Bundanon

Shoalhaven, NSW: Today Bundanon announces the full list of artists and researchers who will undertake residencies at Bundanon in 2025.

Bundanon’s world-renowned Artist 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.

This year, Bundanon has yet again received a record number of applications from individuals and groups from across the world.

Bundanon is committed to fostering an inclusive Artist 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. As an indication of the organisation’s commitment to supporting artists from all disciplines, there are no direct costs to artists associated with Bundanon’s Artist in Residence Program. This important initiative highlights the organisation’s commitment to support the development of new work in Australia, consistent with Revive the National Cultural Policy that promotes the centrality of the artist.

Rachel Kent, CEO said: “We are delighted to welcome such a diverse group of artists and researchers to Bundanon in 2025. Our residency program upholds Bundanon’s core commitment to support cultural production across all disciplines, and in all phases of the creative process.”

The major Artists in Residence program is for visual and performing arts, literature, dance and music, and environmental and scientific research. It provides important career opportunities for artists and researchers to develop their work in an inspiring environment. Artists and researchers are hosted in purpose-built studios and rehearsal spaces at the organisation’s secluded Homestead site. Bundanon supports all art forms through its residency program, nurturing the creation of new work, and providing a tranquil environment devoid of urban distractions, noise and light pollution, to support critical thinking and creative production.

In 2025, Bundanon is undertaking a series of renovations of the current residency buildings, some of which are heritage structures, to improve site use and accessibility. The building works have been planned to offer maximum time to Bundanon’s incoming resident artists.

Arthur and Yvonne Boyd’s vision for Bundanon lies at the heart of the Artist in Residence program: to provide a creative space for Australia’s contemporary artists and researchers in a unique natural environment.

Full list of artists 

Alison Barton, VIC

Amanda Williams, NSW

Amelie Blakeney, Bella Waru, David Blakeney, Denys Mason, Guy Louis, Katie Coogan-Mason, Maiki-Jane Blakeney, Michael Coogan, Vader Fame, VIC & New Zealand

Anne Buckingham and Jemima Hartley, NSW

Anthony McKnight, Catherine McKinnon, Catherine Moyle, Christine Howe, Joshua Lobb, and Shady Cosgrove, NSW

Bebe Ashley, United Kingdom – 2025 British Council Fellowship

Bob Scott, Robert Jarvis, Roslyn Oades, Sarah Walker, VIC & NSW

Boho Interactive and Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation, NSW

Bronte Leighton-Dore and Luke M de Zilva, NSW

Caris Pepper, WA

Cathe Stack, Jaz Corr, Nicole Smede, NSW – 2025 Bundanon First Nations Fellowship

Centre for Reworlding: Angharad Wyne-Jones, Claire G Coleman, Eliki Reade, Jen Rae, Kamarra Bell Whykes, Kate Sulan, Lana Nguyễn, Leah Manaema, Maree Grenfell, Naomi Velaphi, Tara Prowse, Zoe Scoglio, VIC

Chamber Made, VIC

Corinne Tillett, NSW

Curly Red Dog: Donna McDonald and Penny Gillespie, QLD

David Thomas, VIC

Davinia-Ann Robinson, United Kingdom

Elefteria Vlavianos, NSW

Elroy Rosenberg, United States of America

FERVOUR.: Claudia Osborne and Imogen Gardam, NSW

Fiona Winning, NSW

Grace Chapple, NSW

Haines & Hinterding: David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, NSW – 2025 Dobell Foundation Artist in Residence Award

Hannah Lane, VIC

Hootan Heydari, VIC

Jacqui Gordon, VIC

Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis, Jessica Neath, Kirsten Garner Lyttle, and Peta Clancy, VIC

Jahnne Pasco-White, VIC

Jeffery Allen, United States of America

Jen Webb, ACT

Jo Breneger, Leia Sidery, and Sonia van de Haar, NSW

Jo Mellor and Natalie O’Connor, NSW

Jody Haines, VIC

Jonathan Kay, New Zealand

Jordi Infeld and Rachel Schenberg, VIC & NSW

Kath Wallace, NSW

Kathryn Bird, NSW

Kelsey Munro, NSW

Kien Situ, NSW

LeAnne Vincent, QLD

Linda Chen, ACT

Lisa Collyer, WA

Luis Felipe Alzate Franco, Colombia

Michaela Pegum, VIC

Michael Sun and Simon Croker, NSW

Michelle Stewart, VIC

New art music collaboration: Kate Brown, Angie Garrick, Matthew Gorgula, Laurence Quinn and Lois Waters, NSW – 2025 Bundanon Fellowship for an Artist with Disability

Peggy Herring, Canada

Rhiannon Petersen, WA

Rhys Cousins, VIC

Ronan Apcar, NSW

Rosalind Lemoh and Tonya Lemoh, NSW

Rubyrose Bancroft, NSW

Runa Cara: Bonnie Stewart and Freya Schack-Arnott, NSW

Sam Mcgilp and Yuiko Masukawa, VIC

Sara Morawetz, United States of America

Sarah Poulgrain, QLD

Sera Waters, SA

Sharon Billinge, NSW

Small Island Big Song: Airileke Ingram, Aremiti, BaoBao Chen, Emlyn Marimootoo, Nigel Jamieson, Olivia Foa’i, Richard Mogu, Sammy, Tim Cole, Yuma Pawang, Australia & International

Soyoun Kim, VIC

Stephen McGrath, VIC

Tam Cao, NSW – 2025 William Fletcher Foundation Award

The Music Box Project: Elizabeth Jigalin, Jane Aubourg, Joseph Lisk, Naomi Johnson, Peter Leung, Stephen Adams, NSW

Thembi Soddell and Vanessa Godden, VIC & Canada

Tully Arnot, Hong Kong

Virago with Flora Carbo: Bethanne Kunert, Flora Carbo, Meg Rohrer, Sofia Carbonara, Wesley Hornpetrie, VIC & United States of America

Wendy Somerville, ACT

WEREWOLF: James Hazel and Kaz Therese, NSW

Zanny Begg, NSW

Zoë Pollitt and Tash Tribe, NSW – 2025 Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia – NSW Award

Fellowship & Award Partners 

British Council (UK)
Sir William Dobell Art Foundation
Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia – NSW
Jam Factory
McCahon House (Aotearoa NZ)
Museums of History NSW
William Fletcher Foundation

Sector Collaborators

Accessible Arts
Australian Plays Transform
Australian Theatre for Young People
Critical Path
Performance Space
South Coast Writers Centre