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ACE ANNOUNCES
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ARTISTS’ FUND
14.02.2012 / Arts funding / 0 Comments
£750,000 joint plan with British Council
Arts Council England and the British Council are launching a £750,000 fund to support English artists to travel, explore and collaborate internationally.
The Artists International Development Fund will open for applications next month and aims to allow artists to develop overseas audiences and markets for their work.
Announcing the new fund at the annual State of the Arts conference today, ACE chair Liz Forgan said the scheme “would be a valuable help to artists to build on domestic success at crucial stages of their career.”
Forgan also told the conference at the Lowry arts centre in Salford that ACE would shortly be announcing the first 60 or 70 projects that will form part of the Space, the organisation’s digital media project with the BBC.
She admitted the project was “a step into the unknown” and “a huge risk”, but there had been an extraordinary response from people applying to have their work commissioned for the service.
In her keynote speech to the conference, the ACE chair said the Arts Council’s role was “to create the conditions for the most talented artists to emerge and reach their potential”
She added: “That means they not only need enough to eat and pay the rent but also time and space for research and development, access to work spaces, opportunities to showcase, critical yet supportive feedback, help in realising an ambitious idea, the chance to collaborate both at home and abroad.”
That was why ACE was continuing to invest £12m a year in Grants for the Arts despite the spending review cuts.
But she also said ACE was there to support programmers, creative producers, curators, editors and animateurs and the networks and infrastructure that discover and develop talent. “As we are forced to reduce our own expert staff, we will rely even more on those networks to supplement the work we can tackle directly .We need better networks between our funded organisations too – something we are going to be working on in the coming months.”
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