Sligo County Council Arts Service
Grants & Bursaries Scheme
The Sligo County Council Arts Service Grants & Bursaries Scheme 2010 is now closed. At their April meeting, the members of Sligo County Council approved the recommendations of the Independent Assessment Panel to award 37 Arts Grants (52 applications received) and 8 Bursaries (47 applications received).
Details for the next scheme will be available here in Spring 2011.
The Fred Conlon Contemporary Sculpture Award 2010
Closing Date: Thursday 22 July 2010
Sligo County Council Arts Service invites visual artists, particularly sculptors, to apply for the Fred Conlon Contemporary Sculpture Award 2010.
This award offers artists the opportunity to avail of studio and living facilities for two months in the inspiring scenic region of Easkey, West Sligo and one month in the Leitrim Sculpture Centre followed by a solo exhibition in the Leitrim Sculpture Centre upon completion of the residency. Dates of the residency are fixed between mid January and mid April 2011.
Open to national and international artists, applicants will be required to have a third level qualification in art or an equivalent record of application and achievement.
Click on the Fred Conlon Award on your left for information and application.
The John O’Leary Fine Art Graduate Award 2010
The presentation of the John O’Leary Fine Art Graduate Award which honours the late Sligo based artist and lecturer, John O’Leary, took place Thursday evening 10th June at the BA Honours Degree Show in the Institute of Technology, Sligo.
This award was introduced by Sligo County Council in the current Space for Art Sligo Arts Plan 2007-2012 and is delivered in partnership with the Fine Art Department, Institute of Technology Sligo to recognise excellence in the visual arts at under-graduate level. This year the award encourages and supports an artist to broaden their horizons and deepen their creative practice through international travel which will advance the artist’s own practice. Introducing the award, Perry Share, Head of the School of Humanities, regretted the closure of Sligo Art Gallery and hoped that it may be possible to maintain an association with the board of the Gallery for this Award going forward.
Marilyn Gaffney from Castlepollard, Co Westmeath was announced as the award winning artist by Cormac O Leary, son of the late John O’Leary. The John O Leary Travel Award, valued at €3,000 will be used by Marilyn to take up a residency in France for a period of time followed by visits to a number of other major European cultural centres. “This award will help fund my intended travel destination to creative surroundings in the South of France to a place called The Art Farm. This place is surrounded by captivating landscape which is a major factor in my art work. This opportunity will enable me to visit a country I have never been to before but have investigated thoroughly enough that it has captured my interests towards my art practice. It will help me develop my own independence and further the development of my art career.”
