Tonkin Zulaikha Architects with Spackman + Mossop Landscape Architects were appointed in June 1995 to produce a strategic plan for the development of the Bundanon properties. In 1996 Bundanon decided to change the focus and location of the residency program. It was decided that from 1998 artists would stay in the Artist in Residence Complex, made up of new buildings and facilities created by the adaptive re-use of existing farm buildings at Bundanon.
Stage 1 of the Complex included the Hymie Sherman Studio, the Alec and Helene Gonski Studio and the Oscar and Mary Ramsay Study Centre, commenced in 1997 and opened by Arthur Boyd in 1998.
Stage 2 comprised two self-contained studio apartments, one to be known as the Sylvia Freedman Studio made possible by a donation by Laurence Freedman.
