Noosa Art & Architecture Trail 2025 - Free Tag-along Tour

Join the Noosa Solo Travellers Club for a free, small-group discovery tour through the Noosa hinterland during Sunshine Coast Open House and Noosa Open Studios 2025.
This full-day car-pooling experience blends art, architecture, and nature — exploring artists’ home studios and award-winning architectural sites rarely open to the public.
Discover Country Noosa's hidden gems in Weyba Downs, Doonan, Eumundi, Eerwah Vale, and Cooroy and meet local painters, potters, jewellery artists, and architects who bring Noosa’s creative landscape to life.

Highlights include:
🎨 Famous ceramicists' hinterland home studios - Pan Pottery Studio and Quixotica Art Space
🏡 Glimpses of Gabriel Poole’s iconic Lake Weyba House
🖼 Meet the artists in their creative spaces*: Gabi Timm, Angus Diarmid,Terri Trivett, Andrew Hillhouse, Rowley & Sarah Drysdale, and Trevor & Beryl Purvis*
🌿 Guided tour of award-winning Moon Mountain Sanctuary – featuring its horse sanctuary, sculpture park, sustainable design, and rewilding vision

PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION BONUS - $1,000 PRIZE
Two of the properties we are visiting are participants in the Sunshine Coast Open House 2025 - Pan Pottery Studio and Moon Mountain Sanctuary.
If you have a passion for the built environment and urban landscape enter the 2025 Sunshine Coast Open House Photography Competition. Entries are judged on creativity, quality, and significance to architecture by a panel of architects, built environment photographers and industry representatives. Click here for the rules and details:
https://www.sunshinecoastopenhouse.com.au/2025-photography-competition/

🕘 Meet: 9:45am, Wallace Park (in front of Noosaville Library)
🚗 Tour ends: 4:00pm, Wallace Park
🌞 Bring: Hat, water, comfortable shoes, and curiosity.
🍽 Lunch with live music at Alfresco’s Garden Café, Eumundi (own cost)
♻️ Carpooling encouraged to reduce parking and carbon footprint, and facilitate convivial conversations among participants.

Hosted by Chris Riou (volunteer), Noosa Eco-Holidays and Clay & Culture Lifestyle Arts Tours

NB This tour is limited to just 7 participants - RSVPs ESSENTIAL

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