Artist’s Residency

Plettenberg Bay, South Africa

The Site_Specific Artist’s Residency provides invited artists with a fully supported month-long residency during which the artist creates land art in the Bitou area.

Public lectures introduce the invited artist’s approach and process to the local community.

STRIJDOM VAN DER MERWE  : 22 July - 8 August 2013

'Calling the Herd' as a permanent land art work addition to the Eden to Addo Land Art Route. Read interview ...

ERICA LüTTICH : 21 APRIL - 12 MAY 2013

Erica Lüttich creates 'Running Fences' through facilitated land art workshops in Plettenberg Bay. Read article...

GORDON FROUD : DECEMBER & JANUARY 2012/13

Gordon Froud was the first artist to take up this residency over the December 2012 holiday period. During his stay he constructed three life-size to larger-than-life mobile public sculptural works that moved around Plettenberg bay during it's peak tourism season. Read article...