Artists in Residence

Current Artists in Residence, July - October 2025

Jacquie Meng

Jacquie Meng works with painting, sculpture and sound to create surreal, charged works that use symbolic objects to explore the fragmented nature of diasporic identity. In her paintings, mirrors become portals, pool balls transform into eyes and everyday items carry cultural memory, with each playful yet deliberate placement contributing to a deeper mapping of self, place and transformation. Meng’s achievements include the Guy Warren Emerging Art Prize (2024), Highly Commended in the Blacktown City Art Prize (2025), and finalist status in Gosford Art Gallery’s EMERGING 2025, alongside the Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship (2021), finalist recognition in the Churchie Emerging Art Prize at the IMA and participation in PICA’s Hatched 2022.

During her residency at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Jacquie aims to expand her painting practice into more sculptural and installation-based realms. She will create a body of work that explores ideas of place and landscape in relation to the body and non-physical presences that gesture toward being. The architecture and environment of the studio and its surroundings will inform this new body of work.

Eden DeVries

Eden DeVries is a non-binary printmaker working on the land of the Wallumedegal people of the Eora nation. They collaborate with queer artists and community members of the past by examining the themes and construction of historical works, combining them with coded language and imagery to represent their own internal experiences. Their artistic practice explores grief, joy, death, love and community through printmaking practices supported by textile works, zines, collage, painting and drawing which all have complex relationships that string them together in queer artmaking history. Through their artmaking, DeVries seeks to convey the cognitive dissonance of being perceived as queer in public and existing as a private person.

During their residency at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, DeVries will continue researching Sydney's queer history, delving into different aspects of life in both historical and contemporary contexts: what it means to hide, be seen and come out in various stages of Sydney's growth and the stories of individuals who form such a strong and vibrant community.

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