WASA - En Plein Air

In 2022 The West Australian Society of Arts will reintroduce the Wilgie Sketchers Club back to WASA.

The West Australian Society of Arts is the oldest art society in WA, tracing its beginnings back to 1889 when it existed as the Wilgie Sketchers Club.  Wilgie being the aboriginal work for red ochre found in WA's remote Northwest.

The present society was incorporated 1896.  The founding members of the Sketching Club included Lady Forrest (wife of the Premier) Margaret Hamersley, Herbert Gibbs, Henry Prinsep, George Temple-Poole and Bernard Woodward (who late became the first Director of the WA Museum and Art Gallery).