The SIGNAL Curators Collective are a group of 16 to 25 year olds, peer led by co-facilitators, who love art and meet monthly to collaborate on curatorial projects, as they plan and facilitate new art projects. Working in tandem with the SIGNAL Creative team, the SIGNAL Curators Collective combines artistic creativity with a curatorial lens to bring their creative outcomes to life within the City of Melbourne. During the monthly meetings, the collective would hear from artists, curators and other creative professionals while they plan and develop their exhibitions, workshops, publications, and other projects.
As the SIGNAL Curators Collective creative outcomes projects are usually a 6-monthly period, we currently do not have capacity for new members. However, you may join the waitlist here by filing out the survey below. This survey goes directly to the SIGNAL team, and they will be in touch when there is capacity.
The Curators Collective is currently working on their winter program takeover of SIGNAL called SIGNAL Winter. Stay tuned for more updates and information on how to register for free activities as we get closer to winter.
Email us at signal@melbourne.vic.gov.au if you have any questions about SIGNAL Curators Collective.
Current facilitator: Matisse Laida
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Current projects
Un/real , Blender Studios, 2025
Un/real was an exhibition created by the SIGNAL Curators Collective, hosted at Blender Studios. Showcasing works by 21 emerging artists and developed over a period of 10 months, in Un/real the artists invite you to reflect on the complex, political, and personal relationship between perception and reality.
IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?, SIGNAL, 2025
Is There Anybody Out There? was a multi-art activation presented by our very own Curators Collective in August. The program involved a full takeover of the SIGNAL building, involving craft workshops, dance performances, video installations, murals and more.
Past projects
meet you at the corner, 2024
meet you at the corner was an exhibition created by the SIGNAL Curators Collective. The theme is exploring the milk bar, and how their experiences of these unique stores have played a part in their childhoods, summers, and imaginations of the past.
SCRAM! Science Gallery, 2023
SCRAM! Was in collaboration with the Science Gallery exhibition SWARM: Pack of the Pack? The Collective created a series of interactive, roving performances, including making and breaking a giant clay installation over a one-night performance.
