Deadline: 19-Jan-23
Nominations are now open for the Liam O’Flynn Award 2023.
Purpose
- The purpose of the Liam O’Flynn Award is to provide a traditional artist with a period of artistic reflection, inspiration and creation in residence in the National Concert Hall, and to enhance appreciation, knowledge and enjoyment of the traditional arts across the rich milieu of the National Concert Hall.
- The Liam O’Flynn Award is a joint initiative of the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the National Concert Hall/An Ceoláras Náisiúnta as part of their partnership for the promotion, appreciation and enjoyment of traditional arts, which also includes the Tradition Now festival of traditional music.
- In memory of Liam O’Flynn, the Liam O’Flynn Award celebrates the role of the individual creative traditional artist in the creation of new works, the inception of unique artistic collaborations and innovations, and the transmission of traditional arts for future generations to enjoy and practise.
Objectives
The objectives of the award are:
- To provide an artistically supportive, stimulating and challenging environment for the selected traditional artist.
- To provide physical workspace for their individual reflective and creative artistic work.
- To support artistic collaboration.
- To enable a working relationship with the National Concert Hall’s Learning and Participation team.
- To engage audiences with the traditional arts.
Priorities
In addition to the general purpose and objectives of the award (outlined in section 1.1), priority will be given to proposals from traditional artists who:
- Have a strong artistic vision and a clear idea of the artistic work they would like to develop and present during their time in the National Concert Hall
- Demonstrate the relevance of their artistic track record to the work they propose to undertake
- Describe how they would benefit artistically from this support and what artistic outcomes they envisage
- Show how their tenure in the National Concert Hall would benefit the traditional arts.
Award Details
- Maximum awarded: €15,000
- The Liam O’Flynn Award comprises:
- €10,000 towards fees and living expenses during the period, enabling the artist to spend time focusing on practice-based research and creative work in the National Concert Hall
- €5,000 for fees and other expenses relating to collaboration with other artists and the presenting of completed work or work in progress – e.g. as part of the Tradition Now 2023 programme.
- Workspace in the National Concert Hall
- Professional support and career advice.
- The recipient may have the opportunity to present their work as part of the Tradition Now 2023 programme, a partnership between the Arts Council and the National Concert Hall that takes place in October.
- The recipient will have full access to the Liam O’Flynn Collection, which has been donated to the Irish Traditional Music Archive. This collection consists of private recordings, rehearsal recordings, publications, compositions, notes, correspondence, poetry and assorted ephemera.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Liam O’Flynn Award is open to traditional artists working in any of the following genres: instrumental music; singing; dance; oral arts such as storytelling, agallamh beirte or lúibíní. The Liam O’Flynn Award welcomes applications from senior artists, established artists in mid-career, and young and emerging artists.
- To be eligible to apply, an applicant must:
- 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.
Ineligible
People who are not eligible to apply include the following:
- Individuals currently in undergraduate or postgraduate education or who will be during the period for which this award is offered
- Aosdána members in receipt of a cnuas
- Artists who cannot demonstrate at least three years’ professional artistic practice.
For more information, visit Arts Council.