Join us at Mundaring Arts Centre for an exhibition floor talk in conversation with Jenny Haynes and Shire of Mundaring Collection artists, Antony Muia, Andre Lipscombe, Madeleine Clear, Marie Haass, Phillip Cook and Sarah Elson as we celebrate 40 years of creative practice in the Perth hills.

Surround yourself in the beauty of the Australian landscape as we share works that explore ideas of place, ownership, loss, displacement and belonging.

Sun 31 May 2026 | 1 – 2pm | Suitable 16+ yrs

$5 | $4.50 MAC Inc. Members | Booking Essential | Refreshments Provided | Mundaring Arts Centre Gallery 1

Please contact MAC for groups larger than 10 people

Paper Thin, Skin Deep brings together artists Sarah Thornton-Smith, Nicole Steenhof, Stephanie De Biasi, Jo Darvall, Annette Peterson, Emma Craig, Sharyn Egan, Robyn Jean and Emily Rose, whose sculptural practices explore paper as a material and metaphorical skin.

Join Curator Annette Peterson who will guide reflections on process, and the evolution of conceptual inquiry, offering audiences a concise insight into the exhibition’s diverse and critically informed practices.

Sat 21 Mar 2026 | 1 – 2pm | Suitable for all ages

$5 | $4.50 MAC Inc. Members | Booking essential | Refreshments Provided | Mundaring Arts Centre Gallery 1

Please contact MAC for groups larger than 10 people

Learn the foundations of relief printmaking with a focus on colour, layering, and process. Participants will carve and print a relief block (either lino or wood), exploring both press and hand-printing techniques.

In this one-day workshop, participants, led by exhibiting artist Matt Perrin carve and print a lino block while learning inking, basic registration, and colour layering using the etching press alongside hand-printing methods. Techniques discussed are transferable to woodblock printmaking.

Sat 28 Feb 2026 | 10am – 4pm | Suitable for ages 18+

$165 | $148.5 Members | Booking Essential | Print Studio | Midland Junction Arts Centre

Join exhibiting artist Nicole Steenhof to explore the possibilities of sculpture making using a revitalised papier mache technique. Nicole will introduce you to her methods and guide you along the process. 

The possibilities are yours to explore in this hands-on experimental workshop - a sculpture, decorative wall hanging, incense holder, an ode to shell forms, each participants creation will be uniquely theirs.  

Fri 6 Feb 2026 | 10 am – 12 pm | Suitable for ages 18+

$55 | $49.50 Members | Booking essential | Mundaring Arts Centre

Join exhibiting textile artist, Susie Vickery in this three-hour botanical stitch workshop, taking a closer look at our native flora to illustrate them with stitch. Using free-style hand embroidery, gain the skills to stitch leaves and blossoms, building up colour and texture.

Referencing real foliage and images of plants in blossom, this workshop teaches participants of all skill levels the techniques to confidently apply embroidered stitch to fabric.

All materials provided. Participants are welcome to bring along their own base fabric and sewing kit.

Sat 6 Dec 2025 | 11 am – 2 pm | Suitable for ages 16+

$150 | $135 Members | Booking Essential | Mundaring Arts Centre

Join exhibiting artists, Alison Brown, Bernard Kerr, Warrick Palmateer and Garry Zeck in conversation as they discuss their artistic practice and career journeys through the ceramic craft. Each established and highly celebrated makers in their own rights, they have helped shape the artistic landscape of West Australian ceramics over decades, contributing to various national and international collections and exhibitions as well as teaching and mentoring the next generation.

Hear about what brought them to where they are now - their practice, dedication, and inspirations - and get a glimpse into what lies ahead for their artistic careers.

Come along for the opportunity to engage with these great creative minds and celebrate our States ceramic stalwarts.

Sat 25 Oct 2025 | 1 – 2pm | Suitable for all ages

$5 | $4.50 Members | Booking Essential | Refreshments Provided | Mundaring Arts Centre Gallery 1

Please contact MAC for groups larger than 10 people

Join us for an outdoor meditation on food, form and connection. Led by exhibiting artist, Jen Kerr, participants will explore the making of burnished pinch pots amongst the idyllic setting of Kerr’s Glen Forrest studio, followed by a shared picnic and conversation.

These pots are ephemeral; the object outcome is not the focus of this experience, but rather, the process of making and connecting. This experiential workshop seeks to explore the intuitive connection we have with clay, and its sometimes impermanent and imperfect structure.

Suitable for all skill levels. All materials and lunch provided.

Sat 13 Sep 2025 | 10 am – 1 pm | Suitable for all ages

$65 | $58.5 Members | Booking Essential | Kerramics Studio, Glen Forrest

Join exhibiting artist, Jen Kerr as she discusses her artistic process and the origins of inspiration that led to her first solo showing, Picnic Terrain. Delve into the spaces and places that set the backdrop for her exploration of land and materiality as she takes you on a guided tour of the ceramic plates, platters and vessels that make up her latest body of work.

Sat 30 Aug 2025 | 1 – 2pm | Suitable for all ages

$5 | $4.50 Members | Booking Essential | Refreshments Provided | Mundaring Arts Centre Gallery 2

Please contact MAC for groups larger than 10 people

Join woodcarver Garry Iles for a hands-on workshop where to shape wood into small, simple caricatures. During the 3-hour session, begin by mastering basic knife techniques and gradually explore more advanced carving methods.

This workshop is suitable for individuals of all skill levels, offering a supportive environment where creativity can flourish.

All materials supplied. Please wear closed toed shoes.

Sat 16 Aug 2025 | 10 am – 1 pm | Suitable for ages 18+

$85 | $76.5 MAC Inc. and Men’s Shed Members | Booking Essential | Refreshments Provided | The Mundaring Community Men’s Shed, 1 Morilla Rd, Mundaring WA 6073

Join exhibiting artist, Stacy Gardoll as she discusses her bold and distinct practice creating striking botanical paintings. Delve into the processes, inspirations and techniques that drive her work, learn more about Western Australia’s rich biodiversity and be inspired by with our unique botanical species as Gardoll takes visitors on a tour of her latest works.  

Sat 2 Aug 2025 | 1 – 2pm | Suitable for all ages

$5 | $4.50 Members | Booking Essential | Refreshments Provided

Please contact MAC for groups larger than 10 people

Join exhibiting artist, Ric Burkitt as he takes you on a tour of his latest exploration into landscape painting. Delve into the motivations, processes and techniques behind the collection, learn about his diversion from abstraction and discover the local landscapes that inspired him to extend his practice to further horizons.  

Sat 26 Jul 2025 | 1 – 2pm | Suitable for all ages

$5 | $4.50 Members | Booking Essential | Refreshments Provided

Please contact MAC for groups larger than 10 people

Join exhibiting artist, Pam Gray at her home studio for this three-week workshop and find the connection between nature and ceramics.

Over the three weeks forage wild clay, journal and design amongst nature, hand build and fire a unique collection of ceramic works as you experiment, learn and connect.

For more information and to book, please visit the artist’s website below.

Sat 14, 21 and 28 Jun 2025

$290 | Studio 108, Roleystone

Join exhibiting artists Cath Inman and Pam Gray for a morning tea as they take you on a tour of their collaborative exhibition, Organic Matter, followed by a guided tour through Mundaring’s natural environment as they lead participants in a materials foraging masterclass.

Experience the intimacy with nature that Cath and Pam utilise in their practice and walk away with your very own materials to begin your journey into foraged art.

Prepare to embrace the outdoors and connect.

Sun 25 May 2025 | 10am – 12pm | Suitable for all ages

$25 | $22.50 Members | Refreshments Provided | Mundaring Arts Centre Gallery 2

Limited Capacity | Booking Essential

Join us at Mundaring Arts Centre Sun 18 May for an exhibition floor talk in conversation with Lyn Woldendorp, as we celebrate the vision and impact of renowned photographer, Richard Woldendorp AM (1927 – 2023).

Surround yourself in the beauty of the Australian landscape as you learn about Richard Woldendorp’s 60-year photographic journey, his process and inspiration.

Sun 18 May 2025 | 1 – 2pm | Suitable for 16yrs +

$5 | $4.50 Members | Booking Essential | Refreshments Provided

Please contact MAC for groups larger than 10 people

Join exhibiting artists, Audrey Fernandes-Satar and Arif Satar as they discuss their cross-disciplinary artistic practice. Delve into the themes, origins and processes of their latest artistic exploration, Bird Song, as they take you on a guided tour of their new body of works.

Sat 29 Mar 2025 | 1 – 2pm | Suitable for all ages

$5 | $4.50 Members | Booking Essential | Refreshments Provided

Please contact MAC for groups larger than 10 people

Join Curator Amber Norrish in conversation with Half Time artists as they discuss the curatorial and artistic process, the themes of the exhibition and the role footy plays in their lives. 

Sun 2 Feb 2025 | 1:30 – 2:30pm | Suitable for all ages

$5 | $4.50 Members | Booking Essential | Refreshments Provided

Please contact MAC for groups larger than 10 people

Protest and Dissent in Creative Practice: Seen and Unseen

Protest and Dissent in Creative Practice: seen and unseen is the third not-so-round table conversation. Hosted by underFOOT artists Perdita Phillips and Holly Story as part of their exhibition Mélange, Patricia Watts (ecoartspace), Liana Christensen and Susie Vickery and Susan Flavell join the conversation.

Sat 28 Sep 2024 | 11:30 am– 12:30 pm | Suitable for 18 yrs +

$35 | $31.50 Members | Mundaring Arts Centre Gallery 2

Food for this event is provided by Tuck in Mate, a Southern Indian caterer based in Mundaring, all food is catered to be shared and includes a mix of vegan and vegetarian dishes. Please take personal responsibility for any allergies. Please contact Mundaring Arts Centre as soon as possible if you are no longer able to attend.

Tossed Up By The Beak Of A Cormorant

Enjoy an afternoon of cross-cultural poetry and music. Poet Nandi Chinna and Niykina Elder Professor Anne Poelina read from their stunning new poetry collection Tossed Up by the Beak of a Cormorant, accompanied by musicians. The poems explore the beauty and complexity of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River and the importance of connection to land and water.

Sat 14 Sep 2024 | 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Suitable for all ages

$25 | $22.50 Members | Mundaring Arts Centre Gallery 2

Light refreshments and drinks provided.

Tossed Up by the Beak of a Cormorant will be available for sale at the event.

Tossed Up by the Beak of a Cormorant

‘An evocative dialogue that challenges and inspires as two strong women speak to history, policy and, above all, the power and wonder of the Martuwarra.’ Ambelin Kwaymullina

Mélange is the second of three not-so-round table conversations. Hosted by underFOOT artists Annette Nykiel, Sharyn Egan and Nien Schwarz, as part of their Mélange exhibition, this conversation invites artist Ruth Halbert, Yvonne Doherty and geologist and geochronologist, Dr Michael Wingate to the table to discuss the Parallel Codes* of Mélange.

*Parallel Codes is the theme of IOTA24.

Sat 7 Sep 2024 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm | Suitable for 18 yrs + 

$35 | $31.50 Members | Mundaring Arts Centre Gallery 2

Food for this event is provided by Tuck in Mate, a Southern Indian caterer based in Mundaring. All food is catered to be shared and includes a mix of vegan and vegetarian dishes. Please take personal responsibility for any allergies. Please contact Mundaring Arts Centre as soon as possible if you are no longer able to attend.

Join Nien Schwarz on an informative tour of the Mélange exhibition, to delve deeper into the layers of meaning and geological connections underpinning the underFOOT collective’s work.

Sat 7 Sep 2024 | 11:30am– 12:15pm | FREE 

Bookings are essential

Please contact MAC for groups larger than 10 people

Sharing his passion for walking as art, Ric Spencer’s inspired drawing workshop will commence with an exploration of the Mundaring Sculpture Park. Art enthusiasts will focus on form and texture through pencil drawing, translating found objects into expressive drawings. Limited class for beginners to masters.

Thu 14 Mar | 1.00pm - 4.00pm | Suitable for 15 yrs +

$60 | $54 Members | Materials Included

Discover the beauty of botanical drawing with artist-in-residence Una Bell. Learn precision techniques, scaling mastery, and versatile mediums to create exquisite botanical illustrations. No prior experience needed.

Sat 2 Mar | 12.15pm - 2.15pm | Suitable for 15 yrs +

$50 | $45 Members | Materials Included

Join Curator Annette Nykiel as she leads a curatorial discussion in conversation with the Cultivating Slow-Making exhibiting artists. After the tour, join the artists for a discussion of textile practice over afternoon tea as part of the Cultivating Slow-Making closing event.

Sun 26 Nov 2023 | 1pm - 3pm | Suitable for 14+ yrs
FREE | Bookings essential

Seven of the ten Cultivating Slow-Making artists are Western Australian Fibre and Textile Association (WAFTA) Members. To celebrate slow making and the creation of textile and fibre art within the community, exhibiting artists Annette Nykiel (Curator), Martien van Zuilen, and Deidre Robb share their stories in a public tour of the exhibition.

After the tour, join the artists and Members of WAFTA for a discussion of textile practice over afternoon tea as part of the WAFTA Member’s gathering.

Sun 19 Nov 2023 | 1pm - 2pm | Suitable for 14+ yrs
FREE | Bookings (through WAFTA) essential