Artist-in-Residence

Established in 1994, the Artist-in-Residence Programme has hosted a wide range of talented artists working across diverse media. This one-year residency offers each artist the chance to develop their own work while engaging closely with the Eltham College school community. The resident is provided with access to a dedicated studio space and specialist facilities, including a ceramics kiln, etching press, and darkroom. As part of the residency, artists have contributed to curriculum lessons, run workshops, and led community projects. Past residents have also exhibited their own art in the Gerald Moore Gallery, showcasing the work they have done during the year-long programme.

More information on past artists and their work can be found below.

The next open call for the Artist-in-Residence Programme will be in April 2026.

Miriam Austin

Miriam Austin is an artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, video and performance, exploring relationships between ritual, myth, ecological fragility and the politics of the body. Her current research follows rivers that run through landscapes affected in different ways by climate change, extractive industry and ecological degradation, seeking to weave narratives through these sites that draw attention to the psychic and material entanglements that shape our experience of threatened environments.

Austin graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Sculpture in 2012 and is currently studying on the PhD programme at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. Over recent years she has shown work at venues including Modern Art Oxford; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK; Camden Art Centre, London; The Show Room, London; The ICA, London; Jupiter Woods, London; Gossamer Fog, London; Alma Zevi Gallery, Venice, Italy and Cripta 747, Turin, Italy.

More information about Austin's art practice can be found on her website and Instagram.