Deadline: 16-Feb-23
The Arts Council is pleased to announce an open call for the Markievicz Award 2023.
Objectives and Priorities
- The Markievicz Award was established as a key element of the Decade of Centenaries Programme (2012–23) to honour Constance de Markievicz. Markievicz was an artist and the first woman to be elected to Parliament and appointed to Cabinet. The award is intended as an open call to professional artists from all backgrounds, artform and arts-practice areas to buy time and space in order to develop new work that reflects on the role of women in the period covered by the decade of centenaries and beyond.
- The award is administered by the Arts Council on behalf of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media. In response to the final phase of the Decade of Centenaries programme, the Arts Council will extend its partnership with the department to support the creation of a national programme, Art 2023. This programme will build on the Art 2016 programme previously supported, and recipients of this award will be encouraged to engage with the new programme.
- In addition to the general purpose and objectives of the award, the following priority area has been identified:
- Given the importance of the Irish-language-revival movement during the revolutionary period, and the Department’s ongoing and particular responsibilities to support the Irish language and the Gaeltacht, one of the awards each year will be assigned to an artist working in the Gaeltacht and through the medium of the Irish language, subject to them achieving awardable standard.
Categories
You may only apply for one of the following awards in one arts area in 2023:
- Bursary Award, round 1
- Bursary Award, round 2
- Agility Award, round 1
- Agility Award, round 2
- Next Generation Artists Award
- Markievicz Award
Award Details
- Markievicz Award recipients will receive €25,000, and awards will be made to up to ten applicants this year. Joint applications are welcomed. This is expected to be an extremely competitive award, with a maximum of ten awards available.
What may you not apply for?
- Activities and costs that you may not apply for include the following:
- Activities or costs that do not fit the purpose of the award
- Activities that are more suited to awards funded by the Arts Council or operated by other state agencies, such as Culture Ireland
- Activities that have already taken place or which will have commenced before a decision is made on your application
- Activities undertaken for charity fund-raising purposes, for participation in a competition, or for primarily profit-making purposes
- Activities that have already been assessed by the Arts Council, unless you demonstrate that you have developed the proposal since previously applying. An exception will be made to this if the Council has specifically advised you to redirect your application to this award. Please bear in mind that such advice is not an indication of a successful outcome.
- Major capital requests for the purchase of equipment or improvements to workspace
- Academic activities.
Eligibility Criteria
- The award is open to artists working in all artform and arts-practice areas supported by the Arts Council.
- To be eligible to apply, an applicant must:
- Demonstrate recent artistic achievements
- Be resident in the jurisdiction of Ireland. There are certain exceptions where the Arts Council may deem eligible applications made by those based outside the jurisdiction. However, before admitting as eligible any such application, the applicant would need to explicitly outline within the application that the outcomes of any such proposal would benefit the arts in Ireland.
- Be a professional practising artist; although you might not earn income continuously or exclusively from your artistic practice, you must identify yourself, and be recognised by your peers, as a professional practising artist.
Ineligible
People not eligible to apply include the following:
- Individuals currently engaged in any form of academic activity, including undergraduate or postgraduate education or who will be during the period for which this award is offered
- Aosdána members in receipt of a cnuas
- Successful recipients of the Markievicz Award in previous years.
For more information, visit Arts Council.