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 offers targeted project funding for early-career artists, makers, curators and producers who have recently completed a Jerwood Arts supported development programme. It enables us 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
(Team) Work in Practice: In-Person Workshop
Following the launch of (Team) Work In Practice: Collective insights, ideas, and challenges to drive socio-economic inclusivity in your organisation, workshops will be held across the UK for people in…
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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Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom Awarded The Donna Lynas Residency
We’re delighted to share that artist Appau Junior Boakye-Yiadom has been announced as the inaugural resident of the Donna Lynas Residency. The residency is a new opportunity for an artist…
Rue Baldry wins regional category in the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded annually for the best piece of unpublished short fiction from the Commonwealth. Regional winners each receive £2,500 and the overall winner receives £5,000.…
Dharma Taylor is awarded the 6th Stuart Hall Library Artist Residency
Stuart Hall Foundation and iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) have announced that artist and maker Dharma Taylor has been selected for the sixth Stuart Hall Library Artist Residency. The…
Mediale announces the new cohort of creatives for Immersive Assembly Vol 3
Mediale has announced the latest cohort of creatives commissioned to take part in Immersive Assembly Vol 3, a multidisciplinary artistic residency bringing together a cohort of UK-based artists and practitioners…
Announcing the Ninth Edition of Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open
We are excited to announce the three new partners for Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open: Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales as lead partner, Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery and York Art…
Cynthia MaiWa Sitei amongst winners of the V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography
The V&A have announced the five winners of the inaugural V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography: an exciting new annual initiative dedicated to identifying, supporting, and championing innovative…
Jerwood Arts awardees join the Horizon Showcase 2023 artist line-up
Horizon is one of four showcase programmes of work from the four UK nations at the Edinburgh Festivals. Selecting exceptional, stand-out performance created in England which is ready for international…
Join Our Team
With three of our team moving on in their lives and careers over the coming months, we have a rare opportunity to build a new team. We are therefore excited…
Leeds Playhouse and Tutti Frutti announce the selected artist for Jerwood Resident Designer
West Yorkshire theatre designer Delicia Sorhaindo has been announced as the new Jerwood Resident Designer at Leeds Playhouse as part of a raft of career-boosting opportunities run by Leeds Playhouse…
Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open finishes tour on a high note
As part of Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open’s presentation at Aberdeen Art Gallery, and with the support of Art Fund, Aberdeen Art Gallery hosted a curatorial development and networking event…
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.…
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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