Artsadmin’s Artists' Bursary Scheme has been running since 1998 and has supported over 150 artists from across the UK.

The bursary scheme offers time, space and money to focus on open-ended creative processes over a period of a year. It includes the offer of artistic and professional dialogue and mentoring, and opportunties to showcase emerging work at Toynbee Studios or in other contexts.

The scheme is open to UK-based artists working in interdisciplinary and experimental performance, who have an identified area of research they are passionate to pursue, and whose practice would benefit from consolidated time to experiment individually or collaboratively. Artsadmin opens it to application once every eighteen months, with the next round due to be launched in late 2011. The average number of applications is 300, and an average of 10 bursaries are awarded each round. The selection panel includes artists, Artsadmin advisors and arts professionals from other organisations.

A number of artists who first came into contact with Artsadmin through the Bursary Scheme are now managed by our producers, such as Anne Bean, Helen Paris and Mem Morrison. Several associate artists, to whom long-term advocacy and strategic support are offered, are former bursary artists. They include Stacy Makishi, Ursula Martinez, Robin Deacon, The Vacuum Cleaner, Lucy Cash and Chris Goode. The great majority continue to make and show work nationally and internationally to a wide range of audiences.

Details of supported artists can be found below.

The next round of bursaries will be publicised through our e-digest and many other avenues.

The bursary scheme's open-ended strategy encourages a real creative freedom which has engendered a range of consistently high quality work over the years.
Helen Paris

Artsadmin’s Bursary Scheme 2010/11 is supported by Arts Council England, Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre at Central School of Speech and Drama and by generous donors to Artsadmin's Small Change scheme.