Retreats and Residency Programmes in Ireland and Northern Ireland
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The Achill Heinrich Boll Centre in Co.Mayo operates as an artists’ retreat providing living/working space for visual artists, composers and writers. It offers space for up to 24 artists annually in successive 2 week residencies. The retreat was established in 1992 and operates from the former home of the literary Nobel prize winner Heinrich Boll. It offers a secluded, and private environment for work. A space where artists can be away from their usual environment and routine, in a place conducive to their needs, and to producing high quality work.
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Ballinglen Art Foundation’s Artists’ Fellowship Programme is internationally unique in that it is not a retreat residency for the lone artist. Artists are invited to bring family and companions with them. They are given, free of any charges, cottages for living and purpose built studios for working, within a rural community. Length of residency is flexible. They suggest that Irish, British and mainland European artists spend a minimum of 4 weeks, and artists from further away a minimum of 6 weeks. Each fellowship artist is asked to contribute at least one finished work to the archive of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation.
Printmakers-in-Residence: Residency programmes have become a vital and
successful part of the workshop’s activities.
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Cill Rialaig Artists Project was set up by publisher Noelle Campbell-Sharpe, as an artist’s retreat on the remote Bolus Head peninsula in County Kerry. Artists from all art forms are welcome to take part in the programme come. Artists are encouraged to donate artwork to the Project to help with the upkeep.
A progressive artists space set in the rural farmland of County Wexford. A productive farm to this day, the space facilitates multidisciplinary practices for artists in residence and students focusing on cross cultural learning and collaboration.
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DAS Residency Programme at Queen Street Studios provides professional multi-media facilities for artists working in new media. Residencies are programmed for four-month periods. There are four places available in each four-month period.
Draíocht is home to a bright, spacious and self contained studio for a visual artist and offers residencies for periods of 4 to 6 months duration.
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The Fire Station offers subsidised studios for living and working; subsidised workshops for large-scale work; subsidised training, talks and master classes. Artists can make the Fire Station their home for up to two years and nine months. The Fire Station also offers an ‘Artist in the community Studio Award’. This award was first initiated by the studios in 2001, with the aim of supporting professional visual artists whose work is context based or participatory, and which pushes the boundaries in term of innovative engagement with communities. The award consists of a free
residential studio for one year and an art materials budget.
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NSF offers Residency Awards to mid-career and emerging artists annually. Local, national and international artists regularly undertake residencies at the National Sculpture Factory. Up to 12 artists can work in the space at one time, thereby providing a collective work environment where artists can exchange ideas and find a critical context for their work. NSF is also the participating host venue in Ireland of the prestigious Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes Programme that supports and facilitates the cultural exchange of artists of outstanding potential.
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Sirius Arts Centre Artist in Residence programme is funded by the Arts Council and Cork County Council and has received recognition internationally. The residency apartment is located in the basement of the Sirius Arts Centre’s building in Cobh, 20 minutes by train to Cork City: a three bedroom/ 2 bathroom flat with it’s own kitchen and work area and is within walking distance of transportation and the town centre. The Artist in Residency programme at Sirius provides residential and studio space to individuals or groups of contemporary visual artists.
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Tallaght Community Arts Centre provides studio spaces for practising visual artists. The Centre’s Artist-in-Residence programme has brought a number of international artists to live in Virginia House and work with the local community.
A studio / residency programme which operates in converted coach houses adjacent to the main Museum building. The programme is intended to provide opportunities for artists to research and develop their work practice, and is open to artists of all nationalities working in any medium, by application or invitation.
The Red Stables houses artists’ day studios, an Irish Artists’ Residential Studio and an International Residential Studio. The provision of these studios is part of Dublin City Council Arts Service Plan 2006-2009, in response to the critical lack of working spaces for artists working in Dublin today.
The Tyrone Guthrie Centre is open to professional practitioners in all artforms. Residencies are for maximum periods of 3 months in the Big House and 6 months in the Farmyard Houses.
