Resident Artist Programme
The Sidney Nolan Trust has created Artist-in-Residence opportunities for more than two decades and is delighted to continue to provide a unique space and working environment for contemporary artists to develop their practice.
In 2021 we initiated the Resident Artist Programme which invites artists to work with the Sidney Nolan Trust for a full 12-months and time to develop a collaborative working relationship with the staff, with other artists and users of The Rodd.
During 2025 we have be awarded funds by The Ashley Family Foundation to develop a durational residency at the Bleddfa Centre with a focus on re-invigorating Bleddfa as a hub for creativity. You can follow our residencies on social media.
Find out more about our recent Resident Artists below.
2023 - 24 Resident Artists
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Daisy Dixon
Daisy’s work is currently focused on drawing from different vistas of experience, revealing a fragmentary view of her journey. She recently undertook a two-week residency in the 15th -Century village of Agios Ioannis, Crete, where she made drawings of the ‘residue of activity’ found in the deserted houses and structures.
Daisy studied Fine Art at Bath Spa University, later attended the Royal Drawing School and is currently undertaking an MA in Art Therapy at Chester University. She is Subject Leader of Photography and Teacher of Fine Art at Hereford Sixth Form College.
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Kate Green
Kate’s projects offer an accessible bridge between artistic research and the rural community. Her unique blend of walking, wondering, and gentle humour present creative investigations by following innovative, interesting and entertaining ways.
Recent works include: Mindwalks – a collaboration with Professor Anthony Collier adapting his landscape painting practice to the challenges of living with Motor neuron disease; Walking the Pipe – a community led programme of walks, events and musical performance lectures sharing stories of the Elan Valley Aqueduct; and Finding a Way – livestreamed walks and outdoor experiences, accompanied by people who live with Dementia, to embrace the art of wandering.
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2022 - 23 Resident Artists
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Faith Limbrick
Faith’s practice spans performance, moving image, paper, sound, gardening, writing and sculpture. She uses them to investigate the functions of the imagination and its relationship to the non-human and narratives. She is developing a visual language that realises its subject matter as vibrant objects and aims to combine thoughts, experiences and objects to configure an encounter with a dream-like world. She wants to explore the power and mystery within the subjects of her work, which goes beyond their corporality, to their actions upon us: how they infiltrate, imprint and form our imaginations and cause us to think and feel, often unconsciously, particular thoughts and ideas.
Recipient of Art Council England’s DYCP and artist in residence at The Sidney Nolan Trust in 2022. Published writing by Edinburgh Geological Society in Earthlines – Geopoetry and Geopoetics, Journal HIT 2020, Geneva & Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh. Geomyth (2020), premiered at Borderlines Film Festival, 2021. Awarded the VACMA award (Edinburgh City Council & Creative Scotland) in 2020. Artist in residence for In tandem, Embassy Gallery, 2019. From 2015-2017 committee director of Rhubaba, an artist-led project space in Edinburgh. Accredited Relational Dynamics 1st (RD1st) coach, funded by The Artist Information Company.
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Jony Easterby
The work of Jony Easterby is characterised by the diversity of artistic practice used and the range of technologies employed. Each project can be radically different but there are key ideas and interests informing the approach. There is empathy for the natural world and a sense of its place within culture and social context. Using both digital and analogue media Easterby investigates the boundaries between raw elemental materials, sound technology, composition, landscape and architecture.
A breadth of expertise in a wide range of artistic skills has found him developing projects as varied as the construction of intricate sound sculptures, audio visual installations , architectural constructions and the artistic direction of large-scale performance projects.
Permanent sound and sculpture installations can be found under the White Cliffs of Dover, Cheltenham, Maesteg, Grizedale Forest, The Wolds Way and Ashbourne Derbyshire. He has worked as a composer and sound designer for Red Earth, NVA, and the National Theatre of Wales. His work has been exhibited and performed in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong.
Throughout his residency Easterby collaborated closely with artist Pippa Taylor and together the presented In Praise of Shadows. Easterby also created a permanent landscape installation in the main courtyard at The Rodd titled Dead Standing.
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2021 -22 Resident Artists
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Daniel MacCarthy
Daniel MacCarthy (1986) was born in Oxford and raised on the Welsh borders of Herefordshire and Powys. He studied History at the University of Sussex 2005-8 and then received a post-grad diploma from the Royal Drawing School in 2011. He completed the Turps Studio Programme in 2019 after which he returned to the Welsh borders and became the inaugural Resident Artist at the Sidney Nolan Trust. He works primarily in oils and distemper, around subject matter that includes landscape and figuration.
Recent shows include, Full House,(group) Canopy Collections, Cromwell Place, London, The Ship of Fools (solo) - Ben Parsons + Hannah Payne Gallery, Oxford, The Peace of Wild Things, (solo) Sidney Nolan Trust, Wales, and Things are in the Saddle, (solo) Galera, Milan. Follow
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