Gasworks, the Jan Warburton Charitable Trust and the Office for Contemporary Art Aotearoa invite applications for an artist from Aotearoa New Zealand to undertake a research residency at Gasworks, London from 6 October – 22 December 2025.

The residency offers an early / mid-career artist opportunities for self -led professional development, artistic exchange and experimentation and development of new international networks, and as such can be significant for the advancement of their career. Alongside the time for extensive practice-based research and access to artists in London with similar interests, Gasworks provides opportunities for the artist to develop new work and showcase their practice, work ethic and conceptual focuses to an international audience, including curators and collectors, unavailable in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The residency provides return flights to London, 24/7-access to a private studio space in the Gasworks building, accommodation in a house shared with three or four other international artists in residence with Gasworks, plus living and materials allowance.

The critical nature at the heart of Gasworks encourages the fostering of active dialogues with local creative practitioners, including artists, curators and writers, as well as direct engagement with important London-based artist-run spaces, collectives, galleries, museums, patrons and collectors.

The organisers are incredibly grateful to the individuals and trusts who are supporting the 2025 residency, including the Jan Warburton Charitable Trust, Jenny and Andrew Smith, Dame Jenny Gibbs, Shirley-Ann and Rick Mannering, Bath Street Arts Trust, Tim Melville and Rosemary and Tim Auld. Without their generosity and commitment, the residency would not be possible.

More information and how to apply can be found on the Office for Contemporary Art Aotearoa website here, and on the Gasworks website here.

Applications close on Monday 19 May at 1pm UK time.

Previous residencies for artists from Aotearoa New Zealand at Gasworks

The Gasworks residency for an artist from Aotearoa New Zealand was started by the Jan Warburton Charitable Trust in 2016, and with support from private individuals, and sometimes from Creative New Zealand and the British Council Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific, has been an annual residency for the last eight years, missing only one year during covid. 2025 will be the ninth residency in the series. Artists who have been awarded the residency include:

Sriwhana Spong – 2016
Katrina Beekhuis - 2017
Hikalu Clarke – 2018
Christina Pataialii – 2019
(No residency in 2020, due to Gasworks being closed during covid)
Sarah Rose – 2021
Campbell Paterson – 2022
Sorawit Songsataya – 2023
Shiraz Sadikeen - 2024

About Gasworks
Established in 1994, Gasworks is a non-profit contemporary visual art organisation working between UK and international practices, offering a cohesive space of critical dialogue and studio-driven practices. Gasworks runs a critically engaged exhibition programme in their gallery space often offering artists their first major exhibition in London. Alongside this, Gasworks has nine studios that are made available to London-based for up to five years, and four studios that are dedicated to residencies for international artists. Gasworks’ highly respected international residency program offers sixteen artists each year the opportunity to research new work in London. Events, workshops and open-studio events are organised to engage the wider community, as well to provide the resident artists an opportunity to develop and expand their professional networks. Through Gasworks, curator and patron visits ensure that the artists are provided with an active landscape to ensure the exposure of their artistic practices.

About Jan Warburton Charitable Trust
The Jan Warburton Charitable Trust (JWCT) was established by Dunedin-based collector and philanthropist, Jan Warburton, to support the development of contemporary art in Aotearoa New Zealand, with a particular focus on late-emerging and mid-career artists. The residency for a New Zealand artist at Gasworks was developed by the Trust in 2016.

About Office for Contemporary Art Aotearoa
The Office for Contemporary Art Aotearoa (OCAA) works in partnership with other organisations and individuals, both from Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally, to encourage exchange and dialogue between visual arts practitioners from New Zealand and their international counterparts and to enable and facilitate the presentation of work by New Zealand artists at major overseas exhibitions. Formed in early 2024 and is based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, OCAA is in the process of applying for Charitable Trust status.

To keep in touch with the projects that OCAA facilitates, click here.

Images:
1. Shiraz Sadikeen, Gasworks Open Studio, December 2024. Photo Peter Otto
2. Installation view of Shiraz Sadikeen’s studio at Gasworks Open Studios, December 2024, image courtesy of the artist and Gasworks

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