The artist residency was launched by the Hynds Foundation and Gillies Metaltech foundry in the Oamaru Victorian precinct in 2024.
New awardee, Auckland-based artist Emma Stretch, will begin her residency next month and said her proposed work used walking and mapping as a conceptual and form-making practice.
"Learning about Ōamaru through walking, I will use the shape of my walks in the region to inform the lines of my cast iron objects.
"These castings would develop into a body of work, abstract and specific to place — a lexicon of movements around Ōamaru.
"All lines and the composition of these cast objects will be an echo of the streets, walking tracks and landscape of Ōamaru itself.
"I will be acquainting myself with this place, repetitively, over a concentrated period of time, being with place."
Stretch graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2024 from Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland.
Her practice to date has explored analogue technologies, ecology, language and perceptions of time through sculpture, installation and print.
In previous residencies the foundation and foundry have hosted two artists but this year only a single residency was awarded.
This was a result of the unexpected and uncertain situation caused in the Middle East, which had a knock-on effect for funding, programme director Leanne Gibson said.
