RECAP OF THE FESTIVAL WEEKEND TIMETABLE, ALL EVENTS WERE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Workshops, paint outs, exhibitions, awards & prizes, free demonstrations and artist talks. This festival celebrates everything to do with outdoor painting.  All ages, all mediums, all skill levels.

Come and paint, or come and watch!

FESTIVAL WEEKEND DAY ONE   |   Sat 21 Sept 2024   |   Mandurah 

Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Ormsby Terrace

8.30am onwards

  • Artist registration and board stamping for participating artists
  • Continuous Morning Tea – Coffee Cart, courtesy Ray White Mandurah
  • Leon Holmes Products: shop open

Fishtrap Theatre Workshops and Presentations:

  • 10.00am – 12pm Portrait Painting Demonstration with Tony Robinson
  • 1pm – 3pm So, You Want to be a Professional with Lori Putnam, presented by the Mandurah Arts Festival

Outside Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Boardwalk Precinct and Dolphin Quay Marina

3pm – 6pm, free activities:

  • Watch the artists painting outdoors
  • Have-a-go watercolour activity for grown-ups, with Artists Robyn Lowry & Roy Harris
  • Bendigo Bank children’s painting activity
  • City of Mandurah Youth Art Zone
  • Ray White Mandurah children’s art activity and face painting
  • Live Music

Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Ormsby Terrace

6pm onwards

  • Bar open, food available for registered artists, with compliments Ray White Mandurah
  • Live music
  • Feature Artist Panel Discussion
  • Meet the Artists and watch the exhibition grow
  • Spirit of the Landscape Exhibition, Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery

FESTIVAL WEEKEND DAY TWO   |   SUN 22 Sept 2024  |   Pinjarra

Edenvale Heritage Precinct and Town Centre, Pinjarra

9am to 1pm  Peel Produce Market

10am onwards

  • Watch the artists painting along the Pinjarra Heritage Trail
  • Have-a-Go watercolour activity for grown-ups with Artist Robyn Lowry
  • Children’s art activity with Artist Suzy Galloway
  • Nu.Arts Collective at Liveringa Gallery
  • Roger May Machinery Museum
  • Pinjarra Patchwork and Quilters
  • Murray Districts Historical Society
  • Pinjarra Arts Hub Shop

Feature Artist Painting Demonstrations

(check exact locations at the Bendigo Bank Marquee)

11am             Tony Robinson: People in the Landscape

1pm               Lori Putnam: Being Bold, Not Sloppy

2.30pm          Leon Holmes: Capturing the Light

12 – 4pm       Live music with Best Friends Music Duo

Oceanic Bar & Grill, Mandurah

6pm onwards:

Artists meet at the Oceanic Bar & Grill in Mandurah

Optional nocturne painting

FESTIVAL WEEKEND DAY THREE   |   MON 23 Sept 2024   |   Mandurah

Mandjar Square, outside the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Ormsby Terrace

8.00am onwards       Coffee and breakfast van on site

8.30 – 9.30am            Quick Draw registration and board stamping for participating artists

10am to 12 noon      Two Hour Quick Draw Painting Competition

12.15 – 1.00 pm         Quick Draw Judging, Awards, Easel Exhibition and Sales

Inside Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Ormsby Terrace

1.30pm  onwards

  • Festival Art Exhibition Opens
  • Major Awards Presentations
  • Artwork sales
  • Door prize presented by Mandurah Performing Arts Centre

Ticket Information:

FREE to attend the three-day festival and watch all activities or REGISTER to PARTICIPATE AS AN ARTIST.

QUICK DRAW

Registration to paint –

Two Hour Painting Competition

23 September

Adults $20.00

ADULT Artist

Registration to paint –

Paint, exhibit and sell at all events

17-24 September

Adults $77.50

Youth Artist

Registration to paint –

Paint, exhibit and sell at all events

Aged 18 and under

$10.00 Includes Quick Draw registration

In addition to the above, there were many other paint outs, workshops and activities held before and after the festival weekend of 21 – 23 September, all designed to celebrate the art of painting outdoors.

Extended four week program of activities