Deadline: 6 June 2024
The Arts Council is pleased to announce the Markievicz Awardintended as an open call to professional artists from all backgrounds and Arts Council-supported artform and arts-practice areas to buy time and space in order to develop new work that reflects on the role of women in Ireland in the twentieth century and beyond.
In addition to the general purpose and objectives of the award, the following priority area has been identified by the Department:
- Given the importance of the Irish-language-revival movement during the revolutionary period, and the Department’s ongoing and particular responsibilities to support the Irish language and the Gaeltacht, one award will be offered to an artist working in the Gaeltacht and through the medium of the Irish language.
Focus Areas
- You can apply for Markievicz Award funding for the following artforms and art practices:
- Architecture
- Arts Participation (an arts practice focused on collaborations with communities to make or interpret art in a mutually beneficial way)
- Circus
- Dance
- Festivals
- Film
- Literature
- Music
- Opera
- Street Arts and Spectacle
- Traditional Arts
- Theatre
- Visual Arts
- Young People, Children and Education (YPCE)
Funding Information
- Each award has a fixed value of €25,000.
- This is expected to be an extremely competitive award, with a maximum of 10 awards available.
Ineligible Activities
- Activities and costs that you may not apply for include the following:
- Activities or costs that do not fit the purpose of the award
- Activities that are more suited to awards funded by the Arts Council or operated by other state agencies, such as Culture Ireland
- Activities that have already taken place or which will have commenced before a decision is made on your application
- Activities undertaken for charity fundraising purposes, for participation in a competition, or for primarily profit-making purposes
- Activities that have already been assessed by the Arts Council, unless you demonstrate that you have significantly developed the proposal since previously applying or if the Council has specifically advised you to redirect your application to this award. Please bear in mind that such advice is not an indication of a successful outcome.
- Major capital requests for the purchase of equipment or improvements to workspace
- Academic activities.
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible to apply, you must:
- Be a professional practising artist who
- Is actively pursuing a career as an artist in any artform
- Considers their arts practice to be their main profession or career. This applies even if their work in the arts is not their main source of income or they have other employment.
- Demonstrate recent artistic achievements
- Be resident in the Republic of Ireland. However, they may accept applications from outside the Republic of Ireland. In this case, you must detail in your application form how your proposal would benefit the arts in the Republic of Ireland. They would need to be satisfied with your explanation.
Ineligibility Criteria
- They will not be able to accept your application if you are:
- A full-time undergraduate student (including foundation courses)
- Looking for support towards fees for postgraduate/higher education or study (including unaccredited courses)
- An Aosdána member in receipt of a cnuas
- A successful recipient of the Markievicz Award in previous years.
For more information, visit The Arts Council.
