Urban Ecologies

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.

November 2024 - April 2025

About Urban Ecologies

This is not a space-based residency and there is no requirement to be on-site at UniSC for a specified time. The residency provides access to specialist resources that will enable you to learn and critically apply new technologies in your practice with the support of specialists. The successful candidate will have a creative practice that is focused on issues of urban sustainability and regeneration and a desire to experiment with and apply new technologies as a tool to engage audiences in new ways.

We invite applications from artists or creative practitioners (e.g. designers, urban planners) who are working in interdisciplinary or experimental ways.

Towards the end of the residency period, the successful applicant will be required to deliver a talk and showing of the work (or work in progress) developed during the residency. The form of this showing will be negotiated with the artist.

What you will receive from The Refinery:

$5,000 artist fee
$1,000 towards production
time with UniSC technical and academic staff
use of UniSC equipment and spaces.

Application Process

R|Artist Residency: Natural Ecologies is by application. Applications have now CLOSED.

Applications must include:

2 page CV
examples of previous work provided as a PDF
overview of why you’re interested in participating in the program.

What are we looking for?

Applications will be assessed based on the following criteria →

Merit
The vision of the project concept and the capacity of the artist to realise this concept and engage creative specialists and collaborators.

Clarity
The application demonstrates a clear process for delivering the project and an understanding of how they can use the resources available through the residency to evolve or extend their practice.

Impact
Potential for the residency to impact the artist’s practice and their capacity to engage audiences in new ways.

Program fit
Project alignment with the level of resources and support on offer.