Artspace Aotearoa and La Trobe Art Institute (LAI) have partnered to facilitate a new international artist residency. The residency will support an early-career artist from Aotearoa to travel to Djaara/Bendigo in Regional Victoria, Australia for a two week period (7–21 October 2025) during lawan and boyn on Djaara Country.

Lawan and boyn time is a season for harvest and growth cycles where the work of collecting seeds and tending to newly laid eggs is done. It is a time of new beginnings, where new relationships can be seeded. Drawing purpose from the Djaara season, and the New Commission exhibition season at Artspace Aotearoa, this an opportunity for an Aotearoa artist who is interested in connecting with place and practices of transition and mutuality between sites and contexts.

Indigenous artists and artists working in community are strongly encouraged to apply.

Applications close on Monday 26 May 2025.

For more information about the residency and how to apply download the following residency outline on this link.

Photo by AJ Taylor.

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