Thank you for applying for Dandenong Ranges Open Studios 2025.

Please note, 2025 will include 2x open weekends: 22 – 23 & 29 - 30 MARCH, 2025, with the second weekend being optional.

Please feel free to touch base with Burrinja if you have any questions.

If you are an emerging artist looking to apply for a subsidised studio at Burrinja you MUST talk to CJ Baxter first.

CJ Baxter: openstudios@burrinja.org.au

This information will be made public via the Open Studios print collateral and website.

Open Studios wants to know more about you. All the juicy creative bits. These are not used to assess your application, however may be used on your artist profile page online, so that studio visitors can start to get to know you a little more, before they meet you! It is a creative artist profile of sorts.

• What inspires you as an artist? 
• Which artist are you most intrigued by / obsessed with? And why? (This could be a famous painter, an architect, a gardener, a musician, a writer, a parent, a friend, a lover, or somebody you haven't even met yet.
• Your favourite book
• What part of your practice is the most rewarding for you? 
• What are you obsessed with at the moment? (an idea / tv show / person / process / website / feeling) 
• What is something that most people coming to your studio might not know about you or your practice?

Please provide an indication of any networks and avenues you have access to, in order to help promote the project. You may be involved in local community groups, artists circles, retail spaces, etc. Or you may have connections and opportunities with the wider Victorian/Melbourne Creative Industry. This information if not for publication, but for information purposes only. (150 words maximum)

If you are planning a special event during Open Studios, please include the details here. Events are optional and are designed to provide the visitors with an experience that is either time specific (e.g. removing ceramics from kiln once the firing and cooling process is complete) or experience something a little extra ordinary (e.g. concert, performance or interactive workshop.)

Only one event per studio, per day is permitted and inclusion of the event as a listing on the guide and website will be up to coordinators discretion.

Please provide between 6 and 12 images with your application. A minimum of 2 images should provide a clear representation of your working studio space, with the rest providing a good overview of your artwork. If you use different mediums and techniques, please provide a representation of each style.

All digital image files should be labelled in the following manner: surname_name_no.jpg

You are encouraged to use Dropbox.com to supply images, however images submitted via USB or a single PDF document will also be accepted.

Please send PDF documents Dropbox invitations to openstudios@burrinja.org.au

USB to be posted to;

Burrinja

CJ Baxter

351 Glenfern Road, Upwey VIC 3158

PRIVACY. These details will be used solely by Dandenong Ranges Open Studios, and will not be provided to any other party. From time to time, Dandenong Ranges Open Studios will receive useful information from associated bodies which we will pass on via email where it is deemed appropriate.

IMAGES. By submitting this application I give permission for the enclosed / attached images to be used in Dandenong Ranges Open Studios 2025 publicity. This may include, but is not limited to, digital reproduction on the Burrinja and / or other websites as appropriate and transmission by email to media and similar.

INDEMNIFICATION. The Dandenong Ranges Community Cultural Centre Inc. (as ‘Burrinja’) and its Committee of Management (COM), staff, members, agents and volunteers are not responsible for any loss, damage to property, injury to persons, regardless of whether Burrinja, its COM, staff, members, agents and volunteers, knew or should have known of the possibility of damage or injury. I agree to indemnify and hold Burrinja, its members, agents and volunteers, harmless from any injury, loss, damage, or loss of profits, business or any type of harm which arises out of or in connection with this event. I undertake that all details on this form are correct, and agree to comply with all terms and conditions of the Open Studios as stated in the entirety of this document.