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Arts Council England awards £498,555 Ambition for Excellence grant to the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries talent and diversity development programme
“Gaining this opportunity was like someone throwing me a life raft; it was the step on the ladder that I was looking for and I think as many other people…
Arts Foundation Fellowship Awards, Lauren Kinsella and Evan Ifekoya
Awards of £10,000 are made to assist the artists with living and working expenses and are made on the basis of both talent and need to artists living and working…
Remembering Roanne Dods
Roanne passed away following a period living with cancer. She was courageous, graceful and selfless throughout; all characteristics which defined the way she lived and which inspired so many others…
Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries Director Kate Danielson nominated for a CCSkills Award
The Awards are judged by leading employers in the creative industries and the winners will be announced on Wednesday 1 March. The Creative Bursaries programme is a talent development initiative creating…
Charlene James wins Critic's Circle Theatre Award
A Young Vic/Royal Court co-production with Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Sheffield Theatres and The Yard Theatre, it was produced through Jerwood New Playwrights at the Royal Court, and supported by the…
CUT Festival's Next in Line programme selected artists announced
Following an open call in December last year, the following artists have been selected for a series of dedicated Next in Line commissions that have been made possible with our support:…
Jerwood Makers Open 2017 artist Juli Bolaños-Durman receives Craft Council Hothouse Makers Award
Hothouse is a creative and business development programme for up-and-coming makers. It has established itself as the gold-standard professional development programme over the last seven years. More than 200 makers have…
Jerwood Visual Arts Alumna Heather Philipson has been shortlisted for the fourth plinth commission
She is the sole British artist on the list and is proposing a work titled The End. A giant fibreglass model of a dessert being eaten by a fly, with a…
Jerwood Visual Arts Alumni Bedwyr Williams wins Derek Williams Trust Purchase Award
The Purchase Award is used to acquire a work by one of the shortlisted artists for Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales contemporary art collection. Frances Morris, Director of Tate Modern, who…
Adam Buick receives Creative Wales Award
Jerwood Makers Open 2013 alumni Adam Buick is to receive a Creative Wales Award from the Arts Council of Wales. Awards of up to £25,000 are intended to give space and…
Artists announced for second edition of Jerwood/Photoworks Awards
Each photographer will receive an award of £5,000 to support the time and space to research and develop new work, with access to a production fund of up to £5,000…
Jerwood/Photoworks Awards artist is runner up in Bar Tur Photobook Award
The Awards are a partnership between The Photographers’ Gallery, Amnon and Armon Bar-Tur and Bemojake publishing. Now in its third year this significant annual award offers an emerging photographer the…