Welcome to Creativity Cluster
Creativity Cluster is a group of seven women artists who live in and around Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Unlike most art groups, we each work in a different medium.
What we have in common, however, is a shared passion for engaging with communities. Some of us work internationally, some nationally, but all of us work locally through the visual arts.
In 2022, we were excited to be working on a collective project called ‘Melbourne: Our Creative Heart’ with funding from a City of Melbourne Arts Grant. You can read several blogs about our planning and experimentation, and view the exhibition online.
Following this exhibition, painter Penny Sharples and textile artist Lindsay Hussey have continued to work together on a new collaborative project. Read the blog about their first year of concept development. They plan another blog for later this year about working across continents, as Lindsay is now based in Barcelona.
Our current exhibitions
Treasure, Not Trash – Works using reclaimed and natural materials by artists Deidre Ogilvie, Lindsay Hussey, Pat Duncan, Mardie Whitla, Penny Sharples, Rachel Burke and Nancy D Lane
FOUND:ling Reusery, 8/186 Murray Street, Colac. Open 10am-5pm, Thurs-Sat. Exhibition closes 11 May, when the shop changes to online only. Special discounts are being offered on some artworks from 15 April until the shop closes.
Our previous exhibitions
Creativity Cluster has now exhibited together in 14 exhibitions and 3 markets.
Melbourne: Our Creative Heart Virtual Exhibition
Held 9 November – 1 December 2022 at the
Library at the Dock Gallery, Docklands. Supported by a City of Melbourne Arts Grant. Read about our preparations for this exhibition on our blog.
Do You See What I See? Virtual Exhibition
Launched 27 August 2021- . Held 23 April – 5 May 2022 at the Joel Gallery, Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre, Altona after being postponed in 2021 due to Covid.
Constructing De-Construction/Re-Construction Virtually
Launched 15 June 2020-
This exhibition was supported with funding from the City of Melbourne through its Covid-19 Arts Grants and featured in the Seniors Festival Reimagined.
Shops featuring individual Creativity Cluster artists
Bluethumb Gallery, online gallery featuring works by Deidre Ogilvie
Dimora Designs at Fyansford Paper Mill, 20/100 Lower Paper Mills Rd, Fyansford (Geelong) VIC features brooches and miniature cityscape wall sculptures by Nancy D Lane
FOUND:ling Reusery at 8/186 Murray Street, Colac, VIC features wall sculptures by Nancy D Lane both in the shop and online
Frame Harbour Gallery and Picture Framing, 42 Balcombe Rd, Mentone, VIC stocks paintings and hand painted cards by Penny Sharples
Gallery 247, online gallery featuring works by Deidre Ogilvie
How Exciting (Proudkind pop-up), 512 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, carries brooches and cityscape wall sculptures by Nancy D Lane
Incube8r Gallery, 321 Smith Street, Fitzroy, VIC stocks works by Luna Cameron-Parrish (Amethyst Moon online) and Nancy D Lane (NancyDee Sculptures online)
Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre shop, 5 Sargood Street, Altona, VIC stocks wall sculptures by Nancy D Lane
The Old Auction House, 52-56 Mollison Street, Kyneton, VIC stocks hand painted cards by Penny Sharples
We Are the Queen Bee, 354 High Street, Northcote, VIC stocks paintings by Penny Sharples
Re-Construction held both online and in real-life in the Dirty Dozen, Melbourne, 2020
Join with us
Creativity Cluster can work with you or your group in many different ways. We offer exhibitions, workshops, classes and other art-based activities (see our workshops page). Get in touch with the Creativity Cluster coordinator, Nancy Lane, on the form on our contact page.
