Artist Residency
With each residency VARC aims to achieve a balance between the opportunity to the artist to develop and exhibit new work and the opportunity to local people to benefit from the programme of engagement with the artist.
Each resident artist develops a body of work for exhibition at the end of the residency and engages with individuals and groups from the area and further afield through workshops, open studio days, artists’ talks and other events.
VARC advertises the post every two years. It looks for artists who feel that twelve months spent living in an isolated rural location will significantly benefit their practice and who enjoy contact with people and want to be part of a community.
Selection of artists has been made for residencies 2010-2011 and 2011-2012. The residency 2012-2013 will be advertised in Autumn 2011 with interviews held in spring 2012.