The Trustees grant an annual residency to a sculptor who will usually work on site during the summer. These include:-
2006 - Per Oskar Leu from Oslo, Norway.
2005 - Dan Clemmett from Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
2004 - Dmitri Khozyaikin from Novosibirsk, Siberia.
2003 - Slawomir Brzoska from Poznan, Poland.
2002 - Dan Clemmett from Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia.
2001 - Ivan Brezvyn from L'viv in the Ukraine made "Adam and Eve", a work constructed in bronze and a 25 tonne block of limestone.
2000 - Jim Racine, a sculpture student from the Royal College of Art, won the Trust's national competition for a Millennium Sculpture. Jim worked on site during the summer months and produced the bronze construction "Perch". The work was produced in fifteen multiple sections, all cast on site and welded into a slender vertical column 23' high.
1999 - Ondrej Zimka from Bratislava, completed a sculpture, "Eclipse" in Portland stone. The work was installed on the day of the solar eclipse and is aligned on an East-West axis, using forms from ancient Slavik church architecture.
1998 - Zdenek Smid from the Prague Academy of Fine Art, installed a piece, "Spine" on site, an articulated, moving construction, made from titanium and lead.
1997 - Walter Bailey. Worked on site using beech timber. The work was an installation titled "Windblown Beech". Walter Bailey subsequently was commissioned to make the Dunblane Memorial Sculpture and in 2000 was awarded the prestigious Enku award in Japan.
1996 - Otto Horvath from Jannonius Pannos University, Pecs, Hungary. His sculpture "Sleeping Form" was made in Portland limestone.
1995 - Richard Barnbrook who made "Stone House" in lead and limestone.