Jerwood Foundation

06/03/2024

To our friends, partners and followers - as of next week we'll no longer be posting to our page, leaving space for us to focus our efforts on our Instagram and X accounts.

Follow us at on Instagram and on X for Jerwood Foundation news, events, funding, hacks, projects, programmes and much more.

If you have any questions, please add a note to the comment section below and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Best wishes,
The Jerwood Foundation team

23/02/2024

To our fantastic friends, partners and followers - we've decided to close our page and focus our efforts on our Instagram and X accounts.

Follow us on Instagram and on X for Jerwood Foundation news, "What's on" info, funding tips, projects, programmes and much more.

If you have any questions, please add a note to the comment section below and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Besh wishes,
The Jerwood Foundation team

20/02/2024

🚨 Reminder 🚨 The closing date for Spring 2024 funding applications is just around the corner on 1 March 2024, with funding then awarded in April.

Please note that Trustees will only consider applications for projects starting more than three months but less than twelve months from the funding round closing date. Tap the link below to find out more.

https://jerwood.org/funding/

Image credit: Tracing Movement 'Dance With Whoever You F*cking Want To' 2023. Photography by Robin Kent.

09/02/2024

2023 was an important year for us as we merged Jerwood Charity (Jerwood Arts) into Jerwood Foundation and appointed Rupert Tyler as Chairman of Jerwood Foundation.

Alan Grieve CBE, who has dedicated over 30 years to Jerwood, was appointed Chairman Emeritus and remains a Jerwood Foundation Trustee.

We also completed the gift of the gallery building to Hastings Borough Council for the benefit and wellbeing of the people of Hastings, among other significant steps forward.

Tap the link below to read our full Annual Review.

(Image: Alan Grieve, Financial Times How to Spend It. Photo Credit: Sophie Wedgewood).

https://jerwood.org/annual-review-2023/

17/01/2024

"The course was amazing. It met all my expectations. I enjoyed meeting industry professionals and sharing our ideas with them. Having the long Saturday to make our sets was really inspiring and it was lovely to see everyone’s designs." - Participant in the Jerwood Introduction to Set Design course, led by the team at Leeds Playhouse .

Photography by Cian Ó Riain

03/01/2024

Jerwood Foundation has awarded a grant of £10,000 to support Start the Press! at , Birmingham, as part of Ikon’s 60th anniversary year.

Open from 9 February until 21 April, the exhibition's centrepiece is a vintage, flatbed printing press from Wolverhampton School of Art, and includes a display of printmaking on loan from Jerwood Collection, including works by , , , and .yass, plus a series of prints by .

Tap the link below to find out more.

Featured image: Lubaina Himid CBE RA (b. 1954), A Rake's Progress Hole in her Stocking (4), 2022. Courtesy of Jerwood Collection © the artist

https://jerwood.org/news/61-start-the-press-ikon-gallery-birmingham/

01/01/2024

We'd like to wish our friends, partners and followers a very Happy New Year, and we look forward to supporting emerging talent and artistic excellence in 2024.

We will be awarding up to £2 million of grants this year and have been setting out funding plans, with the first round of grants being awarded in April 2024. The closing date for applications is 1 March 2024, so please visit the Jerwood Foundation website via the link below to apply.

https://jerwood.org/funding/

29/12/2023

The closing date for applications is coming up on Sunday 7 January 2024 for Studio Wayne McGregor's Resident 6 residency opportunity for emerging artists.

Don't miss out, find out more via the link below 👇

https://jerwoodarts.org/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…

27/12/2023

A brand new exhibition and events programme by Sheffield-based artist, DJ and broadcaster Ashley Holmes will open at Soft Ground in Sheffield on 22 February 2024 until 18 May 2024, commissioned by Arts Catalyst and supported by the Jerwood New Work Fund, Arts Council England, The Elephant Trust, and Henry Moore Foundation.

Presented as a constellation of structures for contemplation, rest and listening, Skylarking explores the relationship between landscapes, music and belonging, and is part of The Mouth in collaboration with Sheffield Museums.

Image: Field research at Mam Tor (2021). Credit: Ashley Holmes

Tap the link below to find out more.

https://jerwoodarts.org/jerwood-new-work-fund-artist-exhibition-announced-skylarking-ashley-holmes/

18/12/2023

Hofesh Shechter Company has announced the eight dancers selected to join the prestigious company Shechter II for 2024, as part of the 12-month Performance and Development Programme supported by the Jerwood Developing Artists Fund.

Tap the link below to find out more.

https://jerwoodarts.org/hofesh-shechter-company-has-announced-the-2024-cohort-for-shechter-ii/

The selected dancers represent the very best of the next generation of contemporary dance artists and will be performing in Hofesh Shechter’s compelling new work, From England with Love. The…

16/12/2023

Sound and Music ’s new national artist development programme, In Motion, is now open for applications and registration, with support from Jerwood Arts 🎉

In Motion is an artist development programme for anyone aged 18 and over, working with music and sound in the UK.

The deadline for registration is 10 January at 23:59, tap the link below for more information.

https://jerwoodarts.org/sound-and-music-in-motion-programme-applications-open/

Image courtesy of Sound and Music.