CURRENT
ANUJA DASGUPTA
October - November 2024
Anuja Dasgupta brings an ecological lens to the foundational processes of image-making. Propelling her long-term engagement with phytogeography, she now explores South Africa's diverse flora and its impressive adaptive strategies in extreme environments.
Positioned in the Cradle of Humankind, Anuja’s work underscores the quiet yet profound impact plants have had on humanity's story and how the rigid framework of modern science often sidelines plant narratives.
By working with plant materials, creating pigments, and experimenting with light-sensitive emulsions, Anuja seeks to imagine the life and language of plants as a phenomenal universe, from the surface to the subterranean world.
This residency is supported by the Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation in collaboration with the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of Witwatersrand.
CURRENT
SOPHIA VAN WYK
October - November 2024
Sculptor Sophia van Wyk begins her residence at NIROX, that will go on for 4 weeks. During her residency she will undertake a maquette- making workshop at the Villa-Legodi Centre for Sculpture, intended as an accompaniment to both her own exhibition and the exhibition of maquettes, Small Things, in the Centre’s Project Space.
PAST
RESIDENCY SPACES AND SERVICES
COOLROOM
UPSTAIRS STUDIO
STUDIO
WORKSHOP
LOUNGE/DINING
COTTAGE
LOUNGE
MUSIC ROOM / STUDIO
Accommodation consists of a two bedroom double-story house facing north overlooking the Sculpture Park, with a large double-volume studio, mezzanine work space, lounge, dining and entertainment facility. Adjoining the house is an open-fronted sculpture workshop and a second studio.
A separate self-contained 2-bedroom cottage facing west overlooks the water, sheltered from the afternoon sun by aged Bushwillows.
Residencies are fully serviced with meals prepared by Maria and her team in the house kitchen, good 'rural' wifi, and assistance with sourcing materials, building and making to good standards by our management, ground staff and resident carpenter.
A short walk across the lawns of the Park is the Coolroom Complex, a large multi-functional workshop/studio, a Screening Room with cinema seating, a small studio and curator’s office.
The Sculpture Parks’ 30 hectare garden is shared with the public on weekends and with pre-arranged visitors during the week. Residents’ privacy is protected, but it is in the nature of the Foundation’s purpose to encourage engagement.
The restaurant, ‘... And then there was fire’ is open to the public. Residents are encouraged to enjoy its active program of music, performance, culinary-school, yoga, talks, poetry, fashion and related activities; to be part of Bernardo and Manu’s passion for food and the exulted life we hope to bring to South Africans and visitors from afar.
Residents have access to the adjoining 1000 hectare Khatlhaphi Private Nature Reserve, a wilderness of hills and valleys populated with a diversity of local game and birdlife.
RESIDENTS' WORK AND ACTIVITY
There is no fixed work imperitive. Residents are encouraged to interact with each
other, local arts and other communities; to collaborate and create compelling
experiences. In particular we press residents to experience and contribute to the extraordinary work of the Columba Leadership Academy whose residency is hosted in the park, instilling values, hope and inspiration to leading youths from the most underserved communities of South Africa. NIROX’ reach into local life provides opportunity for engagement with museums, institutions, galleries, academia, artists and other communities.
Residents are required to leave an artwork or other suitable record for the
NIROX Foundation Archives.
APPLICATIONS FOR RESIDENCY
There is no call for applicants nor fixed application process. If you are interested please contact us at info@niroxarts.com and we will begin a conversation. It will help us if you include your own preferred version of a CV, artist's statement, portfolio of work, biography, or the likes along with a short text on why you are interested, and have questions you would like us to answer.
ALUMNI
Since its inception, NIROX has hosted more than 400 artists-in-residence.
Jake Aikman
Sophia Ainslie
Akindiya Akirash
Zuleikha Allana
Anna Nordquist Anderson
Beth Diane Armstrong
Catherine Ash
Nina Barnett
Hedwig Barry
Valerio Berruti
Atul Bhalla
Peter Bialobreski
Caroline Bittermann
Michael Blake
Sean Blem
Dineo Bopape
Willem Boshoff
Eric Bourret
Francki Burger
Carla Busuttil
Bev Butkow
Mira Calix
Mia Chaplin
Clifford Charles
Gary Charles
Richard Chauke
Rebecca Chesney
Mat Chivers
Zuleika Chaudhari
Priyanka Choudhary
Marco Cianfanelli
Driaan Claassen
Alain Clement
Hannelie Coetzee
Steven Cohen
Ruann Coleman
The Cool Couple
Christian Courreges
Ingrid de Kok
Katharien de Villiers
Thomas Demand
Godfried Donkor
Antoine Donzeaud
Auke de Vries
Chris Drury
Marlene Dumas
Michel Duport
Paul du Toit
Alinka Echeveria
Alice Edy
Victor Ehikhamenor
Laura Emsley
Bracha Ettinger
Guy Ferrer
Jem Finer
Justin Fiske
Richard Forbes
Jonathan Freemantle
Gordon Froud
St John Fuller
Lorenzo Fusi
Milena Høgsberg
Patti Gaal Holmes
Georgina Gatrix
Friedrich Gauwerky
Claire Gavronsky
Pelegie Gbaguidi
Kendell Geers
Guinevere Glasford-Brown
Daniella Goeller
Frances Goodman
Dylan T Graham
Todd Gray
Liza Grobler
Jonathan Guitamachi
Tapfuma Gutsa
Nicholas Hester
Geoffrey Hendricks
Rodan Hart
Lyle Ashton Harris
Hector Hernandez
Karrie Hovey
Elisa L. Iannacone
Osaretin Ighile
Ashraf Jamal
Adam Jeppesen
Ayana V. Jackson
Gabriele Jacobs
Anton Karstel
Lebohang Kganye
Stefanie Koemeda
Riyas Komu
Gabrielle Kruger
Leo Lanussol
Lawrence Lemaoana
Noria Mabasa
Io Makandal
Maja Malkovich
Amorous Maswanganyi
Collen Maswanganyi
Hemmi Matsamura
Takayo Matsamura
Pat Mautloa
Yolanda Mazwana
Whitney McVeigh
Brent Meistre
Michael Mieskes
Joyti Mistery
Nandipha Mntambo
Mohau Modisakeng
Ledelle Moe
Marta Moriarty
Nadjana Mohr
Clara Montoya
Nuria Mora
Thomas Mulcaire
Moataz Nasr
Marcus Neustetter
Serge Alain Nitegeka
Lwandiso Njara
Fred Nordstrom
Phoka Nyokong
Osaretin Ighile
Olu Oguibe
Valarie Oka
Walter Oltmann
Sean O’Toole
Giovanni Ozzola
Jurgen Partenheimer
Michael Peltzel
Richard Penn
Leonardo Petrucci
Helen Pheby
Johannes Phokela
Enric Pladevall
Realness Screenwriters 2016
Realness Screenwriters 2017
Hester Reeve
Elena Rocchi
Alexandra Ross
Mika Rottenburg
Pietro Ruffo
Abdus Salaam
Francois Sarhan
Mithu Sen
Rose Shakinovsky
Molly Smythe
Walter Stach
Danae Stratou
Rina Stutzer
Joachim Schonfeldt
Mary Sibande
Sean Slemon
Sylvaine Soldano
David Svensson
Mikael Subotzky
Tawanda Takura
Santiago Talavero
Nicola Taylor
Angus Taylor
Johan Thom
Nakhane Touré
Adejoke Tugbiyele
Ben Tuge
Strijdom van der Merwe
Minnete Vari
Lorena Guillén Vaschetti
Wessel Van Huyssteen
Toon Verhoef
Reney Warrington
James Webb
Jessica Webster
Ulrich Wolke
Duncan Wylie
Juan Zamora
Oupa Sibeko & Kamo Walaza