Fingal County Council, Tyrone Guthrie Centre and Bealtaine Festival Residency Award 2023
Fingal Arts Office, in association with the Tyrone Guthrie Centre and the Bealtaine Festival, is pleased to announce two, month-long, residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. These residences aim to celebrate and support older artists at all stages of their careers working in literature and visual arts.
The residencies will offer a professional visual artist and a professional writer the opportunity to research or develop new work and if desired, to present work during Bealtaine 2024. The award is open to writers and visual artists working in all disciplines, aged 50+, who were born, studied, or currently reside in the Fingal administrative area. Fingal Arts Office, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre and the Bealtaine Festival welcome and encourage applications from artists from diverse cultural or minority backgrounds.
The residency aims to address Fingal Arts goals, through its Arts Plan 2020 – 2025, of: connecting people and ideas; enabling excellence and fostering experimentation and risk taking. This residency opportunity similarly support the Bealtaine Festivals aim of celebrating creative ageing, and representation in the arts of and by older people. This initiative also supports the three organisations aim to foster the professional development of artists in their ongoing practice.
The one-month long residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, located in the beautiful, tranquil setting of County Monaghan will provide an ideal environment for the successful candidates to focus on research or the development of new work. Applicants have the option to apply for a one-month long residency or two separate 2-week residencies between June and December 2023 on dates to be agreed with the successful candidates.
The Mayor of Fingal, Cllr Howard Mahony commented, “This is a wonderful initiative for older artists and I am confident it will allow them the time and space to focus fully on their work.”
Speaking about the award, Chief Executive of Fingal County Council, AnnMarie Farrelly said, “We are delighted to partner with the Tyrone Guthrie Centre and the Bealtaine Festival again this year on this residency opportunity which reflects the Council’s commitment to supporting opportunities for older Fingal artists from all backgrounds.”
Director of Services, John Quinlivan said, “Fingal County Council is proud to support this exciting opportunity which enables and encourages professional artists to excel in their practice.”
The residency will take place from June – December 2023 on dates to be agreed with the successful candidates. Closing date for receipt of applications is Monday 27 March 2023 at 4pm.
For further information and to apply please see www.fingalarts.ie/news or www.fingal.ie/arts
