We are accepting applications from artists in Australia and Thailand. Creative Australia will support one Australian artist and one Thai artist to undertake the residency. The successful Thai recipient will receive a grant of $13,000 AUD to cover artist per diems, travel and insurance costs and living expenses. Accommodation and studio access will be provided by UNSW Galleries.

The successful Australian recipient will receive $10,000 AUD to cover artist per diems, travel and insurance costs and living expenses and accommodation. Studio access will be provided by SAC Gallery Bangkok.

The award amounts to the selected recipients reflect the average costs of living in the two respective cities.

Host organisations will also provide curatorial care and support during the time of the residency. The minimum duration of each residency is 5 weeks.

Additional support needs including any accessibility support; interpreting and childcare will be provided on a case-by-case basis. We encourage you to speak to us about any specific access needs or support you may require for ensuring you can equitably participate in this program.

This program is designed for visual artists who work in an interdisciplinary and/or gallery context and who are: 

• Mid-career artists in Australia or Thailand. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of either country 
• have a visual arts and/or interdisciplinary practice with an interest in material exploration.   
• committed to a long-term engagement with Thailand, and vice versa.   

Creative Australia, SAC Gallery and UNSW Galleries strongly encourage applicants who identify as First Nations, from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) backgrounds, people with disability, and people living in regional and remote areas to apply for this opportunity. Global First Nations exchange and diaspora-driven engagement is a priority of the International Engagement Strategy 2021-25 in amplifying our creative relationships in the Asia Pacific with rigour and integrity.

Our programs and processes are designed for accessibility and best use by a diverse demographic. Please contact us at least 2 weeks prior to the closing date to discuss your access and support requirements.

Artists from Australia and Thailand can apply through our application management system. Click on the ‘Apply Now’ button at the top of this page. Please note: To apply you must be registered in our application management system a minimum of two business days prior to the closing date.

Applications will be assessed based on the responses to the following questions which you can input into the open text field on the form (750-1000 words max in response to each question). A video or audio submission may be uploaded in the support material section in place of your written application with responses to the following questions (5 minutes max).

1. Provide a brief proposal of the idea you will be working on or your line of inquiry including themes you’ll be researching/exploring during your time at the residency. This can be broad or specific and will give the hosting organisations a clearer understanding of your needs.  
2. Share how an international residency will be pivotal to your career trajectory at this stage of your practice, and your interest and investment in the contemporary art scene in the region. Specifically, indicate how you will connect with the local communities of practice during your residency if successful.  

 Your responses to the above questions will be assessed for artistic merit, viability, impact on career and commitment to reciprocity with the local community in the respective region.  

Additional material can be submitted to help support your expression of interest, including artist biographies, letters of support, additional written material, images, and video footage of previous work. Support material may help the assessors gain an understanding of the quality of your work, and where relevant, the skills and role of other artists or partners involved. 

You are not required to submit a budget with your expression of interest.  

To find out more about support material, including advice on how to get examples of your work online, click here. 

Our preferred method of receiving support material is via URLs. However, if you cannot supply artistic support material via a URL, we will accept artistic support material in the following formats: 

• Video (MP4, QuickTime, and Windows Media) 
• Audio (MP3 and Windows Media) 
• Images (JPEG and PowerPoint) 
• Written material (Word and PDF)  

Creative Australia staff will consider applications according to the selection criteria above and will seek recommendations by UNSW Galleries and SAC Gallery Bangkok.

You will be informed of the outcome of your application by mid June 2024.

If you plan to have your grant administered by a third party, applicants will now need to ensure that the administrator is registered on the Creative Australia’s online system before you begin your application. This means you cannot complete or submit an application if your administrator is not registered. 

Click on the ‘Apply Now’ button at the bottom of this page. Applications must be submitted via the Creative Australia’s online Application Management System (AMS). 

You will need to register for access to the AMS, instructions for how to do this can be found on the landing page once you have clicked on the ‘Apply Now’ button.  

Make sure you register well before the closing date. It can take up to two business days to process your registration. 

Please contact us at if you are unsure if you should register as an individual or on behalf of an organisation. 

Camille Laddawan / ลัดดาวัลย์

Artist, b. 1990
Wurundjeri Country, Australia

Camille Laddawan’s practice is centred on beading and extends to etching, painting and photography. Her beading work is often inscribed with fragments of text and music notation by way of a visual code. Through this code, her work comments on the nature of institutional language, and the difficulties of navigating it. By drawing on personal experiences of coming into contact with legal, welfare and healthcare bodies, Camille’s work seeks to make these experiences and ways of communicating visible.

Tintin Cooper

Tintin Cooper is a mixed race artist from Bangkok.

She grew up in over 17 countries and cites this chaotic influence on her works, which span image and video appropriations, light works, painting on ceramic tiles and sculpture.

Her works are often humorous and appropriate pop culture images and memes (popular themes include football, self defense, the army and war, yoga and pseudo-spirituality fads), which are then deconstructed across various media.

Recent projects include ceramic tile installations for Soho House Bangkok and London, and an NFT series in conjunction with astrologer Jessica Adams and media artist Anita Bacic.

Claudia Koguchi (for a residency at artisan, Brisbane, Australia)

Claudia’s work leans into the personal. She can’t resist inserting the people in her life into her paintings. Claudia often depicts herself and those around her carrying out everyday leisure activities or exploring imaginary moments. These scenarios are used to delve into various interpersonal dynamics and emotional states, navigating the often tricky side to relationships. For Claudia, life is as equally malleable as fiction and she bends the narrative truth of both towards each other until they meet. Her works are imaginary negotiations of real relationships and real feelings.

Oscillating between painting and textile, both mediums hum with the same energy. The depictions of Claudia’s characters are large, bold, and cartoonish. She employs a sometimes coded colour palette, but always primary and bright. With a playful ease, Claudia embraces ugliness with no subject or bodily aspect too taboo for the canvas. Dressing herself and her associates in a range of real and made up personas, the audience is invited to do the same. In a world where everything is real and everything is made up, you can be anyone you want.

Andy Butler (for a residency at Artspace Aotearoa, Auckland, New Zealand)

Andy Butler is an artist, writer and curator based in Naarm/Melbourne.

As an artist, he works across moving image, installation and painting. His work has been exhibited at Arts House, Bus Projects, Firstdraft, The Substation, Footscray Community Art Centre and more. He has undertaken residencies with Parramatta Art Studios and the Powerhouse Museum, Green Papaya Art Projects in Manila through Asialink and more. In 2021 he was a recipient of the Creative Victoria Creators Fund grant to undertake research into the archetype of the white saviour within the archives of the National Library of Australia.

His writing has been published to wide acclaim, in outlets including frieze, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, Art Guide and more, as well as in numerous anthologies and exhibition catalogues.

Independent curatorial projects include Always there and all a part (2017) at BLINDSIDE, and Those Monuments Don’t Know Us (2019) at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre. He was most recently the (Acting) Artist Director at West Space.

He currently sits on the board of the Emerging Writers Festival, and was previously on the board of SEVENTH Gallery.

Who can apply

• Only individuals may apply to this category.
• You must be a practicing artist or arts worker and an Australian citizen or an Australian permanent resident.

Who cannot apply

You cannot apply if:

• You received a grant, or administered a grant, from Creative Australia in the past and that grant has not been satisfactorily acquitted
• You owe money to Creative Australia
• We will not accept applications from legally constituted organisations

Our staff and industry advisors will consider applications according to the assessment criteria. Successful applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application by mid November 2024.

Applicants must address the following assessment criteria:

1. Artistic merit

• suitability of your practice to the residency program and its artistic environment/offer
• quality of work previously produced, and public and peer response to your work

2. Viability

• suitability of your proposal to the residency program
• the skills and artistic ability of your collaborators (if applicable) and their relevance to the proposed activity
• realistic and achievable planning, resource use and evaluation.

3. Impact on career

• how the proposed activity strengthens your artistic practice
• the relevance and timeliness of the proposed activity
• how the proposed activity strengthens your capacity as an arts professional, particularly in relation to international development and collaboration.

You should submit support material with your application. Assessors may review this support material to help them gain a better sense of your project.

What you should provide

We do not accept application-related support material submitted via post. Application-related material received by post will not be assessed and will be returned to the sender. If you think you will have difficulty submitting your support material online, or need advice on what type of material to submit, please contact us.

There are three types of support material you may submit:

1. Artistic support material

This should include relevant, recent examples of your artistic or cultural work.

Types of support material we accept

Our preferred method of receiving support material is via URLs (weblinks).

You can provide up to three URLs (weblinks) that link to content that is relevant to your proposal. This may include video, audio, images, or written material.

These URLs can include a total of:

• 10 minutes of video and/or audio recording
• 10 images
• 10 pages of written material (for example, excerpts of literary writing).

Please note: Our assessors will not access any URLs that require them to log in or sign up to a platform. Please do not provide links to Spotify or other applications that require users to log in or pay for access.

If you are linking to media files that are private or password protected like Vimeo, please provide the password in the password field on the application form.

Other accepted file formats

If you cannot supply support material via URLs, you may upload support material to your application in the following formats:

• video (MP4, QuickTime, and Windows Media)
• audio (MP3 and Windows Media)
• images (JPEG and PowerPoint)
• written material (Word and PDF).

2. Biographies and CVs

You can include a brief bio or curriculum vitae (CV) for key artists, personnel or other collaborators involved in your project.

Brief bios or CV information should be presented as a single document no longer than two A4 pages in total.

3. Letters of support

Individuals, groups, or organisations can write letters in support of your project. A support letter should explain how the project or activity will benefit you, other artists or arts professionals, participants, or the broader community. It can also detail the support or involvement of key project partners, or evidence of consultation.

If relevant to your activity, letters of support must provide evidence of appropriate permissions and support from First Nations organisations, communities, and Elders. Please refer to the First Nations Protocols for more information.

You can include up to five letters of support, with each letter not exceeding one A4 page.

The apartment is in a security building within walking distance from Roma Trastevere train station, and close to the River Tiber. A short distance away is the old district of Trastevere, which alongside its historic significance, boasts some of the best pizzerias and bars in Rome.

The apartment consists of a spacious multi-purpose room, a bedroom, bathroom, and library annexe. It contains a collection of more than 2,000 books that previous residents have added to over the years. A door from the main room leads onto a leafy terrace that overlooks the rooftops of Rome and its surrounding hills. The main room contains the kitchen and dining area, a desk, sofa, sofa bed, storage cupboard (containing vacuum cleaner, ironing board etc.), coffee table, electric heater and wood stove. There is also a printer and a television. The bedroom contains a clothes cupboard and a double bed. Bed linen, towels and blankets are supplied. There is a washing machine in the bathroom, a telephone and ADSL internet connection. Residents are responsible for cleaning the apartment and for purchasing cleaning materials.

The BR Whiting studio is not wheelchair accessible and has limited flexibility regarding physical access needs. A guide dog, and/or a carer could accompany the artist for the residency, as the living quarters can accommodate two people.

While the studio would accommodate a couple and a small child over five, it is not recommended for families. There are no parks or facilities in the area and the apartment is quite old.

Your application must comply with the following Protocols. We may contact you to request further information during the assessment process, or if successful, as a condition of your funding.

Protocols for using First Nations Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Arts

All applications involving First Nations artists, communities or subject matter must adhere to these Protocols, provide evidence of this in their application and support material. More information on the First Nations Protocols is available here.

Commonwealth Child Safe Framework

All successful applicants are required to comply with all Australian law relating to employing or engaging people who work or volunteer with children, including working with children checks and mandatory reporting. Successful organisations who provide services directly to children, or whose funded activities involve contact with children, will additionally be required to implement the National Principles for Child Safe Organisations.

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