Tyrone Guthrie Centre Bursary Scheme 2024 (Ireland)

The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, the artist’s workplace in County Monaghan, is a residential workplace and residency programme in Ireland for artists of all disciplines. Over 27 local authorities in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland offer special bursary awards to artist’s resident in their areas, enabling them to undertake short residencies at the Centre. These bursaries are administered by each individual local authority.

The Tyrone Guthrie Centre Regional Bursary Scheme has the following objectives:

• To work closely with local authorities and their arts officers to discover emerging and established artists throughout the island of Ireland who might benefit from working at Annaghmakerrig.
• Through the artistic projects they realise to make their work apparent to the local communities from which they come, through exhibitions, performances, readings and other manifestations.
• Through this process to allow the Tyrone Guthrie Centre to establish partnerships with local authorities the length and breadth of the island of Ireland in keeping with its origins and aims as a major cross-border collaboration between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Cost Covered

• Limerick Arts Office, Limerick City and County Council, is offering two bursaries for 2024. This bursary covers all board and lodging expenses for 1 week, plus the use of a studio if necessary.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Tyrone Guthrie bursary is open to practitioners in all art forms.
• Applicants must be resident in the Limerick City and County Council administrative area and be able to demonstrate this and must not be in receipt of a bursary towards this residency from any other Local Authority.
• Persons in full-time undergraduate and/or post-graduate level study are ineligible to apply for this bursary.
• The awarded Tyrone Guthrie bursary must be taken up in 2024.
• Applicants should show significant achievement in their chosen field. This would normally mean that writers should already have published in book form, painters or sculptors should have had oneperson shows in reputable galleries and that composers or musicians should have had their work commissioned, recorded or performed, or whatever might be appropriate to the particular art form. Otherwise, the applicant must demonstrate a high degree of promise attested by references or other forms of support from established figures in the arts. They would especially welcome applications from first time applicants and those from communities under-represented in the arts.

For more information, visit Limerick City and County Council.