International Artists Fellowships Site
250 artists supported-
Fueling Exchange-
International Fellowships-
The Arts Council's International Fellowships Programme ran from September 2001 to March 2008 managed by Tim Eastop and Natasha Messenger. The artistic outcomes from the fellowships will continue well into the future through new commissions, performances, awards and publications. The Arts Council remains committed to supporting artists to work internationally and will be looking at how the learning from the programme will continue in future Arts Council international working.
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Fellowships in over 30 countries-
Abiding Dilemmas-
A Writer's View by Richard Dyer-
The abiding dilemma of life as a practicing artist is the problem of balancing the time needed to make work in the studio and the necessity of earning a living. The number of artists who are able to survive solely by the sale of their work is extremely small, and even some very well known artists still have to teach part-time in order to sustain a decent standard of living, which for artists also includes the ‘second rent’ of a studio, and what can be the very high cost of equipment and materials. The Art’s Council England’s International Artists Fellowships Programme has enabled hundreds of artists the freedom from this restriction on their creative time by placing them in stimulating environments, institutes and artist-led projects all over the world, for up to three months, or in certain cases even longer. Read full article >|
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Featured Project:
Malika Booker
India International Centre
Malika Booker is a writer and performer, well known on the UK circuit - through her work with performance poetry specialists Apples & Snakes and others - and now, increasingly, for her work overseas, too. During her stay in India, Malika wrote six chapters of her first novel. Read more >|
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Semiconductor
Space Sciences Laboratory
This takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files made accessible via open access archives, we have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise.
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Layla Curtis
Antarctica
Layla Curtis spent 3 months of psycho-geographical exploration as she travelled through Madrid, Santiago, the Falkland Islands and remote islands in the Southern Ocean as she headed for Antarctica. As she went she created a continuous line drawing charting her passage to and from Antarctica using a personal GPS tracking device. Read more >|
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