PADU 2025 THREE DAY FESTIVAL WEEKEND TIMETABLE
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 27 Sept 2025 | Mandurah
Presented by Ray White Mandurah
NEW SATURDAY FORMAT & TIMETABLE
Outside the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Ormsby Terrace
8.30am onwards
- Sign-in and board stamping for registered artists
- Artist’s Coffee Cart, courtesy Ray White Mandurah
- Leon Holmes Products: shop open
- Watch artists painting around the CBD, Cultural Precinct, Eastern Foreshore and Marina
11am – 3pm Young Painters Zone : FREE ACTIVITIES FOR ALL THE FAMILY
- Junior Painting Activity presented by the Mandurah Arts Festival
- Ray White Mandurah Children’s Art Activity and Face Painting
- Bendigo Bank Children’s Art Activity
- Have-a-go Watercolour Activity for Grown Ups with Xanthe Turner
- Live music with Best Friends Duo
Inside Mandurah Performing Arts Centre (ManPAC)
1pm Fishtrap Theatre (inside ManPAC)
- “Pastel Painting Demonstration” with Aaron Schuerr (USA) Register here
3pm Fishtrap Theatre (inside ManPAC)
- Presentation “From Reference Photo to Final Painting, Making a Painting Your Own”, with Michele Usibelli (USA), presented by the Mandurah Arts Festival Register here
Both sessions in the Fishtrap Theatre are included in Access All Areas Pass for fully registered artists, otherwise book on the two links above
Mandurah Performing Arts Centre, Ormsby Terrace
6pm onwards
- Bar open, food available for registered artists, with compliments Ray White Mandurah
- Feature Artist Panel Discussion
- Meet the Artists and watch the exhibition grow
- Spirit of the Landscape Exhibition, Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery
- Ray White Mandurah Door Prize
FESTIVAL WEEKEND DAY TWO | SUN 28 Sept 2025 | Pinjarra
Edenvale Heritage Precinct and Town Centre, Pinjarra
10am onwards FREE ACTIVITIES FOR ALL THE FAMILY
- Watch the artists painting along the Pinjarra Heritage Trail
- Have-a-Go Watercolour activity for grown-ups, with Xanthe Turner
- Children’s Art Activity
- Peel Growers Market
- Live Music with Best Friends Duo
- 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)
11.00am: Feature Artist Aaron Schuerr (USA): Pastel painting demonstration
1.00pm: Feature Artist Michele Usibelli (USA): Gouache painting demonstration
2.30pm: Feature Artist Leon Holmes (Aus): Oil painting demonstration
11am to 3pm: Live music with Best Friends Music Duo.
Are you a visiting Artist and need transportation to the site? Email pleinairdownunder@gmail.com to advise.
Casual Sunday Evening Gathering and Meal, Back at Mandurah
5pm – 7pm: Artist artwork delivery at Mandurah Performing Arts Centre.
6pm onwards: Artists meet at Sharkeys, Dolphin Quay Marina, Mandurah
FESTIVAL WEEKEND DAY THREE | MON 29 Sept 2025 | 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 outdoor activities or
REGISTER to PARTICIPATE AS AN ARTIST.
QUICK DRAW
Registration to paint –
Two Hour Painting Competition
29 September
Adults $20.00
ADULT Artist
Registration to paint –
Paint, exhibit and sell at all events
23-30 September
Early Bird for Adults until 31 July $95
After 31 July $120
Includes Quick Draw Registration
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 are many other paint outs, workshops and activities held before and after the festival weekend of 27 – 29 September, all designed to celebrate the art of painting outdoors.