Demonstrations

Guest Artist Demonstrations

Guest artist demonstrations are held on Saturday afternoons at the Guild studio once a month (usually the first Saturday with one or two exceptions) except in January & December. Members and the general public are welcome, and can be sure of an engrossing demonstration by a professional artist at work. The entry fee of $10.00 for members and $12 for non-members includes a delicious afternoon tea. Demonstrations run from 1:30pm to approx. 3:30pm.

2025 Artist demonstrations - 1st Saturday of the month

NEXT ARTIST DEMONSTRATION

"TREES IN CHARCOAL" with NIC KIRKMAN
Saturday 1st February from 1.30pm - 3.30pm

 

Cost $10.00 members and $12.00 non-members (including afternoon tea).
(MGoA Members Artist of the Month theme - "Trees" in any medium)

Nic Kirkman is a self-taught emerging artist. After moving to Australia, she fell into her vocation as an artist and art teacher who now teaches at Peninsula Arts Society and Malvern Artists Society.
Nic’s work is loose and impressionistic, with great energy, full of joy and movement. She’s also entertaining to watch when she does a demo, partly because she doesn’t take herself too seriously. Her charcoal drawings of trees and forests capture a quieter, moodier vibe. She views them as a secular but spiritual celebration of the cathedrals we experience in nature.
“While mostly I’m about joyful juicy colours, these charcoal tree drawings are a quiet and deeply spiritual project. They’re all about transcending chaos and uncertainty of our daily existence and rising up into clarity and purpose, and how we can experience nature as a deeply spiritual place."


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"Artist of the Month" Competition

This is also an opportunity for members to enter their art work each month for judging by the visiting guest artist demonstrator. See “Artist of the Year Award”. Members are encouraged to participate in the Competition by exhibiting their own art work in the Guild studio on demonstration days. The subject should relate to the theme specified for that month’s demonstration, listed above and in the Guild’s bi-monthly newsletter, Palette News. The medium, however is open, in order to encourage maximum member participation. Entries are judged by the guest artist, and points awarded that ultimately determine the prize winner of the Guild’s Artist of the Year competition.