The Canning Stock Route Project is founded upon a program of workshops in multiple creative mediums. Various workshops throughout Australia - in remote communities, regional centres and cities - have been pivotal to the development and delivery of the Canning Stock Route Project. Since the birth of the project in 2006 there have been a total of 51 different workshops with communities, artists and the project team. This includes, but is not limited to, a six week Return to Country workshop, eight community consultation meetings, over six artists' camps, seven curators' workshops and 27 content approval workshops in communities.

In country painting workshops 2007

Central to the Canning Stock Route return to country trip in 2007 were four major artists’ camps. The character of each camp was distinct, with the mood and energy echoing the terrain and the mix of people present: the lush, peaceful space of Durba Springs, the dynamic activity of Kilykily (Well 36), the calm of Kujuwarri (Well 46); and the celebratory gathering at Nyarna (Lake Stretch). These diverse environments, and the coming together of artists from so communities resulted in a body of work that reflected the vitality of people’s relationships with Country and with each other.

The largest of the camps involved seven of the ten art and culture centre groups at Kilykily (Well 36) in Martu Country. The artists brought a passion for painting in Country at Kilykily that transformed the project’s shape and essence. Although the trip had been planned for nine months, it was unclear, even as the main convoy arrived at Kunawarritji (Well 33) from Wiluna, precisely how many people would be attending. Artists from a distant circle of communities began to arrive in buses, charter planes and four-wheel drives.