Fingal County Council in partnership with Draíocht Blanchardstown announce the Draíocht Artist Studio Residency Award 2025

Fingal County Council and Draíocht Blanchardstown announce the return of the Draíocht Artist Studio Residency Award 2025.

This Residency consists of the use of Draíocht’s Visual Artist’s Studio for the period above rent free. A fee of €4000 for the 4-month period together with €1,000 material costs are in addition.

Artists are expected to make full-time use of the space and applications from artists who are from under-represented communities are particularly welcome.

The studio is available for use 10.00am to 5.30pm, Monday to Saturday.

Fingal County Council Arts Officer Sarah O’Neil commented, ‘The studio space in Draíocht provides an opportunity for professional artist to use this space to develop their practice. One of our key strategic goals is to enable excellence and this award highlights Fingal’s great art and artists.’

Previous recipient of the award in 2024, Joanne Reid said of her time in the studio, ‘I was lucky to be awarded the Fingal County Council and Draíocht Artist Studio Residency Award in 2024. The residency provided me with a large studio space for four months, working within the supportive environment at Draíocht Arts Centre. The main focus of my residency was to research and develop new work for exhibition in 2025. The studio residency was funded and also included a generous budget for materials, which made it possible for me to work full time in the studio and also focus on research and experimentation with materials and forms to develop new work.’

Please note that this is a Studio Residency only. It does not include Exhibition or Mentorship opportunities.

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The application deadline is:
27 June 2025 at 4:00pm

Further information can be found by visiting:
www.draiocht.ie

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If you wish to be considered, please send the following information:

— A current CV (2 pages maximum)
— Expression of interest to include:

  1. artist statement
  2. a clear indication of the focus of the studio residency
  3. website and/or other links to your work and/or
  4. up to ten images of relevant work in jpeg format

Please send all in a single PDF.

Please direct any questions or quires as well as completed applications by email to:
Emer McGowan, Director, Draíocht, The Blanchardstown Centre, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15
Email: emer@draiocht.ie
Phone: 01 809 8027

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About Previous Recipient

Joanne Reid is a visual artist working primarily in sculpture. Her work often begins as a direct response to chance encounters with the materials, objects and spaces that form our built environment. Reid is particularly drawn to the use of building materials, such as steel, plywood, concrete, timber, and plaster in her practice. While her work draws mainly on an engagement with everyday urban contexts, there are also art historical references. Reid is interested in the history of still life and the human desire to copy and remake the natural world around us. Her most recent work plays with a merging of forms from the natural and the built world.

Joanne Reid completed an MA in Art and Research Collaboration (ARC) at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, (2016). She was awarded the Fingal RHA Studio Residency (2021) and the Basic Space Artist Residency Award (2016).  Exhibitions include, Sample Set, Open Studio, Studio 1, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2023), Home Bodies, Glandwr, Chapelizod, Dublin (2021), ARTWORKS: Dearly Beloved, Visual Carlow (2019) and Futures, Series 3, Episode 2, RHA, Dublin (2018). Reid is a recipient of the Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award (2023, 2022), Agility Award (2021) and the Fingal Artists’ Support Scheme (2022–2024).


About Draíocht

Located in the heart of Dublin 15, Draíocht is an arts centre steadfastly committed to serving its local community and influencing arts practice far beyond. Its development was instigated by a passionate cohort of people from within this unique community, with its rich tradition of drama and musical theatre and fast-growing young and culturally diverse population. Their vision and determination was rewarded when Draíocht opened in 2001, a purpose-built space with two theatres, two galleries, an artist’s studio, a workshop space and a café.


For more information please see:
www.fingalarts.ie
www.fingal.ie/arts

www.draiocht.ie


Image caption: Draíocht Artist Studio Residency Award 2025