Keep Your Practice Moving
Membership supports your ongoing creative development so you can stay engaged, inspired, and consistently making work over time.
Show up consistently. Make work. Build momentum.
TAR Membership Benefits
A Membership designed to support your ongoing creative practice – through learning, connection, opportunities, and consistent engagement with your work.
Learn & Develop Your Practice
Access a growing library of 70+ professional development videos, including artist talks, workshops, lectures and Q&A sessions designed to support your creative growth.
Stay Connected
Attend exclusive member events and stay part of an active community of artists who are also developing their practice.
Share Your Work
Take part in our annual Members Exhibition – an opportunity to exhibit your work and be part of a wider creative community.
Create More Consistently
Stay engaged in your practice with ongoing access to ideas, inspiration, and opportunities that encourage regular making and momentum.
Explore & Be Inspired
Borrow books from our studio library and continue expanding your thinking and creative approach.
Save on Learning
Enjoy 10% off all studio classes.
Studio Access (for members and current students)
Studio access is available as a separate paid option for Members and current students.
Explore the Video Library
A growing collection of professional development content designed to support your creative practice over time.
Many members don’t watch everything at once – this library is designed so you can explore at your own pace, or return whenever you need guidance or inspiration.
Start with a pathway
Not sure where to begin? Choose a starting point based on your practice:
Practical, hands-on guidance for developing skills, confidence, and understanding in drawing, painting, and studio practice.
These sessions focus on how materials behave, how to observe, and how to build strong technical foundations across different media.
Build your studio foundations
Start with core skills that support all areas of your practice:
- Making Your Mark
- Drawing On Your Senses
- Embracing the Search
- Making and Using Paper Stumps
- Measuring and Proportion
- Draw What You See Not What You Know
- Understanding Cylinders in Space
- Scaling Up and Gridding
Drawing & observation
Develop confidence in seeing, structure, and form:
- Exploring Graphite
- All about Pencils!
- Exploring Dry Materials
- Charcoal
- Creating a Still Life Box
Painting & process
Learn how to approach painting materials and studio methods:
- Beginning a Painting
- Creating a Toned Ground
- Creating Toned Paper
- Oil Painting Mediums with David Coles
- Colour with David Coles
- Acrylics Q&A with Merry Trevethan
Paper, surfaces & preparation
Understand the foundations of working surfaces and presentation:
- Discovering Paper
- What is Sizing?
- Stretching a Canvas
- Stretching Paper – Part One
- Creating a Deckled Edge
- Varnishing Techniques with David Coles
- Works on Paper – Hanging without a frame
Why this matters
These sessions are designed to support your studio practice from the ground up – helping you build confidence with materials, develop stronger observation skills, and deepen your understanding of process.
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Practical knowledge, expert insights, and real world guidance to support your creative practice, professional growth, and career development as an artist.
This collection brings together conversations, workshops, and advice from working artists and industry professionals.
Start where you need support
Choose a topic based on where you are in your practice:
Building Your Art Career
Navigate the practical side of being an artist.
- Tax Tips for Artists
- Starting Your Creative Business
- The Nuts and Bolts of Being an Artist
- Time Management
Exhibitions & Opportunities
Learn how to present, apply, and share your work.
- Writing Exhibition Proposals
- Designing Your Exhibition
- Grant Writing with Melinda Martin
Writing & Communication
Develop the language around your practice.
- Writing an Artist Statement
- Website Design with Tess McCabe
- Legal Q&A with Sharon Givoni
Creative Practice & Process
Insights into sustaining and developing your work.
- Learning from Practice
- Tip & Task
- Three Short Stories
Why this matters
This library is designed to support you beyond making work – helping you develop the skills, confidence, and understanding needed to sustain a creative practice.
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A collection of in-depth conversations with contemporary artists sharing insights into their practice, ideas, career paths, and studio approaches.
These sessions offer a behind-the-scenes look at how artists think, work, and sustain their creative practice over time.
Artist Conversations
Explore conversations with practicing artists across a range of approaches and disciplines:
- Jennifer Whitten
- Nic Plowman
- Juan Ford
- Wilma Tabacco
- Vernon Ah Kee
- Fran O’Neill
- Victoria Reichelt
- Jo Lane
- Yvette Coppersmith
- Jacqui Stockdale
- Erika Gofton
- Sarah Tomasetti
- Cameron Robbins
- Merry Trevethan
- Adrian Kellett
- Minka Gillian
- Sam Leach
- David Haggar
- Charlotte Watson
- Godwin Bradbeer
- Hannah Bertram
- Marieke Dench
- Pip Ryan
- Megan Evenas
- Sharon Billinge
- Lara Chamas
- Yuria Okamura
What you’ll gain from these conversations
Each artist shares real insights into:
- their studio practice and working methods
- how ideas develop over time
- challenges and turning points in their career
- how they sustain a creative life
Why this matters
These conversations are designed to give you direct access to how working artists think and practice – offering insight, reflection, and perspective to support your own creative development.
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Why become a Member?
The TAR Membership is designed to support your ongoing development as an artist – giving you continued access to learning, connection, and opportunities beyond individual classes.
Learn from Working Artists
Gain ongoing access to our video library of artist talks, demonstrations, workshops and professional development content created by practicing artists and educators.
Stay Connected to a Creative Community
Join a community of artists through member events, shared experiences, and opportunities to connect, collaborate and stay inspired.
Keep Your Practice Moving
Membership supports consistency in your creative work – helping you stay motivated, accountable, and engaged in your practice over time.
Access Exclusive Content & Opportunities
Enjoy Member only resources, filmed demonstrations, artist conversations, and discounts designed to support your development.
Learn on Your Own Terms
Engage with content and opportunities whenever it suits you, wherever you are, making it easier to stay connected to your practice.
Support Independent Arts Education
By becoming a member, you are directly supporting The Art Room as an independent arts organisation and helping sustain a creative community for artists.
Stay engaged with your creative practice, beyond the studio
Join a community of artists through ongoing professional development, creative conversations, and opportunities that support the rhythm of consistent practice.
$249 per annum
Join and continue your creative practice with us.
FAQs
Membership includes access to our professional development video library, member events, annual exhibition opportunities, studio library borrowing, class discounts, and more. Full details are listed above.
Studio Access is available as a separate paid option and is only available to Members and current students.
The Membership is designed for artists who want to continue developing their practice, stay connected to a creative community, and keep engaged between classes or independent study.
Yes. The Membership is designed to support both current students and independent artists.
Once you join, you’ll receive login details to access the online video library and member resources anytime.
No. Many members access all online resources remotely, while others also attend in-person events.
Keep your practice moving
Join a community of artists committed to learning, making, and growing their practice.
Membership Support
Details and invitations for the annual Members Exhibition are shared via email and within the Membership platform. You will receive all information when exhibition opportunities open.
Member events are shared via email. You can book or register directly when events are released.
We will provide you with the current Member code. When booking simply enter it as the Coupon Code during checkout and click Apply.
Please check your spam or promotions folder first. If you still can’t find it, contact us and we’ll resend your access details.
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- Go to Your Dashboard / My Account
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If you’ve received a TAR Gift Voucher and would like to purchase a Membership, please get in touch with us. Provide your name, email, voucher number, and/or amount, and we’ll assist you in setting it up manually.
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- Subscriptions / Cancel
We do not offer refunds for TAR Memberships.