Acknowledgement of Country

WOMINJEKA (Welcome)

We acknowledge the clans of the Eastern Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we connect, create and work. We pay our respects to their land, ancestors and Elders: past, present and future. We value the wealth of knowledge, creative practice and connection to Country of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and continue to learn from the oldest living culture in the world.

98% of young people are born creative geniuses. Most lose it by fifteen. Not here.

A creative studio for young people. Real projects. Real practitioners. Real work.

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Open Studio

Sat 5 Dec

The doors are open. Come in.

Meet the practitioners, see the space, make something together while you are here. 10am to 2pm, Mornington.

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Summer holidays

From Jan 2027

School holiday programs.

Short, focused projects led by working artists and designers. A good first way in.

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Term 1 2027

Bookings 5 Dec

Ten students. One project.

A full term alongside a working practitioner, ending in a public exhibition. Ten places per course. Registered families book first.

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This is not enrichment. It is training.

Creativity is not a trait some people have. It is a practice, and most of us stop practising long before we turn fifteen. The decline has been measured since 1968. Nobody causes it deliberately. It just goes untrained.

Assembly is a studio in Mornington for ages 5 to 18. It is built to interrupt the decline. We follow the school calendar. That is where the similarity ends.

Read: I can't draw

What a term actually looks like.

Assembly runs term-based creative courses in Mornington across drawing, printmaking, photography, design, sculpture and writing. Every course runs on the same frame. Here is one.

Term 1 2027 Photography Visual Communication

Photography is Graphics.

Where photography becomes Visual Communication. Led by Andrew Chew.

The purpose

Learn how a brief narrows a hundred options down to one right answer.

The deliverable

A finished piece to a real brief, original photography and graphic design together.

The exhibition

Printed and on screen, shown in public. Then you present the decisions behind it.

How the term runs

  1. Weeks 1 to 3 Shoot and edit Shoot to a brief. Make it production-ready.
  2. Weeks 4 to 6 Type and layout Illustrator and InDesign. Build the page.
  3. Week 7 The response Full draft, then refine.
  4. Week 8 Exhibition Printed and on screen, in public.

Term 1 bookings open at Open Studio on 5 December. Registered families book first.

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PLAYGRND

Evening sessions for adults, after the young people go home.

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