12 - 27 September 2026
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12-27 SEPTEMBER
2026
Australia's largest open studios
Art in Abundance
Discover a wealth of creativity this spring as 152 artists open their studios. Pick up a printed Event Guide to plan your art crawl or browse it online.
Find the perfect spot to recharge after a day meeting artists. Book a stay with the accommodation partners that generously support Open Studios.
Following your art adventure, share your feedback in our visitor survey and you’ll go in the draw to win a $4,000 Private Properties experience, thanks to our presenting partner. Complete the survey for a chance to win.
12 - 27 September 2026
Mark your diaries, block out the beach house or book your favourite down south digs and tell your friends.
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Meet 152 Artists this spring
152 artists are taking part in our 13th Open Studios event. Browse their listings and plan your art adventure.
Meet the 2026 Artists
Voted Best Event in Australia (almost)
MRROS won silver in Events & Festivals at the 2024 Qantas Australian Tourism Awards. The first arts event to ever carry off such a prestigious award.
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Potter puts his art to work for local soup kitchen
Margaret River Region Open Studios artist Ian Dowling is turning his craft into community connection, coordinating the creation of handmade bowls for the fundraiser – Margaret River Soupie. Twenty seven artists (12 are involved in MRROS) are involved, donating bowls for a one-off feast and providing ceramic artwork for a concurrent month-long exhibition at Nala […]
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MRROS is over for another year, which has us feeling a little blue.
A year is a long time to wait to experience the joy of visiting studios again 💙
If you`re feeling the same, we recommend a visit to Confluence, the group exhibition of 80 Open Studios artists at Saltwater Gallery in Busselton. It runs until 4 October.
Each artist has presented a single work that represents their unique style. Explore painting, sculpture, ceramics, glass, textiles, photography, jewellery, printmaking, woodwork and mixed media.
Confluence Artists
Georgia Zoric
Chloe Wilder
Britta Wilson
Noa Williams
Annie Winchcombe
Barbara Weeks
Trish Waters
Kirsty Watkins
Pier Paolo Vittone
Andrew Tremain
Lee-Anne Townrow
Heather Thomson
Ian Thwaites
Sherrise Todd
Luke Sutherland
Mary-Lynne Stratton
Sue Smorthwaite
Kevin Singer
Karen Seaman
Tammy Scott
Jerome Rouw
Heloise Roberts
Martine Perret
Holly Perry
Patty Pearce
Leon Pericles AM
Martin Pavey
Peter Noble
Chester Nealie
Shelley McNab
Ian Mutch
Heidi Emma Mullender
Linda Moran
Delfina Monteverde
Rochelle La’Brooy-McIver
Fran Koenig
Kim Kiosses
Emily Jackson
Sam James
Jill Jardine
Melanie Jarman
Kate Jones-English
Karl Heussenstamm
Myles Happ
Deanne Haddow
Francesco Geronazzo
Kay Gibson
Suzy French
Tanya Flynn-Wood
Christian Fletcher
Mandy Ferreira
Moira Fearby
Amanda Evans
Gregory Dunkling
Ian Dowling
Bev Doig
Gina Denford
Charlotte DeLatte
Nathan Day
Eleanor Davies
Dee Credaro
Christine Cresswell
Robyn Collins
Kim Clarke
Morgane Chebahi
Eva Cassini
Silvia Busetto
Deidre Bruhn
Jacqui Brown
Julie-Ann Brown
Dawid Brzezinski
Karina Buckingham
Lynne Boladeras
Vicki Beven
Caroline Bannister
Matt Almera
Richard Aitken
Carmen McFaull
Yu-Hua Lan
Mirella Prolongeau
Richard Aitken
Thank you to @SaltwaterBusselton and @CityBusselton for supporting artists in such a meaningful way.
📸 @abbymurrayphotography
✨Complete the survey for the chance to win a $4,000 Private Properties Experience✨
We’d love to hear about your Open Studios experience, and any suggestions you’d like to share. Not only will you help us plan next year’s event and secure vital partnerships and grants, you’ll go in the draw to win a $4,000 @privatepropertieswa experience thanks to our generous presenting partners.
Complete the survey at mrropenstudios.com.au/win
The most difficult part will be choosing just one of their gorgeous holiday homes! Pictured here~
✨ Salisterra, Eagle Bay
✨ Injidup Bay House
✨ Songbird
You visit Open Studios and find 152 artists invite you into their shearing sheds, converted stables and creative homes, all the way from Busselton to Augusta.
Open Studios finishes tomorrow, so don’t miss this last opportunity to see artists at work, be inspired by their creative processes and maybe buy something special to take home.
Open Studios finishes Sunday ~ this weekend is your last chance to visit 🌿
If you haven`t yet detoured down one of the region`s quieter back roads, now`s the time. Diana Bostock`s farmhouse studio, surrounded by a rambling cottage garden, is a hidden delight with plenty to see. Her paintings are realistic and detailed ~ fish, birds, flowers, and this year a series painted onto old plough discs.
🎨 Open Studios ends Sunday 27 September
🎨 Visit 152 artists from Busselton in the north to Augusta in the south
🎨 Celebrate the beauty of handmade, buy direct from artists
Open Studios finishes Sunday ~ and one studio still on our list is where mother and daughter Helga Seward and Inessa Brock have been making very different art side by side all fortnight.
Helga is a book illustrator ~ her work is whimsical, dreamy and full of personality: watercolour drawings, oil paintings, and hand-sewn dolls in outfits inspired by the 60s and 70s. Her daughter Inessa works in textured oils ~ palette knife landscapes of the Margaret River region, capturing light, atmosphere and quiet emotion.
Take a creative art crawl across the Margaret River region ~ Last chance this weekend.
🎨 1 & 2 @inessabrock_abstraction. 3 & 4 @helgamseward. 5 - Inessa and Helga at work
Just three days left of Open Studios ~ don`t let the weekend pass without a few more visits 🎨
Deidre Bruhn works in mixed media ~ paper, collage, layers of paint and texture built up and broken down again until something unexpected emerges. "The joy for me is the serendipity and the totally unexpected outcome from working intuitively."
🎨 @dab.mixedmediaart
🎨 Margaret River Region Open Studios ends Sunday 27 September
🎨 Pick up an event guide, browse all artist listings on the website, or just look out for Open Studio signs
Three days left ~ and there`s still so much to see 🎨
Patty Pearce came back to painting after a full life of nursing, midwifery, raising a family and seeing the world. Her art teacher in secondary school was the celebrated WA painter Robert Juniper ~ and his encouragement never quite left her. From 2015, she returned to oils and acrylics with a focus on large blooms and birdlife, capturing the joy on canvas.
🕰️ Open Studios ends Sunday 27 September
📍 152 artists across the Margaret River region, from Busselton in the north to Augusta in the south
Soleil Heimlich and Madison Eoff share an eclectic studio space in Cowaramup’s light industrial area. We visited in a quiet moment and had a chance to hear about their processes.
Soleil makes art from beach debris, scissoring marine rope and combining colours to make ‘paint’ which she glues and heats to create a scene. @artbysoleilheimlich
Madison uses the ancient lost wax technique with gold, silver and precious gems. No two pieces are the same, and she hopes they’ll be treasured for generations. @madisonmieldorjewellery
With just three days to go, there’s still time for an Open Studios art crawl 🎨
