The Commons Within: 2026 SHS Resident’s Exhibition
Curated by Iaki Vallejo and Maria Peña
14 - 22 May 2026
Coburg Opening: Thursday 14 May, 6 - 8pm, 28 Victoria St Coburg
Brunswick Opening: Friday 22 May, 6 - 8pm, 215- 219 Albion St Brunswick (Level 1, enter via the large doors on the bike path)
For the first time, this year’s Residents Exhibition is hosted across two locations, with the works presented both at the gallery and at our new Brunswick studios.
The expansion across two sites reflects the growing ecosystem of artists and practices that we support here at Schoolhouse, and offers a chance to visit the exhibition alongside the new studios in Wurru wurru biik, Nightingale.
The annual Schoolhouse Studios resident’s exhibition is back! For the first time, this year’s Residents Exhibition is hosted across two locations, with the works presented both at the gallery and at our new Brunswick studios.
The expansion across two sites reflects the growing ecosystem of artists and practices that we support here at Schoolhouse, and offers a chance to visit the exhibition alongside the new studios in Wurru wurru biik, Nightingale.
We often understand community as something external, something we gather into, move through, or belong to. But what if the commons is not only around us, but inside us?
Each of us carries a shared interior: a convergence of voices, memories, relationships, and inherited ways of being. The self is not singular but composed, shaped by others, and held in tension between autonomy and connection.
This exhibition explores the inner landscapes where collective experience resides. Here, memory becomes a meeting place. Emotion becomes shared terrain. The body becomes a vessel for what has been given, absorbed, and transformed.
The Commons Within invites us to consider what we hold, consciously or not and what it means to care for the lives, histories, and energies that reside within us.
Featuring works from:
Anastasia Hatzikosmidis, Antonia Sellbach, Ashley Ronning, Barb Murphy, Bianca Browne, Christa Orcullo, Francesca Pezzimenti, Hahnie Goldfinch, Hannah Morgan Savage, Iaki Vallejo, Janetta Kerr-Grant, Jesse Chabrier-Pope, Jude Worters, Maria Peña, Matteo Volpi, Meg Kelso, Nicci McGuffog, Stuart Sparling, Tara Cull and Unty Rose