Visual Art and Craft Mid-Career Fellowship

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Visual Art and Craft Mid-Career Fellowship

The Fellowship category is open to individual established artists working in the areas of visual arts and craft, including painting, sculpture, installation, new media, ceramics, jewellery, glass, textile, wood and multimedia.

The purpose of the Mid-Career Fellowship is to enable
  • growth of the artist’s practice through research and development; and/or
  • increased national and international profile for the artist through the creation of documentation including monographs, catalogues and critical writing; and/or
  • an increase in the profile of the artist through large-scale exhibitions or residencies
Fellowships may be developed in conjunction with other planned initiatives e.g. expansion of a proposed publication, forthcoming residency or exhibition.

Fellowships may vary in duration to a maximum period of 12 months. For the purposes of acquittal and future eligibility to the Arts Grants Program, all Fellowships are considered to span a 12-month period.

Up to five Fellowships may be awarded per year.

Selection Criteria

Applicants will be assessed against the selection criteria of the Arts Grants Program. You must also address the following
  • You must possess a significant track record with a consistent and suitably high standard of practice.
  • Where the proposed program involves a continuing relationship between you and an existing gallery or organisation through exhibitions, residencies or master-classes, you must demonstrate how the activity represents a significant development or variation from normal practice or activity.

Eligibility

In addition to the general eligibility requirement of the Arts Grants Program please be aware:
  • applicants must be currently practising within the visual arts and/or craft sector and able to demonstrate a minimum of 10 years professional practice with an established exhibition history comprising solo and/or group exhibitions
  • previous Creative Development fellows are ineligible to apply
  • previous Mid-Career fellows are ineligible to apply
  • successful applicants are ineligible for other Arts Grants funding throughout the term of the fellowship. However, fellows may apply for Artflight funding where an unanticipated opportunity has arisen as a direct result of the fellowship activity. Such opportunities must not be part of the planned fellowship program of activities.

Support Material

In addition to general support material of the Arts Grants Program, applicants should include
  • documentation of an existing and significant body of work. This may include catalogues, previously published works etc. The amount submitted must not exceed one standard A3 envelope in bulk.
The Visual Arts and Crafts Mid-Career Fellowships are part of the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, a joint Federal and State Government funding initiative to benefit Western Australian individual artists, creating more opportunities for contemporary visual arts and craft practitioners across the States and Territories.

Funding Cap

The grant is for a total of $25,000.

Closing Dates

Please review closing dates for this grant.

Contact

Contact your Project Officer or call DCA on +61 8  9224 7310 or toll free for Country WA callers only on 1800 199 090. 
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