Deadline: 20-May-21
The Arts Council of Ireland has invited applications for its Next Generation Artists Award, the purpose of which is to support a group of promising artists across all disciplines at an early but pivotal stage in their career.
As part of its Equality, Human Rights & Diversity policy, the Arts Council is committed to offering equality of access, opportunity and outcomes for all potential applicants, regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, civil or family status, religion, age, disability, race or membership of the Traveller Community, or socio-economic background.
In this funding scheme the Arts Council particularly welcomes applications that are representative of the diversity of Irish society, including but not limited to any of the characteristics outlined above, and/or initiatives that deliver equitable opportunities or outcomes for those involved.
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.
Priorities of the Award
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.
What may you apply for?
- The amount awarded to each successful applicant will be: €25,000
Please note: The application will be deemed ineligible if you do not apply for the fixed amount of €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 artform/arts practice through education or apprenticeship and are in the early years of establishing a professional career within their chosen artform/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 http://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Next-Generation-Artists-Award/