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Our latest exhibition "New Horizons" was setup on Monday. This exciting exhibition from some of our very talented artists contains some expressive and individual art. There is a mixture of art for sale, a few works in progress (obviously not for sale) and some pottery from the children who attended our holiday programme.

We are delighted to be bringing renowned Sydney Art Educator Mitzi Vardill to Perth for a week in April. Check out her website here and click here for workshop details

Happy New Year everyone - we open again today and looking forward to our SUmmer School starting next week.

The gallery will be closed for 3 more days as we will be doing a bit of maintenance but John and Angie will be here on Saturday and Sunday Jan 7 and 8 with their Art Collectors'Fair.

Term 1 enrolments are well and truly open so give us a ring asap (9330 2800) to secure your place
 

The winners of our 2011 MCAA Awards were announced last Friday and the Mayor of the City of Melville, Mr Russell Aubrey presented the prizes to winners from age 4 up to well into their eighties.

Paula Wiegmink took out the Best in Show for her magnificent artwork "Who's the Boss". Well done Paula.

The gallery looks fantastic and there is a huge range of original artwork for sale - the exhibition continues until Sunday August 28th so help us to spread the word.....

Just got home from the opening of The Body Beautiful, a fantastic exhibition by artists from the Sunday Life Drawing Group. Ian de Souza gave a very complimentary opening speech and Howie Smallman (one of the artists) and friends entertained the crowd with their music (The Hips).

If you get a chance, call in to see the exhibition and talk to the artist on roster in the gallery. They are open extended hours, 9am - 8pm until Friday, 9am - 4pm Saturday and 1-4pm on the last day, Sunday August 7.
 

We're just setup our first ever End Of Financial Year Sale



and there's some fantastic art in the gallery going out at very reasonable prices. Call in and see us soon
 

The winner of the Gillian Kaye Peebles Art Award of Excellence at the Atwell Youth Awards is Ange Punyapati from Penrhos for her artwork "Fruit of the Womb". Well done Ange and all the other young exhibitors.
 

MUST SEE ... The gallery looks great as we've just been setting up the Atwell Youth Awards for 2011. This annual award for young artists of high school age is one of the highlights of our year and we are always amazed by the standard of work received.

This year we have over 160 entries from 15 schools as well as 4 private entries. The award presentation will be tomorrow night at 6:30 for 7pm. If you can't make the opening be sure to drop in before the exhibition winds up on Thursday June 23.
 

We've just been setting up a new exhibition in the gallery - "Faces and Places"
which includes a feature wall from one of our Tuesday morning painting groups. It also includes a silent auction of a painting donated by member and volunteer Marlowe Astrie "Fukushima - My Home". Although this painting started out as an abstract, Marlowe was so moved by images of the disaster in Japan that somehow it changed into a powerful image depicting the grief of the Japanese people, Marlowe is wanting to raise funds for Japan so all proceeds from the painting sale will go the the Red Cross Japan and Pacific Disaster 2011 Appeal.
 

Happy New Year everyone - we've had a wonderful Summer School and are now preparing for the start of Term 1.

We're also delighted to announce that we will be bringing Judy Pomroy over from Queensland as our next visiting artist. She will run 3 workshops at the beginning of March - click here for details.Judy has been here before and her workshops are lots of fun. She is very generous with her knowledge so book in soon. And for those of you that can't make her workshop, Judy has agreed to do a painting demonstration at our Lunchtime in the Gallery on March 9 <flyer>
 

Summer School programme now available as well as pre-Christmas workshops and January school holiday programme for children and
term 1,2011 programme for adults and children.

We will be setting up for our Members' Christmas Bazaar tomorrow morning - always a buzz in the Gallery for this one. Why not call in soon and do some Christmas Shopping at Atwell Gallery?

We've had a busy day setting up our feature exhibition "Beyond the Nile" - art inspired by ancient Egypt (in partnership with the Ancient Egypt Society of WA). The gallery looks amazing with a variety of media. The exhibition will be officially opened on Thursday Nov 4 at 6:30pm - visitors welcome.

We've just heard that John Turton, our visiting interstate artist for Summer School in January has a new website. So click here to see his fantastic colourful work and ring 9330 2800 to sign up for his Summer School workshops "Possibilities"

The gallery reopened today and its looks great! And its a fantastic exhibition on display - the Roberts Collection (see invitation below). Its on until Sunday August 8 so try and call in over the next couple of weeks - opening hours Mon-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat and Sun 11am-4pm....

This week our Gallery has been turned into workshop space; several of our members enjoyed an inspiring four days at a masterclass with popular Eastern States watercolourist Greg Allen.

Now its turning back into a gallery for this weekend only

The winners of the eighth annual
Atwell Youth Awards
were announced tonight - congratulations to everyone involved - its a fantastic exhibition.

The winner of the Gillian Kaye Peebles Award of Excellence for 2010 is Katherine Winslade from Penrhos College for her amazing mixed media artwork "Love Muscle (Dilectio Lacertosus)". The judge (Jillian Roberts) said "The effort required is enormous in combining different media in this artwork. From the very original concept through the complex construction …. this is a very creative, skillful and amazing artwork - well done indeed". As well as a prize awarded on the night, Katherine's name gets added to the perpetual trophy and becomes part of history!

For full results and judges comments click here

The exhibition is on display until Thursday June 24 so hurry in and have a look.

The eighth annual Atwell Youth Awards are currently on display in the Atwell Gallery and they are STUNNING. The award presentation is tonight so the excitement is building. I'm glad I wasn't the judge. The Youth Awards (an open exhibition for high school age artists) is one of the highlights of our year so please try and call in - the exhibition finishes at the end of next week. You'll need to come in on or before Thursday 24th to see the complete exhibition.

nb Term 4 information will be on the website next Wednesday.

Alfred Cove Art Society's 11th Annual "Awards of Excellence" exhibition opens tonight and the gallery looks really good. It's only on until Sunday (Mothers' Day) so call in soon. They have one section of small paintings that make excellent gifts.
 

Term 1 finishes Thursday April 1. Where has the year gone?

Term 2 start April 19 for adults and April 27 for children - programmes now available. Click here to go to classes info. This Sunday we have a workshop "Impressionism in Soft Pastels" with Jana Vodesil-Baruffi. There are still spaces available - ring 9330 2800 for more information.

We are looking forward to our Atwell Youth Awards in June - this award is open to any young artist of high school age. Click here for more information and to download an information pack and entry form

This week our gallery has been full of artists attending 2 workshops by Eastern States artist John Turton - and what a colourful affair it has been. The next artist that we are bringing over is popular watercolourist Greg Allen in July. We are also delighted that international pastellist Margaret Evans will stopover in Perth for a couple of days to run a workshop at Atwell on November 15 and 16.

This weekend in the gallery we have an investment art sale to be followed on Monday by works created as part of Artists By the River project (funded by Disabilities Services Commission, City of Melville, Fairholme Disability Support Group and Freemasons WA). Please call in and see what the project is all about and what the artists have been doing. Click here to go to our gallery programme

Our Xmas Bazaar is well underway with many excellent value gifts for that special person. The gallery hours are 10am to 4pm up until Dec 23 (except 1-4pm on Sunday Dec 20).

We will be closed from 4pm on Dec 23 re-opening at 9am on Wednesday, January 6, 2010.

Merry Christmas

and a Happy New Year



See you in 2010

Next Sunday, December 13, the Heathcote Artists are having a Festival Of Arts. Please come along and bring your friends - the artists would love to meet you.

We have a gallery full of paper pulp artworks at the moment by Chilean artist Umberto Alfaro - and they look amazing.

The exhibition, "PULPitations VI" is only on until Sunday so hurry in and see it soon. Opening hours are 10am - 5pm daily

Our exciting SUmmer School programme is now available but book in early as places are filling fast - in fact the Colley Whisson workshops are already booked out but we are taking names on a waiting list. For more detailed flyers go to our Summer School page

Currently in the gallery we have our kidz art end of year exhibition "Celebration of Youth" and some of the work is amazing. Well done everyone and to all our wonderful teachers.

The gallery is ABUZZ with QUILTS and looks stunning.

Quilting Companions are having an exhibition and sale of their work for this week only - hurry on in. Quilters in attendance at all times and they just love talking about their work!
 

Debra Scidone's "Eclectic" collection of beautiful artworks are on display this week and Debra will be artist in residence all week so call in and have a chat to her or just watch her at work.

Debra is one of our members and also one of our Heathcote artists

Yesterday was the first day of term 4 and it was somewhat chaotic, culminating in the opening of the exhibition "Family Affair" with a range of beautiful artworks from Pam Lockwood and her niece, Aimee Howard.

Pam teaches "Watercolour Landscapes" (on a Monday night or a Saturday morning) and of course you can see some of her own traditional landscapes in this exhibition. She also has some bright colourful abstract acrylics on canvas which look sensational in the gallery. Alongside these are the exquisite figures of Aimee Howard - hard to believe she is only 18 years old!

This must-see exhibition is only on for a week so call in and see it soon - it finishes at 4pm on Sunday Oct 18.
 

We've been setting up the Atwell Youth Awards exhibition in the gallery and as usual, the young artists have really given us something to think about. The judging is tomorrow morning and the award presentation is on Thursday evening at 6:30. Please come along to see the exhibition - it's on until Sunday June 28.

July School Holiday programme now available for 6 to 14 year olds - click here for flyer

Entries for the 7th Annual Atwell Youth Award close this Friday, June 5. This is an open award for any young artist of high-school age - entries can be private or through a school. Click here for more information.

Alfred Cove Art Society's Awards of Excellence exhibition is on display in the Gallery until this Sunday (June 7) so hurry in and take a look - there are over 100 original artworks for sale in a huge variety of styles. Certainly something for all tastes.

The Judy Pomroy workshop on this weekend is booked out with a waiting list - we are looking forward to having a great time. The 16 participants were all invited to display work in the gallery and 12 have taken us up on the offer. It's a really interesting exhibition of watercolours and mixed media work.

Announcing "Creative Connections" - some of our artists will have an exhibition at Victoria Park Centre for the Arts from July 3 to 20 followed by some of their artists exhibiting at Atwell from September 21 to October 11, 2009 - more details soon.

We have a few short courses starting after the long weekend - click here to go to the  classes information

Our Heathcote artists will be involved in an Open Day on Easter Sunday (April 12, 2009) - click here for a flyer

The gallery looks good and the exhibition's only on for this week so they'd love to see you in the gallery soon

Term 2, 2009 Programmes for art classes for adults and children now available. Click here for the adults programme and here for the children's programme, make your choice then ring 9330 2800 to enrol.

Hot off the press - Queensland artist Judy Pomroy will do a weekend workshop at Atwell House on May 23 amd 24, 2009 ... watch this space for more details. Click here for Judy's website

The information packs for the 2009 Atwell Youth Award will be available on Thursday March 26.

The Continence Advisory Service's annual Art Award and Exhibition "Water Works III" is on in the Atwell Gallery until Sunday March 29. It's bright and colourful and well worth a look so call in soon.

Our popular Lunchtime in the Gallery programme (on the 2nd Wednesday each month from February to November) starts up again on Wednesday February 11 at 12 noon. Our first presenter this year will be Ron Bradfield Jnr from Artsource and his topic will be "Connection to Country" - click here for flyer.

Happy New Year to one and all. Our Summer School started yesterday with workshops in Mosaics (with Robyn Varpins) and pastels (with D'hange Yammanee) and we are looking forward to seeing Tony Windberg this week for 4 days of "Drawing Outside the Square". There are also children's classes on every day his week and next. Ring 9330 2800 for more details.