Waverley Artist Studios

Waverley Artist Studio

Applications for the next round of studios close at 11:59pm on 21 September 2025 for the studio residency period of 1 March 2026 – 28 February 2027. Applications must be submitted through the online portal.

Waverley Artist Studios are for emerging, mid-career and professional artists interested in working within Bondi and the greater Eastern Suburbs area. Studios are offered in year-long residencies.

Artists in the studios benefit from:

  • A fully subsidised studio space for 12 months to develop new work; and
  • Paid professional development opportunities including workshops, artist's talks, public art projects and live art opportunities.

Successful applicants participate in a compulsory open studio event in the second last month of their occupancy. The open studio event is aimed to showcase works being produced during artists’ residencies to curators, artists, funding bodies and the community.

Studios are located at the School of Arts, 138 Bondi Road, Bondi.

2025-26 Resident Artists

Annabelle McEwen (She/They) is a multidisciplinary artist practising on unceded Gadigal Land (Eora/Sydney) with a Masters of Fine Art majoring in printmaking from The National Art School. McEwen was awarded The Ellen O’Shaughnessy Printmaking Award in 2019 and the Summer Fellowship at The State Library of NSW in 2025. They were a finalist in The National Photographic Portrait Prize at The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra in 2024, The Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre in 2024, The Lloyd Rees Emerging Artist Award in 2023, The Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize in 2023, The Burwood Art Prize in 2023, and The Fisher’s Ghost Art Award in 2022 among others.

To find out more, click here.

Blake Lawrence is an interdisciplinary artist living in Warrang/Sydney working with performance, drag, photography, film, textile and story. Their work explores environmental collapse, loss and insurgence within East-coast ecologies beside stories of queer experience, memory, place and belonging.

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Dr Josh Harle is a multidisciplinary researcher and new media artist with a background in Computer Science, Philosophy, and Fine Arts. His research investigates the virtual spaces generated by emerging capture technologies (e.g. laser scanning, photogrammetry, drone image-capture), our encounters with the world through them, and their social and political impacts.

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Kai Wasikowski currently lives and works on Gadigal land in Sydney. His practice encompasses photography, video and sculpture. Wasikowski’s projects use photography to question western visual and political systems of knowledge and aim to spark feelings of curiosity and connectedness towards the powerful lives of images.

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Zorica Purlija is a Montenegrin-Australian artist based in Bondi Beach, Gadigal, Bidiagal and Birrabirragal land. Her current practice has been focused on attachments, the psychology and space around our primary relationships and how it impacts our future self. Her art is informed by feminist values and hopes to tap into our universal longings for equality.

Her public profile continues to build as she exhibits widely, including in Manhattan, Zurich, and Venice.

To find out more, click here.

For further information, please email visualarts@waverley.nsw.gov.au.

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