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We're a not-for-profit creative community in Coburg where everyone is welcome.

17/06/2026

Part 2 of our resident’s exhibition opening at Nightingale Housing Wurru Wurru Biik! This was the first time we held our residents exhibition over two sites - it was wonderful to be able to show off our new(ish) studios and a wonderful reflection of the growing ecosystem of artists we support. Shout out to Unico Zelo | Australian Wine for supporting our event!

16/06/2026

✨ Resident Highlight! ✨ 
Meet Stuart Sparling - a Canadian-born artist and NSCAD alumnus working across a diverse range of media, including printmaking, painting, ceramics, collage, and sculpture. 
Fascinated by form, texture, colour, and gesture, Stuart’s practice explores the constant interplay between the physical and the abstract. Tensions between body and mind, blood and time, and the immediate and the eternal emerge through rich textures, strong linework, and the steady layering of familiar mark-making and imagery. 
The result is a humanistic and often lyrical form of expressionism that invites reflection on the relationships between material, memory, and experience. 
Find him at Stuart Sparling.

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Image 1: A portrait image of Stuart, with a bright purple border. He has long hair and is wearing a lilac-toned jacket.   
Image 2: A cluster of red apples fills the centre of the composition. The fruit is vibrant and outlined with bright green, contrasting against a deep plum and burgundy background. Loose brushwork and layered paint textures are visible throughout the piece.

Image 3: A painting of two horses with cobalt-blue linework against a bright coral-orange background. One horse dominates the composition, rearing protectively over a smaller horse that is running alongside it.

15/06/2026

🔮✨Merri-bek Festivals Development Program applications are now open! 🌀💫

Got an idea for a new show, live artwork or community event? Arts Merri-bek are offering up to $10,000 to help bring it to life.

Artists and producers from all corners of our vibrant community are encouraged to apply!

More info: https://www.merri-bek.vic.gov.au/exploring-merri-bek/arts-merri-bek/support/grants-opportunities/merri-bek-festivals-development-program/

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Image credit: Previous Merri-bek Festivals Development Program Recipient Fungal Forest by Sanctum Studio at Glenroy Festival 2026. Photo by J Forsyth

27/05/2026

Thank you so much to everyone who came along to the annual kids market! This is our second year running this market and it’s quickly become one of the most popular events here at SHS! Catch you next year 🧒 image credit: Bec Smith .ecsmith

20/05/2026

✨Resident Highlight! ✨

Meet Matteo Volpi - an artist and researcher based in Melbourne.   His work explores the transformation of photographic material through organic processes, investigating the boundaries between control and unpredictability, growth and decay.   His recent collection ‘Back To the Mould’ worked exclusively with analogue 35mm film, cultivating mould as an active agent within the image, allowing biological processes to alter, consume, and reconfigure the photographic surface.
 Alongside his artistic practice, Matteo is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, working in accelerator physics and contributing to international projects, including collaborations with CERN. 
Find him at

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Image 1: Two images appear stacked, a regular photo on the bottom, shown upside down, and a textured, grainier version on the top. The images depict Matteo holding a camera up to his face. He is dressed in a red jumper with a silver watch.
 Image 2: A figure wearing a wide-brimmed dark hat holds a reflective object close to their face. The image is layered with vivid neon textures, grainy patterns, and abstract colour distortions in pink, blue, and purple tones. This creates a dreamlike energy to the image. 
Image 3: The Leaning Tower of Pisa appears partially submerged, surrounded by textures and iridescent colours. Bright marble-like edges and textured elements create a surreal, warped effect.

11/05/2026

Calling all creatives!

In 2026, Schoolhouse Studios will be hosting four residency opportunities throughout the year. The recipient will receive three months of free studio space, and an artist fee. We will also support a one week exhibition or event, if that suits your practice.

Things we’re looking for:
- Exciting exhibition or event pitches (does not just have to be from visual artists)
- Why this opportunity is relevant to your practice
- Artistic merit

The successful artist will receive:
- Free studio space for 3 months
- An artist fee of $1500
- Support for one exhibition or event as relevant
- Private after hours access to Melbourne Art Library

Application Deadline: Friday May 22nd, 5pm
Dates of Residency: June 15th - September 7th
Outcome Week: June 1st - 5th

Hit the link in our bio to apply!

This program was made possible by

05/05/2026

The Commons Within: 2026 SHS Resident’s Exhibition
Curated by Iaki Vallejo and Maria Peña
14 - 22 May 2026

Coburg Opening: Thursday 14 May, 6 - 8pm
Brunswick Opening: Friday 22 May, 6 - 8pm

28 Victoria St Coburg
215- 219 Albion St Brunswick

The annual Schoolhouse Studios resident’s exhibition is back! And this time we’re doing it across our two sites in Coburg and Brunswick!

We often understand community as something external, something we gather into, move through, or belong to. But what if the commons is not only around us, but inside us?
Each of us carries a shared interior: a convergence of voices, memories, relationships, and inherited ways of being. The self is not singular but composed, shaped by others, and held in tension between autonomy and connection.
This exhibition explores the inner landscapes where collective experience resides. Here, memory becomes a meeting place. Emotion becomes shared terrain. The body becomes a vessel for what has been given, absorbed, and transformed.
The Commons Within invites us to consider what we hold, consciously or not and what it means to care for the lives, histories, and energies that reside within us.

Featuring works from:
Anastasia Hatzikosmidis, Antonia Sellbach, Ashley Ronning, Barb Murphy, Bianca Browne, Christa Orcullo, Francesca Pezzimenti, Hahnie Goldfinch, Hannah Morgan Savage, Iaki Vallejo, Janetta Kerr-Grant, Jesse Chabrier-Pope, Jude Worters, Maria Peña, Matteo Volpi, Meg Kelso, Nicci McGuffog, Paolo Acuna, Stuart Sparling, Tara Cull and Unty Rose

30/03/2026

My Chart explores Cappy Moon’s natal chart through the 12 houses. Astrology, girlhood and a lot of Saturn. This exhibition features 12 canvases using acrylic paint and other mixed media. Determined not to make ‘fine art’, Cappy Moon imitates work by Hilma af Klint and Agnes Pelton combining it with le***an iconography and bejewels it all. This is Cappy Moon’s first solo exhibition.
Cappy Moon is an artist, astrologer and art therapist. She makes zines, paintings and other random things that explore astrology, queerness and her new obsession of the week. Cappy Moon has started writing on Substack (https://cappymoon.substack.com/) and has an Etsy store ( (https://cappymoon.substack.com/)https://www.etsy.com/shop/GirlhoodRage) but continues to delete social media and is unfollowable (sorry).

29/03/2026

Congratulations to Georgia Boseley, who is the second recipient of our Housemate Residency Program!

Georgia will receive three months of subsidised studio space, a small artist fee, and a one week exhibition in our gallery.

Watch this space for future residency announcements!

Design by Ruby Syme

Image credit: Ben Lucas

This residency is proudly supported by

Georgia Boseley is an award-winning Central and Eastern Arrernte artist and researcher living in Naarm. Her practice and research are grounded in resistance - her work critiques the ongoing
structures of colonial occupation, and engages with histories of dispossession as well as a presentnof cultural resurgence and strength. Her work is anti-colonial and anti-capitalist — rooted in materials connected to Country — and documents the complexity and resistance of living as a First Nations person today.
Boseley creates contemporary sculptural works using traditional weaving practices and materials, alongside large-scale paintings and ceramic sculptures. Her practice often moves across and within disciplines and materials, embracing mixed media as a third place — a space of experimentation and connection. Her works are held in private collections across the country and in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV).
Boseley has a Bachelor of Arts (Politics & International Studies) from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Contemporary Art from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA).

23/03/2026

🎉 EOI’s for stallholders for our KIDS MARKET 2026 at Schoolhouse Studios are open! 🎉
🗓 Saturday, 16th May | 🕒 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Get ready for an afternoon of BIG fun for little creatives! 🌈✨

Join us for the Schoolhouse Studios Kids Market — a magical marketplace run by kids, for everyone! This pint-sized pop-up will be packed with handmade goodies, delicious treats, mini art masterpieces, and all kinds of entrepreneurial magic from our amazing stallholders, both young and old.

🎨 What to expect:
🍪 Homemade treats & snacks
🎁 Crafts, toys, and creative treasures
🎨 Artwork, jewellery, zines & more

Bring your friends, your loose change, and your love for all things handmade and wholesome. 💛

Click the link in our bio to book a stall.

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http://www.schoolhousestudios.com.au/, https://linktr.ee/schoolhousestudios

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