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Fellowships & Commissions



Book Works

19 Holywell Row, London EC2A 4JB — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7247 2536
Fax: 020 7247 2540
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Website: www.bookworks.org.uk

Book Works has established an international reputation by commissioning, publishing and promoting contemporary artists' books. The organisation also mounts an associated programme of exhibitions and events in a wide range of venues including libraries, museums and other unconventional spaces. They also hold monthly surgeries for artists seeking to self-publish or find a publisher for artists' books.
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Photoworks

The Depot, 100 North Road, Brighton BN1 1YE — Google Maps
Tel: 01273 607 500
Fax: 01273 607555
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Website: www.photoworksuk.org

Photowors is a visual arts organisation based in Brighton. They regularly commission new photography projects, produce exhibitions and publications, and initiate research and education programmes. Also publish Photoworks Magazine biannually, showcasing both established artists and emerging talents, providing a unique forum for photographic debate and critical writing.
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Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Whitefriars, Lewins Mead, Bristol BS1 2AE — Google Maps
Tel: 0117 987 6500
Fax: 0117 987 6600
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Website: www.ahrc.ac.uk

AHRC have a range of UK-wide programmes supporting the highest quality research and postgraduate training in the arts and humanities. From around 1500 applications to their seven Research schemes they make around 550-600 awards. From around 5500 applications to their Postgraduate schemes for funding people in Higher education they make around 1500 awards. In addition, AHRC manage on an agency basis for HEFCE (the Higher Education Funding Council for England) almost £10 million to fund museums, galleries and other collections in English HEIs (Higher Education Institutions).
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Film and Video Umbrella

8 Vine Yard, London SE1 1QL — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7407 7755
Fax: 020 7407 7766
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Website: www.fvu.co.uk/about-us/
Website: www.fvu.co.uk/projects

The primary focus of Film and Video Umbrella's activities is the curation and production of artists' film and video work for gallery exhibition at venues in England. Film and Video Umbrella commissions approximately eight new projects a year - each of which is developed in collaboration with a partner venue before touring to other galleries in England and, on occasion, further afield.Their Project section features over 80 different artists' commissions from the past fifteen years.
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Green Heart Partnership: Landscape+Arts Network Services

Sherry Dobbin
Tel: 01992 762 128
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Website: www.greenheartpartnership.org

Green Heart Partnership is looking for digital new media artists (particularly those working with digital video) who are interested in creating innovative models for community engagement and public consultation from within local authority settings. The captured perceptions form the end-product immediately impact change - through capital development, new policy or new programming. Green Heart Partnership is a forward-thinking initiative supporting individuals and teams who challenge existing practise to work towards a joined-up approach that equally values the process and the end product. GHP considers that art is a part of how we address our public realm, and not solely an isolated portion of the physical environment. By working with all of the Hertfordshire local authorities to develop new models of creative cross-departmental working practice and supported in partnership with the Arts Council England, East, this initiative is pairing the arts with the environment and capital development departments to explore how creative-led collaborations can assist in creating more engaging, appealing and environmentally sustainable communities.
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Public Art Leicester

Room 240, Town Hall, Town Hall Square, Leicester LE1 9BG — Google Maps

Leicester City has an active Public Art programme with three strands: Cultural Mapping, Space for Sport and Art and Cultural Quarter. Register your interest in commissions on their artists database for SS&A and CQ programmes.
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The Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award

c/o The Art Room, Rose Hill Primary School, The Oval, Rose Hill, Oxford OX4 4SF — Google Maps
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Website: www.alexandrareinhardt.org/award.php

The Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award is worth £10,000. It was established in memory of Alexandra Reinhardt, an artist who died in 2004 aged 43, having battled with a rare blood disorder and profound deafness all her life. The Award was established to fund a 12 week artist-in-residence project culminating in the creation of a piece of public art. From 2010 the Award will be run by The Art Room, a charity based in London and Oxford, that offers art as therapy to young people aged 5 -15 to raise their self-esteem, self confidence and independence. Deadline for 2010: 29th January.
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The Henry Moore Foundation

Anne Unthank
The Henry Moore Foundation, Dane Tree House, Perry Green, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire SGIO 6EE — Google Maps
Tel: 01279 843 333
Fax: 01279 843 647
Website: www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk

The Henry Moore Foundation's grant-making programme was revised in 2004 to provide additional financial resources to support the work of living artists and contemporary art practice. Special consideration will be given to projects outside London and to venues with limited opportunities to show contemporary art. Other long-standing categories supporting historic and contemporary sculpture will remain in the programme, including post-doctoral research fellowships assisting outstanding young scholars. Invites applications from scholars, curators and artists, who are interested in working on historic and contemporary sculpture using the resources at the Institute. The collections comprise sculptures, a library, a slide library and an archive of works on paper, models and original documents. Fellows will be offered accommodation, travel expenses and a per diem in order to use these resources for one month. The Institute is also able to offer the possibility of presenting finished research projects in published form, as a seminar, or in its galleries.
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Berwick Gymnasium Fellowships

send SAE to English Heritage Berwick Gymnasium Art Fellowships, Bessie Surtees House, 41-44 Sandhill, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3JF — Google Maps
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Artists successful in their application for this fellowship will be required to live in Berwick, in the historic Berwick Barracks producing a new body of work in response to the location. Fellows receive a fee, materials allowance, free accommodation and studio. Not open to artists who have graduated in the last three years.
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Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowships

Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, 15 Queen's Gate Terrace, London SW7 5PR — Google Maps
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Website: www.wcmt.org.uk

The Winston Churchill Trust was set up after Churchill's death by public subscriptions to fund Travelling Fellowships. All British Citizens are eligible for the annual awards. The Fellowships are intended to enable men and women from all walks of life to acquire knowledge and experience abroad. Churchill Fellows can be of any age and in any occupation. Everyone has an equal chance; a lack of qualifications is not a bar to an award as every application is judged on the worth of the individual and the merit of the project. Past award winners have included nurses, artists, scientists, engineers, farmers, conservationists, carers, craft workers, artisans, members of the emergency services, sportsmen and women and people with disabilities. Successful applicants receive a grant to cover all your Fellowship expenses: return air fare, daily living, travel within the countries being visited and, in exceptional cases, certain home expenses. In 2000, the Trust awarded grants in excess of £600,000. You will also be insured against accident, medical expenses and loss of baggage while you are away. Grants usually cover a stay overseas of 4-12 weeks. Categories for applications vary - and change every year - but include, in Performing and Creative Arts, choreographers, composers, writers, painters and sculptors. In 2010 applications open in March and close in October.
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DA2 (Digital Arts Development Agency)

59 Prince Street, Bristol, BS1 4QH — Google Maps
Tel: 0117 914 6543
Fax: 0117 914 6540
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Website: www.da2.org.uk

DA2 has been established to facilitate and produce an integrated programme of digital art exhibitions, events and skills development. Although focused on the south west region the programme has already commissioned and presented London based artists' work. The activities of DA2 bridge creative practice in the arts and industry, and work across all art forms. DA2's programme encompasses any work that uses computer processes in its production, exhibition and distribution.
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Rhizome.org

115 Mercer Street, New York, NY10012, USA — Google Maps
Tel: 00 1 212 615 3191
Fax: 00 1 212 625 9508
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Website: www.rhizome.org

Rhizome is a non-profit organisation which, although based in New York, presents work in an international context via the web. The Rhizome.org community is geographically dispersed, and includes artists, curators, writers, designers, programmers, students and new media professionals.
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Cass Sculpture Foundation

Goodwood, nr. Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 0QP — Google Maps
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Website: www.sculpture.org.uk/information

The Foundation is a charitable organisation which operates by way of a rigorous commissioning process. Approximately 20 new monumental works, predominantly by contemporary British sculptors, are produced annually. Once a work has been placed the Foundation splits the profit between the artist and the next commission. The Foundation's commissioning process is, in its initial stages, an organic process based upon dialogue between the Foundation and prospective artists. Check their website on how to submit your work.
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Sovereign European Art Prize

The Sovereign Art Foundation 40 Craven Street, London, WC2N 5NG — Google Maps
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Website: www.sovereignartfoundation.com

The Sovereign Art Foundation was initially set up in Hong Kong to promote and aid Asian artists through the annual competition and charity auction. Due to the overwhelming success of the Sovereign Asian Art Prize, the Foundation expanded to London and the Sovereign European Art prize was established in 2005. After the Exhibition the final 30 selections, apart from the winning work which becomes property of the Foundation, will be auctioned at a special charity event. The proceeds of each work are evenly split between the artist and the Foundation,to help with its charitable work.
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