Deadline: 1 May 2025
Submissions are now open for the Emerging Artist Bursaries to support individual emerging artists from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown to develop and further their practice through the creation of new work at this vital stage in their career development.
Funding Information
- Successful recipients will receive an award of €2,000 for the development and creation of new work during the period July-December 2025.
Eligibility Criteria
- Individual artists working with all artforms (architecture, circus, craft, dance, film, literature, music, opera, spectacle, street art, theatre, traditional arts and visual arts) are eligible to apply.
- Artists must live in, be practicing in or be originally from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown.
- Individual artists working in all art-forms (architecture, circus, craft (designers/makers), dance, film, literature, music, opera, spectacle, street art, theatre, traditional arts and visual arts) are eligible to apply. (Please note the word artist refers to arts practitioners working in all artforms).
- This opportunity is only available for emerging artists. Emerging artist is defined as someone who is early career within their chosen art-form and has some experience but has not yet established a solid reputation as an artist. Applicants must state why they categorise themselves as emerging.
- A maximum of one application will be accepted from any one individual.
- Grants will not cover building programmes, third party grants, or assistance to cover loans or deficits, projects which could be undertaken on a commercial basis, charity fundraising events, the hire fee of Council premises, international travel or third level education.
- No late applications will be accepted.
- Applications should demonstrate the artistic merit and quality of previous work, the artistic merit and quality of their proposal and their ability to achieve outlined objectives within timeframe and budget.
- A variety of artforms will be supported through this award.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Employees of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council are not eligible to apply.
- You cannot apply for funding for any activity you have already received funding for from dlr in the last 12 months. You can apply for a different project even if you have been successfully funded in the last 12 months.
- Artists who have previously received an Emerging Artist Bursary from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.
