Making Time art workshops at Caboolture Regional Art Gallery

Enjoy a peaceful afternoon of creativity at Caboolture Regional Art Gallery with artist and expressive arts therapist Tira Dowling.

Explore different art processes and materials each month in a supportive, guided workshop. These workshops aim to activate your creativity in a comfortable and relaxed studio space.

Cost $15 - book here. All skill levels are welcome. All materials provided. Bring your own apron or wear clothes you do not mind getting messy with.

Contact caboolture.gallery@moretonbay.qld.gov.au to join the waitlist if you have missed out on tickets. These workshops are also delivered at Redcliffe Art Gallery.

Saturday 6 June | Tiny portals

Step into a world of imagination as you design and craft your own miniature doors.

Using wood, paint, and decorative materials, you’ll create enchanting little portals that spark wonder and whimsy. Perfect for gardens, bookshelves, or secret corners at home.

Saturday 4 July | Woven circles

Discover the calming rhythm of circular weaving as you create your own textured wall art.

Using a round loom, colourful yarns, and natural fibres, you’ll explore pattern, texture, and colour blending in a meditative, hands-on experience. Perfect to unwind while crafting something beautiful and unique.

Saturday 22 August | Mapped spaces

Using city maps as a starting point, this workshop explores how places can reflect space, memory, movement, and creativity.

Inspired by themes of identity and community, participants will use layers of line, pattern, and colour to transform maps.

Through creative mapping techniques and visual layering, the workshop encourages participants to question stories within the city and how art can reimagine familiar spaces.

Saturday 5 September | Textile fruit prints

Using simple foam stamps carved from fruit forms, participants will explore experimental printmaking on fabric.

Through repetition, layering, and colour variation, organic shapes are transformed into abstract patterns and textile compositions.

The workshop encourages playful material exploration, focusing on rhythm, texture, and surface rather than realism, and considers how everyday objects like food can become visual systems for pattern and design.

Saturday 3 October | Collective cards

Participants will create a collection of mixed media self-cards that explore personal expression using collage, layered textures, mark-making, found imagery, and fragments of text,

Combining recycled materials, photographs, paint, symbols, and experimental creative techniques, each card becomes a unique visual composition that reflects individuality, emotion, imagination, and the experience of connecting with the world around us.

Image credit: Embellysh Photography

About the facilitator

Art is a way of knowing, of understanding oneself and forming threads of connection to the inner world within each of us.

Tira Dowling has followed this thread of curiosity throughout her career. She is passionate about the relationship to self and guiding others to discover these threads of knowing within them.

Tira has explored many areas of the globe, to wonder, consider and learn about herself, other culture and the world we inhabit. As a therapist, Tira invites participants into an accepting, warm creative space to discover and witness their own creativity and lived experience.

Connection, autonomy, community, curiosity, wonder and fun are key aspects of Tira's practice. A deep seeded passion of selfhood and growth are woven in creative engagements either individual or group sessions.