BALDESSIN STUDIO SPONSORED RESIDENCIES
Sponsored Residencies are awarded periodically at the discretion of Baldessin Studio, dependant on donations. There is no application required and the residency is by invitation. If you would like to sponsor a residency and/or artist, please get in touch!
Selection Criteria:
- Recipients’ outcomes must complement the existing program and array of techniques offered at Baldessin Studio
- That we see potential and value in encouraging and supporting the individual artist
Previous Recipients of our Sponsored Residencies:
Kylie Watson
Mel Hartigan
Sophia Szilagyi
Ben Armstrong
Tom Civil
Donna Killeen
Joel Walter
Kasia Fabijanska
Recipient of the 2020 Australian Galleries / Baldessin sponsored residency. The Australian Galleries / Baldessin sponsored residency is a joint collaboration between Australian Galleries and Baldessin Press Studio.
Anella Petrie - 2020
Anella Petrie is a Melbourne based printmaker, with an Advanced Diploma in Fine Arts, who quit her career as a 3D computer games artist 3 years ago to create her own art.
Anella has been experimenting and extending her ideas into unconventional print making at Baldessin Studio over the past couple of years.
The principal theme running throughout her work is the exploration of subconcious driven human behaviour & she regularly pays homage in her works to her obsession to Japan, vintage objects & popculture.
Anellas art generally includes a high number of unique prints due to her love of experimentation with tessellated origami, vintage pattern paper & gold leaf during the printing process.Her work can be found on instagram under the account @bellatobeyond
Kate Zizys - 2020
Kate Zizys is a Gippsland based artist working across visual art disciplines including image and print based media, sound and moving image production. Themes include female archetypes, psyche and our human condition.
Simon Normand - 2020
Simon Normand is a sculptor, printmaker, painter, author and environmentalist. For over 25 years he has been creating art for the public domain, exhibiting as well as working with elders in Sth-East Arnhem Land, recording oral histories. Travelling extensively throughout the Gulf country, he created numerous maps detailing an indigenous perspective of the land as a permanent record for the people that have always lived there.
Zo Damage - 2020
Acclaimed Melbourne live music photographer Zo Gay, better known as Zo Damage, has been documenting the underground live music scene for over a decade.
Baldessin Studio is delighted to support Zo as she now incorporates printmaking with her photography and extends into fine art, abstract and deeply emotive subject matters. Zo is completing her Masters of Photography at RMIT University and has recently delved into the world of Photogravure to complement her art practice.
