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YARRA VALLEY ARTS OPEN STUDIOS 2026

Step inside the studios of the Yarra Valley's most creative minds, open for a free, self-guided journey through the arts.

Wander through the private spaces where art comes to life and experience it like never before! Meet your favourite artists, or discover new ones. See where they work, what inspires them, and how they create. Smell the paints, feel the tools, ask questions, and watch techniques unfold before your eyes.

Explore an incredible variety of art forms, including painting, ceramics, photography, mixed media, printmaking, and fibre art.

FREE ENTRY! Don’t miss this chance to step behind the scenes and celebrate creativity across the Valley.

PROGRAM DATES & TIMES:

Program Launch: Saturday 3 October, 2 - 4pm, The Memo Healesville

Open Studios Weekends: Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 October and Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 October, 10am - 5pm

Group Exhibition: Wednesday 30 September - Sunday 1 November, The Memo Healesville

Exhibition hours: Open Tuesday 5–9 pm, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 12–9 pm, and Thursday and Sunday 12–4 pm. Closed Mondays.

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Agnes Szetey

Alesh Macak (10 & 11 Oct only)

Alesh Macak (10 & 11 Oct only)

Alex Krstic

Antonia Green

Beth Williams

Bev Hardidge

Cecilia Sharpley

Cecilia Sharpley

Denise Smith

Diane Stirling

Graeme Hardidge

Graeme Hardidge

Greg Ure (10 & 11 Oct only)

Greg Ure (10 & 11 Oct only)

Jodie Westall (10 & 11 Oct only)

Jodie Westall (10 & 11 Oct only)

John Norris

Kate Baker

Kate Taylor (10 & 11 Oct only)

Kate Taylor (10 & 11 Oct only)

Laura Windmill

Lisa Male-Robertson

Lisa Male-Robertson

Mary Anderson

Mel Brigg

Minela Krupic (10 & 11 Oct only)

Minela Krupic (10 & 11 Oct only)

Monika Poray (24 & 25 Oct only)

Monika Poray (24 & 25 Oct only)

Neilma McMillan

Neilma McMillan

Savaad Felich

Serafina Munns

Tania Chanter

Ted Secombe

Terri McMillan

Ying Tang

OPEN STUDIOS ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: YING TANG

Ying's work brings together the spirit of Chinese freehand and abstraction with the foundation of Western academic sketching and realism, exploring the balance between Eastern artistic conception and Western

OPEN STUDIOS ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: TERRI MCMILLAN

Terri works mostly in oils, using colour to reference the 'beingness' of Australia's natural landforms, evoking the terrain's ancient, immortal quality as sentinel to its own story. Her practice has draw

OPEN STUDIOS ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: TED SECOMBE

Ted is regarded as one of Australia's most significant and accomplished ceramic artists and sculptors, with a practice centred on decorative work of exceptional quality and beauty. His career has spanned al

OPEN STUDIOS ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: TANIA CHANTER

Tania's practice is inspired by the beauty, rhythm and quiet wonder of the Australian landscape. Working primarily in acrylic and mixed media on canvas, she creates large scale abstract landscapes built t

OPEN STUDIOS ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: SERAFINA MUNNS

Serafina is primarily a sculptor, working in three dimensions, alongside objets d'art, craft, basketry, wands and staffs. Some pieces carry a sense of whimsy, others are deeply personal, political or soc

OPEN STUDIOS ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: SAVAAD FELICH

Savaad has been a practicing sculptor for over 45 years, working primarily in recycled timbers, carved initially with a chainsaw and chisels before the process grew into lamination, assemblage and constru

OPEN STUDIOS ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: NEILMA MCMILLAN

Neilma draws and paints to calm a restless mind, a lifelong passion she was finally able to fulfil after retiring to Healesville sixteen years ago. Mainly self-taught, though she's taken part in worksho

OPEN STUDIOS ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: MONIKA ANDREW PORAY

Monika's practice centres on Geodesia, her exploration of the geometries found in nature, expressed through drawing and oil painting. Her work traces mathematical patterns observed in plants and hum

OPEN STUDIOS ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: MINELA KRUPIC

Based in Mount Evelyn in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, Minela is a visual artist whose career spans two decades, dozens of exhibitions, and a number of grants and awards along the way. She studie

OPEN STUDIOS ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: MEL BRIGG

Mel's work reflects the difficulties of migration: loneliness, the unknown and the sadness of leaving one's country of birth. He draws inspiration from the vastness, colours and textures of the outback, and f

Yarra Valley Open Studios 2026 is presented thanks to the support of the Exhibitions and Creative Pathways Program (ECPP) by Yarra Ranges Council.

With thanks to our supporters