Two Rooms

The Two Rooms Residency Program has been established in 2006 to provide New Zealand and International artists with the opportunity to work in Auckland and travel in New Zealand for a period of up to three months. The purpose is to support ambitious and experimental projects and the commissioning of new works. Visiting artists are encouraged to make links with New Zealand artists and arts organizations in order to promote an exchange of ideas and practice between International and New Zealand artists.

There is a 100 sq m studio on site and accommodation in an apartment on the Auckland waterfront and the gallery spaces may be available for an exhibition.

The program is open to mid career artists from curatorial referral. There are three residencies available per year open to all media but with a bias towards film and photography.

Visiting artists to Two Rooms so far have been photographer Bridget Smith (UK) and filmmaker Runa Islam (UK), with proposals for filmmaker Isaac Julien (UK) and painter Jane Harris (UK) in 2008.

Govett-Brewster

The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery runs an ongoing Artist in Residence programme, with the support of Creative New Zealand. In partnership with the Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki (WITT), the Gallery hosts one New Zealand and one international artist in New Plymouth each year.

The 2007 Artists in Residence are Emil Goh and Francis Upritchard. Previous Artists in Residence since 2003 include David Hatcher and Gabriel Kuri, Saskia Leek, Lee Bul, Ann Shelton, Noboru Tsubaki, Mladen Bizumic and Sam Durant.

Elam

The Elam Residency Project brings remarkable and talented artists from all over the world to New Zealand. Artists are invited by a panel of experts from Elam and from the surrounding community. These artists offer our students and the national visual arts community a vital programme of practice and methods of working that would not otherwise by seen in New Zealand. The Elam Residency Project and the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries at The University of Auckland would like to acknowledge the generous support of its benefactor Jenny Gibbs.

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

The Dunedin Public Art Gallery is one of New Zealand's four major metropolitan art museums. Established in 1884, the Gallery is today renowned for the richness of its collections, its close working relationship with major The Dunedin Public Art Gallery is one of New Zealand’s four major metropolitan art museums. Established in 1884, the Gallery is today renowned for the richness of its collections, its close working relationship with major New Zealand artists, its Visiting Artist programme, the roster of exhibitions it tours to other venues and the vigour of its contemporary exhibition and publishing programme.

International Visitor Program

Creative New Zealand is the national arts funding and development organisation in New Zealand. It supports a range of artforms including visual arts.

It funds a range of visual arts activity as well as awards, fellowships and residencies which are listed on the Creative New Zealand website: www.creativenz.govt.nz

Creative New Zealand’s Audience and Market Development team runs a International Visitor Programme which is open to international gallery and Biennal directors and curators.