Art Club Term Program for Kids
Term 2 will take place from 28 April – 29 June and is packed with colour, creativity, and exciting new art projects!
Across 8 weeks, children explore 4 exciting projects, learn new skills, and how to express themselves through art.
Art Club can develop advanced drawing and painting skills through exciting and expressive projects. Students will create a detailed animal eye study, a splashing dolphin painting inspired by Christian Lassen, and a striking Perth city skyline using watercolour and fine liner techniques. They’ll also refine their sketching skills with a guided bunny drawing.
4-5pm for 5-8 yo
5-6pm for 9-14 yo
Image by Creative Kids Art Club
Life Drawing Sessions
Life Drawing Sessions – Term 2 Program (10 Weeks)
Join us for a 10-week life drawing program exploring form, movement, and expression through observational drawing. Suitable for all skill levels—from beginners to experienced artists.
Session Schedule:
Week 1 – 22 April | Model: Alissa
Week 2 – 29 April | Model: Tom
Week 3 – 06 May | Model: Maryanne
Week 4 – 13 May | Model: Nalda S.
Week 5 – 20 May | Model: Tom
Week 6 – 27 May | Model: Kieran
Week 7 – 03 June | Model: Alissa
Week 8 – 10 June | Model: Maryanne
Week 9 – 17 June | Model: Tom
Week 10 – 24 June | Model: Kieran
Develop your skills in a relaxed and supportive studio environment with a range of professional models and dynamic poses.
Limited spots available. Bookings essential via tamiesancy@bigpond.com or 0449 876 942
My Story My World: Immersive Field Creative Workshop
A series of free workshops for young people aged 12 to 25 years
Ellenbrook Volunteer Afternoon Tea In celebration of National Volunteer Week
You’re invited to a relaxed and joyful afternoon celebrating the people who make our community thrive 💛
Ellenbrook Volunteer Afternoon Tea
In celebration of National Volunteer Week
We warmly invite all our amazing volunteers, as well as volunteers from community groups across Ellenbrook and surrounding areas, to join us for an afternoon of connection, laughter, and appreciation.
Enjoy light refreshments, take part in a fun laughter yoga session, join in games, and win some lovely door prizes. We’d also love for you to share your funniest (or most memorable!) volunteering stories - because every volunteer has at least one!
This is a chance to unwind, meet others doing incredible work in the community, and celebrate the spirit of volunteering together.
What to expect:
Light refreshments
Laughter yoga session
Games and prizes
Story sharing & good company
Bring a friend from your volunteer network and come along for a well-deserved afternoon of fun.
We look forward to celebrating with you!
The event is proudly supported by the WA Labor Member for Swan Hills Michelle Maynard, Bendigo Bank and the City of Swan.
Junk Journaling /Scrapbooking workshop
A series of workshops for young people aged 12 to 25 years old during School Holidays in April.
Participants will be introduced to sustainable, waste-free, and accessible approaches to artmaking, inspiring them to nurture their creativity while developing a deeper respect for the environment around them. The workshop encourages connection to place and invites participants to see the creative potential in found materials, opening possibilities for imaginative play and making.
Facilitating Artist: Cath Inman
Random weave with Bangalow Palm
10:00am-2:30pm, 7 Apr, Tuesday
12:00-12:30pm - Lunch Break
Using the flowering stems of the Bangalow Palm, you’ll learn a fun and creative random weave technique. Create a basket, sculptural art piece, wall hanging, or anything else your imagination inspires.
Woven Jewelry
10:00am-2:30pm, 8 Apr, Wednesday
12:00-12:30pm - Lunch Break
Explore a variety of weaving techniques using paper twine and foraged plant fibers to create unique earrings, pendants, or other wearable adornments.
Palm Sheath Wall Pockets & Cordage Making
10:00am-2:30pm, 9 Apr, Thursday
12:00-12:30pm - Lunch Break
Create a sculptural vessel using foraged palm sheaths and other treasures from nature. You’ll learn how to prepare the materials, cut, hand-stitch, and embellish them with found natural elements to make a beautiful wall pocket or wearable pouch.
Using ancient cordage-making techniques, you’ll also create a strap from plant fibers to hang or wear your piece.
Swan Open Studios 2026
We are delighted to invite you to Swan Open Studios 2026, a celebration of creativity, community and the rich artistic talent, and the unique spirit of the Swan Valley.
Set among rolling vineyards, river flats and ancient gums, the Swan Valley is a place where natural beauty, rich heritage and artistic energy come together. Its blend of rural charm and thriving creative culture provides the perfect backdrop for this annual celebration of the arts.
Over nine inspiring days, artists from across the region open their studio doors to share their work, stories and creative spaces with you. From painting and sculpture to ceramics, textiles, photography and beyond, each studio offers a glimpse into the diversity and talent that defines our local arts community.
Swan Open Studios is more than an art event, it’s an invitation to explore the landscapes, people and creative pulse of the Valley. Wander between studios, enjoy local food and wine and discover how this remarkable region continues to inspire those who live and create here.
Enjoy your journey through Swan Open Studios 2026 and may the beauty of the Swan Valley inspire you at every turn.
Visit www.swan-open-studios.com to plan your journey!
My Story, My World: Weave with Bangalow Palm Workshop for Kids (5-12yrs)
A series of workshops for young people aged 12 to 25 years old during School Holidays in April.
Participants will be introduced to sustainable, waste-free, and accessible approaches to artmaking, inspiring them to nurture their creativity while developing a deeper respect for the environment around them. The workshop encourages connection to place and invites participants to see the creative potential in found materials, opening possibilities for imaginative play and making.
Facilitating Artist: Cath Inman
Random weave with Bangalow Palm
10:00am-2:30pm, 7 Apr, Tuesday
12:00-12:30pm - Lunch Break
Using the flowering stems of the Bangalow Palm, you’ll learn a fun and creative random weave technique. Create a basket, sculptural art piece, wall hanging, or anything else your imagination inspires.
Woven Jewelry
10:00am-2:30pm, 8 Apr, Wednesday
12:00-12:30pm - Lunch Break
Explore a variety of weaving techniques using paper twine and foraged plant fibers to create unique earrings, pendants, or other wearable adornments.
Palm Sheath Wall Pockets & Cordage Making
10:00am-2:30pm, 9 Apr, Thursday
12:00-12:30pm - Lunch Break
Create a sculptural vessel using foraged palm sheaths and other treasures from nature. You’ll learn how to prepare the materials, cut, hand-stitch, and embellish them with found natural elements to make a beautiful wall pocket or wearable pouch.
Using ancient cordage-making techniques, you’ll also create a strap from plant fibers to hang or wear your piece.
Make your own Pokemon Card Free Creative Workshop
Design your own Pokemon with your very own HP, moves and abilities
No registrations required.
Sugar Skulls Free Creative Workshop
Take something bare and make it beautiful. Using an outline template of a skull, add beautiful details such as designs, colour, flowers and more.
No registrations required.
MARVEL Hero Stories Free Creative Workshop
Build your own story with comic book characters in dynamic scenes, who will prevail?
Using the modality of the Hero’s Journey, seek hope!
No registrations required.
My Story, My World: Weave with Bangalow Palm Workshop (12-25yrs)
A series of workshops for young people aged 12 to 25 years old during School Holidays in April.
Participants will be introduced to sustainable, waste-free, and accessible approaches to artmaking, inspiring them to nurture their creativity while developing a deeper respect for the environment around them. The workshop encourages connection to place and invites participants to see the creative potential in found materials, opening possibilities for imaginative play and making.
Facilitating Artist: Cath Inman
Random weave with Bangalow Palm
10:00am-2:30pm, 7 Apr, Tuesday
12:00-12:30pm - Lunch Break
Using the flowering stems of the Bangalow Palm, you’ll learn a fun and creative random weave technique. Create a basket, sculptural art piece, wall hanging, or anything else your imagination inspires.
Woven Jewelry
10:00am-2:30pm, 8 Apr, Wednesday
12:00-12:30pm - Lunch Break
Explore a variety of weaving techniques using paper twine and foraged plant fibers to create unique earrings, pendants, or other wearable adornments.
Palm Sheath Wall Pockets & Cordage Making
10:00am-2:30pm, 9 Apr, Thursday
12:00-12:30pm - Lunch Break
Create a sculptural vessel using foraged palm sheaths and other treasures from nature. You’ll learn how to prepare the materials, cut, hand-stitch, and embellish them with found natural elements to make a beautiful wall pocket or wearable pouch.
Using ancient cordage-making techniques, you’ll also create a strap from plant fibers to hang or wear your piece.
Rainbow Collage Free Creative Workshop
Make your own decorative rainbow collage artwork using fabric & decorative paper.
Using waste or reclaimed resources to embrace the colourful glimmer of life - the rainbow.
No registrations required.
Forest Dioramas Free Creative Workshop
Forest Dioramas (playset)
Create your own interactive forest playset to take home with hidden treasures, pinecones, eggs and bunnies.
Seek glimmers in the forest.
No registrations required.
Opening Event: Sub Urban Language by the Collage Art Group
You are warmly invited to join us for the opening event of Sub Urban Language by the Collage Art Group.
Twelve artists from the suburbs use their unique imaginings to express the feelings that arise from their situation and existence.
Through diverse visual concepts and both traditional and experimental mediums, this body of work invites audiences to engage with suburbia in layered and unexpected ways.
From early settlements built around survival to today’s complex lifestyle choices, suburbia carries its own language—of parks, coastlines, bushland, isolation and community. As reflected in David Lynch: The Art Life, houses hold unseen stories behind lit or darkened windows. We may choose where we live, but do these sub urban undercurrents ultimately shape who we become?
How to Run a Kids/Adults Workshop with Olivia Colja
Join Olivia Colja’s How to Run a Kids/Adults Workshop session.
This session is designed for artists, facilitators, and community practitioners who want to confidently plan and deliver inclusive, meaningful workshops for both children and adults. Olivia will share proven strategies for structuring sessions, managing group dynamics, adapting activities for different age groups, and creating safe, creative environments that encourage participation and wellbeing.
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Olivia Colja is a West Australian artist, curator, and community advocate whose practice spans over 15 years. Her paintings explore relationships—with significant people in her life—and her connection to landscape. Colja has exhibited extensively, including solo shows at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Kent Street Gallery, and her critically acclaimed 2022 solo exhibition Return to the Hook at Kolbusz Space, where she is currently represented. In 2024, she presented her second Kolbusz Space solo, Blu, and her solo exhibition Panels at Brunswick Street Gallery.
In addition to her artistic practice, Colja is Executive Director of Ellenbrook Arts and founder of Abstract School for the Arts, fostering creative development for emerging artists. She has curated landmark projects such as WOMXN, supporting women and non-binary artists to share work about gender experiences, and Unseen for Inclusive Arts Week at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, featuring tactile artworks accessible to all abilities. Colja holds a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts, a Bachelor of Social Science, and a Diploma of Business, combining artistic vision with strong leadership and community engagement.
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If you are Ellenbrook Arts member you will get $5 discount. Use the code eamember at the check out.
Ellenbook Arts volunteers get a free pass. If you are our volunteer use the promocode eavolunteer to get a free ticket.
Puppet Playtime: Thelma the Unicorn by Aaron Blabey
Puppet Playtime: Thelma the Unicorn
We’re excited to welcome Spare Parts Puppet Theatre to Ellenbrook Arts for a magical Puppet Playtime session inspired by Thelma the Unicorn by Aaron Blabey.
This playful and imaginative experience invites children to step into the story through performance, creativity and shared discovery. Together, we’ll explore themes of curiosity, kindness, imagination and self-acceptance in a gentle, engaging way that supports social and emotional wellbeing.
Each 60-minute session begins with a lively, performative reading led by a professional artist, followed by three hands-on creative activities inspired by the story. These activities encourage creative play, empathy and expression, giving children space to explore ideas through making and movement. Small group sizes ensure the experience feels personal, relaxed and immersive.
About Thelma the Unicorn
Thelma is an ordinary pony who dreams of being extraordinary. When her wish to become a unicorn comes true, she soon learns that fame and glitter aren’t everything. This much-loved story celebrates being yourself and reminds us that who you are is already enough.
Written by Aaron Blabey.
Thursday 5th March 2026
09:30 - 10:30, Puppet Playtime session 1
11:00 - 12:00, Puppet Playtime session 2
The sessions will include a performative book reading featuring two of WA’s leading performers, followed by a series of creative learning activities designed to complement the themes of the book.
Running time: approximately 60 minutes
Ages: children aged 3-5 and their caregivers . Adults attending free
Location: The Grapevine Community Art Space, 1st Ave, Ellenbrook
How to Apply and Run a Solo Show with Olivia Colja. PM session
Join Olivia Colja’s How to Apply and Run a Solo Show Workshop and learn how to successfully plan and execute your own exhibition, drawing from her 15+ years of solo and group exhibition experience.
Topics include:
Developing your exhibition concept
Navigating the application process
Timeline planning and project management
Handling administration and logistics
Olivia Colja is a West Australian artist, curator, and community advocate whose practice spans over 15 years. Her paintings explore relationships—with significant people in her life—and her connection to landscape. Colja has exhibited extensively, including solo shows at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Kent Street Gallery, and her critically acclaimed 2022 solo exhibition Return to the Hook at Kolbusz Space, where she is currently represented. In 2024, she presented her second Kolbusz Space solo, Blu, and her solo exhibition Panels at Brunswick Street Gallery.
In addition to her artistic practice, Colja is Executive Director of Ellenbrook Arts and founder of Abstract School for the Arts, fostering creative development for emerging artists. She has curated landmark projects such as WOMXN, supporting women and non-binary artists to share work about gender experiences, and Unseen for Inclusive Arts Week at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, featuring tactile artworks accessible to all abilities. Colja holds a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts, a Bachelor of Social Science, and a Diploma of Business, combining artistic vision with strong leadership and community engagement.
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If you are Ellenbrook Arts member you will get $5 discount. Use the code eamember at the check out.
Ellenbook Arts volunteers get a free pass. If you are our volunteer use the promocode eavolunteer to get a free ticket.
How to Apply and Run a Solo Show with Olivia Colja. AM session
Join Olivia Colja’s How to Apply and Run a Solo Show Workshop and learn how to successfully plan and execute your own exhibition, drawing from her 15+ years of solo and group exhibition experience.
Topics include:
Developing your exhibition concept
Navigating the application process
Timeline planning and project management
Handling administration and logistics
Olivia Colja is a West Australian artist, curator, and community advocate whose practice spans over 15 years. Her paintings explore relationships—with significant people in her life—and her connection to landscape. Colja has exhibited extensively, including solo shows at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Kent Street Gallery, and her critically acclaimed 2022 solo exhibition Return to the Hook at Kolbusz Space, where she is currently represented. In 2024, she presented her second Kolbusz Space solo, Blu, and her solo exhibition Panels at Brunswick Street Gallery.
In addition to her artistic practice, Colja is Executive Director of Ellenbrook Arts and founder of Abstract School for the Arts, fostering creative development for emerging artists. She has curated landmark projects such as WOMXN, supporting women and non-binary artists to share work about gender experiences, and Unseen for Inclusive Arts Week at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, featuring tactile artworks accessible to all abilities. Colja holds a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts, a Bachelor of Social Science, and a Diploma of Business, combining artistic vision with strong leadership and community engagement.
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If you are Ellenbrook Arts member you will get $5 discount. Use the code eamember at the check out.
Ellenbook Arts volunteers get a free pass. If you are our volunteer use the promocode eavolunteer to get a free ticket.
Opening Event: A Quiet Place, solo exhibition by Harry Lea
A Quiet Place is a curated solo exhibition by Harry Lea, a collection of paintings that celebrate vibrant colour, natural beauty, and the living character of land and sea in Western Australia.
Each work invites the viewer into a moment of calm, where landscapes and seascapes come alive through Harry’s expressive brushstrokes, offering a gentle pause from the noise of the everyday.
Opening Event: Recent Works Nov 2024 - Jan 2026 by Tron Tonnessen
You are warmly invited to the opening event for Recent Works Nov 2024 - Jan 2026 by Tron Tonnesson.
Tron is an artist whose practice is shaped by a rich background in fine art and years of creative exploration.
Drawing on his training and experience across a range of media, Tonnessen’s work reflects a deep engagement with material, process and place. His results in works that balance intuition with discipline, and abstraction with lived experience.
This exhibition invites the viewer into a reflective space, where surface, gesture and structure reveal layers of meaning.
We invite you to join us to celebrate this exhibition and the continuing evolution of Tron Tonnessen’s artistic practice.
Exhibition dates: 20 Feb - 22 Mar 2026
Opening Event Small Wonders: A Collective Exhibition of Insect Inspired Art
Step into a world where the tiniest creatures take centre stage.
Small Wonders brings together a diverse group of artists exploring the beauty, complexity and quiet power of insects through painting, sculpture, photography and mixed media.
From delicate details to bold interpretations, this collective exhibition invites you to slow down, look closer and rediscover the extraordinary life buzzing all around us.
A celebration of nature, curiosity and creative perspective—proof that even the smallest subjects can leave a lasting impression.
My Bag, My Story: Upcycled Fashion Workshop
A series of workshops for young people aged 12 to 25 years old at Ellenbrook Youth Centre.
Thursdays:
3:30-5:30pm, 12 Feb
3:30-5:30pm, 19 Feb
3:30-5:30pm, 26 Feb
3:30-5:30pm, 5 Mar
3:30-5:30pm, 12 Mar
3:30-5:30pm, 19 Mar
Participants will transform old pairs of jeans into unique handmade tote or backpack designs, learning essential sewing and appliqué techniques along the way. Each bag becomes a personal artwork, a functional piece that expresses memory, identity, and creativity. Participants will design and attach fabric appliqué squares representing meaningful moments or symbols from their lives. For example, a blue square might signify the ocean from a childhood trip, while a patch of plaid could evoke family or tradition.
Why Upcycled Denim Bags?
An old pair of jeans carries stories. Denim is a fabric that remembers: softening, fading, tearing, and shaping itself around the body over time. Every crease and worn edge become a quiet record of lived experience. In this way, denim is like a second skin: it holds traces of movement, labour, and life.
Transforming an old pair of jeans into a bag invites participants to explore storytelling through fashion, not through words, but through materials. Fashion functions as a cultural language, communicating identity, belief, and history. It is a visual form of communication that both reflects and shapes culture.
Each participant will select a pair of old jeans from a shared collection. They won’t know who once wore them, but their choice will be guided by intuition- drawn to a particular shade, texture, or pattern of wear. In doing so, they connect with an existing story before reimagining it as their own.
Once their bags are sewn, participants will decorate them with fabric swatches and appliqué squares, each representing a personal memory or symbol. The result is a layered creation, a blend of past and present, collective and individual narrative, where every bag becomes a unique reflection of its maker. The bag itself carries a double meaning, as each participant quite literally carries their story on their back (or shoulder).
Art Club (9-14yrs)
Term 1 is packed with colour, creativity, and exciting new art projects!
Across 8 weeks, children explore 4 exciting projects, learn new skills, and how to express themselves through art.
For Term 1, Art Club kids can can take a journey exploring Australian Artist, John Olsen’s style. They can then create a majestic horse inspired by artist Emma Gale, followed by a year of the horse window decoration to bring in the new Chinese year. Finally, Art Club kids get to create a vibrant artwork of Australia’s iconic Luna Park.
First lesson is free.
Creative Kids Art Club (5-8yrs)
Term 1 is packed with colour, creativity, and exciting new art projects!
Across 8 weeks, children explore 4 exciting projects, learn new skills, and how to express themselves through art.
For Term 1, Creative Kids can can take a journey exploring Australian Artist, John Olsen’s style. They can then create a majestic horse inspired by artist Emma Gale, followed by a year of the horse window decoration to bring in the new Chinese year. Finally, Creative Kids get to create a vibrant artwork of Australia’s iconic Luna Park.
First lesson is free.
Reframed Horizons by Panizza Allmark
Reframed Horizons showcases Panizza Allmark’s global practice of photographie feminine, a dynamic, photographic response to the environment. In documentary photography from across the world, the overlooked, as well as familiar landscapes are transformed into sites of tension and ambiguity. Through strategies such as the use of doubling, where the ordinary appears strange and the strange unsettling familiar. This creates a dialectical vision that oscillates between the natural and constructed, presence and absence, reality and artifice. In a range of photographic series, Panizza explores the politics of the uncanny as an aesthetic practice, by challenging dominant visual narratives of people and place, exposing hidden views, and reclaiming vision as a space of resistance to the everyday.
Kids Art Workshop. Animal Factory II
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Opening Event: Reframed Horizons by Panizza Allmark
You are warmly invited to the opening of Reframed Horizons by Panizza Allmark (Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies, Edith Cowan University).
Join us in celebrating this evocative new photographic exhibition by the acclaimed artist, proudly presented as part of Fringe World 2026. This exhibition is be formally opened by Dr Theo Constantino, Director, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
Reframed Horizons showcases the artist’s global practice of photographie feminine, a dynamic, photographic response to the environment. In documentary photography from across the world, the overlooked, as well as familiar landscapes are transformed into sites of tension and ambiguity.
Through strategies such as the use of doubling, where the ordinary appears strange and the strange unsettling familiar. This creates a dialectical vision that oscillates between the natural and constructed, presence and absence, reality and artifice.
In a range of photographic series, the artist explores the politics of the uncanny as an aesthetic practice, by challenging dominant visual narratives of people and place, exposing hidden views, and reclaiming vision as a space of resistance to the everyday.
We look forward to welcoming you to Reframed Horizons.
Kids Art Workshop. Animal Factory I
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Social Story workshop
Join us for a Social Story workshop where you can create your own story to explore emotions, relationships, and everyday experiences in a fun and creative way. Suitable for children and young people.
Art Workshop for Adults
Join us for a relaxed, hands-on art workshop designed for adults of all skill levels.
Drawing inspiration from the tiny marvels of the insect world, you'll explore texture, pattern, colour and form while creating your own insect-inspired work guided by a professional artist.
This workshop encourages curiosity, close observation and creative play - perfect for beginners and experienced artists alike.
What's included:
Art materials
Guided instruction and creative prompts
A finished artwork to take home
Entry into Small Worlds: A Collective Exhibition of Insect Inspired Art following the workshop
If you're fascinated by nature, looking to try something new or simply want a creative escape this workshop offers a unique opportunity to slow down and see the extraordinary n the small.
Adults / 18+ only
My World - Zen Garden Play Kit workshop
Create your own Zen Garden Play Kit in this hands-on workshop! Perfect for kids and families, this activity encourages creativity, mindfulness, and sensory play. Suitable for children and young people.