Schoolhouse Studios

Looking for a venue with character? Our Coburg studio is the perfect spot for gigs, parties, launches, and events of all kinds! What You Get: ✴︎ Authentic warehouse vibes surrounded by working artist studios ✴︎ Bar facilities & gallery space ✴︎ The energy of Coburg's thriving arts community ✴︎ A booking that supports local arts community Perfect for: • Live music • Private parties • Product launches • Workshops • Community events and classes Ready to book? Get in touch via the link in our bio! Big thanks to @_bournecreative for capturing these pics!

Looking for a welcoming, light-filled place to bring people together? Melbourne Art Library now resides in the Old Coburg Station. The space is also available for workshops, meetings, reading groups, artist talks and more! What’s included: - Tables and seating for small to medium size groups - Wi-Fi, power, basic AV support and accessible toilets Perfect for: 📚 Artist collectives 📚 Book clubs + critique groups 📚 Community organisations 📚 Workshops + classes 📚 Quiet co-working sessions 📚 Not-for-profit meetings Contact [email protected] for more information! #spaceforhire #creativespaces #melbourneartlibrary

✨ Studios available at our Brunswick site! We’ve got a handful of studios on Albion st ready for new artists to join our community. 🌿 Light-filled spaces 🎨 Supportive creative community 🚉 Close to transport If you’ve been hunting for a space to grow your practice, this might be your sign. 📩 Hit the link in bio to book

Thrilled to be co-curating the first Schoolhouse Residents Exhibition of 2026 with @mariapena_art "The Commons Within." We are absolutely delighted by the incredible works that will be featured. Opening: this Thursday, 6–8 PM. Hope to see you there!

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 @merri_bekcitycouncil Graphic design by @rubysyme_design

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 28 Victoria St Coburg Brunswick Opening: Friday 22 May, 6 - 8pm 215- 219 Albion St Brunswick (Level 1, enter via the large doors on the bike path) For the first time, this year’s Residents Exhibition is hosted across two locations, with the works presented both at the gallery and at our new Brunswick studios. The expansion across two sites reflects the growing ecosystem of artists and practices that we support here at Schoolhouse, and offers a chance to visit the exhibition alongside the new studios in Wurru wurru biik, Nightingale. 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, Stuart Sparling, Tara Cull and Unty Rose

Thank you to everyone who came out to see Antonia Sellbach's 'Comet Logic' last month! Antonia was the first recipient of our 2026 Housemate Residency Program. Antonia received three months of subsidised studio space, a stipend, and a one week exhibition in our gallery. Antonia Sellbach is an abstract artist and researcher working in the expanded field of painting and sculpture, based in Melbourne/Naarm. Through her arts practice, she seeks to identify the generative effects of working with methods of serial repetition and constraint. Sellbach's PhD, Productive Limitation: Painting Emergent Languages through Serial Form, explores these ideas in connection to the theorists Derrida, Grosz and Wittgenstein. A particular interest within Sellbach's research is the agency of abstraction and indeed abstract objects – how do abstract objects ‘speak’ and/or allow us to speak? Why is it useful to hone these forms of reciprocity in the times we are living in? Sellbach is represented by Nicholas Thompson Gallery in Melbourne and their works are held in private and institutional collections (RMIT University collection, Latrobe Arts Collection, Artbank). Sellbach teaches Painting at RMIT and has held workshops at Heide Museum of Modern Art, The Dax Center and The NGV. Watch this space for future residency announcements throughout the year! Image credit: Bec Smith @b.ecsmith This residency is proudly supported by @merri_bekcitycouncil

When grief comes to stay: Laments for a childhood This exhibition amplifies the voice of a single victim-survivor into a cry of protest. Through material and visual explorations, the work embodies the entrenched wrongs of violence against women and children. Thursday 23-Sunday 26 April 2026 Opening 23 April 6-8 pm

In other news... I have a solo show at @schoolhouse_gallery this month. When grief comes to stay: Laments for a childhood Thursday 23-Sunday 26 April 2026 Opening 23 April 6-8 pm

🎀 Next up in the gallery! 🎀 My Chart by Cappy Moon 9 - 12 April 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 lesbian 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 (/) and has an Etsy store ( (/)/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 three months of subsidised studio space, a small artist fee, and a one week exhibition in our gallery. 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). Watch this space for future residency announcements! Graphic design: Ruby Syme @rubysyme_design Image credit: Ben Lucas @b__lsc   This residency is proudly supported by @merri_bekcitycouncil #artistresidency #artistopportunity #melbourneartist #residencyannouncement

🎉 Kids Market is back baby! 🎉 🗓 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. 🎨 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. 💛 Poster design by @rubysyme_design