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Valender is the recipient of The Farm Margaret River’s 2026 Highly Acclaimed Award Residency, selected from more than 700 applications received from around the world.

A leading arts residency program in Western Australia, The Farm Margaret River offers artists a unique opportunity to develop work that engages thoughtfully with land, environment and community.

The Farm is located on Wardandi Noongar Country, an ancient and ever-evolving landscape surrounded by sacred caves, karri forests and a rugged coastline. The region is rich in ecological and cultural significance, providing an immersive context for creative inquiry and site-responsive practice.

With a focus on site-responsive projects, the residency fosters connections between artists, environment and community, supporting rigorous research, experimentation and dialogue, and encouraging new ways of thinking about land and our relationship to it.

2026 Judge Margaret Moore described Valender’s practice:

“In a nuanced, personal and poetic approach to nature Valender has produced exceptional sensory works across performance, sound, film and sculptural interventions. The practice is intelligently informed by human experience and heightened empathy with ecology beyond an academic grounding. Consideration of sound as a means to know a place will be heightened by the association with the geographical characteristics in proximity to The Farm.”

— Margaret Moore.

Details about further new works, commissions and exhibitions coming soon...