ARTIST
RESIDENCY

APPLICATIONS FOR 2025
ARE CLOSED

McCahon House Artists’ Residency, named Parehuia by local kaumatua Eru Thompson in 2008, is amongst the most prestigious artists’ residencies in New Zealand. Three residencies a year, each of three months duration, are available to outstanding professional artists. Artists receiving the residency live and work in the purpose-built French Bay house with an attached studio.

Residency

McCahon House Artists’ Residency, named Parehuia by local kaumatua Eru Thompson in 2008, is amongst the most prestigious artists’ residencies in New Zealand. Three residencies a year, each of three months duration, are available to outstanding professional artists. Artists receiving the residency live and work in the purpose-built French Bay house with an attached studio.

Our Parehuia Artists in Residence for 2025 are: Sefton Rani, Matthew Galloway and Rowan Panther. 

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Current Resident

Sefton Rani

David Moore

Colin McCahon, Auckland, New Zealand, 1963 (printed 2000) by David Moore

McCahon House Artist Residence

Courtesy NZ Places

Dark Landscape

‘Dark Landscape’ (1965)  by Colin McCahon rests beside the artist’s gramophone. Photograph by Jeremy Toth.

Forest
UPCOMING
16.02.25
McCahon House visit to Gibbs Farm