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  • Drawing Workshop: Figure – Ground

    PressWEST 29 Bowes Street, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia

    A weekend of approaches to drawing the figure, especially in relation to environmental spaces. Facilitator Mary Scott with assistance from Jenny Groves and Iris Blazely.

    $250

  • Painting Workshop: Turbine

    PressWEST 29 Bowes Street, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia

    Plein-air painting (Wind Farm Project). The finished works will be exhibited at The Unconformity Art Trail in October 2025. Artists: Raymond Arnold and guest professional artists including George Kennedy, Robert Habel, Maggie Jeffreys and Paul Gundry.

    $250

  • Handmade Books Workshop: The Book of Queenstown – Part 1

    PressWEST 29 Bowes Street, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia

    PressWEST will host three workshops where artists create handmade books showcasing Queenstown, Western Tasmania. The workshops will focus on planning, research, drawing, image collection, and printmaking. The finished works will be exhibited at The Unconformity Art Trail in October 2025. Facilitators: Leonie Oakes and Raymond Arnold  Guest Artist: Robert Doherty (Ireland/Tasmania)

    $250

  • Handmade Books Workshop: The Book of Queenstown – Part 2

    PressWEST 29 Bowes Street, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia

    Develop intaglio and relief prints from the initial drawings, with some printing and proofing.  Artist/Tutors: Michael Schlitz and Raymond Arnold Guest Artist: Damon Bird

    $250

  • Handmade Books Workshop: The Book of Queenstown – Part 3

    PressWEST 29 Bowes Street, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia

    Collect and bind prints and text from the two earlier workshops.  Facilitators: Leonie Oakes and Raymond Arnold Guest Artist: Joy Allison, the originator of The Book of Queenstown concept

    $250

  • Exhibition: The Unconformity Art Trail 2025

    PressWEST 29 Bowes Street, Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia

    The Book of Queenstown exhibition. Turbine exhibition (Wind Farm paintings). Read more about The Unconformity on their website.

    Free

  • Quilt Exhibition – Common threads

    This exhibition is a memorial to Maureen McDonald who died last year, along with an underlying belief that her work was ‘not Art’ The inspiration for Maureen to start quilting came from the annual festival in Braidwood NSW called ‘Airing of the Quilts’ where a large contingent of people hung quilts at every location possible […]

  • Exhibition – WINTER COLLECTION

    Seventy Five Small Pictures Opening Friday 5.30pm, 26th June Viewing Wednesday-Sunday 2.30pm-4.30pm until 30th August Top: Summer Murray, Julian Cooper and Arnold Weidinger Bottom: Greg Hind, Penny Burnett and Justine Wake

  • “The Fall” Fundraiser I

    “The Fall” screen print by Raymond Arnold, an edition of 20, was a fundraising project to fit out several new studio spaces within the complex of PressWEST.

  • “The Tank” Fundraiser II

    Helena completed her 17 colour screen print on a wet and cold Sunday afternoon at PressWEST. The old tank is a remnant of late 19 century mining on Philosopher’s Ridge above Queenstown in Western Tasmania. Part of the edition went towards a PressWEST portfolio and a small number of individual prints were available for sale.