Artist in Residence
Artist in residency offerings was where it all started for Art Trails Tasmania because they can be such game changers for artists and those hosting them.
The diversity of setups for artist residencies is quite broad, from being a resident artist at a studio and being able to work from the space rent free but also manage it for fellow artists through to a fully grant funded six month international stay for full immersion into the culture, art practice and being expected to create work for an exhibition and everything in between.
Generally the first place of call is Arts Tasmania for residencies as there are few government funded ones available.
My hope for here is that you find a range of options, useful information on how to craft the ideal art residency for yourself so there’s growth for all. To be frank, there are far too few residencies available and we need more. So let’s all that to happen!
Find Out What’s On in the ATT Newsletter
Join the Art Trails Tasmania Newsletter to stay up to date with What’s On, Artist Profile blog interviews, new members and more.
Being Listed
If you would like to join the Art Trails Tasmania family just pop over to the Member’s Hub and choose from one of the membership options.
Find Art Residencies from Across Tasmania
Artist residencies cover a diverse range of arts, from writing to painting, weaving to collage, pottery to music and everything in between. They are about creating time and space for the creative to immerse themselves in their work.
Here you’ll find the Art Trails Tasmania members who are running artist residencies. To help you plan your explorations we look at Tasmania as nine regions:
North West
West Coast
The Islands: Bruny, Flinders and King Islands
Central North – including Launceston
Poatina Tree Art Gallery
Poatina Tree Art Gallery is a community Gallery run by Poatina Arts. We are a small nurturing Gallery that provides exhibition opportunities to local artists and artists connected to our broader community.
Visit Poatina Arts online to discover all that this vibrant creative collective are doing, including a gallery space, glass studio, artist in residence program, rehearsal spaces, music studio rooms, and a ceramic studio. Be sure to join the newsletter and follow on Facebook and Twitter/X too for all the latest news.
Gordon Street
Poatina, TAS 7302
Jacqui Thomson
Mansell Fine Arts
Jacqui Thomson is a fine art oil painter living in Devonport lutruwita.
You can follow Mansell Fine Arts on Facebook and Instagram.
Central Tablelands
Central South – including Hobart
North East
East Coast
South East
Navigating Tasmania
Below is a map to help orientate yourself with the regions. Do note that this map has some creative license to it rather than being a very specific, professional cartographers creation. Do refer to the Tasmanian Government Official touring map of Tasmania ($5, available online, in Service Tasmania shops and onboard the Spirit of Tasmania) for accurate details. It even has roads and rivers marked on it!
If you’re planning a road trip arts holiday be sure to get hold of a good old fashion printed map of the state. Do not trust Google maps or the navigation maps beyond the city and suburbs as they’re renowned for taking people along unsafe narrow dirt tracks with little opportunity for chucking u- turns (true for all regional, rural and remote areas in Australia). And besides, folding out a map, having an explore is way more fun!
See What’s On Across Tasmania
Just click on the images below to find out what is happening with various artists across the state.
What’s On and Happening with Art Trails Tasmania Members
Art Trails Tasmania is a membership based program that is all about empowering, enabling, celebrating and sharing the amazing artists, makers, designers, performers, creators, artisans and crafters across this beloved state.
After a lot of careful consideration, asking and listening to our audience on the socials in the prelude to the launch of this site, the decision on how this artist led project would be funded became abundantly clear: memberships.
Initial thoughts included having Google ads but no one, including me, really liked that idea. Other optoins included selling ebooks and courses and going after grants and sponsorships.
While grants and sponsorships might still be on the table they are unreliable in many ways – time consuming to apply for and highly competitive.
While the ebooks, guides and programs fit much better as they are about sharing skills, inspiration and connections. So you’ll find a growing library of them in the Resources area with the full collection available in the members area.
As for membership, it just made the most sense. It creates a family and shares the collective and individual stories.
To find out more about our membership options click here for the Member’s Hub.
A big thank you to everyone who helped answer my website build questions on Facebook and Instagram, your comments and messages helped a great deal with clarity and understanding how to make this site sing for you!