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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.
THE AFFORDABLE ART SHOW Creative Melbourne Gallery
It’s time to banish the January blues! Creative Melbourne Gallery is starting 2025 with The Affordable Art Show – a bright, colourful exhibition full of pieces carefully selected to add a splash of colour to everyone’s home now that the decorations have come down!
The Affordable Art Show opens on 15th January and continues until 15th February. Everything in the exhibition has been created by East Midlands Artists and priced under £300 so that you can treat yourself and make your home feel new.
Featured artists include the three Resident Artists Sujata Aten, Michelle Holmes and Patrick Twiss-Prentice alongside work by popular Melbourne Festival artists Helen Brown, Stevie Davies Glass, Steph Jansen, Gabi Komar-Dixon, Elaine Lim-Newton, Kate Moore, Helen Rhodes, Louise Roe Pottery, Bernie Rutter & Vitor Azevedo and Karen Worrall of KJ Glass.
10% of sales during The Affordable Art Show will be donated to Treetops Hospice.
Open Wednesday - Saturday 10am to 4pm until 15th February
CREATIVE MELBOURNE GALLERY, Wellington House, Church Street, Melbourne DE738EJ
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