A Bundoora Nebula Residency is a rare creative opportunity for artists from all disciplines, offering time and space in a unique and supported environment. Eight residencies will be offered in 2017. Each month-long residency will pair two artists, each pairing including one artist with a disability.

Artists will be offered an opportunity to be inspired by each other, and the site, and encouraged to develop new ideas and processes. Artists are not required to present a finished outcome.

The residencies offer space inside Nebula – a revolutionary custom built portable studio as well as spaces within the historic Bundoora Homestead. All spaces will be open to the general public for the duration of the residency.

There are eight residencies available during the following times:

• Residency One, 2 x artists, 6 February – 3 March 2017
• Residency Two, 2 x artists, 6 March – 31 March 2017
• Residency Three, 2 x artists, 3 April – 28 April 2017
• Residency Four, 2 x artists, 9 May – 2 June 2017

The Bundoora Nebula Residency Program is open to Australian visual artists, performers and musicians. Half of the residency positions are reserved for artists with disability, Deaf artists or artists with a lived experience of mental illness.

Artists are provided a fee of $2,250, a working space, a materials budget of $500 and, where needed, support to meet the needs of the participating artist including Auslan interpreters and one-on-one support workers. The spaces will be allocated to best meet the needs of each pair of artists in residence.

Artists are required to attend the residency for a minimum of two days a week for the duration of the four weeks of each residency. Artists can negotiate to be on-site for additional hours but no additional fee is available. Artists are required to be available for one public talk, workshop or demonstration during the residency.

Arts Access Victoria is the state’s leading arts and disability organisation. AAV is dedicated to an ambitious agenda of social and artistic transformation for people with disability, the communities in which they live and the arts sector in which they aspire to participate without barriers.

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre is the City of Darebin’s public art gallery committed to developing challenging and inspiring programs in contemporary visual arts and craft. Bundoora Homestead is also a heritage house, gardens and operates a café on-site.

Read the Bundoora Nebula Residency Terms and Conditions in the Application Pack (below) to ensure you are aware of all aspects of the process and what is required.

Applications are preferred to be submitted online. The link to the application form is below.

If the online application process is inaccessible to you due to the nature of your disability please use one of the following options:

• Contact us for a paper application and mail or drop off the form and print copies of your work to Arts Access Victoria.
• Contact us for a paper application and provide the application and copies of your work on CD or USB.
• Contact us for a paper application and speak your application into a recording device and give us a recording on USB in MP3 format plus copies of your work.
• Contact us for a paper form and then video your application and send us the recording on USB in MP4 format with examples of your work in the video.
• Still not sure how to apply? Give Arts Access Victoria a call or send us an email (or ask someone who can speak/write on your behalf)
• Remember, online applications are preferred but other options are available for artists with a disability.

Applications are due on Friday 18 November 2016 at 5pm. Late applications cannot be accepted.

HAVE A QUESTION
Contact us to discuss your ideas or application:

Rhian Hinkley, Nebula Artistic Director
Arts Access Victoria
222 Bank Street, South Melbourne 3205
03 9699 8299
rhinkley@artsaccess.com.au

Claire Watson, Curator
Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
PO Box 91, Preston 3072
03 8470 8061
claire.watson@darebin.vic.gov.au