6-11 JULY | Arty School Holiday Workshops | FREE

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FREE SWELL Sculpture Festival Arty School Holiday Workshops at The Strand Shopping Centre, Coolangatta

Join SWELL Artists these school holiday at their pop-up studio at The Strand Shopping Centre, Coolangatta.

Patterned Places with Artist, Michelle Le Plastrier

Patterned Places invites participants to explore colour, pattern and form through a hands-on creative activity inspired by the work on display “There’s No Place Like Home”. Through a process of collage, construction and experimentation, participants will transform simple materials into artworks while exploring how shapes, colours and patterns can suggest places, landscapes and imagined worlds.

Workshops run for 45 minutes, are open to all ages and are FREE! Parent supervision essential for under 16’s.

Book online to join the fun.

When | Daily from Monday 6 to Saturday 11 July, 2026
Time | 10am, 11am, 12pm
Where | SWELL Pop-Up Art Studio, The Square at The Strand, Level 1
Cost | Free

More about the artist

Michelle Le Plastrier is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on hand-built ceramics exploring identity, socio-political and environmental issues all in her signature candy coloured style.

Michelle was an artist-in-residence through HOTA’s inaugural ArtKeeper program in 2021-22 and exhibited her body of work Dopamine Days at HOTA 2023-24. She won the Environmental Art Award at the 2023 Queensland Regional Art Awards and was a finalist in the 2024 North QLD Ceramic Awards at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery..

Website www.michelleleplastrier.com
Instagram @michelleleplastrier

IMAGE: Courtesy of Artist