Deadline: 9-Feb-23
The Arts Council is pleased to announce the nominations for Architecture Bursary Award.
The purpose of the award is to support professional artists at any stage of their career to develop their art practice. It provides artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and critically engage with their artform.
Objectives and Priorities of the Award
- The Architecture Bursary Award is intended to enable the applicant artist to do one or more of the following:
- Spend focused time on working at their practice
- Spend time researching/thinking about/developing a new idea for future dissemination
- Spend time developing their technical skills in a particular area
- Spend time developing/learning new skills related to their practice or area of interest
- Spend time working with a mentor or collaborator(s) to develop an idea or to assist in developing or upskilling within a particular area of their practice or an area related to their practice
- Spend time developing an idea in collaboration with a potential production partner(s)
- Undertake a short period of training by way of master classes or other professional training opportunities (whether national or international)
- Purchase a limited amount of equipment and materials to assist with the development of their practice (Note: this can be no more than 15% of the value of the overall request for support)
- Spend time undertaking a combination of the activities.
Funding Information
- Maximum awarded: €20,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The award is open to architects working in all genres and at all stages in their professional careers. To be eligible to apply, applicants must:
- Be architects who have a qualification in architecture listed in EU Council directive 85/384/EEC, or outside Europe a qualification recognised by the relevant member section of the Union Internationale d’Architecture (UIA), and who have proven ability in the professional practice of architecture.
- Be architecture graduates (i.e. architects who have completed a third-level degree in architecture but are not on the Register of Architects). Documented proof of the above will satisfy this requirement and must be supplied at the time of application.
- Be resident in the Republic of Ireland. There are certain exceptions where the Arts Council may deem eligible applications made by those based outside the Republic of Ireland. However, before admitting as eligible any such application, the Arts Council would need to be satisfied that the outcomes of any such proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland.
Ineligible
- People who are not eligible to apply include the following:
- Individuals currently in undergraduate education (including those undertaking foundation courses)
- Individuals seeking support towards fees for postgraduate (including unaccredited)/higher education or study
- Individuals seeking support towards work undertaken as part of a formal course of study
- Individuals seeking support towards the costs of undertaking an internship
- They cannot accept applications from those employed or contracted on a fulltime basis by an arts organisation funded through Arts Council programmes or through direct state subsidy or by a commercial arts entity
- Aosdána members in receipt of a cnuas.
For more information, visit Arts Council.