Stonevilla Studios

Join us for some drinks and snacks to celebrate a group exhibition of the Stonevilla artists including our esteemed resident artists, Oliver Abbott and George Squires.
2-4 pm, 19 Railway Rd Sydenham (enter via side gate next to skate park)

Please join us for a group exhibition and studio celebration on Saturday 13th December at the Stonevilla Studios.

The Stonevilla artists will present a group exhibition of their work as well as the work of our esteemed 2025 residency artists, Oliver Abbott and George Squires.

Exhibition held at:

Stonevilla Studios

19 Railway St. Sydenham (enter via gate next to skate park)

Saturday December 13

2 - 4pm

All welcome.

Accessibility: there are three small steps down and the exhibition is held on the ground floor. Bathroom facilities require a walk up a flight of stairs.

ARTIST RESIDENCIES AT STONEVILLA
APPLICATIONS DUE: TODAY!!!SUNDAY 30th November 2025 by 5 pm.


Apply now for a 2026 residency at Stonevilla Studios. Residencies start on the 14th of January 2026. Stonevilla Studios has been providing artist residencies since 2001, with the support of the Inner West Council.

In 2026, Stonevilla Studios will be offering 2 x residency slots. Slot 1 commences Jan 14th and finishes June 14th. Slot 2 commences July 1st and finishes on the 31st December.

Residencies are at no cost to the successful applicants and include wi-fi, access to shared tools and equipment, and a common kitchen area. 
The artist-in-residence studio is 3.8m x 4.7m with 3m high walls. 

Proposals should include dates of the residency you require, either Slot 1 or Slot 2.
Please include a brief description of your practice and the project you will be working on in the studio, one page CV, and 6 relevant images (or a website link).
You will be notified mid December of the outcome of your application.

Applications should be sent to:
[email protected]. 
The applications will be reviewed by the artists at Stonevilla and an Inner West Council Arts representative. 
This is a non-residential residency. Preference may be given to people living in the Inner West municipality

           

Times nearly up to apply for a free 6 month studio slot at Stonevilla Studios in 2026. Head to the original post for all the details on how to apply

ARTIST RESIDENCIES AT STONEVILLA 2026

APPLICATIONS DUE: 30th November 2025 by 5 pm.

Apply now for a 2026 residency at Stonevilla Studios. Residencies start on the 14th of January 2026. Stonevilla studios has been providing artist residencies since 2001, with the support of the Inner West Council.

In 2026 Stonevilla Studios will be offering 2 x residency slots. Slot 1 commences Jan 14th and finishes June 14th. Slot 2 commences July 1st and finishes on the 31st December.

Residencies are at no cost to the successful applicants and include wi-fi, access to shared tools and equipment, and a common kitchen area.

The artist-in-residence studio is 3.8m x 4.7m with 3m high walls.

Proposals should include dates of the residency you require, either Slot 1 or Slot 2.

Please include a brief description of your practice and the project you will be working on in the studio, one page CV, and 6 relevant images (or a website link).

You will be notified mid December of the outcome of your application.

Applications should be sent to: [email protected].

The applications will be reviewed by the artists at Stonevilla and an Inner West Council Arts representative.

This is a non-residential residency.

Preference may be given to people living in the Inner West municipality
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Stonevilla artist Stephen Ralph presents his new solo exhibition: Messenger at the Commercial Gallery opening TODAY 1 - 3 pm.
It is with great pleasure that The Commercial presents Stephen Ralph:
Messenger. Join us for drinks with the aritst Saturday 26.07.25, 1 - 3pm.
In a departure from the marble with which he has worked since 2018, this new series of sculptures sees Ralph turn to the matte and porous qualities of igneous basalt to rework the form of the herm, a classical homonym referring to both pua / hermata,
‘blocks of stone,’ and ‘Epuns / Hermes, the Olympian deity of heralding. Like their ancient counterparts, Ralph’s herms mark a threshold between symbolic function and bodily presence with outcomes for the socialisation of sculpture in the public domain. In 2024, work by Stephen Ralph was included in Roman Spectres at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, the University of Sydney where his contemporary sculpture was exhibited alongside 2000-year-old Roman portraits from the University’s collection and Hold the world to its word at Murray Art Museum Albury.
Two marble sculptures by Ralph were acquired for the recently opened Olympus Dining in Sydney. A portrait of Stephen Ralph by Mitch Cairns is currently on exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales as part of the 2025 Archibald Prize.
image: Stephen Ralph, Messenger Ill, 2025, basalt, 136.00 × 53.00 x 26.00 cm - detail (photo: Nick de Lorenzo)
image: Stephen Ralph, Messenger III, 2025, basalt, 136.00 x 53.00 x 26.00 cm - detail (photo: The Commercial)
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Stonevilla Studios would like to welcome George Squires, our current artist in residence. We hope you enjoy working at Stonevilla for the next six months.
We’d also like to thank outgoing residential artist, Oliver Abbott, who utilised the space so well, we love that!
Images: George Squires ‘Momentary Shift’ 2022, pine, cast concrete
George Squires ‘Grafted Allegory’ 2022, Sand-cast gunmetal bronze, plastic cable-ties

Stonevilla artist, Michelle Hanlin last solo show at Gallery 9 only has a few days left open. ‘Hand-Painted’ is in its final week at Gallery 9, alongside exhibitions of recent works by Ed Bats, and David Lawrey & Jaki Middleton.

Exhibition concludes this Saturday 29 March. Gallery open 11–5pm

Oliver Abbott is the current artist in residence at Stonevilla Studios. He has a beautiful exhibition of oil paintings at Dominik Mersch gallery. Please go and have a look.
Oliver Abbott
Mine
Dominik Mersch gallery
6 - 29 March
10am - 5pm Wednesday to Friday
12 - 5pm on Saturday

Oliver Abbott is a Sydney-based emerging artist whose practice explores the act of recollection as a creative process. Drawing on personal histories of lived spaces, he reconstructs remembered environments using digital world-building tools. His approach, informed by a background in filmmaking, animation and architecture, integrates processes of virtual construction and navigation as a basis for painting.

Image details:

mine_06.51, oil on linen, 50 x 65 cm

mine_04.85, oil on linen, 50 x 65 cm

mine_03.45, oil on linen, 50 x 65 cm

mine_90.67, oil on linen, 50 x 30 cm

mine_89.45, oil on linen, 50 x 65 cm

mine, installation view, dominik mersch gallery

ARTIST RESIDENCIES AT STONEVILLA
APPLICATIONS DUE: 30th November 2024 by 5 pm.


Apply now for a 2025 residency at Stonevilla Studios. Residencies start on the 14th of January 2025.
Stonevilla Studios has been providing artist residencies since 2001, with the support of the Inner West Council.

In 2025 Stonevilla Studios will be offering 2 x residency slots. Slot 1 commences Jan 14th and finishes June 14th. Slot 2 commences July 1st and finishes on the 31st December.

Residencies are at no cost to the successful applicants and include wi-fi, access to shared tools and equipment, and a common kitchen area. 
The artist-in-residence studio is 3.8m x 4.7m with 3m high walls. 

Proposals should include dates of the residency you require, either Slot 1 or Slot 2.
Please include a brief description of your practice and the project you will be working on in the studio, one page CV, and 6 relevant images (or a website link).
You will be notified mid December of the outcome of your application.

Applications should be sent to:
[email protected]. 
The applications will be reviewed by the artists at Stonevilla and an Inner West Council Arts representative. 
This is a non-residential residency. Preference may be given to people living in the Inner West municipality
           

ARTIST RESIDENCIES AT STONEVILLA
APPLICATIONS DUE: 30th November 2024 by 5 pm.


Apply now for a 2025 residency at Stonevilla Studios. Residencies start on the 14th of January 2025.
Stonevilla Studios has been providing artist residencies since 2001, with the support of the Inner West Council.

In 2025 Stonevilla Studios will be offering 2 x residency slots. Slot 1 commences Jan 14th and finishes June 14th. Slot 2 commences July 1st and finishes on the 31st December.

Residencies are at no cost to the successful applicants and include wi-fi, access to shared tools and equipment, and a common kitchen area. 
The artist-in-residence studio is 3.8m x 4.7m with 3m high walls. 

Proposals should include dates of the residency you require, either Slot 1 or Slot 2.
Please include a brief description of your practice and the project you will be working on in the studio, one page CV, and 6 relevant images (or a website link).
You will be notified mid December of the outcome of your application.

Applications should be sent to:
[email protected]. 
The applications will be reviewed by the artists at Stonevilla and an Inner West Council Arts representative. 
This is a non-residential residency. Preference may be given to people living in the Inner West municipality
           

During the Creative Trails Midjuburi, the artists at Stonevilla Studios put on an exhibition of their work.
Luke Parker ‘Taste The Bright Sun’ gouche, ink on paper 2023
Jelena Telecki ‘Poster Painting II’ oil on canvas 2023
Nick Strike ‘Didactic Panels I-IV’ collage and ink on paper 2024
Robert Pulie ‘Almost Only Not Soul Ballads’ salad bowls, plinth 2019
Michelle Hanlin ‘Untitled’ acrylic and vinyl paint on canvas 2024
Stephen Ralph ‘Pigeon Head’ plaster, clay