Shout out to @thetorchvic for selling 174 artworks during the first week of their latest exhibition, with 100% of the artwork price going directly to First Peoples artists.
The Torch’s flagship exhibition ‘Confined 17’ is now showing at Glen Eira City Council Gallery until 14 June 2026. Featuring the work of 424 First Peoples artists with lived experience of incarceration in Victoria, this powerful exhibition is not to be missed.
The exhibition is open daily and all artworks are available to purchase.
With two weeks to go until #RISING2026 begins, explore the final wave of programming taking place across Melbourne this winter.
From large-scale public art and artist-led nightlife to free talks and public programs, these additions extend @RISING.melbourne into the city’s squares, bars and restaurants creating more opportunities for people to gather before, between and after the show, while supporting artists and the local economy.
#RISING2026 begins in 2 weeks. View the full program at www.2026.rising.melbourne
SAVE THE DATE! MIGW returns
Melbourne International Games Week is back for 2026, running 2 to 11 October across the Melbourne CBD.
The 10-day program is packed with industry conferences, education symposiums, public activities, showcases, networking events, investment forums, performances, and festivals, Games Week is built on the idea that games are best when we play, work, and come together.
Running since 2015 and now led by @ACMIonline Games Week celebrates Australia’s digital games sector. #MIGW26
🔵 🔴 🟡🟣🟢 Creative Shuffle x Melbourne Design Week 2026 🔵 🔴 🟡🟣🟢
1 week to go. Limited tickets left. Join us next Saturday from 4-6pm at Studio Take Care in Brunswick.
The most useful conversations about creative work rarely happen between people in the same discipline. They happen when a graphic designer talks to an architect, a fashion designer talks to a service designer, an illustrator talks to a strategist. Different language, same questions. AI. Ethics. Commercial pressure. Working out what the work is actually for right now.
That's what Creative Shuffle is for.
Part of Melbourne Design Week (14–24 May 2026) — 11 days, 400+ events across Victoria. Full program at designweek.melbourne
Melbourne Design Week is an initiative of the Victorian Government through @Creative_Vic , curated and delivered by @NGVMelbourne .
#MelbourneDesignWeek #NGV #CreativeVic #CreativeState #CreativeShuffle #design #melbournedesign
Melbourne Design Week at MBAD studio
Fused Deposition / Molten Tension showcases the work of two Melbourne artists undertaking raw explorations in new mediums as part of their ongoing practice.
Daniel Barbera, a designer and maker with a decades long practice in industrial/furniture design, will show his sculptural glass work alongside interdisciplinary artist Tom Blachford, showing his first ever series of sculpture.
Both artists employ highly iterative processes in contrasting methods; one using tactile traditional processes, the other integrating computer aided fabrication technologies.
Melanie Beynon Architecture and Design will host these events with an opening event and artist talks in their bespoke Prahran studio.
Tuesday 19 - OPENING -5-9 (BOOKING REQUIRED)
Wednesday 20 - STUDIO OPEN - 3-5
Thursday 21 - TALK 5-7 (BOOKING REQUIRED)
Friday 22 - STUDIO OPEN - 3-5
Saturday 23 - TALK -12-2 (BOOKING REQUIRED)
Sunday 24 - STUDIO OPEN -12-2
See booking link in Bio
Congratulations to the newest inductees of the Victorian Aboriginal Honour Roll, Kylie Belling and Dr. Destiny Deacon Hon FRPS, who were recognised for their contributions to the creative industries.
Kylie Belling is the first Aboriginal graduate of the VCA and a founding member of ILBIJERRI, known for her roles in The Sapphires, The Flying Doctors, Prisoner and Redfern Now. We also remember Dr. Destiny Deacon Hon FRPS (posthumously), a globally recognised artist, activist, educator, and LGBTIQA+ trailblazer.
On the 23rd of May as part of Melbourne Design Week we are partnering with National Trust of Australia (Victoria) to present Hidden Waters of the Birrarung.
We will be exhibiting the artworks created as part of our ongoing Hidden Waters series, created in the landscapes of Como Park Billabong, Queen Victoria Gardens, Bouverie Creek and Carlton Gardens. As part of the exhibition, we will host a panel discussion with Maddison Miller, Justin Buckley, Janet Bolitho and Jakobi Ili-Jakobi.
For more information and tickets visit National Trust (Vic) website or follow link in our bio.
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Melbourne Design Week is Australia’s largest and leading annual design festival and takes place from 14–24 May 2026. The 2026 program spans 11 days of 400+ events, exhibitions, talks, and installations throughout metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria.
Visit designweek.melbourne to view the full program.
#MelbourneDesignWeek #NGV #CreativeVic #CreativeState @NGVMelbourne@Creative_Vic
Please join us for the opening of Discursive Craft on May 16th, 400 Smith St., Collingwood, 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm.
Melbourne Design Week is Australia’s largest and leading annual design festival and takes place from 14–24 May 2026. Melbourne Design Week is an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and is curated and delivered by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). Visit designweek.melbourne to view the full program.
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#MelbourneDesignWeek #NGV #CreativeVic #CreativeState @NGVMelbourne@Creative_Vic
One week to go! WRAP will be taking up residence in Abbotsford at The Park House with five events (two of which are now sold out)! Can’t wait to see you there!
@ngvmelbourne@creative_vic #ngv #melbournedesignweek #creativevic #creativestate
The Victorian Budget for 2026-27 was handed down on Tuesday 5 May.
Check out our breakdown of what the Budget means for Victoria’s creative industries.
visit creative.vic.gov.au
📷 SongMakers LIVE @ The Espy 2025. Photographer: rcstills
JUST ANNOUNCED
The Victorian Budget 2026/27 invests a further $27 million to support the Victorian Screen Incentive, designed to attract and secure more blockbusters right here in Victoria.
✔️ In 2024/25 the local screen industry supported 8,000 local jobs and 72 screen productions across the state.
Read more at creative.vic.gov.au
📷 Docklands Studios
