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Amor Residency at Baldessin Studio

  • stone bush cottage with corrugated-iron roof surrounded by gum trees and statues
  • interior shot of printing studio with tiled floor, wooden roof, potbelly stove, sinks, drawers and equipment
  • Bluestone studio built by George Baldessin in 1971
    Bluestone studio at St Andrews built by George Baldessin in 1971

This residency allows a visual artist to explore works on paper, in particular printmaking. You’ll use research material from the Library and the studio facilities at Baldessin Studio.

The residency includes:

  • $5000 funding
  • Baldessin Studio access, accommodation and support to the value of $5000
  • an exhibition at the Print Council of Australia Gallery
  • desk space at the Library for 12 months
  • access to collections and Library staff expertise.

Funding is based on approximately one month of work in the Library. This can be either continuous or broken up over the year, and you’ll have access to your office for the full 12 months. 

Your residency at Baldessin Studio is also flexible and can take a number of forms depending on your project, your research plans and studio availability.

You will be able to present the work you produce during the fellowship in an exhibition at the Print Council of Australia Gallery together with the Tate Adams Fellow.

Not all areas of Baldessin Studio are wheelchair accessible at this stage. Find out about accessibility at Baldessin Studio.

Apply here

About Rick Amor and Baldessin Studio

Built from bluestone in 1971, Baldessin Studio is 50 kilometres from Melbourne in the bushland of St Andrews. It’s named in memory of its builder: artist, printmaker and sculptor George Baldessin (1939–1978).

The Amor Residency at Baldessin Studio is generously supported by artist Rick Amor and Baldessin Studio.

Previous recipients

Learn more about the inspiring projects undertaken by past and present fellows in our fellows gallery.

  • 2024: Tom Sevil with the project Bird's Eye View: Red Line Through, which explored the symbols and iconography of Australian colonialism, as well as the historical printmaking techniques used in these designs. 
  • 2022: Dr Ry Haskings with the project Boxes, bars and rules: Abstraction through newspaper design and historical networks, which investigated new purposes for seemingly outdated modes of traditional newspaper design.
  • 2019: Judith Martinez with the exhibition and artist's book Australis Grandiflora, a speculative historical narrative of fictional botanist Eleanor Nightingale and her quest to discover a mythical bloom.
  • 2018: Glen Skien with the etchings and artist's book Poetics of Ephemera, which explored the Library's archives of ephemera resources such as letters, postcards, family photos, diaries and materials that exist within the margins of historically significant narratives.
  • 2017: Kyoko Imazu with the etchings and artist's book Following the Secret Hiding Spots - Exploring Childhood Memories and Imagination, which explored imagination and memories from her childhood in Japan and juxtaposed them with the Australian landscape.
  • 2016: Rosalind Atkins with the project Behind the big brick wall of Alphington Paper Mill, which explored the concept of relationship to place and the impact that developmental changes to her local environment will have on her art practice.