Deadline: 9-Feb-23
The Arts Council is accepting nominations for Visual Arts Bursary Award 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 art.
Stands
- Strand 1: Artists
- The objective of the Visual Arts Bursary Award Strand 1: Artists is to support individual professional artists at any stage of their career to develop their artistic practice.
- Strand 2: Curators
- The Visual Arts Bursary Award Strand 2: Curators seeks to support individual professional curators at any stage of their career to develop their independent curatorial practice.
Funding Information
- Funding will be offered according to bands. You should apply for one of the following amounts:
- €20,000
- €15,000
- €10,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The award is open to practising visual artists or curators working in all genres and at all stages of their professional careers. To be eligible to apply, applicants must:
- 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 applicant would need to explicitly outline within the application how the outcomes of any such proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland, and the Arts Council must be satisfied with same
- Be professional practising artists or curators – although you might not earn income continuously or exclusively from your artistic/curatorial practice, you must identify yourself, and be recognised by your peers, as a professional practising artist or curator.
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 Visual Arts.