Deadline: 13-Apr-23
Nominations are now open for the Next Generation Artists Award to support a group of promising artists across all disciplines at an early but pivotal stage in their career.
ART: 2023 is a partnership programme between the Arts Council and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to mark the final phase of the Decade of Centenaries programme 2012–23.
The Next Generation Artists’ Award is available in the following artforms:
- Architecture
- Arts Participation
- Circus
- Dance
- Film
- Literature (English & Irish)
- Music
- Opera
- Street Arts
- Spectacle
- Theatre
- Traditional Arts
- Visual Arts
- YPCE
Purpose and Objectives
- This once-off and exceptional award is designed to support emerging artists to:
- Buy time to develop their work and practice.
- Support unique development needs to advance their own practice (this might be through engagement with a mentor, research, non-formal study and/or nonvocational training, collaborative partnerships, etc.). Applicants must detail the development need that would most advance his or her career at this time.
- Each Next Generation Artists Award recipient will receive €25,000. Recipients will also take part in a week-long residential programme in spring 2024.
Priorities
Individual artforms and arts practices In addition to the general purpose and objectives of the award, priority across all artform and practice areas will be given to emerging artists of proven talent, assurance and potential who:
- Demonstrate ambition and vision for their work.
- Show potential to develop and strengthen a distinctive and assured creative practice.
- Show how they will benefit artistically from timely support for their artistic development.
- Demonstrate in a compelling way how the award and financial investment of this level and at this particular time will have a transformative effect in bringing them to the next stage of their artistic development.
Funding Information
- The amount awarded to each successful applicant will be: €25,000
Eligibility Criteria
The award is open to emerging artists working in all arts genres supported by the Arts Council.
- Emerging artists are defined as those, of any age, who are in the process of mastering their art form/arts practice through education or apprenticeship and are in the early years of establishing a professional career within their chosen art form/arts practice. Emerging artists have some experience but have not yet established a solid reputation as artists, but identify, and are recognised by their peers, as professional practising artists.
- To be eligible to apply, an applicant must:
- State why s/he classifies him/herself as ‘emerging’ in line with the definition.
- Demonstrate recent artistic achievements.
- 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.
- 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.
- Have completed any academic education/training.
For more information, visit Next Generation Artists Award.