. There are several different making areas inside and outside, well-lit with large kiln areas for gas and wood-firing of the pots and sculptural work.
I will continue making work, sometimes on the potters wheel, sometimes slab and hand-building, glazing, decorating and firing. I am an experienced teacher and presenter so I have many ways to make the visit worthwhile.

I'm hoping to share my love of working with clay and fire with visitors by showing many different techniques as I work.

41 Devon Drive Margaret River. Bitumen Driveway uphill 100m to the blue-roof studio. Next-door take 39 Devon Drive to get to Marion Graeber's painting studio.

• carpark
• access
• 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

Marion Graeber, our neighbour and friend, is a painter involved again in Open Studios in 2024. We share interest in each others' work and driveways.

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.