NAS International Residencies

International residencies provide a unique opportunity to develop your practice and studies in a global centre of artistic excellence. This experience enables you to immerse yourself in a new arts context, market and community and culture.

Our current residencies are:

• The Prudence MacLeod Prize
• The Onslow Storrier NAS Residency, La Cité Internationale Des Arts, Paris
• The British School at Rome
• TROPICAL LAB International Art Camp

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We encourage all eligible candidates to apply, regardless of whether this is your first residency application. Please contact [email protected] to discuss any accessibility requirements or adjustments that can be made to your application process.

The Prudence MacLeod Prize

A six-month studio residency program in London for a recent National Art School graduate. 

Residency 

With support from the Lansdowne Foundation, NAS supports an emerging Australian artist to undertake a six-month residency at Acme Studios, London. Acme Studios provides work/live studio accommodation and a program of support and professional development for a NAS alumni artist. Resident artists are expected to contribute to the program and the artist community, and to deliver a small-scale public outcome at the end of the residency, with the support of Acme and within the budget allocated.  

This opportunity is designed to support an emerging artist at a vital time in their career, providing a step forward into an expanded, international context. The artist will live and work in London, one of the world’s great art cities, in a supportive artist community. This important opportunity will enable the artist to forge professional international contacts, explore London’s art world and rich cultural resources, and produce a new body of work.  

The recipient of this prize will receive: 

• Return travel to London. To be arranged for the artist by NAS.
• Accommodation and studio at Acme Studios London for six months.
• Living stipend of $AUD3500 per month for six months. Total $AUD21,000 for six months.

2025 Recipient

The Onslow Storrier NAS Residency, La Cité Internationale Des Arts, Paris

A three-month studio residency in Paris for a National Art School Graduate or Academic Staff Member.

Residency

A residency at the Onslow Storrier National Art School Paris Studio offers the opportunity of dedicated focus on your practice in one of the great centres of artistic excellence. The Onslow Storrier National Art School Paris Studio is located at La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and has been made possible through the generosity of Annette Onslow and Tim Storrier. The studio is located on the Right Bank in Rue de L’Hôtel de Ville in the 4th arrondissement overlooking the river Seine, near many commercial and public galleries and only a short walk to Notre Dame Cathedral. There are 270 studios that house artists, musicians and writers from around the world.

Eligibility 

• Recent National Art School BFA, GDFA, MFA or DFA graduates (graduating within the last 5 years – current students are not eligible to apply) OR 
• Current National Art School academic staff (including sessional). Please note that in the event that a successful applicant is a permanent staff member, appropriate leave arrangements will need to be considered.  
• Only applications that are fully completed and received by the closing date will be considered by the selection panel. 

2026 Recipients

January – March: Mungo Howard, NAS BFA 2019, NAS MFA 2021

April – June: Ali Tahayori, NAS MFA 2023

July – September: Corey Black, NAS BFA 2019, NAS MFA 2021

October – December: Chelsea Lehmann, NAS Interim Head of Drawing

The British School At Rome

A three-month residency in an interdisciplinary research community.

Residency

This residency offers artists the opportunity to live and work in Rome for 3 months, in an interdisciplinary research community. The British School at Rome is a centre of interdisciplinary research excellence in the Mediterranean supporting the full range of arts, humanities and social sciences, and the residency has been made possible through the generosity of our donors, particularly Jennifer Dowling. The British School at Rome is just north of Rome’s historic centre in the Valle Giulia which separates the Parioli district from the Borghese Gardens. 

The successful applicant will receive studio accommodation (including meals) with the British School at Rome for a period of three months: April 7 – June 30 2026 and inclusion in the BSR’s annual fine art catalogue. 

Eligibility 

• Recent National Art School MFA or DFA graduates (graduating within the last 5 years – current students are not eligible to apply) OR 
• Staff of the National Art School (including Sessional staff), AND 
• Applicants must be an Australian citizen or Australian resident and able to comply with any visa requirements. 

2026 Recipient

Genevieve Felix Reynolds, NAS Photomedia Lecturer (Sessional)

TROPICAL LAB International Art Camp

A two-week international art camp in Singapore for a current National Art School MFA student

Residency 

The nineteenth edition of the renowned TROPICAL LAB, an international art camp for art academies and institutes, will take place from 17 July to 1 August 2025 at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore.

TROPICAL LAB is an intensive and highly engaging fourteen-day event, bringing together more than 20 student-artists from various art colleges and institutions around the world. TROPICAL LAB is a real and imaginative space for student artists to research, experiment and collaborate to create contemporary artworks, regardless of medium, method and approach.

The event will include workshops, talks and seminars guided by established international and Singaporean artists culminating in an exhibition curated by LASALLE’s curatorial division, Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore at LASALLE.

The recipient of this Prize will receive:

• $1000 towards airfares & transfers
• Coverage of program registration fees
• LASALLE will cover accommodation and local travel costs in Singapore. All participants will reside at a hotel arranged by the College on a twin sharing basis.
• LASALLE will provide studio space, workshops, technical assistance as well as curatorial expertise.

2025 Recipient

Liss Finney, NAS BFA 2023, current MFA