LOVE YOUR LOCAL How visual artists, makers and designers can engage with local government
LOVE YOUR LOCAL: How visual artists, makers and designers can engage with local government Please see the NAVA resource linked below detailing how creatives can engage with local government. Download NAVA Toolkit
Mural Toolkit
Mural Toolkit These guidelines are designed to help you through the process of creating a mural in your neighbourhood. They provide step by step advice on planning, preparation, implementation, and the maintenance of the mural. Primarily aimed at community members, the guidelines have useful tools, tips, and sources of information. [...]
Grant Writing Workshop for Creatives 2022 + Resources
Grant Writing Workshop and Resources for Creatives 2022 https://youtu.be/c0XddQnArxQ Download 'The Fundamentals of Grant Writing' PDF File Click Here Download 'The Fundamentals of Grant Writing' Powerpoint Click Here
Meet Our Artist Mentors
Mini Talks from a selection of experienced Mornington Peninsula artists, followed by a group mentoring session. The Creators Network, through workshops and networking opportunities, aims to develop new creative business skills and build sustainable practises post COVID-19 while supporting the recovery and future resilience of the [...]
The Creators Network
Image: Dreamhouse Theatre Join us at The Creators Network, a series of free creative networking events aimed at developing greater collaboration and sustainability in our broad and diverse arts and culture community. Connect with like-minded creatives and artists. The Creators Network includes networking events from July to [...]
Treasures from the Shire Archives
We are fortunate to have the rich resource of our Shire Archive Collection and are proud to be able to bring these stories to you through the Local History Team.
Meredith Connie – Quarantine Station Variations
Meredith Connie is a classical guitar performer, teacher and composer. In early 2020, Meredith undertook a residency at the Mornington Peninsula Shire’s Police Point Artist in Residence Program.
Police Point Virtual Residency – Thrive in Five with Caroline Graley
Thrive in Five is a participatory community art project designed to inspire people to create artworks inspired by their lockdown-restricted 5km radius, and share them online via the hashtag #thriveinfivego.
Police Point Virtual Residency – Jenny Wood
This is a story of Jenny's great great great grandfather William Gangell who landed in Sullivan’s bay, Sorrento in October 1803 after 6 months at sea on The Calcutta ship.
Police Point Virtual Residency – Hannah Lewis
For her virtual residency, Hannah Lewis put together an online exhibition of photographs, prose and poetry documenting the development of a new work.
Police Point Virtual Residency – Jemma Cakebread
Jemma Cakebread’s work explores the conversation between painting, embroidery and textile work through the surface metaphor of skin.
Police Point Virtual Residency – Danielle Burns
Danielle initially intended to use this virtual residency to work on a forthcoming novel, before instead choosing to pursue the opportunity for the benefit of the hard-working Rye Historical Society.
Police Point Virtual Residency – Marianne Ellis
"Each painting is symbolic of the daily events, moods, feelings, and emotions that surfaced. It has been a slow, steady progression of work that surfaced into lightness, optimism, and excitement as restrictions lifted and daily life."
Police Point Virtual Residency – Jennifer Buntine
For her virtual residency, Jennifer offers a tour of her stunning studio, an informative discussion on printmaking mediums, and the creation of work informed by re-evaluation and shift in focus of life during lockdown.
Police Point Virtual Residency – Catherine Hamilton
Catherine’s work is distinctive, bold, vibrant and full of energy. She works in various media but pushes the boundaries in diverse exploratory and original techniques.
Police Point Virtual Residency – Kristin Haskett
Kristin Haskett is a Mornington Peninsula-based artist whose work consists mainly of drawing, painting and printmaking.
Police Point Virtual Residency – Shaney Hyde
Shaney’s work includes whimsical illustrations of nature, botanicals, storybook characters and adorable Australian animals, inspired by memories of a playful childhood and a desire to explore nature.
Police Point Virtual Residency – Adam Perry
“My artwork focuses mostly on spiritual experience. I close my eyes and ask the Universe what it wants to show me. I sketch down these images in my visual diary and choose one to be a finished work of art."
Darker
Darker is a conversation between five young women, that exposes the sometimes murky undercurrent to living on the Mornington Peninsula. Darker is presented as part of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence.
Jacqueline Beddows – Acrylic Paintings
Jacqueline is a Mornington Peninsula-based visual artist working with acrylic paint. Her work is inspired by her adult children, a love of colour, nature and places she has visited.
Yawa Aquatic Centre – Artist Expression of Interest
Mornington Peninsula Shire seeks to engage an artist to create a series of photographic works to be presented in the new Yawa Aquatic Centre in March 2021 for a period of twelve months.
Sorrento Studio – Online Exhibition
Studio Sorrento artists and photographers are involved in an online exhibition during isolation - with an open call out for other artists to get involved.
The Things We Create
To celebrate the launch of the Mornington Peninsula Shire's Arts and Culture Plan 2024 and our community's amazing creativity during this time, we invite you to share your creations using the hashtag #thethingswecreate.
Moonah Arts Collective – Ninch Tunes
Moonah Arts Collective is a community based arts organisation dedicated to progressing, promoting, and empowering music, and other arts on the Southern Mornington Peninsula.
#MPBinspiration 2020 – Online Exhibition
Enjoy an online gallery of all the entries to our #MPBinspiration bin art competition!
Smartphone Stories – Free Workshop
Smartphone Stories filmmaking workshop is coming to the Mornington Peninsula in September 2020.
MPRG: FIFTY
Celebrating the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery’s 50th anniversary MPRG: FIFTY highlights the development and growth of this significant collection.
Mornington Peninsula BINspiration – Bin Art Project
Mornington Peninsula Shire is calling all residents to get their hands dirty, minds creative and bring colour to our streets with the Shire’s ‘bin art’ project!
Beleura Behind the Scenes – How to clean a Heritage House
The way you clean your home is quite different to the way we clean our Heritage House at Beleura in Mornington. Here are eight tips about heritage house cleaning from specialist heritage cleaner Tony Roberts.
RPPV
Drawing on the rich offerings of the region, and the bayside lifestyles of communities from Frankston to Portsea, 3RPP's volunteer presenters create an eclectic mix of shows ranging through every style of music as well as arts, culture, sport and community news.
The Buckley Opera
'Buckley' is a new opera on a local historical topic written by local residents, baritone Antony Ransome (music) and historian Richard Cotter (text).
SODA Virtual Festival
Peninsula virtual pub has teamed up with MP music network to present SODA virtual festival, a Facebook live stream event.
How to Draw with Pete Pascoe
Musician, artist and children’s book illustrator Pete Pascoe has put together a fantastic series of how to draw animal cartoons, available free via his YouTube channel.
Beleura Behind the Scenes – The Kitchen Garden in Autumn
Find out what you need to do at this time of year to prepare your garden for Winter with Beleura's gardener Dugald Noyes.
Mornington Peninsula Library Service – Comic Book Workshop via Zoom
This workshop provides participants with the tools and the confidence they need to create their own comic book. Recommended for everyone aged 7+
Selling Online for Makers – Beginners Bootcamp
Join Craft Victoria & Mornington Peninsula Shire for our online workshop Selling Online for Makers – Beginners Bootcamp.
Arts & Culture COVID-19 Impact Survey
Mornington Peninsula Shire understands that many in our community are facing hardship right now due to the impact of COVID-19. We have prepared a short survey to help us better understand our creative community's current situation.
MOTH – Performance Archive
Music on the Hill – or MOTH – is a monthly music event in Red Hill that brings great singer-songwriting talent to one of Victoria’s most popular regional areas.
MP Music Network – Thursday Night Live
MP Music have decided to showcase some of the best music that the Mornington Peninsula has to offer through a weekly series of events called Thursday Night Live!
Peninsula Writers Club – Digital Writers in residence
As a writing community we have the opportunity and privilege to create, characterise, capture and share with others the stories of our history, landscape, personalities and mythology on the Mornington Peninsula and beyond.
Cataloguing the Patsy Kirk Collection at Beleura House
Beleura House & Garden is a place where people are welcomed, where talented young musicians are encouraged and where vignettes of the past offer an insight into the lives of previous generations.
Council adopts Arts and Culture Plan 2020-2024
The new Arts & Culture Plan sets a vision and guide for Council’s involvement and investment in arts and cultural activities within the community and is developed in response to over 1,000 community members' feedback.
Southern Buoy Studios – Portrait Prize 2020 Exhibition
SBS Gallery is proud to present this years finalists of the SBS Portrait Prize 2020. While you are there, take a moment to choose your favourite work and enter the online Peoples Choice Award. Catalogues are also now available for order.
Creative Activities: Online at MPRG
Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery have curated a stack of creative activities to do at home. There's projects suitable for all ages, from 2 upwards.
Michael Leeworthy – Free Watercolour and Acrylic Lessons
Michael Leeworthy is a seasoned gallery and commission artist whose work encompasses an unusually wide range of styles. Michael operates his own gallery and studio in Red Hill and his large-scale mural work peppers the Mornington Peninsula.
Peninsula School of Dance – PSD Online
Peninsula School of Dance's newly-developed online portal will provide you and your entire family with a suite of dance classes, activities, worksheets and fitness workouts that are guaranteed to keep you fit, healthy and active at home.
SPUKES – Online Ukulele Lessons
The Southern Peninsula Ukulele Group (SPUKES) is a community based ukulele group located in Rosebud where people of all ages come together to enjoy a few hours of ukulele strumming, singing and friendship.
DSE Music – Video Music Lessons
DSE Music are a Mornington Peninsula-based music education organisation offering tuition in guitar, piano, singing, drums and music theory. To help educate and entertain children during lockdown, they have developed a new online platform for piano and guitar tuition.
Mount Martha House Community Centre – Online Creative Activities
Our friends at Mount Martha House Community Centre and a group of their enthusiastic volunteers have put together an interactive online program of events and activities to entertain, educate and foster community spirit during these challenging times.
Peninsula Chamber Musicians Performance
Peninsula Chamber Musicians performed Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 to launch their eighth concert season in March, 2020. This special performance features acclaimed Serbian born virtuoso Svetlana Bogosavljevic.
A Collection of Stranger Things: Online at MPRG
MPRG staff are working to share podcasts, videos, collection, exhibitions, stories and children's activities online, including the current exhibition, A Collection of Stranger Things.
Baluk Arts – Online Shop
The range of artworks and gifts created by Baluk artists include clap sticks, carvings of wood, stone and bone, painting, works on paper, natural jewellery, weaving, kelp works, handmade cards, books, scarves, t-towels and sculptures.
Amanda Stuart – Nine Men, Nine Lives Exhibition
Each of the men in this exhibition, ‘Nine Men, Nine Lives’ has an interesting story they were willing to share with me. From a conversation that went for one or two hours and often included 10,000 words, their story emerged.
Everywhen Artspace
Everywhen Artspace is the exhibiting space of Susan McCulloch and Emily McCulloch Childs of Whistlewood Gallery. We feature acrylics, barks, ochres, works on paper and 3D from the 40 + leading Aboriginal-owned art centres whose works we represent.
Exhibition Callout – Foyer Exhibition Space at Mornington Library
While the Mornington Library is currently closed, MP Shire is accepting submissions for the rest of the 2020 calendar year. We welcome applications from emerging, mid-career and established individuals, collectives and groups who live or work on the Mornington Peninsula.
Green Wedge Exhibition 2019
The Green Wedge Paint Out sessions and Exhibition were developed for artists to create an image of an aspect of the Mornington Peninsula’s spectacular Green Wedge.