Artists in Residence

Expressions of Interest – Artist in Residence Program July 2025 – June 2026

The Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf Artist in Residence Program is an opportunity for artists to research and develop new work within a historic, harbourside cultural space.

The Program offers applicants one of two non-residential, non-furnished studio spaces over a four month period. There are 6 opportunities in total, with two residencies offered during each of these time periods:

  • 1 July – 19 October 2025
  • 27 October 2025 – 15 February 2026
  • 23 February – 14 June 2026

Please read the Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf Artist in Residence Guidelines(PDF, 441KB) before submitting your Expression of Interest.

Application Form

Interested artists should complete this Application Form before midnight on Sunday, 6 April 2025.

 

Current Artists in Residence, February - June 2025

Charli Rose Gerry

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Charli Rose Gerry is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer living and working on Gadigal Land, Sydney. Fascinated by the intimate relationships entangling humans with fungi, Charli engages mushroom foraging as an embodied research strategy that can attune to vital encounters with more-than-human existences. These interactions with fungi enable speculative exchanges of care and collaboration between the artist and situated ecologies. By co-creating paper-based assemblages with fungal beings, Charli’s practice offers us entrances to more ethical engagement across species. 

Whilst in residence at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Charli will continue her Fungus Paper Research Project - an ongoing material collaboration that upholds the agency and autonomy of fungi in creative encounter with humans. Embracing a de-centred approach to making-with locally foraged mushrooms, the artist’s new body of work will focus on cultivating relations of curiosity and wonder in vibrant fungal worlds

 

Helen Pynor & Lizzie Crouch

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Helen Pynor is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice explores philosophical and experiential questions surrounding phenomena such as the life-death boundary, organ transplantation and prosthetics. She works with living and ‘semi-living’ materials, including cells, organs, and biomolecules such as DNA, and has used her own surgically excised bone in a recent project. Pynor’s work spans installation, sculpture, photography, video, and performance. She frequently collaborates with scientists, undertaking residencies in institutions like The Max Planck Institute, Germany. Her works have been exhibited globally, including at ZKM Karlsruhe, Science Gallery London, and ISEA. Pynor has earned an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica, Linz and national awards in Australia.

Lizzie Crouch is a Creative Producer who specialises in bringing together people with diverse expertise, backgrounds and lived experiences to create innovative, inclusive spaces. Beginning her career in factual television production and public engagement with science, she now works at the intersection of arts, science and technology. Lizzie’s current research focuses on advancing creative production and socially inclusive processes for art-science programs. She is also exploring the role of creative producing in fostering inclusive experiences as a PhD candidate at UNSW, Sydney. Lizzie has held numerous roles, including Senior Coordinator of Engagement for SensiLab, Monash University, and produced major art-science seasons for the Science Gallery network. Her work has been recognised by the World Health Organisation and featured in publications likeNew Scientist.

Whilst in residence at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Pynor and Crouch will work on their ongoing collaborative workshop and exhibition project, 'Bone Drift', exploring the materiality of bone and contemporary disability politics.

 

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