Factory Arts

**Please note, due to COVID-19, the Victorian Government's restrictions and recommendations on group gatherings and the shutdown of the Fletcher Jones complex, our group art activities have been suspended until further notice. We will advise via this page when those restrictions have been lifted. Until then, stay safe and make art!**

Factory Arts is an artist-run collaborative space housed in the eastern end of the Fletcher Jones complex. It offers casual art classes for new to advanced artists, qualified and practising art mentors with decades of teaching experience, art activities for artists with disabilities, hands-on workshops with leading Australian artists, unique and affordable artworks for sale and artist studio space.

Factory Arts offers inclusive art activities for artists with disabilities in an authentic, artist-led space within the Fletcher Jones factory. Participants create art drawn from their own experiences, and work alongside other local artists. Our activities are geared towards engagement, participation, social inclusion and interaction, and offer participants the chance to develop skills and produce quality artistic outcomes.

Our studio activities include painting, pottery, drawing and sculpture, and we offer a no-obligation trial class to check if the participant enjoys working with us and our activities. We run Mentors & Makers, an annual group exhibition for artists with disabilities, and include our artists in other planned group exhibitions in Melbourne and regional centres.