Studio Bursary Opportunity for Bloomberg New Contemporaries Alumni

New Contemporaries is delighted to again be offering a studio bursary in partnership with SPACE at Deborah House, Hackney from 1 April 2019 - 31 March 2020. Previous recipients of the studio bursary are Matt Copson in 2015, Anita Delaney in 2016, Andrea Zucchini in 2017 and Katie Schwab in 2018.

The opportunity to apply for a free studio is open to all Bloomberg New Contemporaries Alumni from the last five years (2014 to 2018 inclusive).

To be considered please read the application requirements and criteria below.

Bursary dates: 1 April 2019 - 31 March 2020

Criteria:

• You must have exhibited as part of Bloomberg New Contemporaries between 2014 and 2018 inclusive.
• The bursary is for studio space only and does not cover living costs.
• You must agree to produce a minimum of 4 blogs for our website over the year describing your experience of having the studio. Any other possible digital content will be discussed and agreed with New Contemporaries.

Application Requirements:

To apply please submit one PDF document set in 11 point font containing the information below presented in the following order:

• Artists CV containing contact details. No more than 1 page of A4.
• Short statement of no more than 300 words about your work.
• Summary of no more than 300 words explaining how the opportunity will benefit your practice. For artists applying that are not currently based in London, it would be useful to understand how you are going to support yourself as living expenses are not included in the bursary.
• Which year you exhibited in Bloomberg New Contemporaries.
• A maximum of five images of your work. Including title, year of completion and medium of work. Please note that these works must have been completed within the last two years. We are unable to view moving image work as part of this application process, but you are more than welcome to include stills.

Send PDF application to opportunities@newcontemporaries.org.uk by no later than 10:00am Monday 11 February 2019.

Please number the pages and put your name on each page. Please entitle your PDF document in the following way: FirsnameLastname_SPACEStudio2019

Regrettably only applications submitted in the format above will be considered.

We will let you know if you have been successful by the end of February. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer feedback on unsuccessful applications.