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The purpose of the residency is;
a. To provide a unique opportunity for an artist to realise a relevant aspect of their work under less pressured circumstances than may be usual.
b. To involve the Wanganui community for a period of time with an artist with specific reasons to be located here.
c. To enable the Gallery to engage with a practising artist and to strengthen that involvement through acquisitions, public lecture programmes and, where relevant, an exhibition after the conclusion of the Residency. TYLEE COTTAGE is a renovated historic building built in 1853 that has been relocated in Queen's Park a short distance from the Sarjeant Gallery. The Artist-in-Residence scheme began in Wanganui in 1986, a partnership between the Sarjeant Gallery, the Wanganui District Council and the QEII Arts Council of New Zealand. The Gallery managed the scheme, the Council provided the accommodation with the Arts Council providing the stipend. Since 1994 the funding provider has been the Gallery Trust through the District Council.
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