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Visual Arts

The Leverhulme Trust

1 Pemberton Row, London EC4A 3BG — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7822 5220
Fax: 020 7822 5084
Email: gdupin@leverhulme.ac.uk
Website: www.leverhulme.org.uk
Website: www.leverhulme.org.uk/grants_awards/grants/artists_in_residence/

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. Please see their Frequently Asked Questions section (at www.leverhulme.org.uk/about/faq/) before contacting them.
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The Catlin Guide and Art Prize

Email: info@artcatlin.com
Website: www.artcatlin.com/the-catlin-guide.aspx

The inaugural, 2010 edition of The Catlin Guide is an introduction to 40 of the most promising new graduate artists in the UK. More than five hundred artists were initially recommended by BA and MA course leaders and independent curators and gallerists making the Guide an accurate overview of new British art in 2010. The Prize will showcase 8 artists from the 40 shortlisted.
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Arts Council England - London

2 Pear Tree Court, London EC1R 0DS — Google Maps
Tel: 0845 300 6200
Fax: 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.
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Celeste Prize

Email: info@celesteprize.com
Website: www.celesteprize.com/prize

International Art prize, open to Painting, Photography and Digital Graphic, Video and Animation, Installation and Sculpture. There is a total of 40,000 Euros in Prizes. Application entry is 80 Euros for a single artwork and 4 supporting images.
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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
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).
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Big Fund For Communities

Tel: 0845 275 0000
Website: www.lotteryfunding.org.uk

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
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Bloomberg New Contemporaries

127f Liverpool Road, Manchester, M3 4JN — Google Maps
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.
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BP Portrait Award

National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE — Google Maps
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.
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IMMATERIAL Art Fund

c/o 42 Bowsprit Point, Westferry Road, London, E14 8NT — Google Maps
Email: immaterialfund@gmail.com
Website: www.immaterial.org.uk

The IMMATERIAL Art Fund has been established in memory of Vicky Paniale, a young artist who died of leukaemia in 2008. Awards are available to artists up to 33 years old. Applicants do not have to be a graduate, in education or have an art background, but their work must relate to one or more of the following areas of interest: Time, Space, Pattern (rhythm, repetition, noise, etc), Mapping. Also, their work must use one or more of the following media: Sound, Light, Video, Drawing. Maximum grant is £1,000, there is no deadline.
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Diana: The Work Continues

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.
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EAST International

Norwich School of Art and Design, Francis House, 3-7 Redwell Street, Norwich, NR2 4SN — Google Maps
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.
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Elizabeth Arden Ltd

271 Regent Street, London W1B 2AA — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7574 2700
Fax: 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.
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Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

11 Park Place, London SW1A 1LP — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7297 4700
Fax: 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.
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Gilchrist-Fisher Award

c/o Rebecca Hossack Gallery, 2 Conway Street, London W1T 6BA — Google Maps
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 GBP3,000 is awarded, and a Second Prize of GBP1,000.
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Mark Tanner Sculpture Award

The Mark Tanner Award, Standpoint Gallery, 45 Coronet St, Hoxton, London N1 6HD — Google Maps
Website: www.standpointlondon.co.uk/mta.html

The award is aimed at exceptional emerging sculptors based in Greater London and it is intended to subsidise the creative work over one year. £6000 goes direct to the receiving artist towards the production of new work and £4000 funds and promotes the solo exhibition held at Standpoint Gallery the following year. The selectors look for ambitious, outstanding work within fine art practice, particularly that demonstrates a commitment to process and material. Selection by panel. Guest selector each year is a different prominent sculptor. Deadline is always 31 May.
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RBS Bursaries (Royal Society of British Sculptors awards)

Royal Society of British Sculptors, 108 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 3RA — Google Maps
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.
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The Jerwood Foundation

22 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 6EN — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7388 6287
Fax: 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.
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The Paul Hamlyn Foundation

18 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AA — Google Maps
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 (open to Charitable or not-for-profit organisations only). 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 £45,000, spread over three years.
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The Turner Prize

Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7887 8000
Fax: 020 7887 8007
Website: www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/abouttheturnerprize.shtm

Sponsored by Channel 4, the Turner Prize has turned form a localised art event to one with a huge national and international profile. Often thought of as the most prestigious art award in the UK, its prize money is not the largest (see: Paul Hamlyn Foundation). An annual award of £20,000 goes to 'a British artist under 50 for an outstanding exhibition or presentation in the last twelve months'. Some accuse the prize of promoting novelty over quality, while a growing number believe the increasing media frenzy and first-past-the-post mentality is creating an increasingly artist unfriendly event. Jury of five, led by Tate Director Nicholas Serota (who has casting vote).
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The European Association for Jewish Culture

Lena Stanley-Clamp, Director, European Association for Jewish Culture, London Office, 79 Wimpole Street, London W1G 9RY — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7935 8266
Fax: 020 7935 3252
Email: london@jewishcultureineurope.org
Website: www.jewishcultureineurope.org/More_about_us.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 Euro 5,000 to 10,000 will be awarded to successful candidates in two instalments.
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