Creative Spaces

Newly listed: A clean minimal retail space with industrial features located minutes from Queen Victoria Market 💥

Well lit and spacious, this space would be ideal as a location for retail and fashion pop-ups. Open plan with even overhead lighting and an adjoining bathroom.

Leading into the space is a sunlit and covered outdoor area with modular bench seating.

This space is located just minutes from Queen Victoria Market, with ample parking options and public transport connections.

Size: 30m2
Price: $2,100 per week
Capacity: 100

Available from 14th December, 2026
Short term hire

Explore more Creative Spaces via the link in bio 💥

Image descriptions: An light filled warehouse space with grey floors, exposed yellow bricks and portioned walls.

Just listed + now available: Meat Market - Studio 14.

A corner studio inside historic arts and community venue, Meat Market. Ideal for a small to medium arts organisation or arts collective. Light-filled, generous space with views of North Melbourne. Over 40 creative practitioners ranging from writers, arts organisations, festivals, musicians and designers have established themselves and their practices within the solid walls of this heritage-listed building. You could be next!

To apply, you must attend a walk-through of the venue with a Meat Market staff member. To book a time or register interest, please email [email protected] with the subject line 'Studio 14 Expression of interest'

↳ Studio 14
Size: 45.56sqm
Price: $716 per month
📍Meat Market, North Melbourne
⚠️ Available from October 1, register your interest for a walkthrough

Learn more: https://www.creativespaces.net.au/space/meat-market-studio-14

Looking for affordable office space in the Paris end of Collins Street? You're in luck at Collins Street Studios. Bring your practice or business and join a bustling hub that will host over 100 creatives in the heart of Melbourne. Proposals for Studio 3 are open and close at 12:00pm 16 September 2026 (AEST). Note: You have to conduct a site visit and have a look at Office 3 before you apply. It packs 100m2 of floor space, more than enough to fit your creative business of up to 13 people. For more information, visit https://www.creativespaces.net.au/space/office-3-collins-street-studios Too big? There are smaller creative spaces are available in the Collins Street Studios, explore more via link in bio or reach out via email.

Look at this! 'Beneath the Street: Subterranean Dialogues 2' , 152 Sturt Street, Southbank, explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Beneath the Street isn’t a literal interpretation of what lies below the street. It explores what exists beneath and between—moving off the beaten track, stepping backwards and forwards in time, and scratching below the surface.

Works by Benedict Sibley, Brie Trenerry and Kieran Boland.

Photo 1: Benedict Sibley. 'Geo-Drawings', 2022-26. Ink, graphite, coloured graphite on Lana paper.
Photo 2: Kieran Boland. 'Nagraographs', 2024. Digital prints on Epson Paper.
Photo 3: Anna Hoyle. 'high functioning functional dysfunction', 2022-26. Gouache on paper panels, dimensions variable.

Supported by Design & Production, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, and Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne.

Runs until 30 September 2026.
Open 24/7.
Assembly Point
152 Sturt Street, Southbank

Closing soon: Aboriginal Creative Studio Space + Assembly Point EOIs.
• Aboriginal Creative Studio Space at Boyd Studio closes on this Wednesday 2 September at 4pm.
• Assembly Point EOI closes on Monday 7 September at 12pm.
Learn more at the link in bio.
Image credit: Holly Goodridge exhibition at Assembly Point, Southbank.
📷: Creative Spaces

Opportunity → Assembly Point exhibition EOIs now open 🔥

Bring your art to Melbourne's Arts Precinct. Are you a curator or artist? This one is for you.

Creative Spaces is accepting applications to show work at Assembly Point. This unique space features five large-scale glass vitrines along the Southbank walkway between Sturt and Moore Streets, providing a unique opportunity to present sculptural, two and three-dimensional works that are accessible to audiences 24/7.

Previous exhibiting artists include The Huxleys, Yuchen Xin, Tatjana Este, Sean Meilak, Miranda Smith, University of Melbourne alumni and more.

Located alongside VCA, ACCA and NGV International, the space connects artists with thousands of visitors, students and arts audiences every day. Get your artwork in front of them.

Applications close: 12pm, Monday 7 September 2026

Apply: https://melbourne.smartygrants.com.au/AP2026-27
photo: Melanie Desa

Creative Spaces recommends → Collins St Studios licensees Cypher Culture performance this weekend at Dancehouse, Melbourne Australia.

— Bass, Kick, Snare & Clap
OVER9000 explores Bounce and Rock, two foundational Hip Hop grooves that build on elemental rhythms as both structural and expressive tools.

Here, groove becomes more than a foundation; it’s a living language of connection, resistance, and resilience.

Mapping the depth of Hip Hop freestyle and collective exploration within The Unguided, OVER9000 is grounded in the principles of cyphering, research, and play as choreography emerges organically through embodied practice and shared knowledge.

Working within an energetic spectrum from stillness to intensity, the performance channels the essence of freestyle battles and jams into a theatrical context, exploring the elasticity of presence and the power of the body in motion.

An offering and an extension, OVER9000 is a continuation of lineages, pushing beyond perceived limits, and a testament to the ever-expanding possibilities of Hip Hop dance.

Learn more via the Dancehouse website:
https://www.dancehouse.com.au/whats-on/over9000/

Artist Opportunity → A Free Studio Space for Aboriginal Artists and Creatives 💥

Expressions of Interest are now open for the fourth edition of our free Aboriginal Creative Studio Space, an initiative that provides studio space for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander artists and room to get making.

Previous recipients include Iluka Sax-Williams, Stacey Edwards & Thelma Beeton (pictured), and Bianca Easton.

Available from October 2026 – April 2027, there is no requirement to deliver a public outcome. Suitable for up to 2 artists, the 17sqm studio is centrally located at Boyd Studios, well-lit and has high ceilings, wooden floors and 24/7 access.

Applications close: Wednesday 2 September, 4pm.

Applicants will answer three questions about their practice, how they intend to use the space and the benefits this opportunity will bring to their art-making.

Learn more + apply: https://tinyurl.com/2nrxkbpk

Image credits: 2024 Studio recipients Stacey Edwards and Thelma Beeton, pictured in the Boyd Studio amongst their artwork. 📷: TJ Garvie

Last days ↘ Beneath the Street: Subterranean Dialogues

📅 on now — 5 August
📍 Assembly Point, 152 Sturt St, Southbank

Presented by Design & Production (Graphic Design), the exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Through photography, scanning, mapping, drawing, painting, textile-based works, interactive projects, moving image and AI-generated imagery, the exhibition considers dialogues between the real and artificial, the tactile and imagined.












Image: Kate Beynon & Rali Beynon / TudoFAM 'Amulets & Spirits' , photo: Amanda Morgan

Explore more spaces to exhibit your work, make mess or collaborate with your team via the Creative Spaces website. Find your space via https://www.creativespaces.net.au/

What's On: From River Street Studios artist Phong Chi Lai →

Unwind and stitch slowly with Phong Chi Lai (Studio PCL) in this relaxed, hands-on embroidery workshop presented by Australian Tapestry Workshop 🪡

Using a curated selection of ATW’s botanically dyed yarns, you’ll learn a variety of decorative embroidery stitches and create your own sampler on hand-loomed linen. Play with colour, texture and pattern as you experiment, design, and build a unique embroidered textile swatch.

Perfect for beginners and seasoned craft lovers alike, this workshop is a celebration of mindful making, creativity, and the simple pleasure of working with your hands.

Learn more and register:
https://www.austapestry.com.au/content/slow-stitching-phong-chi-lai-0

Photo credits -
Portrait - Marie Luise Skibbes
Stitch - Phong Chi Lai