19 Railway Road
19 Railway Road Sydenham is a heritage terrace divided into eight visual arts studios on the fringe of Sydenham Green, currently tenanted by Stone Villa inc.
19 Railway Road is a short-term artist and writers residency.
Stone Villa artists run the Wearable Art Prize and participate in Creative Trails and Tours. Stone Villa Studios have been providing artist residencies since 2001, with the support of Inner West Council. Each year, two 6-month residencies are awarded to professional artists.
2025 Guest Residency Artists
Olivier Abbot
Image: Oliver Abbot 95, -98, 3.2, 2024 Oil on Linen 90 x 120cm
Image: Oliver Abbot 288, -87.35, 1.65, 2024 Oil on Linen 120 x 180cm
Artist Statement
Oliver Abbott’s work explores recollection as a creative process, transforming fragments of memory into new, imagined landscapes. Drawing on personal histories of lived places, Abbott navigates virtual landscapes built from memory, using digital tools to mirror how recollection distorts and reshapes architecture. His paintings extend these digital reconstructions, restoring and inventing details lost in the translation from memory to virtual space.
George Squires
Image: BAM, 2024 Anthea Duffy and George Squires Papier-mâché, enamel paint, timber, PVC, steel wire 210 x 210 x 480cm
Image: George Squires Servant, 2022 Cast encaustic, found sea snail shell, dust 7 x 16 x 22cm
Artist Statement
My practice is led by intuition and perplexity. Working primarily with sculpture, I am concerned with how materials, gesture, and process can unearth poetic meaning from within prosaic matter. Typically, found objects enter my studio and are extended through casting, assemblage, and display. The resulting work is often held in a balance between the permanent and ephemeral, embodying the tension between a view of art as aesthetic or object-bound, and that of art as concept or idea.
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Image: Stephen Ralph, installation at Sydney Contemporary
Location
19 Railway Road, Sydenham
Contact and further information
For further information about this residency, contact Olivia Patchett via email Olivia.patchett@innerwest.nsw.gov.au (Monday - Thursday).