Throughout 2025 and 2026, we are looking to support residency projects that facilitate community engagement and/or participatory experiences for Museum audiences. Our first opening will take place in mid-2025. EOIs will also be considered for other periods over the two-year timeframe, subject to artist and MoB availability. Residencies will run for a minimum of four weeks.

The purpose of the residency program is to provide time and space for creatives to focus on process: thinking, experimenting, consulting and making. Projects may result in a physical exhibition or presentation outcome in the Museum, such as the Dome Gallery.

We are looking for proposals that facilitate community participation and bring stories from the outside into a museum context. Proposals might evolve from engagement with the Museum and its collection, however, may also develop in response to the local environment and community.

Proposals should:

• Be participatory and engaging
• Be place-based, community centred and culturally inclusive
• Be willing to embrace necessary constraints and work within parameters of the Museum environment
• Incorporate a high degree of personal and professional maturity

There is a multi-purpose studio space available if required. Other available spaces and facilities can be negotiated, dependent upon residency needs. The Museum encourages peer to peer connections between participating artists and will facilitate informal opportunities for artists to build relationships with each other and the wider Museum community of stakeholders and supporters.

Artist fees will be negotiated with MoB to suit the scale and breadth of the project. Successful applicants may also choose to apply for additional funding, independent of the Museum, to support additional components of a project.

Applicants must be an Australian citizen or have permanent work rights to work in Australia, over 18 years of age and reside in Brisbane or have a connection or specific research interest in the city or region.