TESTAMUR 7

Show the world

It’s time to share your work with Canberra and the world.
Testumur is CAW’s annual exhibition to show Canberra what our incredibly talented members have created.
Then it’s exhibitied on social media for the world to admire.
Click on ‘Exhibition’ for more information and to enter your artwork

Image Credit: Adrian Amanda, “Flotsam and Jetsam #1”
Testamur 6 2024

 

CAW OPENING IN BELCONNEN!

Attention Northsiders!
You’ll soon be able to attend courses and Workshops close to home!
Stay tuned for more details, or get in touch to tell us what you would like to do.
Want to run a course?  Get in touch!
eventscaw@gmail.com

 

2025 MAVIS HALL TRUST GRANT

What could you do with $4.5K?

This year’s MHTG is $4500 for two CAW members.
You could be one.
Click on the ‘GRANTS’ menu to see how you can apply.

Image Credit: Edith Cowan, first female member of any Australian parliament.

 

Still Life with Di Broomhall

 

A five week course on Sunday Mornings.

“What is still life painting, how did it come about, who else has asked this question “?
Sunday 9:30 – 12:30 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month

$242 (Members & ASOC) $302 (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.

 

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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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Canberra Art Workshop
M16 Artspace
21 Blaxland Crescent Griffith ACT 2603

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Become a member now and receive access to art groups, discounts on courses and workshops, the option to showcase work in a biannual exhibition, and receive regular newsletters.

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.