Based on the South Coast of New South Wales, Bundanon’s Artist in Residence program is the largest program of its kind in Australia and spans the organisation’s thirty-year history. It supports creativity and learning in a unique cultural and natural landscape and is structured through a series of partnerships with leading arts organisations and companies, cultural agencies and benefactors.
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.
“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 from the arts and sciences could get together.”
– Arthur Boyd.
Bundanon. Photograph: John Janson-Moore
The 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, in all phases of the creative process, 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.
Artists in Residence Complex, Bundanon. Photograph: John Janson-Moore
This year, Bundanon received a record number of applications from individuals and groups from across the world.
A selection of 2025 Artists in Residence
Bebe Ashley (United Kingdom) – 2025 British Council Fellowship
Bronte Leighton-Dore and Luke M de Zilva (New South Wales)
Cathe Stack, Jaz Corr, Nicole Smede (New South wales) – 2025 Bundanon First Nations Fellowship
Haines & Hinterding: David Haines and Joyce Hinterding (New South Wales) – 2025 Dobell Foundation Artist in Residence Award
Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis, Jessica Neath, Kirsten Garner Lyttle, and Peta Clancy (Victoria)
Jahnne Pasco-White (Victoria)
New art music collaboration: Kate Brown, Angie Garrick, Matthew Gorgula, Laurence Quinn and Lois Waters (New South Wales) – 2025 Bundanon Fellowship for an Artist with Disability
Rosalind Lemoh and Tonya Lemoh (New South Wales)
Rubyrose Bancroft (New South Wales)
Sera Waters (South Australia)
Tam Cao (New South Wales) – 2025 William Fletcher Foundation Award
Tully Arnot (Hong Kong)
Zanny Begg (New South Wales)
Zoë Pollitt and Tash Tribe (New South Wales) – 2025 Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia – NSW Award
Fellowship & Award Partners
British Council (United Kingdom)
Sir William Dobell Art Foundation
Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia – NSW
JamFactory
McCahon House (Aotearoa New Zealand)
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
Visit bundanon.com.au for the full list of artists.
