Bundanon Artists in Residence Announced for 2027

Shoalhaven, NSW: Today Bundanon announces the full list of artists and researchers who will undertake residencies at Bundanon in 2027.

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 welcomes national and international artists and is committed to fostering an inclusive Artists in Residence program, with a selection process guided by diverse independent peer assessors. Bundanon is proud to put First Nations first with its targeted First Nations Fellowship and to support access through its Fellowship for an Artist with a Disability or who is Deaf/deaf. Significant upgrades across both the Bundanon sites to improve access in the residency complex in 2027 and 2028 is an ongoing priority.

Rachel Kent, CEO said: “Our 2027 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 no direct costs to artists associated with the program. This important initiative highlights the organisation’s support for 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 2027 Artists in Residence program Bundanon received 595 applications, from across Australia and 32 other countries. We are thrilled to support the practices of diverse communities and disciplines, connecting creative thinkers nationally and internationally. Artists now, more than ever, need opportunities to develop new ideas and ways of working, and Bundanon maintains its longstanding commitment to supporting innovative creative work.”

The Artists in Residence program represents all artforms encompassing visual and performing arts, literature, performance, dance, music, research, as well as the recently established annual ecological residencies that includes a dedicated First Nations category. The non-outcome-based program provides an important and unique opportunity for artists and researchers across all career stages to develop their practice in a supportive, tranquil and inspiring environment. The program is hosted in purpose-built residential studios and rehearsal spaces located at Bundanon’s secluded Homestead site enabling time and space for critical thinking and making.

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 contemporary artists and researchers at diverse career stages 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 2027 Artists in Residence

Full list of Artists

Alexandra Kumala, Indonesia
Ankur Yadav, India
Ara Dolatian, VIC
Augusta Supple, NSW
Belinda Yee, NSW
Bethaney Turner, ACT
Bronte Heron, VIC
Carol Hudson, NSW
Connor Ross & Hayden Ryan, NSW
Dana Bledsoe & Zee Zunnur, NSW
Dave Drayton, NSW
Debbie Pryor & Hannah Presley, SA
Eleanor Limprecht, NSW
Emily Thornton, NSW
Emma Fielden, NSW
Emma Kew, Cheryn Frost & Phoebe Taylor, NSW
Esther Anatolitis, VIC
Evelyn Sandoval & Douglas Ross, NSW
Fiona Pardington, New Zealand
Gavin Yuan Gao, QLD
Gill Watson, ACT
Hannah Valentine, New Zealand
Helen Palmer, Germany
Irina Podgorny, Argentina
Jane Banbury, NSW
Jesse Vivante, VIC
Jessica Andersen, QLD
Jessica Mienert, NSW
Joanne Mott, VIC
Johanna Ng, NSW
Juliette Wehling Wrathall, NSW
Kate Morell, NSW
Kate ten Buuren, VIC
Kate Vinen, NSW
Kawon Lee, Republic of Korea
Khashayar Salmanzadeh, VIC
Kiarash Dadgar, Canada Kitty Perceval, United Kingdom Lauren Carroll Harris, NSW
Lewis Major, Elsi Faulks, Felicity Chadwick, James Brown, Fausto Brusamolino, Stefaan Morrow, Tahlia Russell & Rowan Brunt, SA
Lillian Morrissey, Germany
Luke Currie-Richardson, Rhyan Clapham & Shari Lee Seabees, VIC
Margi Brown Ash & Sandi Woo, QLD
Max Lyandvert, NSW
Maya Cheav, United States Mikala Tai & Max Delany, NSW
Mona Liban, VIC
Morgan Hogg & Ana Maine, NSW
Passepartout Duo – Nicoletta Favari & Christopher Salvito, Italy Rebecca Jensen, VIC
Rox De Luca, NSW
Sarah Elson, WA
Sarah Goldfinch, QLD
Sonia Leber VIC
Staunch – Rodriguez Nalorlman Pindiying, Marcus Maye Wright, Sandy Harvey, Maggie Douglas, Nic Ingram, Shanysa McConville, Georgia Hoskinson, VIC
Stephanie Martei, NSW
Stick Mob Studio – Nikki McCoy, Wolfgang Bylsma, Declan Miller, Wendy Cowan, Alyssa Mason & Seraphina Newberry, NT
Susan Buchanan & Eli Giannini, VIC
The Sister Project – Sue Beardman & Julie Dunham, NSW
Tom Duffy, NSW
Victoria Haralabidou, NSW
WEREWOLF Arts Project – James Hazel, ZAREE, Leel Yousuf, Martin del Amo, Jawad Yacoubi, Mahdi Mohammadi, Moones Monsoubi, Victoria Spence, Kaz Therese & Aunty Rhonda Dixon Grovenor, NSW
Zac Callaghan, QLD
Zoë Barry, Ingrid Voorendt, Astrid Pill, Kate Sulan VIC

Awards & Fellowships

JMGA-NSW Inc. Jewellery and Metalsmith Award: Emma Fielden
Dobell Foundation Artists in Residence Award: Khashayar Salmanzadeh
William Fletcher Foundation Award: Lindy Yeates
Bundanon First Nations Fellowship: Luke Currie-Richardson, Rhyan Clapham & Shari Lee Seabees
Bundanon Fellowship for an Artist with Disability or who is d/Deaf: Kate Morell
Bundanon Ecological Researcher in Residence: Wollongong Weedos – Dr Crystal Arnold, Associate Professor Jennifer Atchison, Associate Professor Sonia Graham, Janine Bailey, Laura Butler, Tyler Challand, Diana Dawson
Bundanon First Nations Ecological Researcher in Residence: Adrian Webster

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About Bundanon

Established in 1993, Bundanon was gifted to the Australian people by Arthur and Yvonne Boyd, representing one of the most significant acts of philanthropy in the history of the arts in Australia. Bundanon is located on 1,000 hectares of bush and parkland overlooking the Shoalhaven River, on the South Coast of New South Wales, two and a half hours from Sydney.

Bundanon’s mission is to operate the property as a centre for the creative arts and education, for scientific research and a place to explore landscape and engage with First Nations history and culture. The Bundanon Collection features some 1,448 works by Arthur Boyd together with Boyd’s better known contemporaries including Sidney Nolan, John Perceval, Joy Hester and Charles Blackman. Bundanon’s residency program and its learning programs, are an investment in Australia’s future. The Learning program is inclusive and designed for all ages, welcoming over 5,000 school students for day or overnight visits each year. Bundanon’s Artist in Residence program is the largest program of its kind in Australia and spans a 30-year history. Every year artists and researchers from across artistic disciplines are in residence, embracing the visual and performing arts, literature, science, dance, music and environmental research. This provides important career opportunities for artists and researchers to develop their work in an inspiring environment.

Bundanon is supported by the Australian Government through the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications’ Office for the Arts, Create NSW, the University of Wollongong, Landcare Australia, and a range of other foundations, bequests and philanthropic contributions.

For more information visit bundanon.com.au

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