Thursday 20 February to Tuesday 11 March, 2025

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Since it began in 2021, MOSMAN ART WALK has become a beloved local event supporting artists, retailers and Mosman High art students

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For the fifth year, the shops and businesses of Mosman will host this unique art trail and school fundraiser running for three weeks, 20 February to 11 March 2025. Mosman Art Walk showcases the diverse works of more than 50 acclaimed Australian artists including Ken Done, Ann Cape, Rhett Brewer, Amanda Tye and Evert Ploeg, many of them Mosman residents.

 

Mosman Art Walk was established in 2021 by the Mosman High Art Committee of parents and volunteers. In response to the Covid lockdowns, their idea was to support local artists, businesses and Mosman High’s talented art students and dedicated teachers. The works of professional artists are displayed in shop windows around the Mosman village, from bookshops to jewellery stores, estate agents to optometrists, fashion boutiques to florists.

 

Anyone can stroll the streets to enjoy these original artworks for free, ranging across paintings, prints, sculptures and ceramics, and all works are for sale. If you love an artwork, you can buy it on the spot via QR code, or via this website. For each sale, 30 per cent of proceeds are donated to support Mosman High School’s art program, and 70 per cent go directly to the artist.

 

With more artists submitting works each year, for the first time in 2025 the Committee has worked with Mosman Art Gallery to carefully curate the entries, which are then matched with retailers.

Committee Chair Ann King says, “We are so proud and happy to be celebrating five years of the Mosman Art Walk. When we began in 2021 it was all about creating an event to support our school students, as well as local businesses and artists, who were impacted by the Covid pandemic.

 

"The Walk has gone from strength to strength since then. Each year our participating retailers have been amazing, trusting us with their display windows, and the walk has been embraced whole-heartedly by the local community as an annual cultural highlight. Invaluable support has also come from local sponsors and Mosman Council.”

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Mosman High School principal Susan Wyatt said, “It has been wonderful to see the collaboration of parents, artists and Mosman businesses to present this special event year after year. It is an inspiration to our students and offers them invaluable support. It has also created strong connections between the school and our local community. We welcome all the people of Mosman, and around Sydney, to join us at our art exhibition with a difference.”

 

Local businesses involved in Mosman Art Walk are excited to display their artworks, curated specifically for their space, which often bring in new customers as people stop to look. Funds raised by the event have enhanced the creative development of Mosman High’s art students, including inviting influential keynote speakers to the school, buying specialist equipment, and supporting immersive art camp experiences resulting in important new skills and work.

 

The Mosman High Art Committee would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, the Borogegal and Cammeraygal, who have practiced their art and culture here for countless generations. Beginning with its First Peoples, Mosman has always inspired artists living and working here. From the 1890s, Curlew Artists Camp at Sirius Cove hosted acclaimed painters such as Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts; the Mosman Art Prize began in 1947, now run by the Mosman Art Gallery which has been a generous supporter of the Mosman Art Walk.

 

Also proudly supported by Mosman Council through the Community Grants program, and Bendigo Bank, Mosman.
 

MOSMAN ART WALK

When: Thursday 20 February – Tuesday 11 March, 2025

Where: Mosman shopping village along Military Road, Mosman

Why: To support Mosman High art students, Mosman’s artists and local businesses

Interview opps: Participating artists and MAW organiser Ann King

High-res images: tinyurl.com/2025MosmanArtWalk

Media contacts: Jacqui Taffel and Ann King, mhsartcommittee@gmail.com