Unleash your creativity in this hands-on workshop. Design a stencil of your favorite animal and bring it to life with drawing fluid and screen filler. Print on materials like paper, a tote bag, or your own T-shirt. Bring a T-shirt and an A4 animal printout.

Thu 27 Mar 2025 | 10am - 1pm | Suitable for 10-17 yrs

$40 | $36 MAC Inc. Members | Midland Junction Arts Centre

Join WA printmaker Odile Bell for a 3-hour workshop on creating long-lasting stencils with drawing fluid and screen filler. Learn to transfer designs, print on various materials, and pick up essential tips. A great opportunity to master this skill and set up your workspace. Bring an A4 black-and-white design.

Wed 26 Mar 2025 | 10am - 1pm | Suitable for 18 yrs+

$130 | $117 MAC Inc. Members | Midland Junction Arts Centre

ARTIST AND CURATOR TALK | Happy Meals and Scooter Skids: Art from the Outer Suburbs

Midland Junction Arts Centre | West Gallery

Join artist Andy Quilty and curator Andrew Nicholls as they discuss their curatorial and artistic processes, and the intention behind Happy Meals and Scooter Skids: Art from the Outer Suburbs. Learn more about Quilty’s collaboration with Western Australian high school students, his work exploring Perth's outer suburban culture, and why it's important.

Presented by MAC Inc. and FORM Building a State of Creativity as part of Perth Festival.

Sat 22 Mar 2025 | 1 – 2pm | Suitable for all ages

$5 | $4.50 Members | Booking Essential

Image courtesy of Josh Wells Photography

Join WA printmaker Odile Bell for a 3-hour workshop on creating long-lasting stencils with drawing fluid and screen filler. Learn to transfer designs, print on various materials and pick up essential tips. A great opportunity to master this skill and set up your workspace. Bring an A4 black-and-white design.

Sun 9 Mar 2025 | 11am - 2pm | Suitable for 18 yrs+

$130 | $117 MAC Inc. Members

Explore the fusion of drawing and printmaking in this 2.5-hour workshop for youth. Using graffiti markers, relief ink, and found materials like junk food packaging and cardboard, create unique monotype prints with low-cost techniques.

Inspired by Happy Meals and Scooter Skids: Art from the Outer Suburbs as part of Perth Festival shown at MJAC from Sat 1 Mar 2025, this hands-on session delves into the creative processes behind the exhibition by Andy Quilty and students from Youth Futures Community School Midland, Armadale Senior High School and Warnbro Community High School.

Sat 8 Mar 2025 | 1pm - 3:30pm | Suitable for 12 - 18 yrs

$5 | $4.50 MAC Inc. Members | Materials Provided.

Image: Andy Quilty and Youth Futures Community School printmaking workshop at Midland Junction Arts Centre, 2024. Photo by Duncan Wright.

Explore the combination of intuitive mark-making and low-fi materials to create unique monoprints in this 2.5-hour workshop for adults. Using graffiti markers, relief ink, and found materials like junk food packaging and cardboard, you’ll experiment with low-cost, expressive and efficient techniques to investigate the intersection of drawing and printmaking.

Inspired by Happy Meals and Scooter Skids: Art from the Outer Suburbs on show at MJAC from Sat 1 Mar 2025, as part of Perth Festival, this hands-on session offers insight into the creative processes behind the exhibition by Andy Quilty and students from Youth Futures Community School Midland, Armadale Senior High School and Warnbro Community High School.

Sat 8 Mar 2025 | 9:30am - 12pm | Suitable for 19yrs+

$55 | $50 MAC Inc. Members | Materials provided

Image: Andy Quilty and Youth Futures Community School printmaking workshop at Midland Junction Arts Centre, 2024. Photo by Duncan Wright.

Join WA Printmaker Kristy Scaddan for a 3-hour, hands-on workshop exploring 2 forms of printmaking. Combine the art of pigment transfer and monotype using elements of nature and photography. This workshop is perfect for beginners and highlights two process-based approaches to printmaking. Experimentation will begin with layering photographs using the image transfer method while finishing your piece with painterly monotype creating one-of-a-kind prints.  

Sat 2 Nov 2024 | 11.00am - 2.00pm | Suitable for 15 yrs +

$85 | $76.50 Members | Materials provided

SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOP

Join Ann Ong, a letterpress extraordinaire, for a fun 1.5-hour workshop. Create unique designs with Lego tiles and a traditional letterpress. Bring an apron or old shirt for inky fun. Don't miss this creative experience!

Thu 26 Sep 2024 | 10.00am-11.30am | Suitable for 8-12 yrs

$25 | $22.50 Members | Materials provided

Join WA Printmaker Kristy Scaddan for a 3-hour bookbinding workshop. In this introductory course, students will learn two binding techniques to explore the art of and process of stitching and constructing journals, sketchbooks, zines and artists’ books. 

Sun 26 May 2024 | 12.00pm - 3.00pm | Suitable for 15 yrs +

$75 | $67.50 Members | Materials included.

Join WA Printmaker, Kristy Scaddan in this hands-on, 3-hour workshop of intuitive mark making to create one-of-a-kind painterly monotype prints.  

Sun 19 May | 12.00pm - 3.00pm | Suitable for 15 yrs +

$65 | $58.50 Members | Materials included

Using the techniques of drypoint and chine-collé, explore diverse ways of representing landscape. Experimenting with linear drawings, gestural marks, colour, layers and collage methods create multilayered unique prints using an etching press.

Sat 18 Feb 2023 | 11am - 2pm | Suitable for 10+ yrs
$50 | $45 members | Materials included

Experimenting with drawing techniques and printing from found objects such as leaves and dry flowers, create a collaged artwork that responds to the surrounding environment. Play with colours and layering to produce multiple prints.

Sat 28 Jan 2023 | 10am - 1pm | Suitable for 6+ yrs
$50 | $45 members | Materials included

Explore the versatility of screenprinting and repurposed fabrics in this half-day workshop with Extricate artist Isaac Huggins. Make your own unique stencil design to enhance your fabric or clothing or use one of Isaac's pre-made paper stencils as you explore various silkscreen techniques, including paper-stencil printing, layering, how to achieve colour blending/gradients and the benefits of under-painting and post-print embellishments. 

Sat 27 Aug 2022 | 12pm - 3pm | Suitable for 16+ yrs 
$100 | $90 members | BYO found garment or fabric - prewashed, natural, untextured, mid/heavyweight fabrics are most suitable 
Midland Junction Arts Centre, 276 Great Eastern Hwy (Corner of Cale St) Midland WA

Images: By Isabelle Haubrich and courtesy of Isaac Huggins

Artist in residence Marina van Leeuwen will guide you through a range of fun art processes as you create your own special 'time capsule' book. Reflecting on your past, present and future, you will explore mixed media processes, including collage, gelli printing, oil stick, wax resist and watercolour drawing and create a concertina artist book to treasure.

Thu 7 Jul 2022 | 2pm - 4pm | Suitable for 8-14yrs
$65 | $58.50 members | Materials included, participants are invited to bring images or photos they would like to refer to
Midland Junction Arts Centre, 276 Great Eastern Hwy (Corner of Cale St) Midland WA

Image: Courtesy of Marina van Leeuwen

Collage, monoprint, frottage and transfer techniques meet charcoal, ink and gesso in this 3 hour workshop with artist in residence Marina van Leeuwen. You'll experiment with both drawing back into old prints or tests to create something new, and using print as a foundation for drawing works. 

Thu 2 Jun 2022 | 6pm - 9pm | Suitable for 16+ yrs
$65 | $58.50 members | Materials supplied

Image: courtesy the artist

Discover lino print and Western Australia’s unique flora in this school holiday workshop with Artist in Residence Luke Morgan. Create a simple carving inspired by the wide range of plants that can be found in our own backyard and experiment with layers, colour, text and different papers.

Thu 14 Apr 2022 | 10am - 12pm | Suitable for 5 - 12yrs
$35 | $31.50 members | Materials supplied

Explore lino printing with Artist in Residence Luke Morgan in this 1-day workshop. Luke will guide you through adapting a reference image into a suitable design before carving and printing your artwork. 

Sat 2 Apr 2022 | 10am - 3pm | Suitable for 16+ yrs
$75 | $67.50 members | Materials supplied

Discover the rich tradition of hand papermaking with Ingrid Mulder of Crow Mountain Paper. Transform recycled paper and pre beaten Japanese fibres into beautiful paper whilst learning about traditional western and eastern sheet forming, moulds and deckles, pressing, drying and decorative effects.

Sat 26 Mar | 12pm - 5pm | Suitable for 13+ yrs 
$85 | $76.50 members | Materials supplied 

Image: Photograph by Susie Blatchford.

Create your own unique textile design using block printing with Monika Lukowska in this hands-on 3-hour class. You will learn how to design, carve and print your own block on tote bags and calico whilst experimenting with colour, composition, and layering. Suitable for beginners and artists looking to extend their skills.

Monika is a printmaking artist and academic from Poland currently based in Perth, Western Australia. She works as a sessional academic and research assistant at Curtin University, is a Print Council of Australia Representative for Western Australia and a co-founder of Print Lab Australia.

Thu 24 Feb 2022 | 6pm - 9pm | Suitable for 16+ yrs
$75 | $67.50 members | Materials supplied 

Image: courtesy the artist