Expressions of Interest - 2025
Expressions of Interest are now open for MPRG Artist-in-Residence (AiR) program, at Monmar.
Residencies are available between February 10 and June 30 2025.
EOIs are open until Friday 13 December 11:59pm.
About the Program
Mornington Peninsula Shire's Artist-in-Residence program has taken place for over 10 years, and is now facilitated by MPRG.
The AiR program invites visual artists, cultural practitioners, curators, writers, musicians and researchers to undertake a 2-to-6-week residency to engage with the natural and human histories of the site, to explore challenging ideas, experiment, connect and collaborate.
The residency offers artists dedicated time devoted to the development of their practice, situated within the unique environments of Police Point Shire Park and Point Nepean National Park.
These are nationally significant cultural heritage sites, located on the lands of the Boonwurrung-balug, one of the six clans of the Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation of Victoria. It is a culturally significant site for the Bunurong people who know the area as Monmar, named for the white trunks of the Moonah trees common to this area.
Themes for the program include raising broad awareness and appreciation for our environment, creative development about coastal concepts and/or the heritage of the area, responses to the impacts of climate change, and ecological ways of being. The residency supports practitioners working with these themes and is specifically generative for artists with place- or context- based practices.
Taking place in three historic cottages at Police Point, the residency is not simply a place to reside but a communal space that can lead to experimental collaboration and discourse between participants.
Expressions of Interest
We are now welcoming Expressions of Interest for residencies taking place between February 10 and June 30, 2025.
EOIs are open until Friday 13 December, 11:59pm. All applicants will be contacted by the end of January 2025.
Past residents are welcome to apply. Please consider how this residency might extend, differ or depart from your previous residency.
We encourage applications from individual artists and collectives, emerging through to established artists, based locally, interstate & internationally. First Nations, LGBTIQA+, culturally and linguistically diverse and artists with disability are encouraged to apply.
Please reach out to discuss your specific requirements.
Fees
In 2025, MPRG AiR is a fee-paying residency, to ensure the sustainability of the program. Residency fees are $300 AUD per cottage, per fortnight.
There are a small number of supported, non fee-paying residencies available. If you are applying for a supported place, please provide information in the space provided in the EOI form to assist your application. Supported places will be accessed on a case-by-case basis.
How to Apply
Before applying, please read the MPRG AiR Program EOI Booklet(PDF, 1MB), which details the application process & selection criteria.
Please apply by completing the online EOI form here.
Any questions, please reach the MPRG team at mprgair@mornpen.vic.gov.au.