Call for Applications Laura Banfield x George Paton Gallery for MPavilion

Call out for University of Melbourne students to join artist Laura Banfield for the 2026 George Paton Gallery x MPavilion Parkville presentation.

Working across performance, sculpture and video, Laura explores the entanglement of material and bodies through choreography, materials, and iterative experimentation. Drawing on her practice, Laura will lead a series of creative development workshops in the George Paton Gallery Arts Lab.

Over three days in May, students will present the outcomes of this collaborative process at MPavilion Parkville, making practice public.

This project is presented through a collaboration between MPavilion Parkville and the George Paton Gallery.

Key Dates

Participants must be available for all workshops, and some presentation days.

Workshop 1: Thursday 16 April, 4-6PM
Workshop 2: Thursday 23 April, 4-6PM
Workshop 3: Thursday 7 May, 4-6PM
MPavilion Parkville Presentation/Activation: 19-21 May

Name*

First NameLast Name

Student Number

Email*

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UniMelb Department, year and area of study:*

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Tell us about yourself (and why you want to take part in this workshop)*

Can you attend all workshops?*

Do you have a creative practice?

Let us know more about what you do. This might be an expanded form of creativity -- i.e. you might be interested in creative applications of sociological theory, or creative applications of engineering basics! You might be an established artist, or an emerging artist, a dancer or a vocalist, tell us more here!

(OPTIONAL) Share any images of your work, excerpts from your writing or anything else you think might be relevant to your application!

(OPTIONAL) Do you have a website for your creative practice? If so, share it with us!

Image Credit: THE DE(SIGNS), 2022, Joy Zhou and Irene Li