Koko Crozier & Claire Riverland, The Caretaker’s Guide to Loving a Home, 2025, behind the scenes still Film produced by Arts Activators 2025 cohort
Applications are open for passionate young creatives aged 18 to 25 to join Arts Activators. Applications close Monday 15 December 2025.
About this opportunity
About Arts Activators
Are you a passionate creative aged 18 to 25? Whether you’re into music, visual arts, photography, writing, performance, filmmaking, event production, curating exhibitions or organising creative projects - we’d love you to join Arts Activators, a group of young creatives shaping the arts in Maroondah.
Arts Activators will meet monthly on a Wednesday, from 6pm to 7.30pm. Meetings will be at arts venues across Maroondah to explore and respond to opportunities for creative and community spaces, gain mentorship from established artists/arts workers, and exchange feedback on creative projects.
We encourage creatives from all backgrounds and disciplines to apply.
Why join?
- Be part of a community of like-minded young artists
- Access mentorship and resources to support your creative journey and bring your ideas to life
- Be supported to create projects / works to activate venues across Maroondah
- Develop your creative practice and network
Activation spaces
Spaces available for arts projects and exhibitions include:
Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery
Gallery 1.5, Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery, 32 Greenwood Avenue, Ringwood 3134
Image: Hold Sway, Emma X Zhang and Rhys Cousins, 2024, Gallery 1.5 at Maroondah Federation Estate Gallery. Photography by Astrid Mulder.
Croydon Community Hub
Youth space, Unit 4, Croydon Community Hub, 7 Civic Square, Croydon 3136
Realm
Digital games lounge, Realm, 179 Maroondah Highway, Ringwood 3134
Express your interest
Expressions of interest close 11.59pm, Thursday 15 January 2025.
Express interest
Applicants will be contacted in mid December.
Previous programs
Arts Activators has a new structure for 2026, but you can check out past Arts Activators programs below.
Arts Activators 2025
In 2025, Arts Activators presented five bold and thought-provoking works by emerging artists aged 18 to 25, each transforming material, space and sound into immersive sensory experiences.
Rory Giezekamp
Rory Giezekamp’s sculptural installation invisible wall made the unseen visible by recycling rubbish from the Maroondah area.
Amelie Stewart
Amelie Stewart presented suspended ceramic forms shaped by the ever-changing rhythms of nature and creativity.
Koko Crozier and Claire Riverland
Koko Crozier and Claire Riverland’s The Caretaker’s Guide to Loving a Home was a fusion of film and props that follows a cleaner of deceased estates who transforms her work into a 5-step ritual of care, reflecting on memory, loss and the commodification of housing.
Jordz
The Music Zone, an intimate listening space crafted by Jordz, layered airy music and offered an escape from the sensory stresses of the world.
Emma Lyn-Winkler and Neve Curnow
The thought-provoking What Remains was an immersive multimedia installation by Emma Lyn-Winkler and Neve Curnow. Merging Victorian 19th century death symbolism, rural gothic, and dark humour, the work transformed the space into a ghostly cemetery that playfully confronted mortality, anxiety, and sexuality.
Arts Activator 2024
For 2024 three artists were selected through an open callout for projects including sculptures, installation, puppetry and performance.
Mikayla Hotton
Mikayla Hotton is an early career artist who specialises in the art of puppet making and mould making. She created highly detailed otherworldly characters who are as quirky as they are mischievous. Building stories from the ground up she meticulously sculpted all sets and props by hand, giving her backgrounds a character of their own. Puppet movements are carefully engineered and tested.
Maya Grkow
Maya Grkow is an emerging New Zealand, and Australian artist who studied Sculpture at RMIT University. Utilising recycled materials she explored the ideas of comfort and hope. Her works serve as a metaphorical comfort pillow—a symbol of hope and support during life's trials.
Imogen Davis
Imogen Davis is an artist and art student interested in the world-building of real life and how we as humans, as well as animals, plants, and non-organism elements interact with and in turn affect everything within it. She worked in installation creating expanded 3D collages to explore the environment and ecosystems that can be found in and around Maroondah.
Further information
For more information please contact Arts in Maroondah on 0417 915 347 or email gallery@maroondah.vic.gov.au.
The project is a collaboration between Arts in Maroondah and Maroondah Youth Services.