Community-Engaged Artist in Residence
Are you a professional artist with skills and experience in high quality community-engaged work?
In 2025, Arts & Culture Maribyrnong is offering a Community-Engaged Artist Residency opportunity for an individual artist or collective to work with and celebrate the communities of Braybrook.
The artist-in-residence will be based at the Braybrook Community Hub, an integrated community facility on Churchill Avenue within the grounds of Braybrook Park. It comprises the Braybrook Library, Braybrook Community Centre, a community health and maternal and child health centre, an early years centre and kindergarten, sports pavilion, and men’s shed.
About the Braybrook Community Engaged Artist-in-Residence Program
This program is open to artists of all genres and mediums who can deliver an arts project that is developed with the Braybrook community, celebrating its people, perspectives or local environment. Successful projects will engage the community as essential co-creators in the work and present creative participation opportunities suited to a range of ages, backgrounds, time commitments and arts experience levels.
Recipients of the residency are expected to build a deep connection to the community, working part-time over approximately a three-month period. There is no requirement for applicants to either live or work in the City of Maribyrnong, however, connection to the local community and strong demonstrated experience in community arts practice, will be viewed positively. Maribyrnong Arts & Culture encourages applications from First Nations and culturally diverse artists.
Maribyrnong City Council will provide artist fees of $10,000 as well as working materials, and marketing and producer support.
How to submit an expression of interest
For further information on how to submit an expression of interest, download the Braybrook Community-Engaged Artist-in-Residence Program Guidelines and then fill out the form linked below, selecting the residency program you are interested in applying for.
Open: Monday 9 September 2024
Close: Friday 18 October 2024
Decisions advised within 4 weeks of Expressions of Interest closing.
NB. The application form linked below accepts expressions of interest for multiple residency programs. Please ensure you select ‘Braybrook Community Engaged Artist-in-Residence Program’ when filling out the section titled ‘About your residency.’
Other residency programs currently accepting expressions of interest are the Artsbox Artist in Residence Program and the Bluestone Church Arts Space Residency Program. If you wish to apply for any of these programs, please click through to read those program guidelines and submit a separate application for them addressing the questionnaire with those programs in mind.
Braybrook Community-Engaged Residency guidelines
Download the guidelines for the Braybrook Community-Engaged Residency program(PDF, 728KB) here.
Braybrook Community-Engaged Residency application form
Click here to view form.
For further information or to discuss your application in more detail, contact Arts & Culture Maribyrnong on 03 9688 0200 or arts@maribyrnong.vic.gov.au
2023 Braybrook Community Engaged Artists in Residence Activities
Machine Imagining
Machine Imagining is a project with artist Kate Geck, inviting the Maribyrnong community to explore the natural world in collaboration with machine intelligence. Through a series of free workshops, community members were invited to draw creatures from the local area - plants, animals and insects.
These drawings and photos were used to produce a community database of observations of the local, natural world. These datasets then trained machine learning models to generate new, machine imaginings of the Maribyrnong area. These imaginings were arranged through collage into large hanging textiles, and finally were finished with hand embroidery.
Kate worked with a dedicated and ongoing group of Braybrook community members through all stages of the project, spanning from January to June 2023. After a launch event in September 2023, these works will be displayed for all to enjoy in the Braybrook Hub Access Gallery until Friday 6 October 2023.
Image provided by Kate Geck.
Born in a Taxi
Acclaimed local performance company, Born in a Taxi, developed a new performance work about the wonders of being the age you are, with contributions from the Braybrook community! They collected perspectives from people aged 1-100 who were keen to share. During October 2023, Artistic Directors Penny and Carolyn set up conversation areas in the Braybrook Hub Foyer and popped into classes and gatherings for a chat about 'being your age.'
Photography by Bryony Jackson
2022 Braybrook Community-Engaged Artist in Residence Activities
Living Portrait Braybrook
Photograph supplied by Carla Gottgens
Celebrate the creativity and imagination of the people who use Braybrook Community Hub in the Living Portrait Braybrook photography exhibition, available for viewing in April and May 2022. Come along to the Hub and view photos installed along the walls of the entire building, connected by red string.
Living Portrait Braybrook creatively explores the identity of the people who use Braybrook Community Hub. Artists Carla Gottgens, Catherine O’Leary and David Wells collaborated with visitors to the Braybrook Community Hub to playfully explore how they would like to present themselves in a portrait. This interactive project was spread out across the lockdowns and restrictions of 2020-2021.
Together community members and the artists undertook a process of transformation using costumes and props to create an image that tells a story. In the finished portrait, a bright red line connects each photograph to the next, threading lives together and celebrating the spirit and diversity of the Braybrook Community.
Rapping workshops at Braybrook Community Hub
Want to try rapping? Learn how to write your own lyrics and set it to a beat? And what about the rest – copyright and getting it out into the world? Learn from professional rapper and musician One Sixth at Braybrook Edge!
The Western Edge Youth Arts rapping workshops in 2022 were a free 10-week intensive workshop geared to any artists or young people aged 14-25 years old who want to develop and harness their creative skills, and confidently join the global music community! They discussed the various aspects of the creative process and learnt from guests along the way who have experience in the industry and know what it takes to keep reinventing and creating as often as they can.