Southern Art & Craft Trail

A celebration of creativity, innovation, and environmental consciousness through art.

Spanning more than 35,000 square kilometres, the Southern Art and Craft Trail is the largest of its kind in Western Australia. It showcases the creative work of over 600 artists, and more than 400 students across over 70 venues - including galleries, home studios, town halls, and schools.

Explore a wide variety of artforms from regional artists, including painting, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, printmaking, photography, woodwork, jewellery, glass art and more. Meet the artist in their studio for a more personal and multi-layered experience, and get a deeper insight into their creative process.

The following artists will be exhibiting at the Museum of the Great Southern for the 2025 Southern Art & Craft Trail:  

• Susan Merli (Painting) – Pop-Up Galleries
  • Travelling in Colourful Spaces. Susan’s exhibition features new work and well loved prints and cards. This exhibition includes mixed media, semi-tradition and outsider art.
• Julie Fletcher & Ros Jenke (Paintings) – Pop-Up Galleries
  • Julie and Ros have exhibited many times successfully in the Southern Art and Craft Trail, with their popular exhibition featuring a wonderful array of artwork of mainly local landscapes, seascapes and buildings.
• Cynthia Orr (Painting) – Pop-Up Galleries
  • Cynthia has a way of interpreting her connection to the environment in such a broad and diverse way. Her works will leave you intrigued and touched, as you walk through this new collection of contemporary artworks.
• Helen Parry
  • Quirky Pots. Helen’s ceramic works are quirky and highly decorative. She likes to play with distorted forms, wild colour and intensive pattern work to decorate hand build sculptural forms. These highly worked ornamental pieces require three firings to create the layers of colour and pattern that cover them.
• Annie Johnson (Painting) -Pop-Up Galleries
  • After the Fire and Rain: New Growth. Annie’s work explores the tension and harmony between destruction and regeneration. New growth is both a reflection and a response - a meditation on the cycles of nature, trauma and healing. Fire strips the landscape bare; rain nourishes what remains. In that quiet aftermath, something tender begins again.
• Maxine Holman (Painting) – Co-op Building
  • At One with Nature. Maxine captures the finest details in true botanical fashion with the very tip of a paintbrush. Her love of the local flora and fauna is evident in every painting. A true joy to experience.
• Phoenix Art Group (Various Mediums) – Co-op Building
  • Vibrant Visions. Fabulous art by great local talents. The Pheonix Fine Arts is a group of six visual artists, all very different in style, who cover a broad range of subjects – largely realistic, but not always - ranging from nature to landscape to portraits.