Creative spaces and residencies

Residency programs and associated exhibitions and creative practices supported and cultivated by Montsalvat. 

We are excited to announce a new chapter of creative vitality and activation at Montsalvat.

Montsalvat, in Eltham, Victoria is an arts village and artist community spanning ninety years of continuous creative practice. Established in 1934, Montsalvat has fostered a deeply connected creative community and provided thousands of artists, musicians, writers, philosophers, poets and makers with the time, space and support to further their artistic practice.

Once a private semi-rural retreat for artists, Montsalvat has evolved into a public hub of creative opportunity; a place where art is made and taught as well as exhibited and performed. We offer art classes, studio places and short-term residencies to a wide variety of experienced and aspiring artists, alongside numerous events and private function facilities across three dozen unique, Heritage- listed buildings and 5ha of stunning grounds.

Designed to expand community opportunities to engage with the arts, Montsalvat has developed a new suite of bookable spaces and residency programs for creative and community use. The Creative Spaces Project presents a three-tiered structure of accessibility

  • Creative Bookable Spaces

    Montsalvat are developing a suite of shared, bookable spaces designed to increase day-to-day activity across the grounds, better support the needs of our artistic community and create more opportunities for public engagement with the arts. These spaces will be well maintained, furnished and available for a diverse range of community and artistic use. 

    SPACES COMING SOON

  • Project Spaces

    The Project Spaces are clustered around the Great Hall and other iconic buildings constructed in the 1930-40's. It was here the founders enjoyed a frugal hedonism spending their days laboring, afternoons developing their creative practices and evenings swimming in the pool, dining together and sharing conversation. 

    Suitable for short-term residencies with a range from single rooms to self-contained dwellings, the studios are suited to project-oriented work and those seeking a period of focus for their practice. In support of socialising and collaboration, all studios are connected to shared amenities and bookable spaces.  

    SPACES COMING SOON

  • Makers Studios

    The Makers Studios are suited to long-term tenancies. These studios are clustered together in the ‘Makers Quarter’ - the lively productive heart of Montsalvat. The ‘Maker's Quarter’ is the vitality that brings Montsalvat to life and the long-term tenancies are the first and foremost reciprocal relationships between this community and this place.  

    To support creative development, tenants have access to shared and bookable spaces for meeting, exhibiting, teaching and socialising. 

    SPACES COMING SOON