DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS APPROACHING 5.00p.m.Thursday 8th April 2010

Wexford Arts Centre and Wexford County Council are now accepting applications for the annual Emerging Visual Artist Award. The Emerging Visual Artist Award is a partnership initiative between Wexford County Council, Wexford Arts Centre and the Arts Council.   The initiative supports promising visual artists in Ireland with an award of €5,000 and a solo exhibition at Wexford Arts Centre.   The successful recipient of the award will be required to create a new body of work during the period January – December 2011, which will be exhibited at Wexford Arts Centre during January 2012.

Niall de Buitlear, 2009 Award Recipient. Forthcoming exhibition will run from 11th January – 5th February 2011.

Who is eligible to apply for the Award?
Artists practicing any visual art form are eligible to apply for the award. Applicants must have resided in Ireland for a minimum twelve month period to be eligible to apply.  Applicants cannot be currently enrolled in an undergraduate programme in their art form at the time of the application deadline.

What selection criteria will be used?
Applicant’s demonstrated commitment as a serious professional to her/his art form;
Overall excellence of the applicant’s art work;
Demonstration of exceptional talent;

Submissions must be emailed to emergingvisualartistaward@gmail.com and include the following:
1) An up to date CV;
2) A statement about your work detailing ideas, sources, themes, working methods and medium;
3) A detailed proposal in relation to the body of work which you intend to undertake;
4) Reasons for applying for this award;
5) Timescale breakdown – research, production, delivery;
6) Budget breakdown, to include artist’s fees, materials, travel, studio hire, etc.;
7) Examples of work to date i.e. documentation in the form of 10 jpeg images. Full details for each image are required, i.e. title, medium, measurements, date of work.  Three copies of each film, video or audio work can be sent by post.