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
- 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
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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Samra Mayanja: The Living and the Stale
The Jerwood Tetley Commissions offer three artists or curators based in the North of England the opportunity to develop a significant body of work or curate a group exhibition with the support…
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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Artist filmmaker Kat Anderson wins the first East London Art Prize
The first recipient of the new East London Art Prize, celebrating professional artists working or living in London’s ‘E’ postcodes, is artist filmmaker Kat Anderson. Established by Bow Arts, the…
Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellow Anthony Joseph wins T.S. Eliot prize
Chair of judges Jean Sprackland said each of the shortlisted books “spoke powerfully to us in its own distinctive voice”. She added that “from this strong field our choice is…
Glyndebourne announces Jerwood Young Artists 2023
Three early-career singers have been selected for the next iteration of The Jerwood Young Artists programme at Glyndebourne, enabling them to work with leading conductors, directors, choreographers, theatre specialists and vocal…
Jerwood Arts announces 24 artists selected as part of Jerwood New Work Fund 2022
The 24 early-career artists, makers, curators, and producers selected for the Jerwood New Work Fund (JNWF), represent some of the most exciting breakthrough talent across the UK, spanning a variety…
Jerwood Family Annual Reports 2022 Published Today
Read all the reports on Jerwood Foundation’s website. Jerwood Arts’ Annual Report 2022 by Chairman Rupert Tyler and Director Lilli Geissendorfer We look back on a year of exciting…
Jerwood Arts former Chairman recognised in New Year Honours List for services to the Arts
Alan Grieve CBE, Chairman of the Jerwood Foundation, welcomed Tim Eyles into the heart of the Jerwood family in the mid-90s. He was made a Trustee in 2000 of the newly…
CCA Derry~Londonderry Announces 2023 Research Associates
The 2023 Research Associate cohort are: Rachel Botha, Beulah Ezeugo, Marie Farrington, Lucy Grubb, Hattie Godfrey. The CCA Research Associate cohort is part of the Jerwood Developing Artists Fund, CCA x Jerwood = Supports.…
Outburst Arts announce the selected artists for Tongue + Heart
Tongue + Heart: The Outburst / Jerwood Queer Artists Programme will support queer artists living in Northern Ireland to develop their practice over 15-months. The artists receive mentoring, professional development…
Jerwood Arts announces 12 new artist development programmes
The 12 new programmes join four announced earlier this year to create a growing portfolio of fully resourced opportunities for artists at a pivotal moment in their careers to gain…
Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open at Aberdeen Art Gallery
Jerwood Art Fund Makers Open recognises and promotes the significance of making practice and process within contemporary visual arts. It supports exceptional UK-based artist and makers to develop their creative…
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 & Resources
“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…
Sharing our Live Work Fund Evaluations
In Autumn 2020 we launched the £660,000 Live Work Fund in partnership with the Wolfson Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and the Linbury Trust to support artists whose practices focused and relied on live performance which at the…
Watch: A Celebration of the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowships
The two events marked the end of six years of the ground breaking programme. Set up to give poets at a critical moment in their careers a moment to pause,…
Signpost: Funding and Resources for UK Based Artists and Artist-Led Organisations
Last updated on 1 February 2022. UK Arts Councils: Funding and advice for artistic development and projects across the UK. Arts Council England Arts Council of Northern Ireland Arts…
Socio-Economic Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts: A Toolkit for Employers
Fair access to working in the arts remains one of the most urgent issues facing the sector today, with those from lower socio-economic backgrounds still vastly underrepresented amongst the artists…
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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