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Next Wave
Supporting artists since 1984.
Located at Brunswick Mechanics Institute in Narrm/Melbourne
Calling early-career artists living or working in Victoria 📣
2026–27 Kickstart EOIs are now open!
Kickstart is Next Wave's flagship creative development program for early-career artists, supporting the next generation of artists, producers and arts leaders to develop new work over an 18-month period.
Early-career artists ready to take their practice to the next level are invited to apply.
Join our information session on Wednesday 27 May to learn more about the Kickstart program.
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Image:
Hannah Brontë (Yaegel), 'FEMPRE$$', Next Wave Festival, 2016, Blak Dot Gallery, Narrm/Melbourne. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Sarah Walker.
This image contains text that reads EOI Open, Kickstart 2026–27.
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Supported by @wyndham_city and @cardiniashirecouncil
The students from the Art Centred Studio (Photography Discipline, RMIT) invite you to '______see ______do' at Next Wave.
Through the instrumentalisation of the image, they have created performances, installations, publications, and site-specific interventions. These emerging image makers exhibit their research in critically informed, responsive, and productive ways that action their pedagogical inquiries.
Opening: Friday 29 May, 5pm – 7pm (RSVP via link in bio)
Exhibition Continues: 30 – 31 May, 11am – 5pm
Presented by @rmitphoto @rmituniversity
Photo: Bailey Hovey
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Image description:
This is a black and white photo of a person wearing a eclectically patterned jacket. Their head is clean shaven and they look downward, hands expressively raised in front of their chest. There is also text that reads '_____see______do opening Friday 29 May'
As an organisation that has spent more than four decades supporting emerging and early-career artists, we believe this review presents a critical opportunity to address one of the most pressing structural issues facing the sector: the widening gap in support for young people, emerging artists, and the organisations that sustain them.
The review of the National Cultural Policy presents an opportunity to build a more sustainable, equitable and future-focused cultural sector.
Australia cannot afford to lose the organisations, artists and pathways that cultivate the next generation of cultural life. The consequences of disinvestment in emerging practice are not just immediate but they are cumulative and long-term. The effects will be felt in diminished artistic diversity, weakened workforce pipelines, reduced cultural participation, and the loss of future sector leaders.
These challenges are not without solutions. A coordinated national response could include a Youth Cultural Access Scheme, structured paid industry learning pathways, and dedicated investment in emerging artist development organisations as cultural infrastructure. Together with cross-portfolio investment linking arts, education and health, and a more nuanced approach to measuring cultural participation, these measures would rebuild the pipeline between education and professional practice. They would ensure that Australia does not lose a generation of artists, but instead builds the conditions for them to thrive.
Next Wave urges government to recognise young people, emerging artists, and the organisations that support them at the centre of the future of national cultural policy.
Investment in emerging practice is an investment in Australia’s cultural future.
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Next Wave's full submission is available on our website, link in b i o.
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Image:
Kickstart 2024–25 artists link arms at the 2025 Kickstart Showcase. Photo: Mae Hartrick.
These tiles contain also contain text, as above.
As an organisation that has spent more than four decades supporting emerging and early-career artists, we believe this review presents a critical opportunity to address one of the most pressing structural issues facing the sector: the widening gap in support for young people, emerging artists, and the organisations that sustain them.
The review of the National Cultural Policy presents an opportunity to build a more sustainable, equitable and future-focused cultural sector.
Australia cannot afford to lose the organisations, artists and pathways that cultivate the next generation of cultural life. The consequences of disinvestment in emerging practice are not just immediate but they are cumulative and long-term. The effects will be felt in diminished artistic diversity, weakened workforce pipelines, reduced cultural participation, and the loss of future sector leaders.
These challenges are not without solutions. A coordinated national response could include a Youth Cultural Access Scheme, structured paid industry learning pathways, and dedicated investment in emerging artist development organisations as cultural infrastructure. Together with cross-portfolio investment linking arts, education and health, and a more nuanced approach to measuring cultural participation, these measures would rebuild the pipeline between education and professional practice. They would ensure that Australia does not lose a generation of artists, but instead builds the conditions for them to thrive.
Next Wave urges government to recognise young people, emerging artists, and the organisations that support them at the centre of the future of national cultural policy.
Investment in emerging practice is an investment in Australia’s cultural future.
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Next Wave's full submission is available on our website, link in b i o.
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Image:
Kickstart 2024–25 artists link arms at the 2025 Kickstart Showcase. Photo: Mae Hartrick.
These tiles contain also contain text, as above.
As an organisation that has spent more than four decades supporting emerging and early-career artists, we believe this review presents a critical opportunity to address one of the most pressing structural issues facing the sector: the widening gap in support for young people, emerging artists, and the organisations that sustain them.
The review of the National Cultural Policy presents an opportunity to build a more sustainable, equitable and future-focused cultural sector.
Australia cannot afford to lose the organisations, artists and pathways that cultivate the next generation of cultural life. The consequences of disinvestment in emerging practice are not just immediate but they are cumulative and long-term. The effects will be felt in diminished artistic diversity, weakened workforce pipelines, reduced cultural participation, and the loss of future sector leaders.
These challenges are not without solutions. A coordinated national response could include a Youth Cultural Access Scheme, structured paid industry learning pathways, and dedicated investment in emerging artist development organisations as cultural infrastructure. Together with cross-portfolio investment linking arts, education and health, and a more nuanced approach to measuring cultural participation, these measures would rebuild the pipeline between education and professional practice. They would ensure that Australia does not lose a generation of artists, but instead builds the conditions for them to thrive.
Next Wave urges government to recognise young people, emerging artists, and the organisations that support them at the centre of the future of national cultural policy.
Investment in emerging practice is an investment in Australia’s cultural future.
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Next Wave's full submission is available on our website, link in b i o.
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Image:
Kickstart 2024–25 artists link arms at the 2025 Kickstart Showcase. Photo: Mae Hartrick.
These tiles contain also contain text, as above.
As an organisation that has spent more than four decades supporting emerging and early-career artists, we believe this review presents a critical opportunity to address one of the most pressing structural issues facing the sector: the widening gap in support for young people, emerging artists, and the organisations that sustain them.
The review of the National Cultural Policy presents an opportunity to build a more sustainable, equitable and future-focused cultural sector.
Australia cannot afford to lose the organisations, artists and pathways that cultivate the next generation of cultural life. The consequences of disinvestment in emerging practice are not just immediate but they are cumulative and long-term. The effects will be felt in diminished artistic diversity, weakened workforce pipelines, reduced cultural participation, and the loss of future sector leaders.
These challenges are not without solutions. A coordinated national response could include a Youth Cultural Access Scheme, structured paid industry learning pathways, and dedicated investment in emerging artist development organisations as cultural infrastructure. Together with cross-portfolio investment linking arts, education and health, and a more nuanced approach to measuring cultural participation, these measures would rebuild the pipeline between education and professional practice. They would ensure that Australia does not lose a generation of artists, but instead builds the conditions for them to thrive.
Next Wave urges government to recognise young people, emerging artists, and the organisations that support them at the centre of the future of national cultural policy.
Investment in emerging practice is an investment in Australia’s cultural future.
__
Next Wave's full submission is available on our website, link in b i o.
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Image:
Kickstart 2024–25 artists link arms at the 2025 Kickstart Showcase. Photo: Mae Hartrick.
These tiles contain also contain text, as above.
Are you ready for your next edition of It's Camp 👀
Another huge cast! Including Interstate Royalty 👑
@heather.monroe_ (Winner of FERAL Prom)
@pip_stachio_drag (Winner of @theapprenteasevictoria 2025)
@loveitmurray (South Australia)
@missgenderdrag
@mannixx_pannixx
@silviodibaci
Tickets in the Bio!
Please reach out if you are having any issues due to the cost of the ticket.
This project is supported by Arts Merri-bek through the 2024-2025 Flourish Arts Grant Program.
@artsmerri_bek @next_wave @merri_bekcitycouncil
Todays the day!!!!
Don't miss out on this huge cast!
@moxiedelite
@randyroydrag
@bigrichardenergy_drag
@thebansheesworld
@dannydiscodrag
@silviodibaci
Tickets in the Bio!
Please reach out if you are having any issues due to the cost of the ticket.
Supported by @next_wave.
This project is supported by Arts Merri-bek through the 2024-2025 Flourish Arts Grant Program.
@artsmerri_bek @merri_bekcitycouncil
A little more of a sentimental post!
Here is to those people in your life that support you ❤️
For me, it has been so sweet to have my mum have pride in my performing.
In a show like It's Camp it is silly, goofy but there is also so much heart at its core 💗
This weeks show is going to be silly, unique but also rich in friendship 👑
I am so appreciative of everyone who has contributed to this show!
Join us at the Brunswick Mechanics Institute THIS SATURDAY!!!
9th May 8pm
EOIs for the 2026 'Around the Block' program are closing tomorrow!
We thought we'd take a second to throwback to last year's 'Around the Block' (fka 'Winter Windows') works:
Axel Garay, 'Sik'
Our past consumes our future, rolling around the oceans, choked in our garbage. Our footsteps form and decay, and yet our trash remains, in great plastic detail for centuries after us. Sik [pronounced seek] is a two channel video portrait series grappling with a future land filled with our trashy remains. How do our descendants weave our garbage into the folklore of the future?
Axel Garay (Meriam/Puerto Rican/Malaysian) is an emerging queer First Nations interdisciplinary artist and storyteller working with the still and moving image. He utilises digital video, installation and alternative photographic processes to explore themes of technology ethics, desire, spirituality and human psychology.
Liwen Lian, 'Nightfall'
Drawing from Islamic mysticism, Christian allegory, and Chinese cosmology, Nightfall questions the boundaries of reality in an age where digital illusions blur truth. The artist’s digital twin Salima Iman Khair al-Din traverses the liminal space between worlds—human and machine, seen and unseen, the tangible and the dreamed.
Liwen Lian is a Hui-Chinese 回族 visual artist, designer, and community arts labourer. Their practice explores how visual and material culture—objects, technologies, and environments—shape, distort, and re-imagine identities and notions of humanness.
@liwen_lian
Submit an EOI to be part of the 2026 'Around the Block' program by Friday 8 May!
Link in b i o for details.
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Image descriptions:
In Axel's work 'Sik', hooded figures in red t-shirts and white pants walk across a blue shore, waves can be seen breaking in the background under a blue and purple sky.
In Liwen's work, 'Nightfall' you can see a figure in a flowing white dress, their face is concealed by a veil. The lighting low and tinted red.
#digitalart #videoart #movingimage #nextwave #artistopportunities
Vale Christopher Bell.
It is with great sadness that we share the news that Christopher Bell passed earlier this year.
Christopher served on Next Wave's board from 2006 to 2010 and played a significant role in shaping the organisation years under the leadership of Marcus Westbury and Jeff Khan.
“Christopher Bell was a great supporter of Next Wave during a critical stage of its evolution and a formative stage of my career and the careers of the many emerging artists I will always appreciate that and I know that I am not the only one who will greatly feel his loss.” – Marcus Westbury.
His legacy continues to resonate through the fabric of Next Wave today as we continue empowering and advocating for early-career and experimental artistic practice in Australia.
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Image descriptions:
1. A photo of Christopher Bell. He wears a collard shirt and straw hat. He is looking away and laughing, smiling broadly. There is also text that reads 'Vale Christopher Bell'
2. This tile contains the quote is a quote from Marcus Westbury, as above.
Vale Christopher Bell.
It is with great sadness that we share the news that Christopher Bell passed earlier this year.
Christopher served on Next Wave's board from 2006 to 2010 and played a significant role in shaping the organisation years under the leadership of Marcus Westbury and Jeff Khan.
“Christopher Bell was a great supporter of Next Wave during a critical stage of its evolution and a formative stage of my career and the careers of the many emerging artists I will always appreciate that and I know that I am not the only one who will greatly feel his loss.” – Marcus Westbury.
His legacy continues to resonate through the fabric of Next Wave today as we continue empowering and advocating for early-career and experimental artistic practice in Australia.
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Image descriptions:
1. A photo of Christopher Bell. He wears a collard shirt and straw hat. He is looking away and laughing, smiling broadly. There is also text that reads 'Vale Christopher Bell'
2. This tile contains the quote is a quote from Marcus Westbury, as above.
Our launch was CAMP !! and we can't wait to do it all again on Saturday with a whole new cast 👀 come on down and have a boogie with us at the beautiful Brunswick Mechanics Institute 🕺🕺🕺 see you there!
This project is supported by Arts Merri-bek through the 2024-2025 Flourish Arts Grant Program
Proudly supported by @next_wave
#dragking #dragshow #itscamp #whatsonmelb
One week left to apply for Around the Block!
There are nine opportunties for emerging and early-career artists across Australia working in moving image, in two locations:
1. Next Wave
2. Michelle Gugliemo Park
Around the Block, a six-week screening series that transforms the facade of Next Wave’s building and unfolds along Brunswick’s artistic precinct.
Link in b i o for all the details.
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Image descriptions:
1. This image has text that reads 'AROUND THE BLOCK EOIs close Fri 8 May'
2. This image has text that reads 'There are nine opportunties for emerging and early-career artists across Australia working in moving image. In two locations:'
3. This is an image of the front of Next Wave's venue, Brunswick Mechanics Institute. There are two pairs of screens (four in total), each pair is highlighted with a red box, showing where each screening space at Next Wave will be.
4. This is an image from Around the Block/Winter Windows at Next Wave (Brunwick Mechanics Institute) in 2026. It is artist Liwen Lian's work, 'Nightfall', 2025. One screen is a shimmery galaxy of red light. The other screen shows a person in a flowing white dress.
5. This is an image of the 260 Sydney Road Projection space at Michelle Gugliemo Park. There is one screen, also highlighted with a red box.
6. This is an image from Around the Block at Michelle Gugliemo Park. It is artist Linda Loh's work 'Golden Mist', 2024. It is a graphic work of warm colours and beams of light.
One week left to apply for Around the Block!
There are nine opportunties for emerging and early-career artists across Australia working in moving image, in two locations:
1. Next Wave
2. Michelle Gugliemo Park
Around the Block, a six-week screening series that transforms the facade of Next Wave’s building and unfolds along Brunswick’s artistic precinct.
Link in b i o for all the details.
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Image descriptions:
1. This image has text that reads 'AROUND THE BLOCK EOIs close Fri 8 May'
2. This image has text that reads 'There are nine opportunties for emerging and early-career artists across Australia working in moving image. In two locations:'
3. This is an image of the front of Next Wave's venue, Brunswick Mechanics Institute. There are two pairs of screens (four in total), each pair is highlighted with a red box, showing where each screening space at Next Wave will be.
4. This is an image from Around the Block/Winter Windows at Next Wave (Brunwick Mechanics Institute) in 2026. It is artist Liwen Lian's work, 'Nightfall', 2025. One screen is a shimmery galaxy of red light. The other screen shows a person in a flowing white dress.
5. This is an image of the 260 Sydney Road Projection space at Michelle Gugliemo Park. There is one screen, also highlighted with a red box.
6. This is an image from Around the Block at Michelle Gugliemo Park. It is artist Linda Loh's work 'Golden Mist', 2024. It is a graphic work of warm colours and beams of light.
One week left to apply for Around the Block!
There are nine opportunties for emerging and early-career artists across Australia working in moving image, in two locations:
1. Next Wave
2. Michelle Gugliemo Park
Around the Block, a six-week screening series that transforms the facade of Next Wave’s building and unfolds along Brunswick’s artistic precinct.
Link in b i o for all the details.
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Image descriptions:
1. This image has text that reads 'AROUND THE BLOCK EOIs close Fri 8 May'
2. This image has text that reads 'There are nine opportunties for emerging and early-career artists across Australia working in moving image. In two locations:'
3. This is an image of the front of Next Wave's venue, Brunswick Mechanics Institute. There are two pairs of screens (four in total), each pair is highlighted with a red box, showing where each screening space at Next Wave will be.
4. This is an image from Around the Block/Winter Windows at Next Wave (Brunwick Mechanics Institute) in 2026. It is artist Liwen Lian's work, 'Nightfall', 2025. One screen is a shimmery galaxy of red light. The other screen shows a person in a flowing white dress.
5. This is an image of the 260 Sydney Road Projection space at Michelle Gugliemo Park. There is one screen, also highlighted with a red box.
6. This is an image from Around the Block at Michelle Gugliemo Park. It is artist Linda Loh's work 'Golden Mist', 2024. It is a graphic work of warm colours and beams of light.
One week left to apply for Around the Block!
There are nine opportunties for emerging and early-career artists across Australia working in moving image, in two locations:
1. Next Wave
2. Michelle Gugliemo Park
Around the Block, a six-week screening series that transforms the facade of Next Wave’s building and unfolds along Brunswick’s artistic precinct.
Link in b i o for all the details.
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Image descriptions:
1. This image has text that reads 'AROUND THE BLOCK EOIs close Fri 8 May'
2. This image has text that reads 'There are nine opportunties for emerging and early-career artists across Australia working in moving image. In two locations:'
3. This is an image of the front of Next Wave's venue, Brunswick Mechanics Institute. There are two pairs of screens (four in total), each pair is highlighted with a red box, showing where each screening space at Next Wave will be.
4. This is an image from Around the Block/Winter Windows at Next Wave (Brunwick Mechanics Institute) in 2026. It is artist Liwen Lian's work, 'Nightfall', 2025. One screen is a shimmery galaxy of red light. The other screen shows a person in a flowing white dress.
5. This is an image of the 260 Sydney Road Projection space at Michelle Gugliemo Park. There is one screen, also highlighted with a red box.
6. This is an image from Around the Block at Michelle Gugliemo Park. It is artist Linda Loh's work 'Golden Mist', 2024. It is a graphic work of warm colours and beams of light.
One week left to apply for Around the Block!
There are nine opportunties for emerging and early-career artists across Australia working in moving image, in two locations:
1. Next Wave
2. Michelle Gugliemo Park
Around the Block, a six-week screening series that transforms the facade of Next Wave’s building and unfolds along Brunswick’s artistic precinct.
Link in b i o for all the details.
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Image descriptions:
1. This image has text that reads 'AROUND THE BLOCK EOIs close Fri 8 May'
2. This image has text that reads 'There are nine opportunties for emerging and early-career artists across Australia working in moving image. In two locations:'
3. This is an image of the front of Next Wave's venue, Brunswick Mechanics Institute. There are two pairs of screens (four in total), each pair is highlighted with a red box, showing where each screening space at Next Wave will be.
4. This is an image from Around the Block/Winter Windows at Next Wave (Brunwick Mechanics Institute) in 2026. It is artist Liwen Lian's work, 'Nightfall', 2025. One screen is a shimmery galaxy of red light. The other screen shows a person in a flowing white dress.
5. This is an image of the 260 Sydney Road Projection space at Michelle Gugliemo Park. There is one screen, also highlighted with a red box.
6. This is an image from Around the Block at Michelle Gugliemo Park. It is artist Linda Loh's work 'Golden Mist', 2024. It is a graphic work of warm colours and beams of light.
One week left to apply for Around the Block!
There are nine opportunties for emerging and early-career artists across Australia working in moving image, in two locations:
1. Next Wave
2. Michelle Gugliemo Park
Around the Block, a six-week screening series that transforms the facade of Next Wave’s building and unfolds along Brunswick’s artistic precinct.
Link in b i o for all the details.
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Image descriptions:
1. This image has text that reads 'AROUND THE BLOCK EOIs close Fri 8 May'
2. This image has text that reads 'There are nine opportunties for emerging and early-career artists across Australia working in moving image. In two locations:'
3. This is an image of the front of Next Wave's venue, Brunswick Mechanics Institute. There are two pairs of screens (four in total), each pair is highlighted with a red box, showing where each screening space at Next Wave will be.
4. This is an image from Around the Block/Winter Windows at Next Wave (Brunwick Mechanics Institute) in 2026. It is artist Liwen Lian's work, 'Nightfall', 2025. One screen is a shimmery galaxy of red light. The other screen shows a person in a flowing white dress.
5. This is an image of the 260 Sydney Road Projection space at Michelle Gugliemo Park. There is one screen, also highlighted with a red box.
6. This is an image from Around the Block at Michelle Gugliemo Park. It is artist Linda Loh's work 'Golden Mist', 2024. It is a graphic work of warm colours and beams of light.
One week left to apply for Around the Block!
There are nine opportunties for emerging and early-career artists across Australia working in moving image, in two locations:
1. Next Wave
2. Michelle Gugliemo Park
Around the Block, a six-week screening series that transforms the facade of Next Wave’s building and unfolds along Brunswick’s artistic precinct.
Link in b i o for all the details.
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Image descriptions:
1. This image has text that reads 'AROUND THE BLOCK EOIs close Fri 8 May'
2. This image has text that reads 'There are nine opportunties for emerging and early-career artists across Australia working in moving image. In two locations:'
3. This is an image of the front of Next Wave's venue, Brunswick Mechanics Institute. There are two pairs of screens (four in total), each pair is highlighted with a red box, showing where each screening space at Next Wave will be.
4. This is an image from Around the Block/Winter Windows at Next Wave (Brunwick Mechanics Institute) in 2026. It is artist Liwen Lian's work, 'Nightfall', 2025. One screen is a shimmery galaxy of red light. The other screen shows a person in a flowing white dress.
5. This is an image of the 260 Sydney Road Projection space at Michelle Gugliemo Park. There is one screen, also highlighted with a red box.
6. This is an image from Around the Block at Michelle Gugliemo Park. It is artist Linda Loh's work 'Golden Mist', 2024. It is a graphic work of warm colours and beams of light.
Next Saturday!!!
Ready for a campy time?
Come to the drag show that is earnest, silly and camp!
Another huge cast!
@moxiedelite
@randyroydrag
@bigrichardenergy_drag
@thebansheesworld
@dannydiscodrag
@silviodibaci
Tickets in the Bio!
Please reach out if you are having any issues due to the cost of the ticket.
Supported by @next_wave.
This project is supported by Arts Merri-bek through the 2024-2025 Flourish Arts Grant Program.
@artsmerri_bek @merri_bekcitycouncil
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