Try something new, get curious about nature, meet new people, and spark creative connections in the most unexpected places — all for UniMelb students.
UMSU’s Artist in Residence program invites a thoughtful, dynamic professional artist to UMSU Arts and Culture to collaborate, experiment, and create alongside UniMelb students.
Meet the 2026 Artist
Gregory Lorenzutti is a dancer, photographer and urban farmer currently undertaking a PhD with the VCA Dance Faculty. His practice moves between contemporary and Brazilian dance, performance photography and embodied movement practices, all grounded in an ongoing dialogue between the body, creativity and the natural world.
Throughout 2026, Gregory will present workshops, performances, screenings, exhibitions and more across UMSU Events, Rowden White Library, Union House Theatre and Arts Programs/George Paton Gallery.
Any student can join in the UMSU Artist in Residence Programs — we’ll have many callouts throughout 2026 with an amazing range of opportunities.
Check back for the full program details to be announced in early Semester 1, 2026.
All programs and events are FREE, and designed to be hands-on, collaborative and open to every student regardless of what you're studying.
What might you be involved in, or attend?
- Horror plant film screenings at the Rowden White Library
- Movement workshops and performances with Union House Theatre
- Dinner Club panel talks with UMSU Events
- Exhibitions and unique workshops with George Paton Gallery
- Nourishing sessions like ‘How to care for your plants’
How do I find out about these opportunities? Follow Rowden White Library, Union House Theatre, George Paton Gallery and UMSU Events on Instagram, or subscribe to our eNewsletters (we've linked to each of them!).
Through workshops, activations and shared projects, you’ll have opportunities to:
- Work across disciplines, no matter what you study
- Get involved in a diverse range of theatre, arts and creative programs
- Build practical skills in horticulture, creativity and embodiment practices
- Connect with students, staff and creatives from across campus
- Strengthen creative networks and cross-campus collaboration
- A more attentive perception of our surroundings and how humans can be reinserted into nature
- Reimagine your relationship with plant life!
Gregory’s Artist Statement
Lorenzutti’s work cultivates a more attentive perception of our surroundings and asks how humans might be reinserted into the circular systems of nature. Through growing, observing, and moving with plants, artists and participants are encouraged to reimagine their relationship with vegetal life. As he reflects: “Plants have their own agency as well. And I start thinking about that, and about my agency as a mover, and then the plant’s needs – how they also want to live, survive, and thrive.”
Shaped by rhythms, breaths, gestures, and intentionalities not exclusive to humans, the residency encourages a slow, place-based temporality derived from nurturing vegetal growth. Central to the program are kinaesthetic investigations of the human body in dialogue with plant studies, where choreographic knowledge germinates from sensory encounters between soil, plants, microorganisms, and the moving body. Gregory will facilitate a series of cross-disciplinary activities, creating opportunities for participants to create, respond, connect, relate, and become more ecologically attuned.
Artist in Residence Events