Residencies

The Caselberg Trust looks forward to artist applications for the Creative Connections Residency.

Creative Connections Residency is open to people residing in New Zealand, and is focused on projects that reach out and make links across a variety of creative media, professional disciplines, and/or communities relevant to the planned project."

For more information and applications forms: http://www.caselbergtrust.org/?page=residencies 

Michael King Writers Centre

The centre is based in the historic Signalman’s House on the slopes of Takarunga Mt Victoria in Devonport, Auckland.

They have a programme of supported residencies for New Zealand writers and offer low-cost accommodation for visiting writers. They also offer specialist workshops and occasional literary events.

To date over 150 New Zealand writers have held residencies at the centre since it opened in 2005 and up to 30 visiting writers stay each year. They welcome and encourage applications from both emerging and established writers from throughout Aotearoa.

Click HERE for further information

The Fulbright programme offers a range of prestigious exchange awards for New Zealand and American graduate students, academics, artists and professionals to study, research, teach or present their work in each other’s countries. Other awards allow institutions to apply for a visiting Fulbright specialist to assist with their development needs.

More information and guidelines are available on the Fulbright New Zealand website www.fulbright.org.nz/awards 

McCahon House Artist Residencies are designed to support artists at pivotal points in their careers by providing the time, space and support to focus on the development of their practice.

Their approach to residencies has expanded to encompass residencies for mid-career artists based in New Zealand Aotearoa, along with residencies that have been developed to have a specific focus, in partnership with organisations both here and abroad. See their International Residencies page for more information.

Residencies offered in Aotearoa are situated at Parehuia – a purpose-built dwelling and studio in French Bay, Titirangi. The site was gifted the name Parehuia by local kaumatua Eru Thompson in 2008. See their Parehuia Residency pages for more information. 

Visit www.mccahonhouse.org.nz

Earthskin supports a network of local and international artists, through developing local havens that provide creatives with a place to create and exhibit their work. Residencies and workshops give artists a grounding space to diversify their mediums and immerse themselves fully. The artists are being nourished, internally and externally, by being fed by, and living in a closer and genuine relationship with the whenua (land), and in balance with themselves. Furthermore, immersion in permaculture ethics awakens greater environmental consciousness, creating awareness around ethical and eco-minded art practice. 

For further information click HERE

The aim of the residency is to:

• support artistic endeavours in Auckland regional parks
• share the art created to highlight overlooked or undervalued aspects of the regional parks
• raise awareness of the regional parks as places of interest and inspiration.

We welcome applications from:

• photographers
• printmakers
• painters
• sculptors
• film makers
• installation artists
• composers
• writers
• poets
• choreographers
• and other creatives.

Eligibility

To be eligible, you must be a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident.

For more information click HERE

The newly established Visiting Artist Programme of Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings Art Gallery (HAG) offers an annual 8-week residency for Aotearoa artists towards developing a solo exhibition project. The programme is designed to foster new connections within the Te Matau-a-M?ui Hawke’s Bay region and support the development of unique bodies of work.

The inaugural visiting artist for 2024 was Heidi Brickell. Recognising the need for more open opportunities for established Aotearoa artists, HAG is calling for proposals for a residency beginning August 2025, with a subsequent exhibition in February 2026.

The Gallery is seeking projects that will present an opportunity for an artist to make new work that cannot be developed elsewhere. Accommodation and a workspace in Heretaunga Hastings are included, as well as a stipend, research and materials budget, and other forms of support.

Artists must be citizens or legal permanent residents of Aotearoa New Zealand, based outside of Te Matau-a-M?ui Hawke’s Bay and demonstrate at least eight years of public exhibition practice. They must be able to reside and work full-time in Heretaunga Hastings during the term of the residency.

For more information click HERE