The project that will be presented at the George Paton Gallery from 13 November to 8 December is called Le Lendemain, meaning in French, the day after tomorrow, the future. Six artists, all VCA graduates from the same COVID cohort from different cultural and professional backgrounds, ages, and creative languages have come together in a residency/exhibition to explore the space and time after graduation and the transition from academic to real life. What are the personal experiences of this transition? How are we finding our path re-entering the stratosphere of reality? How do we assess our acquired knowledge? How and in which way has our creative thinking and making shifted in VCA? And what does this mean? Can we revisit old ideas with a different, more profound approach? During the residency ( 13–28 November) and exhibition (30 November to 7 December), we will recreate a shared space of co-working, co-learning from each other, and communicating ideas by making, discussing, and living together creatively, something we missed during Covid. We aim to retrace our creative paths, looking at our work from alternative perspectives. Self-evaluation is essential and constant and can be draining in a competitive environment. For this reason, we are gathering as a group of artists to support and empower our choices. We all have distinctive voices and particular processes. The work exhibited will be new work produced during the residency in the George Paton Gallery. Throughout the year, we had monthly meetings to discuss the evolution of our individual themes and topics. We kept a diary of our meetings to map the progression towards the residency. We have designed and printed a zine catalogue, including all six artists, in a two-colour risograph at Paper Tree Gallery with Sam Emery. Le Lendemain is an explorative experiment but also a path for re-entering reality. Additionally, it is about exploring collaborations as a creative language and bringing to the fore a verbal and nonverbal discussion with the topics that each artist adds to the discussion: Contemplative Architecture, Presence and Absence, Philosophies of Play, Safe Spaces, Opposing Forces, and the Guilt of Being an Artist. What we value most in this residency/exhibition is the connection between artists and their practices. Bouncing off each other's ideas and poetry expands our practices through collaborative works. Lastly, the emotional support we provide each other is essential for creative people. We look forward to plenty of creative dialogues during our residency, so come to visit, discuss and make with us. We are very thankful for the generous help and support of Sandie Bridie and Channon Goodwin that we received for our project. We pay our respects to the traditional custodians of the land, the Wurunjeri Woi-Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, past, present, and emerging.