What is Dogma48 about?

Dogma48 is about focus. It's about dedicating yourself to one thing exclusively and putting the rest aside. It's about sharing this focus and this moment too.

Dogma48 is a workshop event in which you're allotted 48 hours to finish a competition level piece of figure art. The point of the event is to recreate the hardcore focus and clear view of priority and direction you get when you're trying to finish a piece just before a contest, but to do so in a safer environment and in a group, so you all share the moment. Sharing is in many ways a very big part of the event, because even as everyone makes their own projects, you share the focus, the deadline, the stress, joy, the highs and the lows. You're working very closely with the people around you and are together immersed into a mindset, a mode of focus. The rest of the participants will help keep you in the mindset, but just as much, you are there for others when they are slipping or getting stuck on their project.

The finish line binds us together, but the journey and learning is the important part. Finishing is obviously fantastic, but it is quite common people do not finish but have important and happy takeaways from the event - this is also very much about learning and training.

The Guild's Inn is a miniature painting event weekend hosted by the Sydney Display Painters Guild. It will be a whole weekend dedicated to hobby activities, organised jam sessions, fun speed painting comps and social hangouts.

The event will also host the seasoned Guild's Inn national painting competition, with entries to be submitted and judged over the weekend. The painting competition will now feature a Standard and Masters category. In addition, this year we will be setting up the Guild’s Inn Gallery where participants can submit past entries or works they are proud of and don’t want judged in the competition, for the general community to view. The Guild's Inn is a not-for-profit event run by volunteers, focussed on the miniature painting community coming together. We are spread far and wide across Australia and have too few chances to meet, so the goal is to create a fun and worthwhile opportunity to connect with each other in person, share our work, talk about what we love, and enjoy the social side of miniature painting.

The 2024 Guild's Inn will be held on July 27-28 at the regular Sydney Display Painters Guild meeting place in Artarmon in northern Sydney. It's a completely private venue in a fully-equipped, comfortable office space, and we'll have the whole place to ourselves. Anyone is welcome to attend for all or part of the fun, and we will do our best to create a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere for all our visitors.