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Thank you so much to everyone who came along to the annual kids market! This is our second year running this market and ...
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

✨Resident Highlight! ✨ Meet Matteo Volpi - an artist and researcher based in Melbourne. 

His work explores the transfor...
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.

Calling all creatives!In 2026, Schoolhouse Studios will be hosting four residency opportunities throughout the year. The...
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

The Commons Within: 2026 SHS Resident’s ExhibitionCurated by Iaki Vallejo and Maria Peña14 - 22 May 2026 Coburg Opening:...
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

My Chart explores Cappy Moon’s natal chart through the 12 houses. Astrology, girlhood and a lot of Saturn. This exhibiti...
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).

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

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

Poster design by

SHS is proud to present Comet Logic: Pedagogical Trails, a new body of work by Antonia Sellbach. The artworks in the exh...
11/03/2026

SHS is proud to present Comet Logic: Pedagogical Trails, a new body of work by Antonia Sellbach.

The artworks in the exhibition Comet Logic: Pedagogical Trails were developed during a three-month residency at Schoolhouse Studios, Coburg (January–March 2026). As I worked, emergent and recurring forms persisted: circular, globular shapes initially resembling rocks, stars, planets, eyes, eggs, or cells. Through the repeated depiction of these forms, further observations began to surface. Many shared a similar internal structure: a dense nucleus surrounded by halos, or comas. I began to consider how the inner mechanics of a comet might echo the forms appearing in the work. Shortly afterwards, I became aware that an interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, was passing through our solar system. This recognition marked an intuitive moment of alignment and reciprocity between inner and outer worlds.

Opening Reception: Thursday 26 March, 6 - 8pm

Gallery Hours: Friday - Sunday, 12 - 4pm

Proudly supported by Flourish Grant

Antonia is represented by

Schoolhouse Studios is pleased to announce a new solo exhibition of works by Antonia Sellbach; Comet Logic: Pedagogical ...
11/03/2026

Schoolhouse Studios is pleased to announce a new solo exhibition of works by Antonia Sellbach; Comet Logic: Pedagogical Trails. The artworks in the exhibition Comet Logic: Pedagogical Trails were developed during a three-month residency at Schoolhouse Studios, Coburg (January–March 2026). As I worked, emergent and recurring forms persisted: circular, globular shapes initially resembling rocks, stars, planets, eyes, eggs, or cells. Through the repeated depiction of these forms, further observations began to surface. Many shared a similar internal structure: a dense nucleus surrounded by halos, or comas. I began to consider how the inner mechanics of a comet might echo the forms appearing in the work. Shortly afterwards, I became aware that an interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, was passing through our solar system. This recognition marked an intuitive moment of alignment and reciprocity between inner and outer worlds.
Proudly supported by Flourish Grant

🎶🎸💃🏽Brunswick Music Festival wraps up this weekend but there’s still tons to see like: – Sounds of Ousso – Bar Oussou – ...
06/03/2026

🎶🎸💃🏽Brunswick Music Festival wraps up this weekend but there’s still tons to see like:

– Sounds of Ousso – Bar Oussou – Sat 9 
– Horns of Leroy – Brunswick Ballroom – Sun 8 March
– FREE Gilpin Park Party feat. Fred Leone X Radio For Ghosts – Sun 8 March
 
Plus events at , , , Brunswick Library, , and more!
 
Go on, have a boogie this weekend. 💃🕺👯🪩 Check out the full program

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