Studio

Applications for this round are currently CLOSED. Next round will open first half of 2012.

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Information for Studio Residencies
Applications close 6pm Friday, 12 August 2011

The program was initiated in 2004 with funding from the New South Wales Ministry for the Arts (now Arts NSW), allowing Firstdraft to make the studio on the ground floor of Firstdraft available to emerging artists as a studio space. This program has been supported by the Australia Council for the Arts for the previous 5 years and is now supported by The Visual Arts and Craft Strategy through The Australian government and the New South Wales Government.

In 2009 Firstdraft secured support from the City of Sydney Council for an off-site facility to house the Firstdraft Emerging Artist Studio Residency Program and provide affordable artist studios for emerging and local artists. The studio program has been housed at the Firstdraft Depot in Riley Street Woolloomooloo since early 2010. All 2012 Firstdraft Emerging Artist Studio Residency Program applicants will complete their studio residency at the Depot in Woolloomooloo. This studio program has been developed to increase the breadth of Firstdraft’s involvement with and support for emerging experimental arts in Australia. The program provides emerging artists with the opportunity to develop their practice and exhibit within a dynamic artistic community in central Sydney. Firstdraft studio artists are encouraged to utilise the timeframe and the studio to create and exhibit work not normally encouraged by the short time frames available for installing work. The program provides an opportunity to work in a dynamic environment with access to a community of peers, encouraging artists to become more involved in an Artist Run Initiative (ARI).

Firstdraft will provide the successful applicant with:

• A studio space in the Firstdraft Depot at Riley St Woolloomooloo for 9 weeks [non- residential].
• A flat artist fee for work completed during the studio residency program.
• A fully subsidised three-week exhibition at Firstdraft upon completion of the program.

Applications for this round are currently CLOSED. Next round will open first half of 2012.

Download the application form here.
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Applications close 6pm Friday, 12 August 2011