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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• None of the above

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ABOUT YOUR ART PRACTICE

• Drawing
• Installation
• Mixed Media
• Painting
• Printmaking
• Sculpture

Fi describes the role art plays in her life as the very small key that opened the big door.

Living in Margaret River in the south west of WA for over 30 years, its landscape, flora and fauna and the stories that exist within it inspire her work daily. Her full time practice has led to her to take part in many group and solo exhibitions in Perth and Margaret River. She is a popular and regular participant in the Margaret River Region Open Studios and has a small print gallery in Mukau Gifts and Gallery in Cowaramup.

She believes that learning to develop and flex your own creative muscle is deeply rewarding and can be an invaluable tool for living in a mindful and connected way. Learning to use your creative voice to tell stories and interpret the world around you, not only connects you with yourself and art loving strangers, but helps develop the way we all might identify with our own communities.

Fi would describe herself as a painter, maker and illustrator. She is an active plein air painter and leads a group of local artists who paint weekly, discovering and visiting their favorite sites and locations around the area and sometimes further afield.

She is a multi-skilled artist working in a variety of mediums and can sometimes find herself working on several different bodies of work at the same time. She develops a body of work based on a specific personal experience in her life and will tend to continue to explore the style and theme over many years. Dipping back and forth between the series as life evolves and allows. She thinks this process of working is just her natural way to keep seeking and developing her understanding around complex and difficult issues. It takes time. She is not in a hurry.

She is a passionate advocate for regional communities, those with voices that are little heard, and the natural world. Endangered fauna, natural landscapes and the creative arts are constantly on her radar. She is a daily ocean swimmer and bird watcher, vegetable grower and lover of things that make her laugh out loud.

She has been awarded life membership by Margaret River Region Open Studios, being a long serving volunteer board member and is a proud founding Artist.

Fi's distinctive style celebrates the WA landscape. An established painter and illustrator she runs after hours workshops during the event. Find her print gallery in Mukau, Cowaramup.

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

same as last year

we will run after hours workshops
these are designed to build creative confidence in participants

I am also looking for some volunteers to help create the community building project i began in January. I will be facilitating this during the event.
This will be added to the Wander Out Yonder travelling Exhibition installation component.

Access Wilkes road from Bussell Highway not from Boodjudup Road as shown on Google maps

• 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

DESCRIPTION
'Maggie Moments' is a new design created just for those looking to do a short class with Fi. We create a framed and ready to hang image.

No skills required - this workshop is designed for raw beginners.

Click onto our website for a full description of the workshop and times available.

Event Two

Create a framed and ready to hang image of the iconic Red Tailed Black Cockatoo.

Click thru to our website for a full description and images and times for Beginners Collage Workshop.

Event Three

Creative Pattern Making with Painted Paper Collage.

Using a range of symbols and bird shapes we can develop a pattern using our own choice of colours.

Click through to our website to see a full description and details of this short, after hours workshop.

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.