Arts Council announces Next Generation Artists Award for Ireland

Deadline: 16 May 2019

The Arts Council has announced the Next Generation Artists Award.

The purpose of the Next Generation artists award is to support a group of promising artists across all disciplines at an early but pivotal stage in their career.The selection panel will comprise, a non-voting Council Chair, two Council members, and a number of external panellists. This 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 non-vocational training, collaborative partnerships, etc.). Applicants must detail the development need that would most advance his or her career at this time.

Priority

It will prioritise those 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

Each award has a fixed value of €20,000.

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 set out above
  - Demonstrate recent artistic achievements.
  - Be resident in the Republic of Ireland.
  - Be a professional practising artist, although they might not earn income continuously or exclusively from their artistic practice, Applicants must identify theirselves and be recognised by their peers, as a professional practising artist.