Applications from artists wishing to be part of Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios' 2025 Artist-in-Residence program are open.
We currently offer a rolling call out for applications and welcome expressions of interest on an ongoing basis. To register your interest in a residency at GLC+CS, please complete the form at the link provided below.
If you wish to be considered for the program, simply complete this form.
CURRENT ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Shahroud Ghahani
Artist in Residence 2025/2026
Shahroud Ghahani is an Iranian–Australian visual artist based on Gadigal land in Sydney. Her practice brings together richly layered imagery drawn from diverse cultural traditions, informed by her lived experience across them.
She holds a Master of Art from the University of New South Wales (Art & Design) and has exhibited extensively across Australia. Her works are held in private collections both nationally and internationally.
Her work investigates representations of the female body, engaging with notions of beauty, the grotesque, and identity across Eastern and Western visual traditions.
Ghahani’s practice is further informed by an interest in metaphysical inquiry. Through dreamlike, liminal, and imagined spaces, she weaves together displaced objects and allegorical imagery, inviting layered readings that move between the symbolic and the experiential.
She was awarded the 2024 Grace Cossington Smith Biennial Art Award (Local Artist category). Her work has been recognised as a finalist in numerous prestigious prizes, including the Gosford Art Prize (2024; Commendation, 2023), Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (2022–2025), Hornsby Art Prize (2025), Wollongong Art Prize (2025), and the Flow Contemporary Art Prize (2024), among others.
She is currently an artist in residence at Gallery Lane Cove, as part of the program managed by Lane Cove Council.
Website: https://www.shahroudghahani.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shahroud_ghahani/
Niha Hukku
Artist in Residence 2025/2026
Multi disciplinary artist Niharika Hukku is based in Sydney. She received a Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting) from the Delhi College of Art, India (2000), and has undertaken studies in ceramics and sculpture in Indonesia, Singapore and Australia.
Her work has featured in over 30 solo and group for exhibitions in California, Sydney, Canberra, Adelaide and Wellington since 2009 such as, Arcadia Contemporary, USA(2019), Mosman Art Prize, Sydney (2017),
Sculpture by the Sea(2024, 2016), and the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, NZ(2009, 2010), Her work has been a finalist in the 29th Gold Coast International Ceramic Art Award (2014) and she was selected for the
Harden Art prize, featured in the book ‘Earth and Fire’ and also illustrated a children’s book ‘This bird has arms’. Her work has been acquired by Gold Coast City Gallery, and private collections in Australia and overseas.
Website:https://www.niharikahukku.com/
Pamela Leung
Artist in Residence 2025/2026
Pamela Leung, born in Hong Kong and based in Sydney, holds a Master of Fine Art from the National Art School. Her interdisciplinary practice spans video, installation, painting, and performance, with a political focus emerging after 2019 in response to Hong Kong’s social movements. Her work explores identity, immigration, and hybridity, advocating for human rights and social justice. Leung was awarded Emerging Artist Prize at the 65th Blake Prize (2018) and Third Prize at the 2nd Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize in Taipei(2025). She has exhibited internationally with solo shows in Sydney, Hong Kong, Paris, London, and Sheffield.
Website: https://www.pamelaleung.net/
Sylvia Zi (子欣)
Artist in Residence 2025/2026
Greenwich Studios
Sylvia Zi (子欣) is an emerging artist who works predominantly with clay, pigment, and spatial form. Her practice investigates the interwoven threads of cross-cultural narratives, memories, and generational trauma within East Asian families. Drawing inspiration from Chinese folk art motifs, she uses vernacular forms as a site for both continuity and transformation.
Sylvia graduated from the National Art School in 2024. Prior to her studies at NAS, she earned a Bachelor of Arts from Sydney University and a Master of Teaching from Western Sydney University. She has participated in multiple group exhibitions and been a finalist in various art prizes. Her works are held in both private and public collections.
Sylvia Zi will be apart of Gallery Lane Cove's and CBD Gallery's upcoming exhibition, Lunar Harmony in 2026. Sylvia's major sculptural works were created in Jingdezhen, China and she is excited to contribute smaller pieces that complement and expand this body of work.
Instagram: @sylviaaaxz
PREVIOUS ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
Angela Hanson
Artist in Residence 2023/24
Angela Hayson’s current body of work is focused on human relationships; how we connect and communicate, negotiating what we expose or conceal of our true identity. It is about dual identities, embracing one’s own idiosyncrasies in order to remain authentic to self, contrasted against a public persona constructed according to social norms and expectations to gain acceptance in society.
Anthropomorphic elements in nature have provided a metaphor for connection and communication.
The simplification of forms and emphasis on shape, space, colour and composition are explored in the works.
Angela resides and works in Sydney, has exhibited nationally and overseas since 2005 with work held in private and public collections. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art (2004) with Honors (2005) from the National Art School and Master of Art from the College of Fine Art, UNSW (2010).
During her residency at Lane Cove Creative Studios, Angela is exploring multiple mediums incorporating print, collage, drawing and sculpture, experimenting with diverse materials and processes.
Follow Angela on Instagram @angelahayson & website https://angelahayson.com/
