Visual Arts in Rural Communities (VARC) invites visual artists to apply for twelve-month residencies at Highgreen in rural Northumberland. VARC looks for artists who feel that 12 months spent living in an isolated rural location will significantly benefit their practice. The resident artist is expected to spend a minimum of six weeks during the year working on projects with people. Applications are invited from professional visual artists with three or more years of proven work outside full time education. Artists working in two or three dimensions in any medium/material as well as those working in new media, land art, installation work etc are welcome to apply. VARC offers £9,000 per annum artist’s fee and materials.

The residencies at Grizedale Arts are structured as an intrinsic part of the onging evolution of the organisation and its context. After an initial period of research and development, artists come and go as required, over long periods of time. As such this is not a retreat residency, but an ongoing set of relationships that develops the artists, organisation and its constituencies together. The have some ongoing, paid by the artist, residencies in a an isolated building in Parkamoor.

Wysing Arts Centre has a rolling programme of artists residencies currently funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Arts Council England.

SSW is an international residency centre based in rural North East Scotland. Encompassing the broadest spectrum of contemporary visual art, it enables research, debate, collaboration, and practice through a programme of curated and open residencies and projects.

Annual artist residency for practitioner with at least 2 years professional experience and demonstrating practical knowledge of lithography and / or relief printmaking, for a 12-week Artist Residency in September. Artist fee plus financial assistance toward a required exhibition.

The Leverhulme Trust was established in 1925 under the Will of the First Viscount Leverhulme with the instruction that its resources should be used to support 'scholarships for the purposes of research and education'.provided funding for research projects, fellowships, studentships, bursaries and prizes; it operates across all the academic disciplines, the ambition being to support talented individuals as they realise their personal vision in research and professional training. They also will support the residency of an artist of any kind in an institution of higher education or a museum in the UK in order to foster a creative collaboration between the artist and the staff and/or students of that institution.

Braziers Workshop is a non-profit making organisation set up in 1995. Taking place each August it is an artist-led initiative which strives to provide a meeting point for artists working in all visual disciplines. It brings together up to 30 artists of all nationalities for 16 days to work, exchange dialogue and experiment in a way that is mutually beneficial. It offers an opporunity of participating in an activity removed geograhically and conceptually from usual studio practice in an environment where experiments can be made and leaps of imagination can occur. The workshop is for professional artists who are willing to navigate ideas and working processes different from the habitual. Deadline usually in April.

The residency provides an opportunity for an artist or craftsperson, who is at a key stage in their development, to spend an undisturbed period of time in a rural setting; the aim is to fully support research, experimentation and artistic and professional development of the individual. Accommodation, catering facilities and a private studio provided.

The Florence Trust offers twelve short residency awards (12 months in duration) with low rents payable by artists. Go to their website to download an application form. With the award of a studio comes attendant opportunities such as the twice yearly open studios, exhibiting opportunities and networking and selling opportunities facilitated by art consultants engaged the the Trust.

Artists in residence at the famous whiskey distillers. In 2002 Glenfiddich established their Artists in Residence Programme at its Distillery in Dufftown. The Glenfiddich programme gives visual artists and musicians the opportunity to mix and work alongside like minded individuals, living on site in cottages at The Glenfiddich Distillery and utilising the atmosphere and environment as inspiration to explore and develop their work. The artists spend the summer at Glenfiddich (June - September) and have free reign to create new works. A specially created Gallery at the distillery showcases existing and new pieces by the participating artists.

Research and development grants of £1,000 and accommodation at the residency base Summerhill for ten week projects. Also residencies at their new studio at Lawson Park. Starting in 2010, fees is £3000 and materials budget £1500. Deadline in January.

Acme Studios offer a number of programmes which include work/live studio bursary and residency schemes. The Fire Station Work/Live residencies run for five years or two-and-a-half years for a bursary supported residency. The next programme will open for submission in 2014. The Southwark Studio Residency and the Tower Hamlets Studio Residency provide a selected artist whose work naturally engages the local community with a free studio and grant. All Acme tenants are eligible for the annual Jessica Wilkes Award which provides a free studio for a year and a grant (together worth £10,000). they also run four awards for art college graduates at their Childers Street studios: the Adrian Carruthers Studio Award for graduating students from the MA course at the Slade School of Art; the Camberwell Studio Award and the Chelsea Studio Award for graduating BA Fine Art students from the respective colleges; and the Chadwell Award is awarded to MA graduates from different colleges each year. The Bow Cross Artist Residency run in partnership with the Swan Foundation provides an artist in Tower Hamlets with a bursary and project costs.