This chapter investigates artists’ responses to – and reflections on – living and working in artists’ residencies in domestic dwellings. In so doing, it enquires into practices of artistic residency in dwellings. It focuses on two residencies in which artists live temporarily in specific dwellings. Sweeney’s Bothy is run by the Bothy Project and is situated on the Isle of Eigg in Scotland. The chapter focuses on the reflections of Fergus Walker, Deidre Heddon, Nikki Kane and Lila Matsumoto. Flat Time House is an end-of-terrace house in South East London which belonged to the artist John Latham until his death in 2006. In undertaking residencies, artists are invited to attend to Latham’s ideas and archive. The chapter focuses on the video-artist Laure Prouvost, the first resident artist and, previously, Latham’s assistant.

Despite significant, and growing, numbers of artists’ residencies internationally, there is little critical enquiry into performances of artists’ residencies in dwellings. The chapter considers the value of forms by which artists share their experiences, principally in guest books, blogs, open studios and exhibitions. In so doing, it is concerned with practices in a specific dwelling and their relation to the world beyond the dwelling.