EXHIBITION: The Four Elements

 

 

EARTH AIR WATER FIRE

CAW’s first exhibition for 2025 opens 20 March

Entries Close 3 March

 

Working with Oil and Cold Wax

 

 

A four week course with Diane McWhirter

17 March – 7 April

This course will introduce you to working with oil paint and cold wax medium. You will be guided through the process of creating an artwork from start to finish using a limited palette.

$259 (Members & ASOC) $323 (Non Members)

 

Art Basics

 

 

Art Basics: A five week course with Leigh Walker
Tues 11 March – Tues 8 April (5 weeks)
$274 (Members) $343 (Non Members)
In this 5-week course we will be exploring how to jump start your art and allow your creativity to flow without fear or self- recrimination

 

Mindful Marks: with Bobby Graham

Mindful Marks: A Journey into Creative Expression

Tuesday Evenings 6 – 9pm:  A five week course with Bobby Graham.

Mindful Marks: A 5-week mindful art course exploring creative mark-making techniques to foster calm, focus, and joy.
$280 (members & ASOC) $350 (non members)

 

Introduction to Watercolour - June

 

 

Introduction to Watercolour
A weekend workshop with Qing Zhang

28/29 June

By popular demand!
Qing Zhang’s first workshop sold out so fast we’ve asked her to hold a second one!
Don’t miss out this time, once everyone on the waitlist has booked their place there won’t be many left.

$261 (Members & ASOC) $327 (Non Members)

 

Introduction to Portraiture

 

 

Introduction to Portraiture in Abstract Spaces
A weekend workshop with Cliff Wooodward

5-6 April 2025

This is an introductory workshop on portrait drawing and painting.
We will work in charcoal, using tone and line, informed by some anatomy basics.
We will also develop simple monotonal (greyscale) acrylic portraits, using abstract shapes to construct effective compositions.

$292 (Members & ASOC) $365 (Non Members)

 

ART GROUPS

CAW has eleven art groups throughout the week, drawing, painting, printmaking, portraiture, life drawing and more.  Art groups are not tutored but everyone contributes ideas and suggestions.
As the Canberra summer heat sets in wouldn’t you like to spend some time in a nice cool studio, getting creative with a wonderful group of like minded people?
Try as many as you like, contact the conveners for more information.

 

MUSE EXHIBITION

 

 

‘MUSE’  A reflection on the relationship between the art model and their artist.

Francis Jaye, Cliff Woodward & Rick Cochrane

Smith’s Alternative
4 Feb – 2 March 
76 Alinga Street, Civic

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CAW TURNS 50!

In 2025, Canberra Art Workshop (CAW) is marking our 50th anniversary. Such a milestone is significant and worth celebrating.

After a name change from Canberra Art Club in 1975, CAW has become a creative art community with over 250 members. Over the years, we have presented numerous exhibitions, courses and workshops in a full range of art media.

As always, we look forward to connecting with and inspiring local artists and art lovers as we embark on the next 50 years! Stay tuned to what we have on offer this year.

CAW 50 years

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M16 Artspace
21 Blaxland Crescent Griffith ACT 2603

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1948

Canberra Art Club

1950

Canberra University

OUR HISTORY

OUR ORIGINAL BUILDING

FLASHBACK

Flashback

How CAW exhibited in 1954.

Each ‘On Show’ exhibition by CAW makes history in its own ways.
As it happens, one of CAW’s friends, Dr Alan Jones, has been researching Canberra’s art societies.
We are grateful to Alan for discovering in the National Library the room sheet for our fifth annual exhibition in 1954.
Back then, Canberra Art Workshop was called the Canberra Art Club.
The 1954 exhibition included ‘hero’ paintings by three of the then modernist gods of the Sydney art scene, Roland Wakelin, Margo Lewers and Jean Bellette.
They provided six of the 75 paintings in the show (look at the prices!)
Our 1954 exhibition was turbocharged by including these ‘big name’ contemporary artists to boost visitor numbers.
And, nationally-known art personalities were directly involved with our organisation in other ways at that time.

Seven Decades of Art Activism

Over the decades, Canberra Art Workshop (back when we were called the Canberra Art Club) has been active in lobbying for the creation of the national capital’s major visual arts institutions.
Artists from around Australia have been associated with Canberra Art Workshop — including household names like Max Meldrum, John Coburn, Clifton Pugh, John Brack and Lloyd Rees.
It’s worth having a look at where Canberra Art Workshop came from and what we’ve achieved.