£30k Bursary Opportunity!

Photography students and alumni will be interested to know that Sky Arts and IdeasTap are giving away five bursaries of £30,000 each to emerging artists aged 18-30.

The bursaries are designed to help talented individuals from a range of creative disciplines focus on their creative practice for a whole year. In addition to the funding, winners are paired with creative and business mentors to support their development.

The Futures Fund is open to UK and Irish applicants working in the following fields:

· Visual art including painters, photographers, animators, digital artists

· Creative producing for people who bring together different artists

· Creative writing including playwrights, novelists and poets

· Performing arts theatre-makers including directors, producers, puppeteers

· Dance including dancers and choreographers

· Music including composers, conductors, musicians and songwriters

The deadline for applications is 5pm on Friday 6 December
Find out more and apply at www.ideastap.com/sky

Lumen Digital Art Prize 2013

The winner's announcement will be held today - Tuesday 8 October 2013.
Arcadecardiff are honoured that celebrated Welsh artist and Lumen jury panel member Ivor Davies, President of the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, will be awarding the prizes at 6pm!

Arcadecardiff
Queens Arcade, Queen Street, Cardiff / Caerdydd, CF10 2BY
By New Look, down the escalators /  Gerllaw New Look, i lawr y grisiau symudol

FORUM - Test Something

Thursday 26 September 2013: 6.30pm
First Space, Chapter, Cardiff CF5 1QE

For this month’s event Forum will become a lab for new ideas; artist Matthew Britton will be testing out his ideas for a micro curatorial platform for showing web-based works. If you have any, please bring your mobile devices - smart phone, iPad/tablet.

OPPORTUNITY

Are you an early career or graduate lens-based artist/photographer living, working or studying in Wales?

At Ffotogallery, we're making plans for a second Wish You Were Here season in Summer 2014 and would love to see your work!

For more details click here to see our opportunities page

Kickplate Gallery’s current exhibition, "Collaborators"

Dafydd and Zosia has successfully received its ‘kickstarter’ funding to sustain their innovative Kickplate gallery and feature the current exhibition of collaborative works from international artists. The work shows a broad variety of styles and techniques from film swaps to Kaleidoscopes that complement each other through their use of colour and universal themes shown from disparate political and cultural perspectives: http://thekickplateproject.blogspot.co.uk/

‘“collaborators” is the third event organised by the *kickplate* project, an initiative to bring high-quality international art to people who are not the target audience of art.’ 

 – The Kickplate project

The exhibition is open from 17 September - 8 October in Abertillery, Wales.

Pictures from August's Art Prizes FORUM

Here's what we got upto at last month's FORUM. Thanks to all the speakers and audience for some great discussions. 

September FORUM | Test Something

Thursday 26th September / 6.30pm / Free

At Chapter

This month we are inviting artists to test, experiment and try out ideas; a chance for people to talk and physically test different ideas in their practice. Anyone wishing to use the evening to try out an intervention / performance / idea is welcome to get in touch!