Pay $300 a week for 2 to 6 weeks in a cottage and studio in Albany, Western Australia, in 2028
The City of Albany, in Western Australia, hosts up to six visiting artists a year for residencies of 2 to 6 weeks. Applications for 2028 close on 30 November 2026.
This is a residency you pay for: $300 a week, and there's no artist fee.
The $300 a week covers a self-contained cottage for you and a partner (no children or pets), with bed linen, utilities and Wi-Fi. Next door, at the Vancouver Arts Centre, you get a 3.8 m by 7 m studio to yourself. The arts centre is a heritage site, the town's old cottage hospital, about 1 km from the centre of Albany.
You don't have to deliver anything to the community, but you can offer an exhibition, a performance, an open studio, a talk or a workshop. If you run a paid workshop, the City helps market it, lends you the room for free and takes no commission.
You also get up to a week of free exhibition space at the arts centre for work made during the residency, access to the Albany History Collection and the centre's audio-visual equipment, introductions to local artists and groups, and help with promotion.
The 2028 residencies run from 10 January to 11 December, in seven 6-week windows. You can stay from 2 weeks up to the full 6, taken in one block. Cancelling within 6 weeks of your start costs $300.
- ·Visiting artists. The callout names no nationality or residence condition.
- ·The callout names no discipline restriction, and multidisciplinary work is one of its selection criteria. Diversity is another: artists from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, Indigenous artists, artists of all ages, people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ people and artists from regional and remote Australia are encouraged.
- ·The studio is on the first floor, so tell the team in advance if you have mobility needs. Painters can't use solvents in the studio.
- ·A panel of peers and the City's arts team selects on artistic excellence, originality, timing in your career, involvement of the local community, engagement with local culture and history, multidisciplinarity and diversity.