FESTIVAL WEEKEND TIMETABLE, ALL EVENTS ARE 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 Register here
- 1pm – 3pm So, You Want to be a Professional with Lori Putnam, presented by the Mandurah Arts Festival Register here
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
- 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
8am to 12 noon 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 are 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.