The Mill’s Visual Arts Studio Residency is supported by donors Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin.

One Culturally Diverse artist will be given the opportunity to join The Mill community, receiving a 6-month studio space in 2025 and an exhibition outcome in The Mill’s Gallery II in 2026. The artists will be selected through an open call-out addressing criteria assessed by a panel of The Mill staff.

Thanks to the support of Geoff and Sorayya, the selected artists will join our community of studio artists with their own private workspace at 154 Angas St, allowing them to develop their practice within a professional environment. Working at The Mill positions artists alongside other professional and emerging artists, providing encouragement, inspiration and facilitating networking and collaboration. This residency encourages collaboration between artists from diverse backgrounds, extending artists' practice and exploring new territories.

In addition, the artists will be given the opportunity to exhibit work created in the studio in The Mill’s Gallery II, providing a public outcome for the program and profiling the artist to a wider audience. The artists will receive $550 towards exhibition and workshop production.

Key dates

Applications open: October 30, 2024

Applications close: Monday, December 9, 2024, at 9:00am

Notified: Week beginning December 16, 2024

Visual Arts Studio residency timeframe: August 2025 - January 2026, exhibiting January 2026

This is an identified opportunity, specifically being made available to a Culturally Diverse artist who is:
- Emerging and/or established
- Committed to making their practice their main hustle
- Seeking space and time to develop a concept/body of work for exhibition
- Looking to connect with a community of professional practitioners
- Based in South Australia
- Artists who are students or who work full-time outside of the arts
- Artists who do not identify as First Nations and/or Culturally Diverse
- Artists who have been part of a Mahmood Martin Foundation studio residency previously
- Artists who are already a studio resident at The Mill
The recipients will be selected by a panel comprising of The Mill staff based on the following criteria:
- The artist identifies as First Nations and/or Culturally Diverse
- The artistic merit of artist practice and proposed body of work to be developed
- The need for this opportunity in realising the project, enhancing practice, and/or developing a profile
- A strong desire to connect with the community of multidisciplinary artists at The Mill
- Availability and commitment to utilising the studio space
- 6 months access to a dedicated studio space at The Mill (including access to high-speed internet via Gig City, all overheads and outgoings) at no charge
- Access to other shared areas at The Mill including the workshop, meeting space, kitchen and other public areas
- Professional and artistic support from The Mill’s team (including professional development advice, artistic critique and more)
- Introductions to The Mill’s studio community to aid with networking and professional development
- An exhibition in The Mill’s Gallery II, delivered in consultation with The Mill’s Visual Arts Curator
- Profiling via The Mill’s networks, including social media, mailing list and events
- The opportunity to liaise directly with The Mill’s supporters and develop relationships
- $550 towards exhibition and workshop production