About the residency
For over 40 years, artist residencies have been at the heart of Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP). Since 2019 YSP has worked with Te Tuhi as a partner from Aotearoa New Zealand, and philanthropists Sigrid and Stephen Kirk, to host YSP’s first two artist residencies, and celebrated the opportunity to work with artists from the country for the first time.
Building on this successful partnership and programme, YSP and Te Tuhi are offering another placement for a New Zealand artist to stay on-site at YSP for 4 weeks between October and December 2024. Supported by the British Council Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific, the residency will include: accommodation with studio space for desk-based activities; a material budget of $1,500; curator critique feedback and up to two days of technical consultation with the YSP team; economy international airfare; internal UK travel expenses and a stipend of $5,000.
The successful artist is not required to make an object or exhibition, but they may receive curatorial and technical advice if required.
About the 2024 recipient artist
Melanie Tangaere Baldwin (Ngāti Porou) is a māmā of two, a multi-disciplinary artist, curator, and arts educator. She is a founder and current director of HOEA! Gallery in Tūranga Nui a Kiwa, Gisborne. Her work is research-based and largely focused on Te Ao Māori, Mana Wahine, stereotyping of indigenous peoples and the effects of settler colonialism on notions of power, beauty and worth.
Baldwin is interested in how pūrakau contribute to a more hopeful and empowered future for our mokopuna. “I'm really humbled to have been given the privilege of this residency,” the artist says. “I'm really excited to be able to have time, space and resource to begin researching and creating a new body of work in this unexpected and undoubtedly inspiring environment.”