Waverley Artist Studios

Waverley Artist Studio

Applications for the 2026 studio program will open in August 2025.

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

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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Using readymade and everyday materials, Gerwyn Davies assembles characters through costume that simultaneously conceal, transform and abstract the body. These highly stylised and exaggerated transformations are regenerative as they form part of an ongoing inventory of photographic self-projections. Gerwyn’s artistic practice is a great reminder of the narratives we construct for ourselves, backed with a hint of humour.

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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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Artists Wona Bae (South Korea) and Charlie Lawler (Australia) are a collaborative duo, who have been working together since 2004. They are internationally recognised for their experimental and concept-driven installations and sculptures that navigate the visceral and symbiotic connections between people and nature.

Bae and Lawler present the natural world as active and central in an era of polarisation, inequality, inaction and apathy. Using a language of texture and reduction, their work combines immersive installation, sculpture, relief, sound and photography.

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

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