ENTRIES CLOSING SOON!

‘MARION’S VISION’ Entries close Oct 14


CAW’s third and final exhibition for 2024 is closing soon – get your entry in today!

Thur 31 October – Sun 24 November 2024

 

CAW AGM 26 October

Canberra Art Workshop’s Annual General Meeting

Will be held on Saturday 26 October 2PM

All documents will soon be available on the CAW website.

TERM 4 COURSES

TERM 4 COURSES ALMOST FULLY BOOKED

These courses are proving very popular, there’s a few places left in Leigh Walker’s acrylics and ‘Intermediate Oils’ with Rick Cochrane

 

 

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 winter sets in wouldn’t you like to spend some time in a nice warm 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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Canberra Art Workshop is humming!

All art groups, courses and workshops are in full swing.
Come and join us!  Book your place now!

NB: Numbers are limited.

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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.