A more connected arts ecosystem
Find an opportunity, an artist, or your audience.
Grants, residencies, commissions and open calls for artists in Aotearoa and beyond.
Build your profile once. Use it across applications.
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Your profile holds your bio, CV and work, ready to send with any application.
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Artists on Patronage
111 artists and counting.
How it works
One profile. Many opportunities.
Your profile holds the material you repeatedly need, so each application starts from what you’ve already built.
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Build your profile
Add your bio, CV and three works. It lives at patronage.nz/yourname.
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Find an opportunity
Grants, residencies, commissions and open calls, matched to your discipline and emailed to you weekly.
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Apply
Send your profile with an application, or apply directly through Patronage when an organisation runs its opportunity here.
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Keep building
Add new work, exhibitions and awards as your career moves.
Your profile
patronage.nz/yourname
- Bio and artist statement
- CV, exhibitions and press
- Portfolio: three works
Any application
- Your portfolio link, pasted in
- Your CV and work, one click away
- Answers to the project questions
Who it’s for
What changes for you.
For artists
Build your profile once.
Find opportunities, apply with the work that fits, and be found by organisations and supporters.
For organisations
Find artists. Run the opportunity.
Publish an opportunity, receive applications and manage selection in one place.
For supporters
Follow the work. Back the artist.
Follow artists, discover new work, and support what they make.
Studio feed
From the studio.
The lighting is terrible in my house but I've made some good progress on commission for client Lane W. There's still a but to be done but for my first chicken / rooster I'm enjoying the process of finding light and building structure through the feathers.
Getting back into fine line drawings, had a play around during open studio today. Had 2 people join for the first hour of OS and had the studio to myself. Also carved a cool linocut print I’ll put in next update. Prepping to return to Hamilton, NZ in November through to January - keen to meet some local artists, curators & galleries and grow my network back home. I also have a Hamilton specific project I'm looking forward to getting started on.
Working on some Port Hedland Linocut designs to get some limited edition prints in the gallery ahead of Christmas time. Have found the Essdee ink at home isn’t as good as the Matisse block ink we have at the Hedland Arts studio but will give another crack - good draft though!
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Artist Feature 009: Isabella Rose Young. Tāmaki Makaurau / Te Tai Tokerau analogue photographer and moving-image artist @isabellaroseyoung works intentionally slowly across 35mm, Super 8, darkroom printing, painting and writing. Her daughter appears throughout the work, but we never see her face. We discussed privacy, disappearing materials, and what the arts lose when visibility matters more than making.