Tate Adams Memorial Residency at Baldessin Studio
This residency allows an artist to create a limited edition or unique state artist’s book. You’ll use research material from the Library and the studio facilities at Baldessin.The residency includes:
- $5000 funding
- Baldessin Studio access, accommodation and support to the value of $5000
- an exhibition at the Print Council of Australia Gallery
- desk space at the Library for 12 months
- access to collections and Library staff expertise.
Funding is based on approximately one month of work in the Library. This can be either continuous or broken up over the year, and you’ll have access to your office for the full 12 months.
Your residency at Baldessin Studio is also flexible and can take different forms depending on your project, your research plans and studio availability.
You will be able to present the work you produce during the fellowship in an exhibition at the Print Council of Australia Gallery together with the Rick Amor Fellow.
Not all areas of Baldessin Studio are wheelchair accessible at this stage. Find out about accessibility at Baldessin Studio.
About Tate Adams and Baldessin Studio
Tate Adams AM (1922 to 2018) started the artist print department at RMIT in 1960 and championed printmaking in Australia. His students included George Baldessin.
Built from bluestone in 1971, Baldessin Studio is 50 kilometres from Melbourne in the bushland of St Andrews. It's named in memory of its builder: artist, printmaker and sculptor George Baldessin (1939 to 1978).
The Tate Adams Residency at Baldessin Studio is generously supported by writer and critic Morag Fraser and Baldessin Studio.
Previous recipients
Learn more about the inspiring projects undertaken by past and present fellows in our fellows gallery.
- 2024: Dr Perdita Phillips with the project Anticipatory archive – mapping lithic traces from colonial pasts to spectral or regenerative futures, exploring the cartographic hachures, notations, symbols and stains in the maps of early geologists to see if connections can be made between historical imagery and present and future environmental issues.
- 2022: Zo Damage with the project Note Worthy, which used film and cameraless photography to depict Melbourne live music creative hubs impacted by the pandemic.
- 2019: August Carpenter with the artist's book Terra Incognita, which takes the physical form of a series of large-scale monoprints depicting the rapidly changing horizon lines of glacial landscapes in the Antarctic ice shelf.
