July 11, 2026 - October 4, 2026

The Rodd is hosting their first Sidney Nolan Art Prize competition. The competition encourages contemporary artists to respond to Nolan’s restless curiosity, concern, and commitment to art that addresses acute and current questions of human experience.

My work, Port Augusta Baskets, is included in this exhibition.

Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd, Presteigne, LD8 2LL

13th June - 29th August

A pan-Wales Open call exhibition

Iarmhairreacht, Lithograph, 47x65cm, 2023

Work from the Gwrando series exploring words of the Irish language describing place. Print whilst on residency at Umbrella Studio, Townsville. Queensland

Oriel Myrddin Gallery
26 | 27 King Street
Carmarthen
SA31 1BS

June 2026

The studio retreats are located in the restored ruins of the pre-famine village, Cill Rialaig, in a wild and remote landscape situated on the very edge of the Atlantic Ocean. Seven studios are occupied by visual artists, writers, poets and musicians with an eighth cottage, Tigh an Comhrá (Gaelic for “house of conversation”) or Meeting House which offers a place for residents to gather or enjoy a rich library.

May 1 - May 31, the exhibition will be featured on my website,

 JoyfullyGreen.com. 

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. ― Khalil Gibran

An exhibition that celebrates the visual poetry and astounding diversity of trees. Like snowflakes, each and every tree is one-of-a-kind, and this exhibition will focus on those spectacular differences -- trees in all their stages, from seedling to senior, single tree to wide-ranging forest; trees surviving and thriving in all kinds of weather, in countries far and wide.

Hosking Houses Trust offers residencies to older women of acknowledged ability who would benefit from a period of peace and privacy.

Residents are hosted at Church Cottage in the Warwickshire village of Clifford Chambers, near Stratford-upon-Avon.

The residency was five-weeks and provided an opportunity to explore the Stratford area and to paint and make baskets.

Tir Canol is a community that is designing and providing positive outcomes for nature and people through our use of the land sea. They received funding from Esmêe Fairbairn Foundation to offer a series of artist in residence to local artists with a connection to the Dyfi Valley.

For this project, Veronica explored the Dyfi river, following the river and some of its tributaries, from its source at Creiglyn to the sea, ending in the Leri river valley. The work created during the residency responded to the reeds and grasses, the flow of the river, the sand dunes, the peat bogs, and the habitats.

There will also be a series of community workshops.

Gwrando Dwfn, a Wales Arts International project.

March - September 2023

Wales Arts International is supporting nine artists to listen to and learn from the many endangered indigenous languages of the world as part of the UN Decade of Indigenous Languages.

As one of the nine artists, Veronica will develop deep listening and reciprocity between artists in Australia, Ireland and Wales, creating space for the artists to reframe how they learn from each other, and share knowledge of each other’s cultural, linguistic and creative explorations. Stiwdio Maelor will host a curated exhibition of the works created during the project, showcasing the artist’s sketchbooks and drawings as well as completed works.

Umbrella Studio, Townsville, Queensland 13 March - 13 June 2023

The 2023 PressNorth Residency is a 3-month residency with an exhibition (June). This ongoing residency project is presented in partnership between Umbrella and PressNorth Printmakers. Calarco’s residency is funded by the International Overseas Fund, Wales Arts International, Arts Council of Wales.

During the residency, there will be an exhibition Gwrando … to listen and a 2-day lithograph workshop.

February 15–18, 2023 New York

A panel discussing international fellowships, residencies, and retreats. Panelist topics: cost vs. stipend, different types of fellowships/residencies, the application process, and the resources to find international opportunities. A question and answer period will be included at the end of the session.

Panelists:

Veronica Calarco Stiwdio Maelor

Julie Upmeyer, Plas Bodfa

Nathalie Anglès, Residency Unlimited

Elsie Kagan, Interlude Artist Residencyere

Information Session

24th November 2022

Wales Arts International, the international agency of Arts Council of Wales, with support by the Welsh Government, is marking the start of the UN Decade of Indigenous Languages in 2022 by launching a new programme for artists and arts organisations. The aim of Gwrando (listening) is to nurture the art of listening to endangered languages and communities, and to learn about their efforts in protecting the land they inhabit.

Listening to indigenous languages through and with other indigenous languages enables deep cultural, creative and linguistic exploration. From these creative explorations we plan to build future collaborations and opportunities. This fund is seen as the first step in venturing deeper during the decade to come.

Dr Veronica Calarco, an Australian artist living in Wales will speak about her interest in language and the land in which she lives and visits.

Ffenest Y Piazza, Art Centre, Aberystwyth University,

4 October 2022 - 29 November 2022

Yn ystod yr wyth mlynedd diwethaf, mae Veronica wedi creu dros 900 o fasgedi o hen brintiau ac edafedd, coed tân a bagiau ffrwyth, rhaff y daethpwyd o hyd iddi ar y traeth, deunydd oedd yn weddill ar ôl gwneud gwaith gwehyddu, gyda’r nod na fyddai’r corff hwn o waith yn defnyddio unrhyw ddeunydd nad oedd eisoes wedi’i ddefnyddio o’r blaen. Dechreuodd y creu basgedi fel ffordd i ailgylchu printiau nad oeddent o safon ddigon uchel i’w harddangos ac fel ymateb i’r gwastraff a gynhyrchwyd wrth greu darnau o waith - a datblygodd y syniadau hyn yn osodwaith. Mae’r gosodwaith yn sôn am y proses creadigol, ein hymateb i’r tir a’r angen i ni ymateb mewn ffordd bositif i’r gormodedd o gynnyrch gwastraff. O fewn y gosodwaith, mae pob basged yn cynrychioli naratif, yn adrodd hanes cysyniad a phrintio gwreiddiol yr artist, y rheswm pam y gwrthodwyd y print, y proses o’i drosglwyddo, lle y daethpwyd o hyd i’r edafedd, stori ei wehyddu, a’i gynnwys mewn gosodwaith sy’n newid.

The Land as Other, September 2022

As part of the biannual Impact 12 conference, printmakers were invited to collaborate with environmental scientists and humanities scholars and respond to new deep-time environmental histories in Wales, language, a sense of place, the re-wilding movements and the positioning of Cymru by outsiders (notably tourists) as ‘Other’ with issues including migration, displacement, colonialism and citizenship, and a sense of loss.

Co-curated and co-led by printmakers Dr Veronica Calarco (Lecturer, Printmaking, School of Art, Aberystwyth University), Judy Macklin (creative fellow at Centre for the Inland, La Trobe University and Lincoln Centre of Water and Planetary Heath), Professor Mark Macklin (Distinguished Professor of River Systems and Global Change, University of Lincoln) and Dr Lucy Taylor (Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University), this curated exhibition will address and make a novel intervention on the conference theme of ‘Merging and Metamorphosis’.

18 - 19 July 2022

A right to roam can be connected to calls to think, re-imagine and create, as well as to physically move or migrate, to run and cross boundaries. The call is not necessarily coming from “out there”, but also from an inner urge to roam, perhaps in response to lockdown and being constrained in so many ways.

Panel participants:

Emma Jayne Holmes

Veronica Calarco

Dawn Faye

Norma Hendrix

This is a Language Warning, We Live With The Land

1 July 2022

Join Veronica Calarco as she discusses her final Phd project, her topics will highlight the politics of endangered and minority languages and how they are consumed and colonized by a dominant language of a more powerful ethnic group. In this case, looking at an endangered Australian Indigenous language named Gunnai/Kŭrnai, the language of her native homeland, and Welsh, the language of her adopted homeland. All the works reflected her exploration of these two languages through names, words, myths, and the natural world.

Veronica will also be sharing her post doc research for Cyd-fyw a’r Tir / We Live With the Land and how the project has developed into its forthcoming exhibitons.

Mid Wales Arts Centre

5 June - 07 August 2022

Researcher and artist Dr Veronica Calarco will be exhibiting 900 of her handmade baskets, made from recycled prints, in an upcoming exhibition at Mid Wales Arts Centre. The exhibition is built to showcase the strength of involvement and awareness of artists who wish to create positive environmental/ecological art in today’s climate.

The exhibition will open on Friday 5th of June and continue till the 7th of August.

Conference: Wales and the World: Cynefin, Colonialism and Global Interconnections

6 - 7 June 2022

Dr Veronica Calarco will be discussing Wales as a colony/Wales as coloniser, built and natural landscapes, the concept of cynefin, the colonial countryside and language and identity in Panel 8, Tuesday 7th of June, 11:30 - 1:00 pm

This conference will situate the history of Wales within global and colonial contexts. The conference invited proposals for papers that engage with current issues and debates in historiography and public policy alike. On one hand, the conference aims to expand upon recent scholarship which has cast new light on Wales’s connections to imperialism and transatlantic slavery. On the other, it will encourage discussions about how Welsh national history and identity is understood and taught.