The Barker Art Scene

29/08/2026

Upcoming workshops for the Art Trail /school holidays / Bloom 🔎 Check it out!

We have some awesome workshops coming up during the school holidays- bookings essential!

21/08/2026

Upcoming show by Plantagenet Players
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Players are taking their new hit variety show to Frankland River! Grab your tickets before they sell out 🤩😎🤩

16/08/2026

New series of Portrait Artist of the year now screening on the ABC

14/08/2026

The Barker Art community were so generous! When I asked for donations to support my school, Albany Secondary Education Support Centre, I was overwhelmed by the generosity.
We raised $29,500 which will go towards enabling more community access for our students.
Apart from artists mentioned in my previous post, on the night I found out that local wineries, West Cape Howe Wines and Galafrey Wines also donated.
Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.😘
It was a fabulous evening!

04/08/2026

Update: Upon hanging the Gala Art today, I found a donation from another Barker artist - added to the list below🙏💖 It’s looking great, $25 entry includes food and live music and options to buy original art. Drinks from the bar is additional. Stirling Club is a licenced venue and not part of our fundraising.

My school, Albany Secondary Education Support Centre is holding an Art Gala to raise funds for our students, who deserve every chance to gain skills to enable them to lead rich, fulfilling lives.
Saturday night promises to be a great event with food, live music and lots of art and other goodies to be auctioned off. There are still some tickets left - grab them via the QR code below.
I reached out to all my arty network and asked for donations.
My personal sincere gratitude goes to the following artists for their generosity ( much love to you guys❤️)

Alexandra Spargo Andy Arnold Barry Mackie Caroline Bedford Harvey Bosch Heather Roberts Artworks Kelly Logan - Art Leah Anderson Lesley Hone Michelle Stanley and Plantagenet Potters, representing Art Chatter Gallery The Braidwood Art Studio Mitchell House Arts Centre & Mountain Country Art

With my own donation (Åsa Björk-Henderson), this totalled close to 40 paintings and some beautiful ceramics.

I know that Barker artists, Abigail Jasper Bronte Wilkes Art and Joanne Francis Creations also donated, though not via me.

This shows that the artists at the Barker Art scene are kind, considerate and Incredible generous - heartfelt thank you, to you all🙏❤️

26/07/2026

Absolutely fantastic artworks by the amazing Young Artists of The Cheeky Parrot Gallery / The Art Shed . Their studies of tonal value, learning about highlight and shade works on a curved object like a sphere are great, then moving on to their live drawing of hands and then of portraits of each other are seriously tricky tasks and they have done so, so well!
Their ceramic cool relaxing cats are full of personality and expression and centre stage of the exhibition space is the fabulous Cheeky Porongurup bus full of wobbly-headed passengers, which drew so much attention at the Art in the Porongurup sculpture trail.
Well done all! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

24/07/2026

21/07/2026

Barker will be brimming with beautiful Art, lots to see and do - Come along and enjoy!

Art Chatter Gallery Mount Barker Visitor Centre Mountain Country Art Lavender Bee Mitchell House Arts Centre Mount Barker WA Community Events & Local Chat Club Porongurup Craft Group Shire of Plantagenet The Cheeky Parrot Gallery Sayah Drummond

21/07/2026

The Cheeky Parrot Gallery 's mid-year exhibition opens this coming Saturday, the 26th of July. Their Young Artists have been channelling the favourite felines🐈🐈‍⬛ and also engaged in real life drawing. Come and support the next generation of incredible talent!

Mount Barker WA Community Events & Local Chat Club Shire of Plantagenet Mount Barker Visitor Centre Porongurup Craft Group Mitchell House Arts Centre Art Chatter Gallery Lavender Bee Narrikup Sports and Community Group Inc. Mountain Country Art

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It might be a while since we were last seen here, but our young artists have been busy preparing for their mid year exhibition and it’s looking absolutely awesome!

‘Relaxing Cats and Real Life Drawing’ opens tomorrow here at The Cheeky Parrot Gallery and you’ll be in for an absolute treat…. check out the incredible clay work and life drawing from participants aged 9-13 in our Explore, Express, Excel Young Artists Program.

Pop in and see us over the weekend: we’re open Fri 17, Sat 18, Sun 19 July from 10am to 2pm

Find us at:
The Cheeky Parrot Gallery
2 Mount Barker Road
Mount Barker WA
(directly opposite the Red Cross Shop).