CULTURE | Jervis Bay Weekend

Tracey Van Oploo (right) and Jenny Robertson at the launch of A Tapestry of Country at Melaleuca Gallery Worrowing

Weave Your Way Through A Tapestry of Country at Worrowing

What began as a stress-relieving outlet for long-time Vincentia Public School teacher Tracey Van Oploo has evolved into a vibrant, narrative-driven art practice. Her debut solo exhibition, A Tapestry of Country, fills the Melaleuca Gallery at Worrowing Estate with 25 canvases celebrating local fauna, marine life and family stories. With weekend artist-in-residence sessions and deep community roots, the show offers an uplifting look at connection to coastal Yuin Country.

Reflect And Replenish: Join Local Artist Duo Stitching An Artwork

Be what you are becoming, the first live art event and exhibition by longtime artist-friends, Barbara Dawson and Natalie McDonagh, opens on Thursday 01 October 2026 in Erowal Bay. You are warmly invited to drop in, see an exhibition of new work by the artists, and join them in some mindful stitching as they create …

Care For The Mind With A Dose Of Art

A visit to Artfulmind Pop-up Gallery in the curator’s studio is much more than an opportunity to browse and buy captivating works of art and crafts—it is an opportunity for considered care for your mind and wellbeing. Doctors across the world are now prescribing a dose of arts for their proven health enhancing benefits. Visiting …

Make A Woof To Keep: Get Hands On At Artfulmind Pop-up Gallery

Find family-friendly fun at Huskisson Artisans Market, Sunday 30 August, in a special, hands-on edition of Artfulmind Pop-up Gallery. Put on your thinking cap, get assembling and discover what was involved for Liane Wilcher to design and produce her ‘My Flat Mate’ series of 3D dog heads, cleverly constructed from flat wooden pieces. Imagine you …

Read: Reconnecting Through Creativity & the Joy of Immersive Making

If you need an invitation to slow down, gather with others, and tune into your creative instincts, Arts Muster Festival might have what you’re looking for. We explore the spirit of the upcoming festival via two of the workshop tutors, maiki-jane blakeney and Greer Taylor, returning to Huskisson from 27–30 August 2026.

A Frolic At The Movies

Raid your wardrobe. Put on something you love to wear for how it makes you feel. Come along to Huskisson Pictures, 5.30pm Thursday 27 August, for a special Arts Muster Festival screening of The Dressmaker. This community event is an evening of fun, frocks and fund raising for high school student scholarships to attend Arts …

Making Magic Happen: Conjuring Connection

When you immerse yourself in one of the 12 two-day Arts Muster Workshops—29-30 August, 2026—you will experience a very particular sort of magic that happens when we make things together. Beyond the magic of our minds and hands bringing a visible, physical thing into existence, making things together conjures myriad invisible, enriching connections with ourselves, …

Get Ready For A Sensory Feast: Arts Muster Festival Is Coming This August

From 27-30 August 2026, dive into the annual Arts Muster Festival of arts + crafts workshops and cultural events. Book now. True to its founding ethos—that creativity is a vital contributor to the wellbeing of both individuals and communities—this year’s festival offers a range of novel arts experiences: two-day intensive workshops; immersive sensory experiences; the …

On set filming The Rock by Luke McLeod Ebsworth outside the old Milton Courthouse. Photo Matt Loft

Local Storytellers Bring The Rock to the Screen

The Rock premieres next week at the Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, a powerful local film celebrating First Nations storytelling, by Luke McLeod Ebsworth.

The Joy Of Art Adoptions

One of the great joys of presenting Artfulmind Gallery/Shop pop-ups is telling makers and artists their wonderful works have been adopted. Another is having the novel experience of needing to remake the gallery due to the gaps created by artworks finding a welcoming home. Artfulmind Gallery/Shop is getting a makeover this week in time for …