tylee cottage artist-in-residence programme
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 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 2023 we celebrate its thirty seventh year. Over sixty 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.
The next call for Tylee Cottage applications for the residency programme will be in mid-2025.
Lilian Ida Smith Award
Lilian Ida Smith 1920 – 1983 was a Whanganui resident who in her will instructed her estate to be divided into three equal parts to establish trusts to assist people aged 35 years and over to develop and further their interest in painting, writing and teaching music. The Sarjeant Gallery was charged with administering the painting strand of the bequest and in 1993 established the Lilian Ida Smith Award. An accomplished artist herself, sadly she never exhibited and her desire to support someone over 35 was in recognition of the constraints her father, Vivian Smith, faced in response to his experimental output as a painter. Since 1993 the award has been offered four times with the last being in 2021 with Graham Fletcher being the recipient.
Current Tylee Residents
In 2024 we are pleased to have Kirsty Lillico in residence at Tylee Cottage. Kirsty will be at Tylee until December 2024. Please see news about Kirsty here
Former residents of Tylee Cottage
Laurence Aberhart 1986
Andrew Drummond 1987
Mervyn Williams 1988
Anne Noble 1989
Sue Cooke 1990
Emily Karaka 1991
Dennis Turner 1992
Ans Westra 1993
Gary Freemantle 1994
Peter Ireland 1995/96
John Beard 1996
Andrew Smith 1997
George Krause 1997/8
Julian Hooper 1998
Bronwynne Cornish 1999
Victor Meertens 1999
Jeff Thomson 2000
Sarah Buist and Sonia van Kerkhoff 2000
Marcus Williams and Susan Jowsey 2000/1
Lauren Lysaght 2001/2
Alastair Galbraith 2002
Jean Zuber 2002
Gregor Kregar 2002/3
Andrea du Chatenier 2003/4
Johanna Pegler 2004
Christine Hellyar 2005
Paul Johns 2005
Ben Cauchi 2005/6
Ben Cauchi 2005/6
Matt Couper 2006/7
Mark Braunias 2007
Joanna Langford 2007
Regan Gentry 2007/8
James Robinson 2008
Andrew Ross 2009
Miranda Parkes 2009
Kay Walsh 2009/10
Emily Valentine Bullock 2010
Liyen Chong 2010/11
Marian Maguire 2010
John Roy 2011
Glenn Burrell 2011
Charles Butcher and Cobi Cockburn 2011/12
Adrian Jackman 2012
Alexis Neal 2012
Ann Shelton 2012/13
Richard Orjis 2014
Glen Hayward 2014
Cat Auburn 2014/15
Roberta Thornley 2015
Sam Mitchell 2015
Erica van Zon 2016
Wendy Fairclough 2016
Susan Frykberg 2016
Peter Trevelyan 2017
Conor Clark 2017/18
Kate Fitzharris 2018
Julia Holden 2018/19
Annie Mackenzie 2019
Marie Shannon 2019
Jae Hoon Lee 2019/20
Laurence Aberhart 2020
Matthew McIntyre-Wilson 2020
Anne Noble 2020
Graham Fletcher 2021
Zahra Killeen-Chance 2021
Solomon Mortimer 2021
Andrew McLeod 2022
Denis O’Connor 2022
Areez Katki 2023
Christopher Ulutupu 2023
Alexis Neal 2023-24
Jade Townsend 2024
Kirsty Lillico 2024