R|Artist Residencies

March - July 2025
July - November 2025

Now Open!



R|Artist Residency: Sub Tropic is a 20-week artist residency designed for early-career creative practitioners. It offers studio space, operational support, opportunities to build a profile, and a materials budget of $1,200.

The Refinery is offering two residencies in 2025:  

  • 1 March – 14 July 

  • 15 July – 30 November

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Urban Ecologies is an artist residency open to mid-career and senior creative practitioners interested in critically applying new, sustainable technologies in their practice with a focus on the built environment.

Across five months, the selected artist will develop a new body of work and have access to UniSC resources including the Maker Space, the first MIT-accredited Fab Lab in Queensland, the CAVE2, a powerful visualisation tool that can immerse its audience in visual and audio content, and have access to the Creative Ecologies Research Cluster and its associated network of practitioners and researchers.

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November 2024 - April 2025




R|Artist Residency: Natural Ecologies is for a mid-career and senior artist interested in critically applying new, sustainable technologies in their practice with a focus on ecological conservation and regeneration. Across five months, the selected artist will work on a body of new work and have access to UniSC resources including the Maker Space, the first MIT-accredited Fab Lab in Queensland, the CAVE2, a powerful visualisation tool that can immerse its audience in visual and audio content, and have access to the Creative Ecologies Research Cluster and its associated network of practitioners and researchers.

Meet our recent Artist-in-Residence, Nikki Sheth 

April - September 2024