Applications are now open for Studio Fellowships
Deadline: 16 December 2024
Launched in 2021 as a Painting Fellowship, and expanded in 2023 to encompass wider studio practice, the Studio Fellowships take place annually to connect artists with host UK universities.
Fellowships were once a staple part of the landscape of art education, providing a first step into teaching for emerging artists. These positions were a vital stage in many artists’ careers, enabling them to develop their own practice, while gaining experience delivering tutorials and lectures. A fellowship enables an environment where an artist and art students can build a symbiotic relationship.
Image: Ciarrai MacCormac’s Studio at Ulster University, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.
The Freelands Studio Fellowship’s programme continues this crucial legacy fellowships have in the arts education ecosystem, offering artists funding for a year, a personal studio within the setting of one of the partner universities’ art departments, and dedicated time and support to develop their individual artistic practice. In addition, they will receive mentorship and the opportunity to engage with the current student body, supporting staff with workshops, crits and tutorials as well as hosting at least one artist’s talk.
Applications are invited from studio-based artists who graduated from one of the eight participating universities:
- Bath School of Art, Film and Media, Bath Spa University
- Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham City University
- Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University
- Duncan Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee
- Falmouth School of Art, Falmouth University
- Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
- School of Art and Media, University of Brighton
- Belfast School of Art, Ulster University
Please note, you can not apply to the same university you graduated from.
Applications are open for artists to apply for 2025 Fellowships.
Deadline to apply: midday, 16 December 2024.
