TESTAMUR 5

Canberra Art Workshop’s third and final exhibition for 2023?

Entries open now so pick out your faves for this year’s big bash
Don’t leave it till the closing day as October is going to be a very BUSY month!

Image Credit: ROSS ANDREWS ‘Bidgee Pool Study 1’

WHAT'S NEW?

Canberra Art Workshop AGM 3PM OCT 21

Forms available now

October is a busy month, put these dates in you diary:

OCT 13 – TESTAMUR 5 Entries Open Now
OCT 21 3PM – CAW AGM
OCT 26 5PM – Residency Presentation
OCT 26 6PM – TESTAMUR Opens
OCT 28 – M16 OPEN DAY
OCT 28 – CAW FLEA MARKET

artsACT eNews – everything you need to know about art in the ACT!

Opportunities  

MAMA National Photographic Prize 2024, closes 30 September 2023
Namadgi Visitor Centre Public Art Call Out, closes 1 October 2023 
2024 ACT Women’s Awards, nominations close 2 October 2023 
The Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Writing, closes 2 October 2023
The Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship, closes 6 October 2023 
Belconnen Arts Centre exhibition call out, closes 8 October 2023
CCAS Manuka Mural Project, closes 10 October 2023
CCAS 2023 Members’ Show, entries close 13 October 2023 
Visions of Australia program, closes 13 October 2023 
Live Music Australia program, closes 17 October 2023 
Sunday Story Time, submissions close 25 October 2023 
Arte Laguna Prize, closes 26 October 2023 
2024 Craft + Design Canberra Festival Call Out, closes 11 November 2023 
The Percivals 2024, closes 16 November 2023 
Adelaide Fringe registrations, closes 30 November 2023 
Life drawing classes with Tuggeranong Arts Centre, monthly 
Art workshops with Tuggeranong Arts Centre, monthly 
Make Art at Tuggeranong Arts Centre, weekly 
artsACT peer assessors registration, open all year round
Up to $5k Arts Activities funding, open all year round

Art Groups 2023

What would you like to create this week?

Oils, Acrylics, Printmaking….

CAW art groups offer something for everyone.

Get creative this week!

Gift Vouchers

Can’t think of a gift for that special friend?

Get a CAW gift voucher for CAW Membership and Workshops

MAKE | LEARN | SHARE

YOUR ART WITH US

Self-directed Art Groups  and studio wall exhibitions
Direction in our weekend Workshops
Discounts for our Courses
Take part in our Members Exhibitions
Website exposure of your work
Discounts with local art suppliers

ART GROUPS

WORKSHOPS

COURSES

GIFT VOUCHERS

WHAT’S NEW?

MAVIS HALL TRUST GRANT

EXHIBITIONS

MEMBERSHIP

ABOUT US

CONTACT US

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.

Visit Us

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.

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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.