Workshop 3000 was established in March 1980 and opened as an open access workshop in June 1980. The address is Kirks Lane, rear 401 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne. It was established by Susan Cohn, Marion Hosking and Harry Rawlands. Annie Holdsworth, Carlier Makigawa and Rowena Gough worked in the workshop from the beginning. Other artists to work there were Helen and Johannes Kuhnen, Michael Anderson, Godwin Baum, Sue Lorraine, Ken Grey and Brenda Ridgewell.