2022 Creative Spaces Aboriginal Creative Residency

IMPORTANT: Please read information below to assist you in completing your application online.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

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For queries about the guidelines, deadlines, or questions in the form, please contact us on 03 9658 9893 during business hours or email creativespaces@melbourne.vic.gov.au.

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About the Aboriginal Creative Residency at Boyd Studios

Residencies are a part of Council’s creative funding program. A residency in a City of Melbourne Creative Spaces studio provides artists with a valuable opportunity to spend time researching, experimenting, developing and creating new work.

The aim of the Aboriginal Creative Residency is to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and small creative businesses to advance their practice through the provision of studio space, facilities and a grant.

The residency is for creative development and no public outcome is required.

For more information on how to apply and the assessment criteria, please refer to the residency guidelines.

Timeline

The Aboriginal Creative Residency is for 12 months between December 2022 and December 2023.

Applications open: 9am, 19 September 2022

Applications close: 3pm, 18 October 2022

Notification to applicants: November 2022

Site visits

It is recommended that you attend a site visit of the space before submitting an application. Creative Spaces are conducting three site visits at Boyd:

• Thursday 29 September at 11am
• Wednesday 5 October at 2pm
• Wednesday 12 October at 2pm

To attend a site visit it is essential to RSVP with your name, contact number and preferred date via creativespaces@melbourne.vic.gov.au.

About Boyd Community Hub

Boyd is the City of Melbourne’s first integrated community service space, housing the Southbank Library, a cafe, family services, meeting rooms, artist studios, residency spaces and is surrounded by Boyd Park.

Residency details

• Number of Boyd residencies available: One
• Duration: 12 months. Boyd studios are highly sought after. To ensure studios are used, artists are required to work from their studio a minimum of twice per week
• Artist grant to successful applicant: $5,000
• Studio rent: There is no cost to the successful applicant. In kind rent is valued at $3,400
• Dates: From December 2022 to December 2023 (specific dates to be determined)

Site details

• Location: Boyd artist studios, 207 City Road, Southbank
• Art forms and studio limitations: The studio is suitable for up to two practitioners in the space at the same time. The studio is not suited to art forms and practices that are messy, generate loud noise or require the use of heavy machinery, extractor fans and open flames. There is no grease trap sink. Due to the heritage nature of the building, the studio is not suitable for suspension of equipment or artworks.
• Studio specifications: The space is secure, is 17m2 and has good natural light, wooden floors, high ceilings, heating and air-conditioning and wireless internet connection. There is a kitchen, bathroom (with shower) and dining area close by.
• Access: Artists will have 24/7 swipe card access to the studio and the Boyd building facilities.

SAVING YOUR DRAFT APPLICATION

If you wish to leave a partially completed application, press 'save and close' and log out. When you log back in and click on the 'My Submissions' link at the top of the screen, you will find a list of any applications you have started or submitted. You can reopen your draft application and start where you left off.

You can also download any application, whether draft or completed, as a PDF. Click on the 'Download PDF' button located at the bottom of the last page of the application form.

SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION

You will find a Review and Submit button at the bottom of the Navigation Panel. You need to review your application before you can submit it.

Once you have reviewed your application you can submit it by clicking on 'Submit' at the top or bottom of the screen or on the navigation panel. You will not be able to submit your application until all the compulsory questions are completed and there are no validation errors.

Once you have submitted your application, no further editing or uploading of support materials is possible.

When you submit your application, you will receive a confirmation email with a copy of your submitted application attached. This will be sent to the email you used to register.

If you do not receive a confirmation of submission email then you should presume that your submission has NOT been submitted.

Hint: also check the email hasn’t landed in your spam or junk email folder.

We support diverse application methods and are happy to accept applications through a variety of formats (handwritten, recorded voice, video). For any questions please contact us on 03 9658 9893 or by emailing creativespaces@melbourne.vic.gov.au

ATTACHMENTS AND SUPPORT DOCUMENTS

You may need to upload/submit attachments to support your application. This is very simple, but requires you to have the documents saved on your computer, or on a storage device.

You need to allow enough time for each file to upload before trying to attach another file. Files can be up to 25MB each; however, we do recommend trying to keep files to a maximum of 5MB – the larger the file, the longer the upload time.