1 Pemberton Row, London EC4A 3BG —
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Tel: 020 7822 5220
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020 7822 5084
Email: gdupin@leverhulme.ac.uk
Website: www.leverhulme.org.uk
Website: www.leverhulme.org.uk/grants_awards/grants/artists_in_residence/
Please see their Frequently Asked Questions section (at www.leverhulme.org.uk/about/faq/) before contacting them. The Leverhulme Trust was established in 1925 to distribute surplus monies outstanding after the provision of help for commercial travellers, grocers, chemists and their families. This surplus money is used for providing scholarships for such purposes of research and education as the Trustees might decide. See their website at www.leverhulme.org.uk/grants_awards/ to find a list of eligible projects. Their income derives mainly from a shareholding with Unilever, which in 1999 was £23.2 million. All funding opportunities provided by the Leverhulme Trust require an outline application to be sent, at any time. This is intended to save applicants time and effort. If the project is considered suitable for possible funding you will be invited by the Trust to submit a very detailed application. There are no closing dates for outline applications. 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. Applications should come jointly signed from the artist and a representative of the proposed host group
Listing ID: 375
2 Pear Tree Court, London EC1R 0DS —
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Tel: 0845 300 6200
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020 7608 4100
Minicom: 020 7608 4101
Website: www.artscouncil.org.uk
London's Government-funded visual art and crafts funders, Arts Council England supplies monies via its Grants for the Arts programme, recently cut by 35% in the face of money being redirected by government to the Olympics, making this even more competitive. They run free seminars to answer your questions, and their website (above) provides further advice. In 2003/04, Grants for the Arts distributed £1.78 million to individual artists working in London through 316 awards (and £7.4 million to organisations through 445 awards, and £4 million for touring through 97 awards). In all, ACE received 2,500 application, including some that were ineligible. ACE are currently working to encourage more applications from freelance curators, project organisers and critics, who are currently under-represented in the funding allocation. Eligible projects include research and development, travel (including international), networking events and independent projects. They are also keen to support activities promoting critical debate on the production and presentation of contemporary visual art; for example, events, seminars, conferences, publications (paper based / electronic), periodicals, catalogues and artists' books.
Listing ID: 1952
Tel: 01273 726 447
Email: info@50over50.org.uk
Website: www.50over50.org.uk
The UK's first national visual art prize for artists over 50, 50 over 50 promotes the best in contemporary visual arts practice and celebrating vitality in the work of older British artists. The Turner Prize, Becks Futures and BP Portrait Award support younger artists; 50 over 50 extends the same opportunity to those aged over 50. 50 works of art, by artists aged 50 and over, and selected by open submission, feature in an exhibition at the University of Brighton Gallery. Prize of £5,000 goes to the winning entrant.
Listing ID: 1967
Barnet: Arts Office, Old Town Hall, Friern Barnet Lane, London N11 3DL —
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Brent: Brent Artists Register, Kensal Rise Library, Bathurst Gardens, London NW10 5JA
Enfield: Arts in the Community, 9th Floor, Civic Centre, Silver Street, Enfield EN1 3XJ
Tel: 020 8359 3152
Tel: 020 8960 0001
Tel: 020 8379 3512
Tel: 020 8365 7500
Tel: 020 8424 1242
The Apthorp Fund buys art from young artists aged 18 to 30 who are based in the London boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Enfield, Haringey and Harrow. Awards are from £100 up to £5000 and are aimed at young people who are, or are preparing to be, professional artists. Awards are by submission of two pieces of work (paintings, drawings, textiles or small sculptures) - see website for latest hand-in dates. There will be public exhibitions in each borough of all selected work. Works will then be placed in a variety of public buildings, hospitals, schools and care units in the London Boroughs.
Listing ID: 1968
Whitefriars, Lewins Mead, Bristol BS1 2AE —
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Tel: 0117 987 6500
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0117 987 6600
Email: a.henry@ahrc.ac.uk
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).
Listing ID: 1969
c/o The ICA, The Mall, London SW1 5AH —
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Tel: 020 7873 0061
Website: www.becksfutures.co.uk
Sees itself between the Turner Prize and Bloomerg New Contemporaries, aims to herald a generation of promising but unknown artists in all media. A panel of six curators and artists select work and award a £5,000 prize to each winner in the categories of painting, sculpture, film and video, photography and artstudents working in film and video, as well as an overall £20,000 prize. Work is displayed in the ICA gallery in the Mall, London, then tours to Manchester and Glasgow.
Listing ID: 1971
Website: www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/programmes/reachingcommunities/index2.htm
The Big Lottery Fund will give out grants of up to £500,000 over five years for projects that: offer people better chances in life, including being able to get better access to training and development to improve their life skills; build strong communities, with more active citizens, working together to tackle their problems; develop improved rural and urban environments, which communities are better able to access and enjoy; create healthier and more active people and communities. Minimum grant: £10,001, maximum: £500,000
Listing ID: 1972
127f Liverpool Road, Manchester, M3 4JN —
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Website: www.newcontemporaries.org.uk
New Contemporaries is an annual exhibition of work by students and recent graduates from the UK's art colleges, offering an important platform for emerging artists' work to be seen and discussed. New Contemporaries is shaped by a process of selection from slides, videos, CD-Roms, photographs and audio-tapes through to a shortlist of actual works. The exhibition tours major UK arts venues each year. For applications information and deadlines, contact New Contemporaries as above and check the London Almanac's deadlines list.
Listing ID: 1973
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE —
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Tel: 020 7306 0055 extention 245
Website: www.npg.org.uk/bp
Started in 1980, the BP Portrait Award is the most prestigious competition and exhibition of its kind, held annually in the National Portrait Gallery. A registration fee of £27 is payable, on return of the form. Open to paintings in oil, acrylic or tempera and must be from life. One entry per person, the artist have to be 30 years old or younger. First prize: £25,000 (plus discretionary £4,000 commission). Second prize £8,000.
Listing ID: 1974
Sara Pearce
28 Vestry Road, London SE5 8NX —
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Tel: Tel / Fax: 020 7701 6679
Email: info@celesteartprize.co.uk
Website: www.celesteartprize.co.uk
The prize has been established to promote painting in the UK with the widest survey of techniques including new media. The Celeste Painting Prize is open to anyone living and working in the UK and UK citizens living and working abroad at the time of the submission. There is no age limit to the applicants. There will be an exhibition in London for the 60 finalists works plus an accompanying 200 page catalogue containing 400 colour images of all the short listed and finalists' works with critical texts. The short listed artists will be selected by the Curatorial Programme at Goldsmiths College, London. The 60 finalists will then vote for the overall winners in 2 sections: Artist - £10,000 / Student - £5,000
Listing ID: 1975
Beth Cinamon
Westminster Arts, Council House, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5PS —
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Tel: 020 76411018
Email: info@westminsterarts.org.uk
Website: www.westminsterarts.co.uk
City of Westminster Arts Council supports arts activities for the local people in Westminster. They provide funding and organise arts projects with community groups, voluntary organisations, and residents. Their bi-monthly newsletter - Arts in Westminster - provides details of local arts events and special projects such as the Annual Open Exhibition and Film and Digital Bursaries. Information is also produced for people who are setting up arts projects for the first time and offer funding advice. Services are free to people who live, work or study in Westminster, and to Westminster based organisations.
Listing ID: 1976
Website: www.theworkcontinues.org/page.asp?id=36
The Fund is committed to a grant-giving programme which supports work in the UK and internationally with people living on the margins. No demand-driven open grants rounds are currently envisaged, apart from a restricted amount of funding to be made available through an open grants process under the Refugee and Asylum Seekers Initiative.
Listing ID: 1978
Norwich School of Art and Design, Francis House, 3-7 Redwell Street, Norwich, NR2 4SN —
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Tel: 01603 756248
Email: l.morris@nsad.ac.uk
Website: www.eastinternational.net
Submissions invited in early spring. This is the largest exhibition of international contemporary art held in Britain. No rules of age, status, media or place of residence apply, and each selected artist installs their work in a space of their own in and around the Norwich School of Art and Design, with five temporary site specific riverside commissions. £5,000 award.
Listing ID: 1979
271 Regent Street, London W1B 2AA —
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Tel: 020 7574 2700
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020 7574 2727
Mainly sponsors events and work which concerns the company (cosmetics and perfumes), with its main target audience being women. Contact Jane McCorriston, PR Manager with a proposal by fax or letter.
Listing ID: 1980
11 Park Place, London SW1A 1LP —
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Tel: 020 7297 4700
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020 7297 4701
Email: info@esmeefairbairn.org.uk
Website: www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk/funding/main-fund.html
Arts programme and application procedures to favour the visual arts and crafts over the performing arts. The priorities are expected to remain in this way until 2008. Although their focus is on developments outside of London, London-based organisations are still eligible to apply. One of their main focuses is on touring exhibitions and displays. Applications from individuals are not accepted. The Foundation will be taking a new approach to grant-making from January 2008, see new information on their website.
Listing ID: 1981
c/o Rebecca Hossack Gallery, 35 Windmill Street, Fitzrovia London, W1T 2JS —
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Tel: 020 7436 4899
Fax:
020 7323 3182
Email: rebecca@r-h-g.co.uk
Website: www.r-h-g.co.uk
The Gilchrist-Fisher Award was established in 1987 in memory of Alasdair Gilchrist Fisher who died of cancer in December 1986 at the age of twenty-four. The Gilchrist Fisher Award is a biennial prize open to all artists under the age of thirty whose work deals with the broad theme of Landscape. Six finalists are selected and their work is exhibited at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery. On the basis of the exhibition a First Prize of £3,000 is awarded, and a Second Prize of £1,000. The next submissions for GFA 2010 will be taken in May-June 2009 and details
will be posted on their website nearer the time.
Listing ID: 1984
Information and applications: send stamped addressed envelope to The Mark Tanner Award, Standpoint Gallery, 45 Coronet St, Hoxton, London N1 6HD —
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Website: www.standpointlondon.co.uk/mta.html
The award is intended to subsidise the creative work of a suitable recipient over one year. The value of the award is to be up to £6000 to cover the artist's expenses, both in terms of time and materials, towards making new works that will be exhibited for the first time at Standpoint Gallery September-October of the year of award. Also during this year, there will be a number of occasions when the gallery administrator will meet with the artist to discuss progress and any issues regarding the exhibition. Payment will be released in 3 stages throughout the year following progress meetings. The award is for an artist who is a maker of sculptural objects within a fine art tradition who can show a mature body of work, a clear understanding of their practice and an ability to plan, organise and execute work within a professional setting. Only open to artists whose studio is within the Greater London area.
Listing ID: 1985
Public Art South West, PO Box 189, Exeter EX4 3XL —
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Tel: 01392 229 266
Fax:
01392 229 229
Email: info@project-awards.org.uk
Website: www.publicartonline.org.uk/project
Provides financial assistance to support collaboration between artists and design, planning and construction professionals, working pro-actively with public and private sector agencies on projects in the built environment. It is intended to facilitate the artist's role as a creative thinker and / or commentator, working within the team appointed to deliver the project. It is not intended to cover the capital costs of implementing any work which may arise from this process. In the context of this scheme, the term 'artist' is intended to cover a range of art forms.
Listing ID: 1986
Royal Society of British Sculptors, 108 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 3RA —
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Tel: 020 7373 5554
Fax:
020 7370 3721
Email: info@rbs.org.uk
Website: www.rbs.org.uk/pages/awards/award_types.html
Ten Bursaries awarded each year to sculptors of outstanding talent and potential. They welcome applications from artists of any age and nationality, with or without formal training, who are at the beginning of their practice. The 10 winners will participate in a curated exhibition at the RBS Gallery and will enjoy all the benefits of RBS membership for two years.
Listing ID: 1987
RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ —
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Tel: 020 7451 6871/6865
Fax:
020 7839 5805
Website: www.rsa.org.uk
Onians Fellowship: The Fellowship, set up in memory of the RSA's late Chairman, Dick Onians (1940-1999), enables someone to take time out to develop an innovative idea for the benefit of wider society. It provides up to £30,000 over a period of up to two years and could encompass a travel bursary, research grant or sabbatical. The Fellowship is open to anyone with a creative idea or an innovative approach to an existing challenge in any field. Applications are particularly invited from those seeking to encourage development in: business and wealth creation from new ideas in the arts and sciences; supportive, entrepreneurial environments that would help young people set up their own businesses; better science, technology, music or mathematics teaching, or new ways of educating young managers; rural enterprise, especially tourism and the creation of new businesses in rural areas. Formal qualifications are not essential. Preference will be given to those with evidence of early practical achievement rather than to those seeking funding to continue their academic career. Further information from email: onians@rsa.org.uk or www.thersa.org/onians/default.html
Listing ID: 1988
Clare Thornton
Wellcome Trust: SciArt Scheme Research and Development Awards —
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Tel: 020 7611 8332
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Tel: 020 7611 7367
Email: c.thornton@wellcome.ac.uk
Website: www.wellcome.ac.uk/sciart
Research and Development: awards in the region of £15,000; For ideas in the initial stages of development, aimed at Arts and Science professionals. Production: awards up to £100,000; Intended for organisations (arts, science, broadcast) to fund major activities.
Listing ID: 1989
Applications and information: International Art Consultants/Art for Offices, The Galleries, 15 Dock Street, London E1 8JL —
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Website: www.boc.com/artist
Open to artists under 30 with a 'high commitment and talent in 2-D art', and who are UK residents. Prize: £20,000, to cover a travel bursary, studio rental and an exhibition at the end of the award year.
Listing ID: 1990
The Bombay Sapphire Foundation, 58 Queen Anne Street, London W1G 8HW —
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Email: foundation@bombaysapphire.org
Website: www.bombaysapphire.org/design/design_home_framest.htm?flash=on&page=PromotionsPage.aspx
Begun in 2002 by the Bombay Sapphire Foundation (set up by Bombay Sapphire Gin), the prize is open to architects, designers and makers using glass in any of the three categories of 'architectural', 'functional' and 'art'. Winner receives £15,000, with category winners receiving £2,500. For forthcoming deadlines, see the Deadlines section of the Opportunities.
Listing ID: 1991
98 Portland Place, London W1B 1ET —
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Tel: 020 7636 5313
Fax:
020 7908 7580
Email: info@gulbenkian.org.uk
Website: www.gulbenkian.org.uk
Website: www.gulbenkian.org.uk/grant-programmes/arts
Support for Arts, Education and Social welfare projects. Registered Charities, community groups, schools, arts organisations, artists can apply. Up to £10,000 (depending on the Programme) is available. Trustees meet three times a year, in the first week of March, July and November. Applications must be received at least ten weeks before the meetings to be considered. The Arts Programme is aimed at helping professional arts organisations and individual professional artists working in partnerships or groups. The fundamental aim of the Arts Programme is to support research and development activities for unconventional and unusual arts projects, particularly involving two or more artists with different specialist areas of expertise working collaboratively.
Listing ID: 1992
22 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 6EN —
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Tel: 020 7388 6287
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020 7388 6289
Email: info@jerwood.org
Website: www.jerwood.org
Website: www.jerwoodvisualarts.org
The main awards offered by The Jerwood Charitable Foundation include the Jerwood Painting Prize, Drawing Prize, Applied Arts Prize and the Moving Media Awards, as well as commissions and grants to artists. Most prizes are open to all UK-based artists of all ages.
Listing ID: 1995
18 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AA —
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Tel: 020 7227 3500
Fax:
020 7222 0601
Email: information@phf.org.uk
Website: www.phf.org.uk
Website: www.phf.org.uk/landing.asp?id=37
Small Grants Programme: Awards up to £5,000 are made to local schemes that fall within the Foundation's priority areas (www.phf.org.uk/priority.htm). Applications should be for specific projects rather than revenue or deficit funding. The grant requested should represent the major part of the funding required. Grants will be made for one year only and applications in the following year from the same organisation will not be considered. Awards for Artists, individual artists are not eligible to apply directly but are nominated. Five artists are selected annually, each receiving £30,000, spread over three years.
Listing ID: 1996
PO Box 14720, London W3 7ZG —
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Email: info@rhfoundation.org.uk
Website: www.rhfoundation.org.uk
Founded as a registered Charity in 1990, RHF's activities include financial support to art institutions, individual artists, students, lecturers and designers. Trustees include artists, who are also respected teachers, designers, a visual arts consultant, and an accountant. Candidates who will make the best use of the Grants to further their careers and who can demonstrate three years continual residence in the UK up to the date of the application are selected each year by open submission for three project strands. Each year the Grants focus on a specific area of practice (eg, in 2005, drawing).
Listing ID: 1997
Lena Stanley-Clamp, Director, European Association for Jewish Culture, London Office, 79 Wimpole Street, London W1G 9RY —
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Tel: 020 7935 8266
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020 7935 3252
Email: london@jewishcultureineurope.org
Website: www.jewishcultureineurope.org/index1.htm
The European Association for Jewish Culture is an independent organisation which funds visual arts exhibitions, theatre, documentary films and music which address the Jewish experience. This grant programme is designed to provide part-funding for new exhibitions of contemporary art by awarding grants to professional artists to produce new work for exhibition in a recognised cultural venue, and freelance curators for researching and organising an exhibition of contemporary art, which addresses the Jewish experience. The application should be submitted by professional artists or curators in association with an exhibition venue. Grants in the range of €5,000 to €10,000 will be awarded to successful candidates in two instalments.
Listing ID: 2014
Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE —
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Tel: 020 7611 7222
Email: arts@wellcome.ac.uk
Website: www.wellcome.ac.uk/arts
The Wellcome Trust believes the arts are an effective way of stimulating debate and engaging people with biomedical science. Visual art, music, moving image, creative writing and performance can reach new audiences which may not traditionally be interested in science and provide new ways of thinking about the social, cultural and ethical issues around contemporary science. Funding can be applied for at two levels: small to medium-sized projects (up to and including £30 000). Funding can either be used to support the development of new project ideas, deliver small-scale productions or workshops, investigate and experiment with new methods of engagement through the arts, or develop new collaborative relationships between artists and scientists. Large projects (above £30 000), the funding can be used to fund full or part production costs for large-scale arts projects that aim to have significant impact on the public's engagement with biomedical science. There is a deadline in January for the large Award scheme and four deadlines a year for the smaller Awards.
Listing ID: 2045
Anne Unthank
The Henry Moore Foundation, Dane Tree House, Perry Green, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire SGIO 6EE —
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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.
Listing ID: 2051
Over-Seas House, Park Place, St James's Street, London SW1A 1LR —
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Tel: 020 7408 0214
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020 7499 6738
Email: culture@rosl.org.uk
Website: www.roslarts.org.uk
ROSL arts offers a scholarship (maximum value £3,000) for an artist of up to 35 years of age to spend four weeks in a Commonwealth country of their choice. From 2006 the travel Scholarships are no longer awarded from open submission, nominations are solicited from selected visual arts institutions instead. It is not possible for artists to canvas these institutions.
Listing ID: 2071
Janice Thorpe
Central Library, Phillimore Walk, London, W8 7RX —
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Tel: 0207 361 3844
Email: Janice.thorpe@rbkc.gov.uk
Website: www.rbkc.gov.uk/artsandmuseums/artservices/grantschemecriteria.asp
The Arts Grants scheme is for arts activities or projects (by organisations or individuals) which are undertaken within the boundaries of the Royal Borough and demonstrate that they meet at least two of its strategic objectives. Also offer free funding surgeries. Deadlines three times a year, in 2007 they will be: 18 May 2007, 21 September 2007 and Friday 18 January 2008.
Listing ID: 2587
Ruth Rattenbury
512 Bankside Lofts, 65 Hopton Street London SE1 9GZ —
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Email: ruth@elephanttrust.org.uk
Website: www.elephanttrust.org.uk
Roland Penrose and Lee Miller created The Elephant Trust in 1975 to develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the fine arts in the UK. The Trust was set up to help artists present their work and undertake and complete projects when frustrated by lack of funds. It is committed to helping artists and institutions that depart from the routine and signal new, distinct and imaginative sets of possibilities. Grants have usually been limited to £2,000 but larger grants may be considered. Next deadlines are 15th January and 8th April 2008.
Listing ID: 2992
Website: www.shapeartists.org.uk/ArtistsResource/index.asp?PageID=70
Created by Shape, this is an invaluable online resource for all artists on everything you need to know about being an artist. From filling in a tax return to negotiating a contract, from writing projects proposals to fundraising.
Listing ID: 3121
Email: generaloffice@nr-foundation.org.uk
Website: www.nr-foundation.org.uk
The Northern Rock Foundation has reopened its grants programme for high-quality and high-profile culture and heritage projects in North East England and Cumbria. The programme will be worth £2 million in 2008. Northern Rock Foundation is seeking applications to support performing arts, contemporary craft, design and new media, museum and heritage exhibitions, festivals and collaborations as well as professional training for people working in these areas.
Listing ID: 3646
Parker Harris 15 Church Street Esher Surrey KT10 8QS —
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Tel: 01372 462 190
Website: www.dajf.org.uk
Website: www.parkerharris.co.uk
The Daiwa Foundation Art Prize is an original project that offers a British artist a first solo show in Japan. In addition to an exhibition, the winning artist will be given a period of support and introductions to key individuals and organisations in the Japanese contemporary art world. The winning artist will also be awarded a participation fee of £5000. The prize is open to British artists resident in the UK who have not previously had a solo exhibition in Japan. Artists applying for the prize are required to submit documentation of four recent works, in any medium (including painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, installation, video etc), a supporting CV and personal statement. The judging panel will select a short list of three artists. Works by all three of the short list will be exhibited at the Daiwa Foundation Japan House Gallery and a winner will be announced in June 2009. First deadline is 2nd March 2009.
Listing ID: 3791
Roswitha Haftmann-Stiftung Zurich, c/o Kunsthaus Zurich, Ursula Hirzel, Winkelwiese 4, 8024 Zurich —
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Tel: 0041 (0)44 253 84 02
Email: hirzel@kunsthaus.ch
Website: www.roswithahaftmann-foundation.com
The Foundation awards the valuable Prize to a living artist every three years. Prizewinners are selected solely on the basis of the artistic significance of their work, without regard to their personal circumstances (nationality, age, gender). Award for 2008 was 150,000 Swiss francs
Listing ID: 3824