Arts Council Announces Results of Visual Artists’ Workspace Scheme for 2015
The results of the Visual Artists’ Workspace Scheme for 2015 have been announced. This Scheme offers grants of up to a maximum of €30,000 towards the running costs of visual artists’ workspaces. In keeping with the Council’s policy document ‘Visual Artists’ Workspaces in Ireland – A New Approach’, this scheme has the aim of assisting artists workspaces throughout the country to provide the best possible environment for working visual artists and, where feasible, to enable a level of subsidy for resident visual artists.
In total, 26 eligible applications were received, 16 of which were awarded funding. The total amount awarded was €155,000.
The 2015 Awardees are:
- Basic Space, Dublin: €10,000
- Sample Studios: Cork: €16,000
- Broadstone Studios, Dublin: €25,000
- Hive Emerging, Waterford: €1,800
- Ormond Studios, Dublin: €4,000
- Cork Artists Collective, Cork: €9,000
- Artspace Space Studios, Galway: €20,000
- Artlink, Donegal: €5,000
- Engage Studios, Galway: €9,000
- Cló Ceardlann na gCnoc, Donegal: €9,000
- Monster Truck, Dublin: €7,000
- Pallas Studios, Dublin: €17,000
- Custom House Studios, Mayo: €7,000
- New Art Studios, Dublin: €7,200
- Creative Spark, Louth: €3,000
- Lorg Printmakers, Galway: €5,000