
Lot19 Creative Workshops
A mixture of professionally facilitated art classes-presented by our Studio Artists in our purpose built facilities is delivered year round. We are always building on our existing offerings of ceramics, life drawing, painting, mosaic, and taxidermy workshops. See Castlemaine Clay, Castlemaine Press, Helen Bodycomb mosaics, and Museum Makers and other artists listings below for details.
Castlemaine Clay
A not-for-profit member-based community organisation that works to bring clay lovers from Castlemaine and surrounds together.
Castlemaine Clay offer their members firing, workshops, artist talks, studio hire, and the opportunity to exhibit their work. We have a beautiful new studio space with 5 pottery wheels, hand building table, slab roller, glazes, lockers, drying space and clay tools.
We offer small group adult classes suitable for beginners through to those with more advanced skills in ceramics. Our workshops will give you competence in throwing, hand building and much more. Our teachers have an incredible wealth of experience and knowledge to pass on to you.
Castlemaine Clay
Castlemaine Press
Castlemaine Press is a not-for-profit membership-based organisation, run by committed volunteers.
It is a space to explore printmaking in all its facets. Whether you are a beginner or a master printer, we have equipment and assistance to fulfill your printmaking needs. Our studio has great natural light, presses both large and small, plenty of bench space and easy access.
Our studio is a place to meet printmakers, work collaboratively, build skills and produce prints using quality equipment. We program a range of gatherings, workshops, exhibitions and courses throughout the year.
www.castlemainepress.com.au
Lot19 Studio Artists
Founded by Mark Anstey in the year 2000, and built by hand from re-purposed materials, first and foremost, Lot19 is a place for artists. This multi-faceted space is filled with kilns, pottery wheels, printing presses, green spaces, metalwork zones, large scale fabrication utilities, woodworking sheds, easels, and tools of every type.
With 20 artists in studios residencies, over 60 beginner-to-established members regularly accessing the open-access clay and printmaker workshops, this dynamic site is integral to the long-term viability of regional arts practices. Artists’ skills, imaginations and courage are let loose is this safe and cross-collaborative testing-site.
Jane Rusden
Drawing, Printmaking, Photography
Adventure, drawing, printmaking, photography, science and the natural world combined on paper are her passions informing her practice.
Helen Bodycomb
Mosaicist, Sculptor
Helen is well known as one of Australia’s few contemporary artists working primarily in mosaic and has been a Lot 19 studio artist since 2008 and a member of the Lot19 Creations Board since 2020.
Nici Wright
Visual Arts
Nici has been a practicing visual artist for nearly 25 years. There are elements of science, design, construction and engineering, ceramics, sculpture, bronze and steel, installation, fine arts, fashion, materials, found and recycled, live arts, music, teaching and facilitating and working both collaboratively and individually, nationally and internationally.
Alvin Briggs
Visual Arts
Alvin Darcy Briggs is a Yorta-Yorta\Taungurung man, an award-winning emerging artist, and Lot19’s current Chrysalis Studio recipient.
Dunnielle Mina
Jeweller
Dunnielle’s jewellery and silversmithing practice is driven by her desire to transform the cold and somewhat sterile nature of metal into something soft, sensual, intriguing and inviting to touch and wear.
Ewin Wood & Dean Smith
Museum Makers
Be it building scale models of insects, painting detailed plant mimics, restoring a room full of bird mounts, or articulating dinosaurs, Ewin applies his trade in a tribute to our natural world.

Zoe Hambleton
Multi-disciplinary
Zoe Hambleton is a practicing artist who studied drawing at RMIT in Melbourne and since then has pursued a multi-disciplinary practice incorporating sound, sculpture, drawing, painting and performance.
Nadyne de Vel
Drawing
Graphite, charcoal and photography are Nadyne’s primary practice.
Gregory Stephen
Painter
Painter and decorator with a personal history of contact with our traditional custodians and working towards a submission to the truth telling flora in Victoria, more particularly Swan Hill and associated regions.
Wendy Rowlands
Health Artist
Wendy is a Health Artist whose theme is connection and reconnection. A highly experienced professional musician, she offers creative, diverse musical skills and inspires many interesting projects within our community.
Tobias Richardson
Drawing, Painting, Sculpture
Tobias been a practicing artist since 1987. First studying at East Sydney Technical College and exhibiting in artist-run spaces, he later gained a BVA from San Francisco Art Institute, California. Tobias also studied Education and Science.
Phillip Head
Drawing
Phillip Head is a studio artist at Lot19.
Mark Anstey
Furniture-maker, Woodworker, Boat-builder
Mark has been making beautiful furniture since 1990. Aiming to create personal works of great meaning for his clients, and spend energy on design.
Jules Chapple
Maker, Designer, Performance Artist
Jules Chapple is a storyteller and guerilla clown. He creates artistic projects, installations, puppet theatre and painting exhibitions, to distil life’s bounty into intimate, sensorial and often surreal art experiences.

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The Chrysalis Studio
We are now seeking applications for the next Chrysalis Studio artist. Lot19 offers a fully sponsored studio to an emerging artist of particular vigour and talent so that they can pursue their craft beyond any resource constraints. Our current CS artist in residence is Alvin Darcy Briggs.
We have a wait list for artists studios at this time however you are always welcome to make an enquiry by emailing Mark at markanstey19@gmail.com
Get in touch
Lot 19 Arts Precinct is open to wanderers
Friday – Sundays, and for tours, proposals,
and visits by appointment at all other times.
Respect the artist, respect the process,
respect the space.
Lot 19 McShanag Drive
Castlemaine 3450
Victoria, Australia
PO Box 937
Castlemaine 3450
Victoria, Australia
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