Visual arts bursary award
Closing date: 11/07/2013
Maximum awarded: €15000
Artform & practices: Visual arts
Applicant type: Individual artist
Collaborative application possible? No
Telephone: 01 6180 200
Email: awards@artscouncil.ie
Purpose of the award
The purpose of the award is to support professional artists to develop their art practice. It provides artists with the time and resources to think, research, reflect and critically engage with their art.
Download award guidelines
You can download the guidelines as a PDF or as a large format Word doc. If this does not meet your needs, please contact the Arts Council.
Visual Arts Bursary Guidelines 2013 RD 2 (0.12 MB, MS Word)
Visual Arts Bursary Guidelines 2013 RD 2 (0.12 MB, Adobe PDF)
Online services
The Arts Council has an online services website. All applications must be submitted through the online services website. You can upload a wide range of support materials in electronic format (up to 40 MB in total) along with your application form.
The window for making an online application opens on 11 June 2013.
Before you will be able to make an online application you will have to register with the site. It may take up to five working days for your registrations to be confirmed so it is very important that you register as early as possible. To register now click here. For information on how to make an online application please go to the following links.
Online services FAQs: a listing of frequently asked questions about making an online application.
Youtube: A step-by-step video guide on how to download, complete and upload an application form for funding.
Twitter: a listing of funding-related tweets.
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