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12-27 SEPTEMBER
2026

Australia's largest open studios

Art in Abundance

Discover a wealth of creativity this spring. Join our mailing list for updates.

Find the perfect spot to recharge after a day meeting artists. Book a stay with the accommodation partners that generously support Open Studios.

Printed Event Guides are now available in Perth, and will be in the south west in August. See collections points or browse it online.

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 155 Artists this spring

155 artists will take part in our 13th Open Studios event. Browse their listings and start planning 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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Jewellery shines at Margaret River Region Open Studios

Among the 155 participating artists are eight jewellers whose work reflects a diverse range of techniques, materials and inspirations. Jeannie Carroll works primarily with solid gold and ethically sourced gemstones, including Australian-mined sapphires and opals from small family-run operations. “During Open Studios, visitors are invited into my working jewellery space — an eclectic, lived-in studio […]

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Enjoy a preview of Open Studios 2026 with these six new videos.

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Nathan Day`s interest in furniture was sparked during his high school woodwork classes. An apprenticeship with a renowned Yallingup furniture maker followed. Then ~ as the first Australian ever accepted ~ training at the Edward Barnsley Workshop in England, one of the world`s most respected schools of craft.

Twenty-five years later, Nathan Day is recognised as one of Australia`s finest furniture designer-makers, with pieces in the collections of Louis Vuitton and Apple and a purpose-built workshop in Vasse where his small, skilled team pushes the limits of what timber can do.

This spring, Nathan opens his new gallery. Rare local timbers, exceptional joinery, furniture made to last generations.

🎨 Visit Nathan @nathan_day_design during @margaretriverregionopenstudios
🕰️ 12–27 September 2026
📍 154 artists to visit ~ pick up a free event guide to plan your trip

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Nathan Day's interest in furniture was sparked during his high school woodwork classes. An apprenticeship with a renowned Yallingup furniture maker followed. Then ~ as the first Australian ever accepted ~ training at the Edward Barnsley Workshop in England, one of the world's most respected schools of craft.

Twenty-five years later, Nathan Day is recognised as one of Australia's finest furniture designer-makers, with pieces in the collections of Louis Vuitton and Apple and a purpose-built workshop in Vasse where his small, skilled team pushes the limits of what timber can do.

This spring, Nathan opens his new gallery. Rare local timbers, exceptional joinery, furniture made to last generations.

🎨 Visit Nathan @nathan_day_design during @margaretriverregionopenstudios
🕰️ 12–27 September 2026
📍 154 artists to visit ~ pick up a free event guide to plan your trip

Tom Debbo has been filling sketchbooks since he was a kid, drawing characters and creatures from his favourite films and shows. This spring, Tom shares a studio with his parents, painter Kate Debbo and sculptor Ant Debbo.

Three artists, three mediums, one family, two tin sheds at the end of a gravel path surrounded by Cabernet vines.

"With both parents being artists, I`ve had plenty of encouragement, influence, and opportunities to make and develop art of my own... My dream one day, is to create a piece or body of work that will influence someone to create works and worlds of their own."

🎨 Visit @margaretriverregionopenstudios
🕰️ 12–27 September 2026
🎨 Visit Tom @tomothy_debbs, @ant.debbo, @katedebbo and 150+ other artists this spring

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Tom Debbo has been filling sketchbooks since he was a kid, drawing characters and creatures from his favourite films and shows. This spring, Tom shares a studio with his parents, painter Kate Debbo and sculptor Ant Debbo.

Three artists, three mediums, one family, two tin sheds at the end of a gravel path surrounded by Cabernet vines.

"With both parents being artists, I've had plenty of encouragement, influence, and opportunities to make and develop art of my own... My dream one day, is to create a piece or body of work that will influence someone to create works and worlds of their own."

🎨 Visit @margaretriverregionopenstudios
🕰️ 12–27 September 2026
🎨 Visit Tom @tomothy_debbs, @ant.debbo, @katedebbo and 150+ other artists this spring

Many of you will know Rob Malcolm from Yallingup Galleries ~ the gallery he designed and built with his wife in 1987, and which has showcased regional and national artists ever since.

This spring, for the first time, Rob opens his own art studio, a beautiful space surrounded by peppermint trees and honeyeaters in Yallingup.

His practice spans more than five decades ~ painting, sculpture, furniture and photography, all shaped by a connection to the West Australian landscape. His paintings are figurative and textured, earthy in palette, often vast in scale. This particular canvas carries you somewhere deep into the outback ~ ochre plains, river gums, a salt lake shimmering in the heat.

Step inside Rob`s studio to see paintings, prints, works in progress, sculptures and furniture, and a chat with a pioneer of Yallingup`s artistic community.

🎨 Visit @margaretriverregionopenstudio
🕰️ 12–27 September 2026
📍 Visit @robmalcolm_art and 150+ other artists this spring

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Many of you will know Rob Malcolm from Yallingup Galleries ~ the gallery he designed and built with his wife in 1987, and which has showcased regional and national artists ever since.

This spring, for the first time, Rob opens his own art studio, a beautiful space surrounded by peppermint trees and honeyeaters in Yallingup.

His practice spans more than five decades ~ painting, sculpture, furniture and photography, all shaped by a connection to the West Australian landscape. His paintings are figurative and textured, earthy in palette, often vast in scale. This particular canvas carries you somewhere deep into the outback ~ ochre plains, river gums, a salt lake shimmering in the heat.

Step inside Rob's studio to see paintings, prints, works in progress, sculptures and furniture, and a chat with a pioneer of Yallingup's artistic community.

🎨 Visit @margaretriverregionopenstudio
🕰️ 12–27 September 2026
📍 Visit @robmalcolm_art and 150+ other artists this spring

Look closely at Natalie Briney`s work and you`ll start to see the layers.
Beneath the paint there`s vintage music sheet paper, embedded into the surface. Then acrylic, then intricate pointillism built up dot by dot. Then oil. And finally, gold ~ not as decoration, but as a quiet marker of illumination and inner knowing.

Meet Natalie at Flametree Wines during Open Studios, where you can watch her build the layers, ask about her muses and stay for a wine tasting, if you fancy. She`s one of 154 artists opening their studio doors this spring for art appreciators to step inside and be inspired.

🕰️ 12–27 September 2026
🎨 Visit @nataliebrineyartist ~ and 150+ other artists ~ this spring

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Look closely at Natalie Briney's work and you'll start to see the layers.
Beneath the paint there's vintage music sheet paper, embedded into the surface. Then acrylic, then intricate pointillism built up dot by dot. Then oil. And finally, gold ~ not as decoration, but as a quiet marker of illumination and inner knowing.

Meet Natalie at Flametree Wines during Open Studios, where you can watch her build the layers, ask about her muses and stay for a wine tasting, if you fancy. She's one of 154 artists opening their studio doors this spring for art appreciators to step inside and be inspired.

🕰️ 12–27 September 2026
🎨 Visit @nataliebrineyartist ~ and 150+ other artists ~ this spring

"A walk along the beach, bush or forest hike or a quiet place to sit and observe the flora and fauna is a moment in meditation. We are so lucky to live and visit here”."

That`s Sherrise Todd ~ and her paintings reflect her positivity and gratitude. Simplified shapes, bold colour, the landscapes and botanics of the South West distilled into something calm and joyful.

Sherrise is one of 154 artists taking part in Margaret River Region Open Studios this spring. Pick up an event guide, start planning your art trail and look out for the MRROS studio signs come September.

🎨 @sherrise_art
🕰️ 12–27 September 2026

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"A walk along the beach, bush or forest hike or a quiet place to sit and observe the flora and fauna is a moment in meditation. We are so lucky to live and visit here”."

That's Sherrise Todd ~ and her paintings reflect her positivity and gratitude. Simplified shapes, bold colour, the landscapes and botanics of the South West distilled into something calm and joyful.

Sherrise is one of 154 artists taking part in Margaret River Region Open Studios this spring. Pick up an event guide, start planning your art trail and look out for the MRROS studio signs come September.

🎨 @sherrise_art
🕰️ 12–27 September 2026

Harry Wykman collects ash from the fire, digs clay from the dam, and fires his pots in a wood kiln he built himself in an old shearing shed. Every kiln opening, he says, is a conversation with country, fire and earth.

Across the yard in the house at Erravilla Country Estate, Linda Cheok is doing something entirely different ~ spiral-thrown forms, tissue transfers, gold lustres and a practice shaped by residencies in Japan and a Masters in Peranakan Pottery. She also harvests clay from her own dams and has plans for more wood-fired kilns on the property.

Two potters, two styles, on the same patch of Yallingup Siding.

🕰️ 12–27 September 2026
📍 Erravilla Country Estate, Yallingup Siding
🎨 Meet Harry @harrywykmanceramics and Linda @lindacheoktan at Open Studios this spring

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Harry Wykman collects ash from the fire, digs clay from the dam, and fires his pots in a wood kiln he built himself in an old shearing shed. Every kiln opening, he says, is a conversation with country, fire and earth.

Across the yard in the house at Erravilla Country Estate, Linda Cheok is doing something entirely different ~ spiral-thrown forms, tissue transfers, gold lustres and a practice shaped by residencies in Japan and a Masters in Peranakan Pottery. She also harvests clay from her own dams and has plans for more wood-fired kilns on the property.

Two potters, two styles, on the same patch of Yallingup Siding.

🕰️ 12–27 September 2026
📍 Erravilla Country Estate, Yallingup Siding
🎨 Meet Harry @harrywykmanceramics and Linda @lindacheoktan at Open Studios this spring

Ian Dowling began a lifelong involvement with clay and fire in 1970, working with renowned potter Joan Campbell in her Fremantle studio then establishing the pioneer Greenough River Pottery workshop. His pottery began with functional vessels then developed into decorative and sculptural pieces and public art work.

Ian enjoys the observation of patterns and rhythmic surfaces in ceramics. This applies whether he’s making a small porcelain teacup, larger sculptural single forms or an arrangement of several thousand pieces.

Sharing Ian’s Margaret River studio is ceramic artist Yu-Hua Lan who works with porcelain and wild clay. In recent years she cast and reassembled Australian seed pods, nuts and bark into mesmerising sculptures. Her work continues to evolve and for Open Studios 2026 Yu-Hua explores organic forms, bringing in light and sound to her installations.

Visit Ian and Yu-Hua in their peaceful bush studio surrounded by birdlife and sculptures this spring.

🎨 @iandowlingpotter
🎨 @seeds_casting_maker

Discover an abundance of creativity when you visit Margaret River Region Open Studios this spring.
🕰️ 12-27 September 2026
📍 The Margaret River Region
🎨 155 artists to visit and meet

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Ian Dowling began a lifelong involvement with clay and fire in 1970, working with renowned potter Joan Campbell in her Fremantle studio then establishing the pioneer Greenough River Pottery workshop. His pottery began with functional vessels then developed into decorative and sculptural pieces and public art work.

Ian enjoys the observation of patterns and rhythmic surfaces in ceramics. This applies whether he’s making a small porcelain teacup, larger sculptural single forms or an arrangement of several thousand pieces.

Sharing Ian’s Margaret River studio is ceramic artist Yu-Hua Lan who works with porcelain and wild clay. In recent years she cast and reassembled Australian seed pods, nuts and bark into mesmerising sculptures. Her work continues to evolve and for Open Studios 2026 Yu-Hua explores organic forms, bringing in light and sound to her installations.

Visit Ian and Yu-Hua in their peaceful bush studio surrounded by birdlife and sculptures this spring.

🎨 @iandowlingpotter
🎨 @seeds_casting_maker

Discover an abundance of creativity when you visit Margaret River Region Open Studios this spring.
🕰️ 12-27 September 2026
📍 The Margaret River Region
🎨 155 artists to visit and meet

Let’s be honest — there’s no way you’re fitting every studio visit into one day. So why rush it? Make a weekend of it, and settle into one of these beautifully curated stays as your MRROS home base.

1. Songbird
2. Ginahgulla Olive Estate
3. Salisterra
4. Seaview
5. Injidup Bay House

For more thoughtfully considered holiday homes, visit @privatepropertieswa

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