Fine Art: Funding & Jobs

a-n The Artists Information Company

a-n is the largest artist membership organisation in the UK, supporting artists at every stage of their career. AUB students get free membership. The a-n website offers practical employment guides and toolkits on topics like finding work, applying for grants, writing proposals, organising exhibitions, approaching galleries, becoming self-employed, and negotiating contracts.
 

To join, visit a-n.co.uk/join and select ‘Students - £16’. Sign up with your AUB email address and use the discount code AIBL0001 for free membership. Please note that while on campus, you’ll get instant access to a-n through a generic account. To create a personal account, sign up while off campus.

Arts Jobs

Adverts for a range of job opportunities within the art and culture sector.

Art Quest

Funding directory, including prizes for artists and regional/thematic awards.

Paul Hamlyn Foundation

Funding directory for visual artists.

Parker Harris

Visual arts consultancy and project management service which is useful for general opportunities.

Res Artis

Network of arts residency operators from around the globe, with more than 550 members in over 75 countries.

Arts and Humanities Research Council

The AHRC offers several modes of funding for postdoctoral academics many of which operate an ‘open-deadline’.  Numerous funding routes including support for well-defined research projects; Early Career Researchers; and development of research leaders. They also support Research Networks to facilitate interactions between researchers and stakeholders through, for example, a short series of workshops, seminars, or networking activities and Follow-on Funding for Impact and Engagement which provides funds to support innovative and creative engagements, with new audiences, which stimulate pathways to impact. AHRC also offers funding for identified themes/highlight notices for emerging areas of interest.

The British Academy

Funds postdoctoral research across arts and humanities. Including: Postdoctoral Fellowships and Mid-Career Fellowships to fund a substantial piece of academic research; Skills Acquisition Awards; and British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships which enables mid-career scholars to have one year's research leave with funding being provided to cover the costs of replacement teaching. It supports projects through Small Research Grants up to £10K; Special Funds Awards for postdoctoral awards in humanities and social sciences based on geographic areas/historical time periods; and International Schemes for UK scholars and partners overseas to engage in international collaborative research.

The Leverhulme Trust

Funds postdoctoral academic research for most subjects, excluding medicine. The Trust's financial support is organised into grants and awards which vary in size, purpose, and application procedure.

Funds available for: International Travel; Performing and Fine arts; Postdoctoral research; Research assistance on a project; Research Project Grants; Research Fellowships; International Networks; Emeritus Fellowships; Research leave to pursue a project; Visits by foreign scholars to the UK.

Paul Mellon Centre

The programme supports scholarship, academic research and the dissemination of knowledge in the field of British art and architectural history from the medieval period to the present, although all supported topics must have an historical perspective. Grants support curatorial research grants; publication grants for both an individual and publisher; research support grants; and educational programmes.

Wellcome Trust

Funding concentrated into five funding areas: biomedical science; medical humanities; innovations; public engagement; society and ethics and innovations. The medical humanities strand offers opportunities for researchers in the humanities, including creative arts, to collaborate with scientists to enrich public understanding of health, medicine and disease.

Arts Council England

Invests money from the government and the National Lottery in arts and culture across England. Funding a wide range of arts based activities including: ACE Artists’ International Development Fund (jointly funded with the British Council); Capital Small Grants; Creative Employment programme; Creative Industry Finance. Probably worth speaking to the Arts Council area representative in advance of seeking funding.

The National Lottery Heritage Fund

Provides funding for charities, voluntary organisations, and projects that improve the health, education, and environment of communities.

Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

One of the largest independent grant-making foundations in the UK. Funds across four main sectors – Arts, Children and Young People, Environment and Social Change and Food funding.  For the Arts, it supports three strands:

• Organisations at a pivotal point – organisationally or artistically
• Development of emerging talent
• Art as an instrument for social change, community cohesion or participation

Getty Foundation

Offers two programmes: scholars programme for scholars, artists, and other cultural figures from around the world to work in residence at the Institute on projects that bear upon its annual research theme and research projects: to support the development of new art historical scholarship and are often based on the special collections of the Research Library.

Henry Moore Foundation

The foundation concentrates its support on sculpture. It makes awards in five areas: new projects (exhibitions/exhibition catalogues); collections (cataloguing/display); research and development; fellowships (post doc/artists in residency); conferences, lectures, and publications.

Jerwood Foundation

The Jerwood Charitable Foundation (JCF) is dedicated to imaginative and responsible funding of the arts across the UK, with a particular focus on supporting emerging talent and excellence. It aims for its funding to allow artists and arts organisations to thrive; to continue to develop their skills, imagination, and creativity with integrity. Funds: Jerwood Visual Arts; large grants and small grants.

Nesta

Innovation Charity working in a number of areas including digital arts and media. The Digital R&D Fund for the Arts supports ideas that use digital technology to build new business models and enhance audience reach for organisations with arts projects.

Onassis Foundation

The Onassis Foundation funds an annual programme of research grants offered in architecture, visual arts, music, dance, photography, and film studies. The grantees are invited to deliver a lecture or to conduct a seminar during their stay in Greece, either at the Onassis Cultural Centre of Athens or a university or other cultural research centre.