Atwell Arts Centre and Gallery, Perth, Western Australia

Atwell Arts Centre & Gallery logo  & Gallery is located at 586 Canning Highway, Alfred Cove, Western Australia on the corner of North Lake Road (opposite KFC)

Atwell Arts Centre & Gallery is run by Melville Community Arts Association (Chris Marshall is their ex-President and current Coordinator).

The Melville Community Arts Association (MCAA) has over 500 members aged from 6 to 93, 50-60% from the City of Melville and the rest from the Perth/Fremantle metropolitan area with a few from WA regional areas, interstate and even 1 or 2 from overseas.

Atwell Gallery hours are 10am - 4pm, Monday - Friday and 1 - 4pm at weekends

We run day, evening and weekend art classes for adults and children and have a variety of arts and craft groups that meet at our centre (including South of the River Potters, Atwell House Spinners, Alfred Cove Art Society). We organise Life Drawing sessions on Monday afternoons (3:30-6:30pm), Monday evenings (7-9pm) and the first Sunday of each month (9am-12noon). We also have an "open house" every Friday - if you are an artist, come along and join in else visit us and see artists at work.

We love having visitors so, if you are staying in Perth, come along and join in our activities

Enquiries +61(8) 9330 2800, fax +61(8) 9330 9597, email: atwelart@iinet.net.au, web:  http://www.atwellarts.com

In 2002 Atwell Gallery had an exhibition by 4 Singaporean artists.  One of them, Mr Tan Leong Kheng, sat in the carpark and painted the outside of the Arts Centre and Gallery and then donated his work to us - see below

Atwell Arts Centre & Gallery painted from the car-park by visiting Singapore Artist Mr Tan in 2002