Postcards of the Port City: Sketching Workshop with Tessa Beale and Peter Woodward

Postcards of the Port City: Sketching Workshop with Tessa Beale and Peter Woodward 

Tessa Beale and Peter Woodward will guide you through drawing processes that help you respond to your surroundings. You'll draw from UDLA's central Fremantle balcony – with views over Cantonment Street, Market Street, and Fremantle Port – using simple techniques to observe and translate these views into postcard sketches. The focus will be on spontaneity and capturing character rather than perfection, making it suitable for beginners and experienced sketchers alike.

All materials provided, including snacks and a beverage.

The workshop will be held Sunday 18 Oct, 10.30am-12noon.

All money from ticket sales will be donated to Bush Heritage Australia

Bios:

Tessa Beale is engaged in a material practice. Using the handmade, her work investigates the potential of material properties to explore ideas of transformation working across the mediums of print, drawing, sculpture and photography. She currently works from her studio at Victoria Hall in Walyalup/Fremantle, having previously undertaken both solo and collaborative residencies at SIM in Reykjavik, Iceland, Fremantle Arts Centre and Midland Junction Arts Centre.

Peter Woodward is a landscape architect and urban designer at UDLA with over 30 years of experience. He has been sketching the built environment for decades – it’s not only his way of understanding his surroundings, but a crucial part of his design process.

About the organisers:
UDLA – With combined expertise in design, strategy and engagement, UDLA delivers ideas-driven projects that are grounded in real places and people. Whatever the project, we respond to each site’s context with cultural inclusivity and respect. From our studios in Walyalup (Fremantle, Western Australia) and Naarm (Melbourne, Victoria), our landscape-led, blended discipline approach brings integrated design solutions for clients, community and Country.

About Fremantle Design Week (FDW):
This event is a FDW satellite event.
Fremantle Design Week is a biennial festival of design and design ideas.
The third Fremantle Design Week will bring seven days of exhibitions, conversations, tours, workshops, films, open studios and special events to Walyalup from 17 – 25 October 2026.