Deadline: 22-Jun-23
The Arts Council has launched Visual Arts Bursary Award to support individual professional artists and curators to develop their practice.
It provides artists or curators with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and critically engage with their work.
Type of Strands
There are two strands to the award:
- 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.
- The award emphasises the value and benefit to an artist’s development derived from an extended process of engagement with their practice. The award seeks to provide artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and engage with their artistic practice. Potential proposals could be those that demonstrate:
- How the award will assist with the development of your artistic practice (this may include support with time, workspace, research facilities, training, mentoring, residencies, etc.)
- How the award will assist with developing and/or resolving a specific body of work
- How the award will assist with re-engaging with your practice after a break
- How the award will assist you in re-evaluating your practice after a continuous period of outcome-based, deadline-driven project work.
- Strand 2: Curators
- The Visual Arts Bursary Award Strand 2: Curators seeks to support individual curators at any stage of their career to develop their independent curatorial practice.
- The award emphasises the value and benefit that an extended process of investigation, discovery and engagement can have on the progression of a curator’s independent practice. It aims to provide curators with the time and resources required to plan, research and expand their curatorial strategies and methodologies.
- The award also seeks to build capacity for commissioning and producing ambitious, high-quality visual-arts exhibitions, events and activities in Ireland. This may be achieved, for example, through the development of collaborations and partnerships between curators, artists, groups and organisations, etc. Potential proposals could be those that demonstrate:
- How the award will assist with the development of your independent curatorial practice (this may include support with time, workspace, research facilities, training, mentoring, residencies, etc.)
- How the award will assist with planning, researching, developing and/or resolving a body of work relevant to the progression of your independent curatorial practice
- How the award will support your ongoing development of reciprocal partnerships, collaborations and opportunities with artists, organisations and institutions
- How the award will assist with re-engaging with your independent curatorial practice after a break
- How the award will assist you in re-evaluating your independent curatorial practice after a continuous period of outcome-based, deadline-driven project work.
Award 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 Arts Council.