Today Bundanon announces the full list of artists and researchers who will undertake residencies at Bundanon in 2026.
Bundanon’s world-renowned Artists in Residence program is the largest program of its kind in Australia and spans the organisation’s 30-year history. The program grows year-on-year and is structured through a series of partnerships with leading arts organisations and companies, cultural agencies and benefactors.
Bundanon is committed to fostering an inclusive Artists in Residence program, with a selection process guided by diverse independent peer assessors. At every step of the process, Bundanon ensures that diversity and accessibility are prioritised.
Rachel Kent, CEO said: “Our 2026 Artists in Residence program continues to uphold Bundanon’s core commitment to cultural production across all disciplines, and in all phases of the creative process. As an indication of this commitment, there are no direct costs to artists associated with the program. This important initiative highlights the organisation’s support of the development of new work in Australia, consistent with the National Cultural Policy – Revive that promotes the centrality of the artist.”
Sophie O’Brien, Head of Curatorial & Learning said: “For the 2026 Artists in Residence program Bundanon received a record 504 applications from artists across Australia and from 24 countries. This reflects exceptional growth across all disciplines, including a welcome increase in D/deaf artists selected for residencies for the coming year. We are thrilled to be supporting innovative practice across such diverse communities and disciplines.”
The Artists in Residence program represents all artforms encompassing visual and performing arts, literature, dance, music, environmental and scientific research, as well as a newly established annual ecological residency. The program provides important career opportunities for artists and researchers to develop their work by providing a tranquil, inspiring environment that is devoid of urban distractions, noise and light pollution, to support critical thinking and creative production. The program is hosted in purpose-built studios and rehearsal spaces located at Bundanon’s secluded Homestead site.
Bundanon’s purpose is to celebrate the arts and the Australian landscape through its unique natural and cultural heritage gifted to the nation by Arthur and Yvonne Boyd in 1993. It was the Boyds’ vision to establish and preserve Bundanon as a ‘creative and working art environment’ and since the 1990s the Artists in Residence program has actively supported the generation of new ideas and creative works.
Arthur and Yvonne Boyd’s vision for Bundanon lies at the heart of the Artists in Residence program: to provide a creative space for Australia’s contemporary artists and researchers in a unique and engaging natural environment.
Arthur Boyd described Bundanon as “a place for the community to enjoy the bush and the river, and a place to be used as a forum where those from every facet of the arts and sciences could get together.”
Bundanon 2026 Artists in Residence
Aditya Ryan Bhat & Wendy Tian Hui Lin, VIC
Alexandra Kolac, VIC
Alice Robinson, VIC
Allyson Morgan, United States of America
APHIDS: Sammaneh Pourshafighi, Amrita Hepi, Nisha Madden, Dani Reynolds, Lara Thoms, Julia Croft, Marcus Mckenzie, Emmaline Zanelli, Lauren Stephens, Mish Grigor, VIC
Ashley Leung & Josh Chan, Hong Kong
Azza Zein, VIC
Bridget Hillebrand, VIC
Bronzewing: Donald Nicolson & Katie Yap, TAS
Bryan Andy, VIC
Campion Decent & Rae Kennedy, NSW
Carolyn Menzies, VIC
Catherine Large & Annabet Wyndham, QLD & United Kingdom
Claudia Nicholson, NSW
Daniele Constance, QLD
Davinia-Ann Robinson, United Kingdom
Decibel New Music: Cat Hope, Lindsay Vickery, Aaron Wyatt, Tristen Parr, Stuart James, Louise Devenish, WA
Diana Chester, Sonya Lifschitz, Damien Ricketson, NSW
Ella Dunn, VIC
Eric Avery, NSW
Fred Leone & Rachel Arianne Ogle, QLD
Gabi Harris, QLD
Gareth Jenkins, NSW
George Catsi, NSW
Gina Fairley, NSW
Hamish Upton, VIC
Harriet Gillies & Charlotte Mungomery, NSW
Helena Pastor, WA
iipm project: Phoebe Bognár, Mikolaj Rytowski, Katherine Newton, NSW
Ira Hadžić, Germany
Jack Ball, NSW
James Peplow Powell, United Kingdom
Jeanine Leane, VIC
Jessika Spencer, ACT
Karen Cummings & Sonya Holowell, NSW
Killalea Strings: Adrian Davis, Erno Van Alphen, Helen Chalk, Jill Buchan, Stephanie Hill, Louise Manning, Colleen Baxter, Melanie M, Kerry Fielding, Len Fairclough, Anna Ambrose, Alan Craggs, Libby Ackers, Tom Hunt, Lu Allen, Anne Wisdom, Andrea Groeller, Julia Schira, John Daly, Jules McCue, Jennifer Hollis, Virgine Croft, Neil Cairns, NSW
Kirsty Kross Nicholson, Norway
Kirsty Tinkler, South Africa
Krystal Hurst, QLD
Loxy & ROMÆO, VIC
Laila Costa, VIC
Lara Chapman, NSW
Lauren Swain & Daniel Swain, VIC
Leah Blankendaal, ACT
Lilah Benetti, VIC
Liz Martin, NSW
Lizzy Sampson, VIC
Louisa Lim, VIC
Lucie Cutting & Zoe Kean, TAS
Lucy Nelson, NSW
Ludwig El Haddad & Eddie Abd, NSW
Magdalena Skupinska, United Kingdom
Malena Szlam, Canada
Martin Hansen, VIC
Meg Walters, NSW
meganesia: Lachlan Herd, FDH, Greer, BUGABUGA, Homelander, NSW
Mei Zhao, NSW
Melissa Gilbert, NSW
Melvin Montalban, NSW
Meta Cohen, Alyson Campbell, Jessica Aszodi, Coady Green, and Evan Bryson, VIC
Michelle Cawthorn, NSW
Michelle Kistima-Menser, NSW
Miriam Nabarro, United Kingdom
Larah Nott & Mio Kuhnen, NSW
Monica Buscarino, NSW
Natasa Milenovic & Regine Schwarzer, SA
Natasha Walsh, NSW
Obscuria Deaf: Sofya Gollan, Irene Holub, Angie Goto, Riona Tindal, VIC
Olive Gill-Hille, WA
Oliver Cameron, NSW
Olivia Adams, QLD
Omar Musa & Mariel Roberts Musa, NSW
Özlem Güler & Tara Penales, NSW
Passepartout Duo: Nicoletta Favari & Christopher Salvito, Italy
Peter Spring, VIC
Pia Johnson, VIC
Queer PowerPoint: Xanthe Dobbie, Harriet Gillies, Thom Smyth, VIC
Rachel Lewindon, VIC
Rafaela Mori, NSW
Raquel Ormella, ACT
re:group performance collective: Mark Rogers, Solomon Thomas, Malcolm Whittaker, Steve Wilson-Alexander, Ana Maria Belo, Dion Galea, Jeremy Lowrencev, Lauren Toni, Josh Sealy, Bedelia Lowrencev, Felicity Tchorlian, Jennifer Maclaughlan, Will Tapp, NSW
Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, QLD
Rebekah Stuart & Matty Vehl, VIC
Renata Daina, NSW
Richard House, United Kingdom
River Karen Barad, Yhonnie Scarce, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, Isao Hashimoto, Talei Luscia Mangioni, Taloi Havini, Ruth McDougall, Samid Suliman, QLD
Rowan McNaught, VIC
Rusty Petal Music: Fiona Hill & Miranda Wheen, NSW
Sharka Bosakova, QLD
Sheanna Parker Russon & Lillian Hearne, NSW
Shellie Smith, NSW
Si Yi Shen, QLD
Skye Wagner, NSW
Star Stories Project: Rob Waters, Jeanine Leane, Nate Weatherall, Kirsten Booker, Gai Bryant, Lee McIver, Dave Quinn, Giorgio Rojas, Ed Goyer, YK Poet, NSW
Steel City Strings: Kyle Little, Jacob Antonio, Adrian Davis, Michelle Stafurik, Ethan Ireland, NSW
Tamara Voninski, NSW
Tim Meakins, WA
Tori Donnelly, NSW
Vic Zerbst, NSW
VOXSTEP: Nick Atkins, Lily Hayman, Sally Coleman, Daniel Herten, Azzam Mohame,NSW
WeatherScape: Sarah Waterson & Victoria Hunt, NSW
Awards & Fellowships
British Council Fellowship: Davinia Ann-Robinson
JMGA-NSW Inc. Jewellery and Metalsmith Award: Laila Costa
Dobell Foundation Artists in Residence Award: Natasha Walsh
William Fletcher Foundation Award: Sarah Randall
Bundanon First Nations Fellowship: Karen Cummings & Sonya Holowell
Bundanon Fellowship for an Artist with Disability: Obscuria Deaf (Sofya Gollan, Irene Holub, Angie Goto, Riona Tindal)
Bundanon Ecological Researcher in Residence: Olivia De La Mare
Bundanon First Nations Ecological Researcher in Residence: Anthony McKnight, Carol Birrell, Peter Hewitt, Crystal Arnold, Lisa Kervin (Early Start Research, University of Wollongong)
Partners & Sector Collaborators
Accessible Arts
Australian Plays Transform
Australian Theatre for Young People
British Council
Critical Path
JamFactory
Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia, NSW (JMGA-NSW Inc.)
McCahon House
Music in Exile
Omega Ensemble
Sir William Dobell Foundation
The Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, Museums of History New South Wales
William Fletcher Foundation
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