Last days to apply for park art residency

Last days to apply for park art residency
12 February 2010

Adventurous artists looking for an inspirational opportunity in the outdoors have only a week left to apply for this year’s Auckland Regional Council (ARC) 2010 Artist in Residence programme. Applications close next Friday (19 February 2010).

This year’s artist will be based in the Waitakere Ranges Regional Park for their eight week residency.

The selected artist will live either beside the sea at Barr Cottage, Little Huia, or overlooking kauri forest in South Titirangi, while creating a new suite of work inspired by the park or by the experience.

The purpose of the residency is to encourage artistic endeavour in the park and to share an artist’s perspective and process with visitors to the park. The artist is able to get deeply immersed in the place and make the most of the diversity of life around them.

Some points about the residency:

• The residency is for the creation of new work in response to living and working in a park environment
• It is intended for mature, independent and adventurous artists
• It is open to artists with an Auckland connection
• Applications from writers, composers, choreographers and film-makers, as well as visual artists, are welcomed
• It is for an eight week period between mid September and mid November 2010
• It will be based in the Waitakere Ranges Regional Park
• An artists fee and accommodation is provided
• Applications close 19 February 2010

More information is available at www.arc.govt.nz/parks/artistinresidence or from Michelle Edge on 09 366 2000 x8007.

ENDS

Previous ARC Artists in Residence
Last years resident artists, poet Siobhan Harvey and painter Johanna Pegler, lived at Awhitu Regional Park. Siobhan’s poems will grace the house she stayed in, the park noticeboard and some can be read on the ARC website. Johanna will exhibit Awhitu-inspired paintings in 2010.
Commenting on her residency at Awhitu Regional Park, Siobhan Harvey says, "This residency gave me a wonderful opportunity to engage with a vibrant landscape and local animalia. It was a privilege and I'd encourage any artist seeking to strengthen their work's engagement with environment, flora and/or fauna to apply."

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