Scotland's Workshops Award
We’re excited to share a new opportunity from Scotland’s Workshops!
The aim of this Award is to give one emerging artist the time, support and financial means to experiment and gain new skills through spending time at two of the ten visual art production facilities around Scotland that make up Scotland’s Workshops. The selected artist will receive a bursary of £2500, with an additional £1500 production bursary to cover tuition, technical assistance, materials and any additional production costs, and up to £1000 to cover travel and accommodation, as well as up to £500 towards access costs. The award will be fully supported by the host organisations.
Scotland's Workshops are Highland Print Studio, Inverness; Dundee Contemporary Arts; Edinburgh Printmakers; Glasgow Print Studio, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen; Scottish Sculpture Workshops, Lumsden; Glasgow Sculpture Studios; Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop; Stills Gallery, Edinburgh and Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow.
The Award is open to all Scotland-based emerging artists and those who have graduated within the last three years. We cannot accept applications from undergraduate and postgraduate students or contracted staff from Scotland Workshop’s organisations.
Published
The award is flexible with the recipient being able to spend time at two organisations, with the expectation that you would commit to four weeks of your time – these would not have to be consecutive weeks, and the time could be divided as you’d like between July 2025 and March 2026.
One of the aims of this award is for artists in Scotland to learn more about our production facilities and what they offer. For this reason, we ask that one of your chosen locations is outwith your home location.
Sustainability is also one of the long-term goals of Scotland’s Workshops and therefore we’d also like to know how the award will help you to develop your practice in an environmentally responsible way.
Benefits
- £2500 artist bursary.
- £1500 production bursary
- £1000 available for accommodation and travel
- Access costs available up to £500
The successful applicant will have access to
- Dedicated one-to-one tuition and technical assistance at your two chosen organisations
- Year membership within your selected Scotland’s Workshops organisations who operate a membership scheme or equivalent.
- Support to reflect on the award and produce a short final report, website article or video interview.
- Promotion via host organisations and Scotland’s Workshops websites and social media.
How to apply
Please complete our application on the Wufoo platform via this link: here.
You will be asked for
- Statement letter or video/voice file describing your current practice, and interest in the Scotland’s Workshops Award (max 500 words or 3 mins for a video/voice file)
- CV/track record summary
- A PDF of 6 images of your work, relevant to your proposal, with image credits
- In the last section, please let us know if you have any ongoing commitments or notes about dates that might impact your proposal. Please let us know if you would require the available access costs
- Optional links to your website or other online source of your work
In your statement, please include
- Your initial proposal and artistic intent
- How the opportunity will allow you to develop your practice
- Outline what you would like to do at each of your selected organisations
- How you will consider the environmental impact within your proposal
Selection Criteria and Process
All applications will be reviewed by the organisations mentioned in the proposal to consider practicalities of project plans. The final selection panel will comprise representatives from Scotland’s Workshops. Deadline for applications is Thursday 10 July at 12 midday.