LANTANA Space Welcomes the 2026 MadeSC Residents
LANTANA Space is pleased to welcome Rose Rigley and Maj Muecke, recipients of the 2026 MadeSC Residency.
From 2–26 March, both artists will be working from the LANTANA Space as part of this year’s program, undertaking a period of experimentation and studio development.
Delivered in partnership with Sunshine Coast Council through the Regional Arts Development Fund, the MadeSC Residency supports artists with dedicated time, space, financial support, and opportunities for peer exchange. The program enables artists to deepen their practice, test new ideas, and engage with the cultural and natural context of the Sunshine Coast region.
For this year’s residency, Rose joins us from Cairns and Maj from Sydney, continuing a collaborative practice that began during their studies at the National Art School in Darlinghurst, NSW.
LANTANA Space is delighted to host Rose and Maj during their residency and to support the development of their work over the coming weeks.
Get to know the artists below:
Maj Muecke is a sculptor and installation artist researching Embodiment and Materiality, which is wide ranging and experimental. Muecke has a background in painting and cross-media concepting and is completing her Master of Fine Art at the National Art School, Sydney. She focuses on interspecies relationships, entangled systems, compost and material collaboration, while engaging with rupture, preservation, and decay. Together with Rose Rigley, the artists engage in a dialogue of complementary practices and a history of collaborative inquiry into cycles of fragility, transformation, and regeneration.
Rose Rigley is a conceptual artist exploring feminised ritual labour, everyday materiality, and Posthuman Feminist not-forgetting by transforming the everyday into sites of intimate revolt, where the domestic becomes operational and the mundane becomes transformative. Rigley has extensive experience in arts engagement, education, and facilitation, and is currently completing her Master of Fine Art at the National Art School, Sydney, working alongside Maj Muecke. She grounds her practice in slow, durational gestures – stitching, mending, unravelling – and fragile materials that hold autobiographical and material memory.
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MadeSC is supported by the Regional Arts Development Fund (RADF). The Regional Arts Development Fund is a partnership between the Queensland Government and Sunshine Coast Council to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
