Funding opportunities available to Fine Art students.
Bartlett Funding Opportunities
Fine Art students can apply to two small pots of Department funding:
1. Bartlett Sustainable Practice Award 2025
The aim of the Bartlett Sustainable Practice Award is to inspire students to explore practice-led approaches to climate conscious and sustainable making. There will be prizes available, each which will be awarded through open submission to UG and MFA Fine Art students for practices that reflect critically on ideas in relation to sustainable making.
The aim of the project is also to address the climate emergency as a key challenge through production, presentation and discursive framing of contemporary art practices. The Fine Art department works towards best practice principles in climate aware arts education in line with Newcastle University’s Vision Statement (LINK), that recognises environmental sustainability as a strategic goal.
To find information about the funding scheme Click
Information on how to apply for the Bartlett Sustainable Practice Award 2025 will be announced soon.
2. Bartlett Off-Site fund.
This fund supports student-initiated collaborative and group projects taking place off campus. Projects must involve at least 3 NCL Fine Art students and can involve participants from other Art Schools . Open to BA and MA students. Single award are typically £50 – £250s and will not exceed £500 with a max of £100 per participating NCL Fine Art student. The fund is run by Nick Fox. Email applications to nick.fox@newcastle.ac.uk.
Forshaw Funding Opportunities
Forshaw Women Artists Interview Award
- This prize enables women students studying Fine Art at Newcastle to travel to interview a woman artist of their choice about their practice, their experiences as a student and their career as an artist. The prize is trans-inclusive.
- It aims to help women students develop links with professional artists outside the department and foster awareness of underrepresented women artists in the UK and beyond.
- Students will be supported by members of Fine Art staff as they prepare for the interview.
- Students will be required to submit an illustrated report on their experience and give a presentation about their experience to members of the departments and the Forshaw family at an annual ‘Forshaw Showcase’.
How to Apply?
- Students will be required to submit an application with full details of travel, accommodation and subsistence costs, intended dates, artist fees as well as a statement (500 words maximum) on the relevance of this interview to their own practice and to their professional development.
- The award is open to BA or MFA women students.
- Maximum award is 2000 GBP though we appreciate proposals that request a smaller sum.
- Deadline: 11 March 2024.
- Please send your applications to Katarzyna.Falecka@newcastle.ac.uk
The Newcastle University Forshaw Fine Art Residency at the British School at Rome
- The award normally includes accommodation for one month (usually July) in one of the BSR’s artist’s studios, which include a mezzanine bedroom and en-suite bathroom, and daily dinner with other award holders and residents.
- All women Newcastle University BA Fine Art Final Year students are eligible to apply. We are trans-inclusive. Usually two residencies are offered per year.
- In addition to accommodation and dinner provision, the successful applicant will receive financial help with travel, insurance, BSR membership, subsistence and material costs and the costs of attending a Forshaw Showcase event.
- Details about the award, deadline and amount of support will be indicated in the Call of Entries.
- The Call for Entries is usually open for a few weeks in the spring.
- In 2024 the deadline is: Friday 26th April 2023, 5pm.
- Please email Catrin Huber catrin.huber@newcastle.ac.uk in case of questions.
How to Apply?
- Applications should be typed and should be no more than 500 words in length (including itinerary and budget). They should include:
Aims: Details of how the residency might inform your practice and benefit your career. How would you use the residency?
Objectives: What would you do to fulfil your aims? How would you use the resources and facilities available at the BSR, Rome, Italy and how would they benefit you? Please provide a detailed itinerary of planned activities.
Projected budget: a breakdown of estimated costs for transport, insurance, materials, itinerary and subsistence. Please be as accurate as possible, justifying your estimate by providing quotes.
10 Images (links to video /audio works) of your current work with respective details (title, media, size, year). No additional text about the work.
All applications will be considered by at least two members of the Forshaw Committee. Successful students will be informed of their award via email.
Requirements on your return:
You will need to submit an illustrated written report within one month of your return. In addition, you will be invited to attend a Forshaw Showcase event at some point in the following academic year to share your experience with all Fine Art students.
Forshaw MFA Bursaries
- Value of award: 3000 GBP per year.
- Deadline: July 2024 (TBC).
- In order to be considered for a Forshaw MFA Bursaries, you must be a woman, have already applied to the Master of Fine Art at Newcastle University and received an offer of a place by this date and fulfilled any conditions attached to the offer.
- Successful applicants will receive £3000 per year for 2 years, £6000 in total. Payment is transferred once the student is registered and paid fees. The second payment will be made only on successful completion of Year 1, a satisfactory review of attendance to the course and payment of fees for Year 2.
- We particularly welcome applications from international students.
- Please contact jane.millican@newcastle.ac.uk in case of questions.
Venice Fellowship Programme
Do you want to be part of the British Pavilion at the next Venice Biennale in 2024? There is a fantastic opportunity for two FULLY FUNDED month long student fellowships open to ALL Newcastle University Fine Art students. Two students will be selected from our Fine Art department to work with student colleagues from other Fine Art departments across the UK.
The deadline for applications is 8th November2023. Late applications cannot be accepted. Please read the attached material, and if you can attend a British Council webinar. You can also contact Andrew Burton for more info.
What is the Venice Fellowship Programme?
The British Council is excited to welcome applications for its Venice Fellowships Programme to take place during the 60th International Art Exhibition la Biennale de Venezia in 2024 (the Venice Art Biennale). The Venice Fellowships Programme is a unique opportunity for creative individuals, students, researchers, artists at the start of their careers, to spend a month in Venice during one of the world’s most important art biennales. Successful applicants will spend one month in Venice to develop a proposed project and will also gain work experience acting as an exhibition ambassador for John Akomfrah’s exhibition at the British Pavilion. Fellows will have the opportunity to engage with an international community of artists, researchers, art entrepreneurs, young leaders and change makers, and also contribute with a proposed project. The fellowship month can be taken between April and November 2024 with the dates decided by the British Council.
Who can apply?
The British Council welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, areas of knowledge, academic departments and life experiences. We are looking for creative individuals, interested and passionate about arts, culture, and its social value, and how the arts can contribute to the world and address society’s most complex challenges.
How do I apply?
To apply for a position please send an application form – which you can find in the attached document – and an equality and diversity monitoring form (for the British Council’s records) to Andrew Burton on or before 8th November 2023 (23:59 GMT). Your application will be reviewed by a panel of Fine Art staff. We will then send a shortlist of 5 candidates to the British Council for the final review stage.
You will see on the application form that the British Council are supporting two application formats: this could be answering the questions in a written format or as a video with image and audio. It does not need to be slickly produced; it is intended to give them a sense of what you’re interested in and why the Fellowship appeals to you. The British Council use different ways of application as they appreciate that not everyone would prefer to write, but similarly, not everyone likes to speak in front of a camera, so they are welcoming both methods. Candidates are encouraged to apply with the one they feel most comfortable with.
How can I find out more about the Fellowship Programme and what’s expected?
Please read the attached document, and follow the links it contains.
Any other questions?
If you have any questions about the programme or the application process, please contact Andrew Burton via email .
For Further info, please click here
You can find a wonderful overview from two 2023 Fellows about their experience/application, and many questions answered are in this folder,which the British Council are sharing with applicants.
In case you couldn’t get into the open meeting on 4th October, you can find the recording here:
The recording (video, audio, text)
Please feel free to post this on your Fellowship call-out pages (if you have one), They also encourage your students/ community members to scroll to the end of the recording to hear what other questions are being asked by fellow applicants.
The chat text (saved in the folder) includes many questions, all of which we answered verbally or in the chat.
In addition, we shared with them:
– The Application form
– The Applicants’ Guidance document
– Slides from today’s’ presentation
– The Fair Pay and Lived Experience UK Benefits resource, with gratitude to and produced by Arts&Homelessness International.
– The Fair Pay and Lived Experience Manifesto for Change.
These latter two documents were shared today in response to several questions about benefits and grants; a conversation I will pick up separately with 2024 Partners – including AHI, Outside In, Venture Arts and others – possibly as part of the Partners’ Community of Practice.