Independent funding for extraordinary early-career artists, makers, curators and producers to develop and thrive across the UK
Imaginative support, across artforms, disciplines and genres…
- applied arts
- ceramics
- choreography
- circus
- collaborative practices
- comedy
- composing
- costume design
- craft
- criticism
- cross-artform
- curatorial practice
- dance
- digital art
- directing
- drag
- drawing
- environmental art
- experimental animation
- fiction
- film
- glass making
- illustration
- improvisation
- installation
- jewellery making
- light art
- live art
- movement
- moving-image
- multidisciplinary
- music
- new media and digital
- non-fiction
- opera
- painting
- performance
- photography
- playwriting
- poetry
- printmaking
- producing
- puppetry
- sculpture
- set design
- socially engaged practices
- sonic arts
- sound art
- sound design
- spoken word
- textiles
- theatre
- visual arts
- writing
Supported programmes
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…
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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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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…
New composers announced for LSO Jerwood Composer+
Rufus Isabel Elliot and Anselm McDonnell will participate in a 15-month placement, developing and delivering two artistic projects while gaining entrepreneurial skills through mentoring by London Symphony Orchestra [LSO] staff. Rufus and…
Pervasive Media Studio and Jerwood Arts launch new guide to random selection
In partnership with Jerwood Arts, the Pervasive Media Studio has launched a new guide for organisations that are interested in random selection. In this guide, they have gathered together the…
Jamal Gerald releases new book, Dee Jumbie Dance: A Resurrection
Jamal Gerald is an artist and writer based in Leeds. His work is conversational, unapologetic and provocative with a social message. Jamal’s practice is currently exploring African diaspora religions through…
19 new artists’ projects selected as part of Jerwood New Work Fund 2023
We are delighted to announce the 19 new artists’ projects selected for Jerwood New Work Fund 2023. Ranging from theatre-making, to composing, to visual arts – these artists represent some…
MAYK announces the artists selected for I Like It. What Is It?
I Like It. What Is It? is a new residency programme for artists or companies working in radical live performance, taking place across two years. The programme is designed to…
Tŷ Cerdd announce 16 early-career music creators selected for CoDI pathways
Tŷ Cerdd’s CoDI Composer Pathways is a multi-faceted programme for Welsh and Wales-based music creators. It was launched in 2018 to create a community of composers and provide them with…
Jerwood Foundation announces intention to merge Jerwood Charity (Jerwood Arts) into Jerwood Foundation
Jerwood Foundation, which has been supporting the arts since 1977, endowed Jerwood Charity with a fund of £25 million in 1999. Both are recognised UK charities and will now work…
Announcing Jerwood/Photoworks Awards 5
The Jerwood/Photoworks Awards are a major commissioning opportunity supporting early-career artists working with photography to make new work and significantly develop their practice. They particularly seek to encourage artists to…
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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