About

The Residency, from CURA Art, is a platform focused on supporting and sponsoring underrepresented artists, centred around time away from their usual routines.

Created to reinforce CURA Art’s mission to promote collecting with purpose – collectors identifying and valuing their role in supporting the arts – The Residency is part of a movement seeking to nourish the arts sector at a time when public funding for culture is being reduced. The aim is to create an accessible and international platform that nurtures artists and encourages a relationship with those that champion their work.

Annually, selected patrons sponsor their chosen artist to take part in a residency for one month, currently at Villa Lena, Tuscany. Each artist has their own studio space to provide space for self-led projects, while the collaborative nature of the program involves talks, workshops, and events to promote the exchange of ideas.

In response to data showing that only 13.7% of living artists represented in galleries in Europe and North America are women, in its first three years The Residency has championed women-identifying artists.