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Just uploaded – draft Guide for 2025

You’re the first to know! Our draft 2025 Newstead Open Studios art trail guide has just been uploaded to our website – here’s the link.

We are keen to share this news so please spread the word to friends and via social media. We also have a postcard you might like to share too.

We can’t wait to welcome you to our studios. As well as many of our regulars, you’ll find some new artists and studios in the mix.


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Save the date!

Pencil in your visit to Newstead Open Studios in 2025 – open each day from Friday 7 March through to Monday 10 March, 10am-5pm – on Victoria’s Labour Day long weekend. A great time of year to visit this region.

At the Newstead Arts Hub, the Small Sculpture Exhibition & Prize will open on Sat 8 March with announcements of the major and youth prize winners.

Look out for our Studio Guide – available in mid-late January from our website.

Image: Selina Wilson in her studio


Only three sleeps to go …

Only three sleeps before Newstead Open Studios art trail opens! Join us Sat & Sun 20-21, 27-28 March 10am-5pm.

Visit any 6 studios to go into the draw for one of these three prizes – all examples of the work of our wonderful artists. Pick up your prize card at the first studio you visit. Download your guide and map, or pick one up from Castlemaine Visitor Info Centre, Sarah Koschak Ceramics in Newstead, or any of our studios.

For more about each artist, head to our Artists page.


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Newstead is OPEN this weekend!

A trip to Newstead and surrounds is well worth taking, to visit the talented artists in their open studios for our second weekend of open studios this Saturday and Sunday 30 and 31 March 2019, or by appointment.

The Newstead Open Studios art trail is our offering as part of the Castlemaine State Festival.

Eighteen talented artists stretching over thirteen studios open to the public. Their amazing artwork will be on display and for sale.

Come meet, chat and support these enthusiastic individuals. See them in action and be awed by their talent.

Enjoy a feast of gifted art work lovingly created:  paintings, ceramics, sculptures, photography, fibre art, mosaics, printmaking, mixed media, steel, resin and drawings. This will be an artistic banquet for all those who hunger for a relaxed and inspiring arts experience.

Your pocket guide and map to Newstead Open Studios arts trail 2019, is available throughout Newstead venues, surrounding townships and find us on Facebook, Instagram and at http://www.newsteadopenstudios.org where you can download the pocket guide and/or map.

As well, enjoy a coffee or lunch at Dig, visit the Art Salon’s Eat My Art at the Community Centre and The End of Night at the Arts Hub gallery in our beautiful railway station – its all on the Open Studios art trail map!