Make a date for
MELBOURNE FESTIVAL ART & ARCHITECTURE TRAIL
20 & 21 September 2025
In 2024 68 hosts welcomed 163 regional artists and over 5000 visitors to the 2024 Melbourne for the Art & Architecture Trail. Melbourne Festival is an amazing event thanks to the support of our hosts, helpers, volunteers and our amazing artists.
Entry has remained £5 per adult (under 18’s free) since 2008.
Melbourne Festival puts art at the heart of South Derbyshire, come and see for yourself!
Applications for 2025 will open mid-February.
CALM this Autumn at Creative Melbourne Gallery
Melbourne Festival is over for another year and our new exhibition CALM has taken over the Gallery.
It is a kaleidoscope of peaceful images taking us through the transition from hot summer colours to more relaxing Autumn hues. CALM is at Creative Melbourne Gallery in Melbourne from 9th October until 16th November.
CALM features collections of porcelain tiles by Caroline Barnes, ceramics by Ronnie Diggins and Mary Johnson, pointillist paintings by Mark Langley, landscapes by Steven McLoughlin, contemporary urban landscapes by Kerri Pratt, prints by Bernie Rutter and paintings by of the local countryside by Peter Watson alongside embroidered images by Alison Wake.
Opening Evening on Wednesday 9th October 5-7pm
We are open 10-4 Wednesday to Saturday.
Visit our Online Gallery for a preview of the fabulous work on show. Pieces can be reserved using the online form.
SPACES TO CREATE…
Creative Melbourne Gallery and Studio launched Spaces to Create, a new mentored artist development programme, in October 2023 with the aim of promoting the creative industries in South Derbyshire by supporting creatives to become self-sustaining small businesses; phase 1 of the programme ended in May 2024.
We are currently recruiting our next group of artists in September 2024; this opportunity is not solely for visual artists; our 2023/ 2024 artists included a poet, digital creative, and a photographer. Spaces to Create is open to creative people who can utilise the hotdesking space and benefit from supported development. We have now launched Phase 2 Applications.
The six artists who participated in the Pilot Project took up hotdesking residence in our newly launched space above the Gallery. This opportunity is not solely for visual artists, you could be a writer, digital creative, photographer, game designer or producer, we are open to creative people who can utilise the hotdesking space and benefit from supported development.
Spaces to Create aims to promote the creative industries in South Derbyshire by supporting creatives in becoming self-sustaining small businesses. Please contact us at info@melbournefestival.co.uk if you would like to find out more!
We would like to thank South Derbyshire District Council for their support for Spaces to Create.
Join the Creative Melbourne Team for “BEARING FRUIT” our FREE Community Creative Workshops this Summer.
There are great options whether you are under-5 or nearly-95 and ideas for families of all ages in between! All workshops are Artist-led, in accessible spaces, including outdoors, all materials are provided so take you pick, book a place, bring yourself and HAVE A GO!
BLOSSOMING - Spring/Summer 2024
Under 5’s
Families
We would like to thank Arts Council England, Foundation Derbyshire, Derbyshire County Council, South Derbyshire District Council, and Melbourne Community Care for supporting creative community workshops in Melbourne during Summer 2024
Sponsored by Community Care
JOIN OUR VOLUNTEER TEAM!
Would you like to meet new people, learn new skills or feel you could help out in some way?? Maybe you have an interest in Art or would like to feel part of an organisation that helps the local and wider creative community.
We are looking for new volunteers to expand our friendly team of volunteers who help at our Creative Melbourne Gallery and at Melbourne Festival. Flexible hours morning or afternoons, one session a month or more! Full training will be given.
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer and would like more information follow the link below…
Or contact us on 07765 819428, email or drop in to Creative Melbourne Gallery to speak to a team member.
Thank you for visiting our website. Melbourne Festival & Creative Melbourne are both part of Arts Melbourne CIC