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Jasmine Lee-Jones wins Evening Standard Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright and Alfred Fagon Award 2019
Jasmine was named winner of the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright at the 65th Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her debut play, seven methods of killing kylie jenner…
23 artists selected for second round of Jerwood Bursaries 2019
Together they represent a wide range of practices across literature, music, performing, visual and contemporary arts. Jerwood Bursaries provide funding of up to £1,250 to help early-career artists, curators and…
Jerwood New Playwright Eve Leigh shortlisted for Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting 2019
In the main category, 10 scripts from UK-based writers have been shortlisted for the award, whose previous winners have included Anna Jordan, Katherine Soper and Timothy X Atack. The international…
Jerwood Arts alumni shortlisted for the new White Gold Prize, an international award for ceramics
With over 100 submissions from all over the world, the selectors have put together a shortlist of 10 artists who are exceptionally skilled in putting the social at the heart…
Jerwood Artist Adviser Katie Schwab shortlisted for the Max Mara Award for Women 2019 – 2021
Allison Katz, Katie Schwab, Tai Shani, Emma Talbot and Hannah Tuulikki have been shortlisted for the latest edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Katie Schwab was a…
Onyeka Igwe wins the 2019 Berwick New Cinema Award
The Berwick New Cinema Award was presented to Igwe at the closing Screening of the 15th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival on Sunday 22 September by the Berwick New…
Selected artists announced for Jerwood LSO Composer+ 2019/20
London Symphony Orchestra is one of the UK’s leading music organisations and it has a long-standing commitment to identifying and supporting the next generation of composers. Resident at the Barbican…
Jerwood New Playwright Jasmine Lee-Jones wins Stage Debut Award for Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner at the Royal Court
Jasmine Lee-Jones’ debut play explores cultural appropriation, queerness, friendship between womxn and the ownership of black bodies both online and in real life. Also nominated were: Nicôle Lecky for Superhoe…
Workshops for employers now open for booking: Increasing Socio-economic Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts
These workshops will each address some of the big challenges facing the sector, identify effective strategies and practice to foster diversity and inclusion, and provide a guide to implementing key…
New Toolkit published with The Bridge Group based on evidence from a decade of the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme
Socio-economic Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts: A Toolkit for Employers is published by Jerwood Arts and the Bridge Group. It draws on the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme’s decade…
Green light for three Jerwood Arts programmes 2020-2022
All three programmes aim to transform the leadership potential of the next generation of artists, curators, producers and creatives from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Arts Council England’s National Lottery funding joins…
15 projects selected for inaugural Jerwood New Work Fund
The selected projects are led by the following artists: Heather Agyepong; Kat Anderson; Rhiannon Armstrong; Lauren John Joseph; Phoebe Davies; Ian Giles; Gwen Hales; Mina Heydari-Waite; Idle Women (Rachel Anderson…