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Project 1, Seasons of Change
Seasons of Change will focus on Portraiture, and allow participants the opportunity to develop skills in painting, drawing, photography, story-telling, and designing and installing exhibitions.
With a new workshop artists every month, the Seasons of Change program is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for residents of the Central Wheatbelt to work with Award Winning WA Artists for a fraction of the cost of traditional masterclasses.

Project 2, Slow Dusk
The Slow Dusk project will focus on sculpture and allow participants the opportunity to experiment with Art and Science combined. Working alongside local artist Chloe Flockart and Perth Artist Mikaela Castledine, participants will learn about designing, prototyping, casting, and even crocheting works of public art out of waste, and learn about how such practices can positively impact the environment .

September Artist, Andy Quilty
Andy Quilty is a multi-disciplinary artist engaged with the experience, documentation and interrogation of societal anxieties around criminality in a suburban context.

He is a Lecturer in Fine Arts at The University of Western Australia, Program Patron for the Military Art Program Australia a non-profit assisting Military Veterans through art therapy, and works across the state facilitating art workshops in schools, penal institutions, community groups and Aboriginal art centres.

Quilty has been a finalist in number of significant awards including the Hazelhurst Works on Paper Prize, Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize, Rick Amor Drawing Prize, Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA), Kedumba Drawing Award, Albany Art Prize, Joondalup Invitation Art Award, Black Swan Portrait Prize and the Salon des Refusés.

October Artist Martine Perret
Martine Perret is an internationally awarded photographic artist who was born in Paris, France, and now lives and works from her base in Margaret River. She is known for her startlingly beautiful portrayal of the Western Australian landscape, often employing aerial captures and portraiture to tell important stories of our times.  

Her approach to artistic work is based on a career in photojournalism, including a decade covering UN peacekeeping missions in conflict zones in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and Timor-Leste, and in West Africa where she documented the Ebola crisis.  

Recent projects Ngala Wongga (Come Talk) – Cultural Significance of Languages in the Goldfields and Belong – Language connecting feeling, culture, country exhibition at the WA Museum Boola Bardip, highlight the importance of First Nations languages.

November Artist Desiree Crossing

Desiree Crossing is an Australian painter, based in Perth, Western Australia. Specialising in portraiture, Desiree’s sumptuous oil paintings speak to classical painting traditions, whilst embodying an unmistakably contemporary spirit.

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Crossing studied Fine Arts at Edith Cowan University, Central TAFE, and Set and Costume Design at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. She has undertaken two artist residencies in Italy.

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Crossing has been a finalist in many of Australia’s most prestigious art awards and was the recipient of the Baldock Family People’s Choice Award at the 2021 Lester Prize for Portraiture.

Crossing exhibits regularly in Australia and abroad and her work is held within private and government collections around the world.

Sculpture Artists

Mikaela Castledine, Chloe Flockart