Artists in Residence

These awards are intended to support the residency of an artist in a UK institution in order to foster a creative collaboration between the artist and the staff and/or students of that institution. The term ‘artist’ encompasses visual artists, creative writers, musicians, poets and other producers of original creative work. The scheme is intended to bring artists into research and study environments where their artistic form or creative art generally is not part of the normal curriculum or activities of the host department. It is not the objective of the scheme to provide additional teaching strength to the host institution. Priority will be given to new or recent collaborative ventures.

Value

The award covers a stipend for the resident artist, plus up to £2,500 for costs associated with the artist’s activity, e.g. consumables or materials. The maximum total cost can be up to £15,000 overall for a typical residency.

Please ensure that applications do not include any of the ineligible costs listed here.

Duration

A typical residency might be for a full academic year (ten months), based on the artist being present at the host institution for two days per week. Residencies of a shorter duration, perhaps with the artist present for a higher number of days per week, will also be considered.

Please read the following before submitting an application.

• Eligibility
• Application procedure

Contact

If your query has not been answered in these pages please contact Matt Dillnutt  (020 7042 9873).

The reverie of landscape: an artist’s residency at John Ruskin’s Brantwood. Alexander Hamilton was awarded an Artist in Residence grant in June 2008.

Photographing archaeology. A distribution of archaeologists’ buckets maps the places where Neolithic people lived and worshipped. Bill Bevan, was awarded an Artist in Residence at University of Sheffield in June 2010.