Applications for the Plumwood Spring / Summer Residency Program are now closed. If you submitted an application prior to July 31st 2025 - good luck and you will hear back from us by Mid August.

Chantal Jackson is a trauma therapist and counsellor. Her purpose for this residency, done across multiple interim caretaking stays, was to deepen her thinking and practice around making art.

Lynette Smith is an artist living in Melbourne, drawing, writing, taking pictures, making things, thinking. During her residency at Plumwood Mountain, Lyn was working on a series of drawing-poems and photographs, inspired by ideas of consumption and the surprise loan of her grandfather’s old camera.

Codie Condos Distratis is a PhD candidate in philosophy (UQ) living and working on Turrbal/Yuggera land in Meanjin/Magandjin/Brisbane. While on her residency at Plumwood Mountain, Codie continued research towards her doctoral thesis which focusses on the themes of life, death, love and loss as they arise in the works of Val Plumwood.

Connor Tomas O’Brien is a nature writer, graphic designer and educator who lives on Wurundjeri land in Naarm/Melbourne. During his residency at Plumwood Mountain, Connor was researching a speculative fiction novella, exploring how differing ecological philosophies affect how human beings treat the world and each other.

Willow Ross is a geographer and activist. Ross used her residency at Plumwood Mountain to transform her Master’s thesis into a journal article.

Tilly is an artist living and working in Naarm. Her practice revolves around creative approaches to community learning, imagination, and experimentation through librarianship, research, workshops, publishing, and art making. During her BREW residency, Tilly made a short poetic video essay on the western view of nature, drawing on ecofeminists and environmental philosophers such as Val Plumwood.

Laura Lethlean is a published playwright and theatre maker living and working on the lands of the Wurundjeri, Woi Wurrung and Bunnurong people. Lethlean used her residency to work on a play she is developing, based on Val's life and work.

Rebecca Ryall is a PhD student with Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia. She lives off-grid in the forest in northern New South Wales on unceded Widjabul/Waiabul lands. Ryall used her residency to work on a journal article drawing on Val's work.

Sarah Moore is an artist and community worker living in Mparntwe on Central Arrernte land. Frances Grimshaw is a geographer and poet living on Wurundjeri Country. Sarah and Frances used their residency to make an mixtape, using Val's work to think through the idea of romancing nature.

Belgian theatre director Kris Verdonck and dramaturg Kristof van Baarle stayed at Plumwood Mountain in May 2022, whilst developing their noh-style theatre work PREY.

Abi Andrews is a writer from the Midlands. Her debut novel The Word for Woman is Wilderness was published by Serpent's Tail in February 2018. Andrews used her residency to develop work for the National Museum of Australia and a PhD project at the New School of the Anthropocene.

Rory King is a photographer whose work sits in the hybrid space between documentary practice and personal narrative. He published his debut monograph, ‘Plumwood’ (partially based on residency stay at Plumwood Mountain in 2021) with Tall Poppy Press in 2022.