A self-contained, live in, studio space for recent graduates. Space includes a show at Stockroom and access to Kyneton's art hive.

Angela Chauvin lives in Melbourne, where she has recently completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT and her Honours Year at VCA.  Angela is interested in how humans translate their perceptions of reality into visual and material artworks; the communicative contingency of these perceptions and artworks, and how we use art to show each other 'the world in the world'.  Her work sits within the traditions of observational oil painting, using a contemporary colour palette with a hybrid of drawn and painterly marks.

Josephine Mead is a visual artist and writer, who is interested in investigating personal notions of support. Josephine completed a Bachelor Degree of Fine Art (Expanded Studio Practice) at RMIT in 2014 and completed her Honours Degree in Fine Art at Monash University in 2017, for which she was awarded First Class Honours. She has exhibited widely at a range of venues including Bus Projects, Seventh, Craft Victoria, Blindside, Kings Artist-Run, Blue Oyster Space and the RMIT and Monash faculty galleries. In 2018 she was shortlisted for the John Fries Award; undertook research in the Juan C Mendez Photographic Archive through the Arquetopia Foundation Residency; participated in the Kings Emerging Writers Program and undertook the the Macfarlane Fund Residency. She has recently been published by Art + Australia and un.

Harry Zed Hughes is a contemporary painter working with figuration and abstraction. His paintings reference art history, especially romanticism and symbolism, along with allegorical paintings since the 16th century.

Allegory has a connection to myth making, and Hughes uses this as a device to squeeze out conceptual underpinnings from figurative compositions.

2017

Steven Christie often works in charcoal and graphite depicting large monuments and structures influenced by Classical and Brutalist styles of architecture. His practice is characterised by repetitive acts of erasing and redrawing. This erasure is both an iconoclastic act against the structures and a rejuvenating force that can facilitate new architectural elements to be proposed and incorporated.

Louise Tate is a Melbourne-based artist whose practice incorporates painting and writing. She has exhibited regularly in Melbourne and Geelong, as well as interstate and internationally. Tate recently completed a Bachelor of Fine Art with 1st Class Honours from RMIT University. She has been shortlisted for several awards; this year being selected for the SEVENTH 2017 Emerging Writers Program. In 2018 Tate will be undertaking an artist residency at the NARS Foundation in New York.

Our first artist in residence, Jordan's time in Kyneton produced a major series of works, including the majority of paintings for his first solo show "Free and Foreign Subjectivity" at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville.