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Call for Tylee Cottage Artist-in-Residence applications for 2026

Announced: 12 November 2026

Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery is calling for applications for two four-month residencies in 2026. The residency (est 1986) is one of the longest of its kind in the country and this is your chance to be part of an impressive alumni of over 70 artists who have called Tylee home and produced post residency exhibitions for the Sarjeant’s dynamic programme. With the support of generous funding through Creative New Zealand’s Toi Uru Kahikatea Investment Programme, the residency allows artists the opportunity to focus on their practice and make work in a new environment. For 2026 we are offering the opportunity two four-month residencies.

RESIDENCY ONE: April-July, 2026 for a painter over the age of 35.
RESIDENCY TWO: August-November, 2026 for a photo / new media artist.

For more information and how to apply, please download the Tylee Cottage Artist-in-Residence 2026 prospectus here.

Applications close on Friday 23 January, 2026.

The Tylee Cottage Artist-in-Residence Programme

The artist-in-residence programme at Tylee Cottage, a renovated historic building built in 1853, was established in 1986 as a partnership between the Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery the Whanganui District Council and the QE11 Arts Council of New Zealand. The programme is now solely funded by Creative New Zealand’s Toi Uru Kahikatea (Arts Development) Investment Programme and managed by the Sarjeant Gallery.

The programme is one of the longest running of its kind in New Zealand and in 2016 we celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. Over 50 artists have been in residence including some of the country’s leading practitioners. The residency provides a unique opportunity for an artist to develop a new body of work under less pressured circumstances.

As a result, the residency has the dual benefit of bringing exciting new artists into the city and allows us to include innovative contemporary new work in our exhibition programme that is a unique reflection of each of the artist’s time spent in residence. The residency programme attracts a high calibre of applicants.

Visit here for a list of past residents.