Limerick Arts Office is delighted to announce an open call to recognised cultural practitioners, across all art forms, to apply for the use of the subsidised residential apartments in John’s Square, Limerick.
The Artists’ Apartments create conditions for affordable living spaces for individual artists and attract and keep artists living and working in Limerick City, by encouraging living and working within the urban context. The apartments provide subsidised living spaces in recognition that artists and many individuals working in the arts are on modest income levels.
This scheme is in line with the Limerick Cultural Strategy Aim and Objective 1: To grow Limerick’s cultural capacity by retaining and attracting creative practitioners to live and work in Limerick.
The Artists’ Apartments, 1-2 John’s Square, form a part of Limerick City and County Council’s cultural strategy to continue to develop the cultural infrastructure of Limerick and to support the cultural economy.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants (professional artists) must be based in Limerick City and County Council’s administrative area, or operate substantially within Limerick City and County and are able to demonstrate this. It is open to artists at all stages in their professional careers. Applicants must have been born in, or be resident in, the Republic of Ireland.
- A professional artist can be defined as someone for whom their art form is their whole-time occupation or who holds a third level qualification in their field of practice or has been paid and advertised as a solo or leading performer/exhibitor in a state funded institution or has been published or produced by a recognised publisher or theatre/film company or venue or is recognised as a professional by his/her peers and received recognition in the form of commendations, rewards, awards, grants, appointments to panels, etc.
- Priority is given to recognised, professional, cultural practitioners working in the arts at the lower end of income levels. Persons in full time permanent employment (save where on extended leave) and undergraduate or full-time post-graduate education are not eligible, or individuals who will be during the period for which the license is offered. It will be noted by assessors if an applicant has been a previous recipient of an Artist Apartment licence agreement.
- Limerick City and County Council reserve the right to shortlist applicants based on information supplied under this open call, in order to fill future vacancies should they arise, subject to the GDPR requirements of this scheme.
- The eligibility criteria are in line with the Limerick Cultural Strategy 2016-2030, to grow Limerick’s cultural capacity by retaining and attracting creative practitioners to live and work in Limerick. They are also informed by the objectives detailed in Limerick City Council’s Access II Application to the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for refurbishing the apartments at 1-2 John’s Square.
For more information, visit Limerick Arts Office.
