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.”

>>> Read on at Bundanon for the full list of 2027 residents including Esther Anatolitis