Deadline: 12 September 2024
The Arts Council is seeking applications from Workspaces in the Republic of Ireland for its Visual Artists Workspace Scheme to support artists’ workspaces throughout the country to provide the best possible working environment for visual artists and, where feasible, to enable a level of subsidy for the artists working in these spaces.
Funding Information
- The scheme will award grants of up to €50,000 towards workspace costs – i.e. the running costs of the workspace, such as light, heat, rent, administration and/or appropriate management and artist-development costs.
- A proportion of support up to a maximum of 20% of the total request may be directed towards essential repair and maintenance.
Who can apply?
- Applications are welcome from the following:
- Workspace in the Republic of Ireland.
- Workspaces dedicated to the support of professional visual artists.
- Workspaces that accommodate at least four professional visual artists working on site.
- Workspaces proposing to collaborate to share resources for the benefit of the visual artists working in their spaces
- Organisations/Groups/Collectives that have an established workspace.
- Note: workspaces that are successful in their application to this scheme cannot have received or have applied to other Arts Council Awards or grant programmes for the same purpose.
Who cannot apply?
- Those who are not eligible to apply include the following:
- Individual artists.
- Workspaces that receive funding through this scheme cannot receive funding for the same purposes through other Arts Council awards or grant schemes for 2024.
- Workspaces with fewer than four working visual artists.
- Organisations/groups/collectives that do not yet have an established workspace.
For more information, visit Arts Council.
