Independent funding for extraordinary early-career artists, makers, curators and producers to develop and thrive across the UK
The merger of Jerwood Arts with Jerwood Foundation will be complete and take effect from 1st January 2024.
[14 November 2023]
Jerwood Foundation has announced new funding plans for the merged organisation.
Up to £2 million of grants will be awarded each year. Arts organisations of all kinds are invited to apply for funding, with the first round of grants being awarded in April 2024 (closing date 1 March 2024). The application process has been streamlined and can be found on the Jerwood Foundation website, https://jerwood.org/funding/.
In keeping with John Jerwood’s original philanthropic vision, the charity will support excellence and emerging talent in the arts and crafts in the UK.
The merger creates a single future-facing UK charitable Foundation, relevant for the political, social, and financial climate of the 21st century, ensuring a sustainable future with maximum impact for beneficiaries.
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Jerwood Developing Artists Fund
Through this fund, Jerwood Arts will build a UK-wide portfolio of innovative organisations that work in and across artforms and disciplines and can offer transformative, career-making opportunities for individuals at…
Jerwood New Work Fund
The Jerwood New Work Fund offered targeted project funding for early-career artists, makers, curators and producers who have recently completed a Jerwood Arts supported development programme. It was designed to…
Jerwood/FVU Awards 2022
Soojin Chang’s BXBY is a year-long performance project that merges forms of semi-fictional documentary and ritual practice, that follows Chang as a hybrid, shape-shifting being trying to learn to reproduce. Drawing…
Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open 8
Five new commissions by early-career artists and makers Anna Berry, Cecilia Charlton, Jahday Ford, Vicky Higginson and Francisca Onumah & Helena Russell, brought about through the biennial Jerwood Art Fund…
What's On
FPG x Jerwood Presents: Maz Murray
Maz Murray is an artist and filmmaker based in London and Basildon. Maz uses satire, surrealism, melodrama, and humour to talk about queer and trans identity, class, and the complexities…
Experimenting with random selection in funding
Find out all about our experiment with random selection for the 1:1FUND including commissioned essays, evaluation resources and the recording of our In Conversation: On Random Selection event with the New Diorama Theatre, The Uncultured and Horizon Showcase.
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Studio Wayne McGregor announces call out for new artist residency: Resident 6
Designed for emerging Artists who are pushing the boundaries of dance, movement and physical intelligence, RESIDENT 6 will invite six artists to make Studio Wayne McGregor their home for a…
Somerset House Studios announces Studio 01 - a new exhibition series presenting residency artists
Selected by a panel of artists and industry experts including Studios resident and filmmaker Jenn Nkiru, Studio 01 takes its title from the first-ever exhibition at Somerset House Studios in 2016,…
Bradford Producing Hub PROPEL programme: Open call for host organisations
PROPEL is a skills development programme for early-career Producers and Production Managers in Bradford, designed to prepare participants to deliver bold and ambitious new and artistic work through work placements…
Applications are open for At HOME with Jerwood 2024
Since HOME opened in 2015, nurturing the talent of early career artists has been a central focus of their work. Their Artist Development programme supports over 750 artists, filmmakers and…
Jerwood Foundation confirms the merger with Jerwood Charity (Jerwood Arts) will take effect from 1 January 2024
Up to £2 million of grants will be awarded each year. Arts organisations of all kinds will be able to apply for funding, with the first round of grants being…
Gallery dates and exhibiting artists announced for Jerwood Survey III 2024-2025
The artists selected for Jerwood Survey III are: Che Applewhaite, Aqsa Arif, MV Brown, Philippa Brown, Alliyah Enyo, Sam Keelan, Paul Nataraj, Ciarán Ó’Dochartaigh, Ebun Sodipo and Kandace Siobhan Walker.…
Nonclassical announce artists selected for Nonclassical AiR
The Nonclassical AiR scheme has been developed to give 4 early career artists a 360-degree view of what it takes to be a composer in today’s musical landscape. Nonclassical’s Artist…
Writing the Future: An open call for music creators
The London Sinfonietta is seeking four music creators to join the next round of Writing the Future, an opportunity to create a new work for an ensemble of up to…
Jerwood Assistant Director Scheme: An opportunity to assist on the Young Vic's Nachtland is now open
Modern-day Germany. Nicola and Philipp argue as they clear out their late father’s house. When they find an old painting stashed in the attic, things get savage. The painting is…
Applications are now open for the Jerwood Somerset House Studios residency 2023
The residency includes £3,000 bursary per artist £3,000 project budget per artist to develop a new work Dedicated studio space for 18-months, shared by the three selected artists A mentor…
Supporting and celebrating our artists
We support extraordinary early-career artists, makers, curators and producers working in one or more artform, discipline or genre from all backgrounds based anywhere in the UK. Our artists directory brings together all those we have supported and ways to find out more about their work.
Artists DirectoryReflections and Resources
Reflecting on 13 years of Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries
Thirteen years ago I was handed the task of setting up this programme. It was the final days of the New Labour government, and Margaret Hodge, Minister of State for…
From social mobility to social justice
Written by Professor Dave O’Brien, this short paper was created alongside the launch of our new Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries Toolkit, (Team) Work in Practice. The paper reflects on the…
(Team) Work In Practice Online
Practice makes progress These three words have been a guiding light throughout the creation of (Team) Work in Practice, as well as the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries (WJCB) programme that…
(Team) Work In Practice
Introduction Over 2020-2022, the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme supported 50 salaried jobs in arts and cultural organisations across the UK, for individuals from working class/low socio-economic backgrounds. This new…
Forward and Down
“Each one is efficiently and unceremoniously lifted by a neighbouring crane and then released into the ocean. After the initial splash, each car bobs up as water swells into its…
“What now?” Jerwood New Work Fund in Focus
What is the Jerwood New Work Fund? The Jerwood New Work Fund (JNWF) is our funding pathway for extraordinary early-career artists, makers, curators and producers who have recently completed a…
Finding Kin, Making Kin
Salena Barry is Jerwood Writer in Residence from July 2022 – December 2022. This is her response to Soojin Chang’s film BXBY, commissioned as part of Jerwood/FVU Awards 2022. As I ran…
Layers/Letter to my Shadow
Read the full text in the downloadable pdf at the bottom of this page or listen to a recording of it read by Salena Barry using the Soundcloud link above.…
Jerwood in Practice: Jerwood Developing Artist Fund Update
Our approach to designing the Jerwood Developing Artists Fund involved creating a two-step process: an Expression of Interest stage followed by an invitation to a small number of arts organisations to make a…
Recent and upcoming projects across the UK
Collaborating with organisations across the UK enables our funding to reach as many artists and audiences a possible.
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