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.
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- 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.
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- To be eligible to apply, an applicant must:
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- 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.
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How to Apply
Applicants can apply online via given website.
For more information, please visit http://www.artscouncil.ie/Funds/Next-Generation-artists-award/