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Still-Life Painting (15-16 April) Only 3 Place Left!

Learn or expand your skills in the art of still life painting in a structured workshop environment with individual guidance and demonstrations. Working from a still-life setup including drapery and objects with varying surface qualities and textures illuminated with a light source, this workshop will guide you through a range of painting techniques to explore the rich possibilities for creating engaging compositions through the quiet power of everyday objects.

Art Groups 2023

Book your favourite art group – whether it is
Experimental,
ExplorARTive,
Life Drawing,
Painting,
Pastel,
Portrait, or
Printmaking.

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The Appreciation of Neutrals

J.Gaye Nieuwenhof (19-20 August 2023)

We will use humble materials such as calico, muslin, brown paper, magazine papers, printmaking papers, charcoal, ink, coffee and tea staining, string, embroidery cotton and white ceiling paint to magic into being some organic tactile pieces, which will focus on landscape as the theme.
We will use a Gel press and an etching press (I will bring ink to share) to further explore imagery of the natural environment.
We will also use house paint and various fabrics on a variety of supports.
Ready yourself for a busy and productive time spent with like minded souls. Create memories.
These can be further deconstructed and reconstructed to realize your vision.

CANBERRA ART WORKSHOP

21 Blaxland Crescent | Studio B | Griffith ACT

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Website exposure of your work
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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.