Lucky Dip Bursaries

The Lucky Dip bursary scheme offers eight artists in the SO postcode £500 to fund the creation of a new artwork or activity.

The application process is light-touch and proposals are not assessed. The bursaries will be awarded to artists through a lottery selection. This experimental approach seeks to proactively remove barriers around application and selection processes. ‘a space’ arts is committed to becoming an anti-racist organisation and as part of this work four of the Lucky Dip Bursaries will be offered to global majority* artists.

Please note, this bursary scheme is only open to artists aged 18+. Unfortunately previous recipients of the Lucky Dip bursary are not eligible to reapply. 

 

Objectives:

• To fund new and exciting works of art or artistic activity.
• To encourage artists to experiment and take risks.
• To get more money directly to local artists to make work.
• To support artists in the city from a variety of communities.
• To remove the barriers created by conventional application and selection processes and reduce discrimination towards artists who find funding applications lengthy and difficult.

 

Keep an eye out on this page for our next Lucky Dip Bursary announcement.

 

*Notes on terminology:

• We acknowledge language is fluid and evolving and aim to ensure our use of language remains inclusive and inoffensive.
• As an organisation we have joined the movement to reject the acronym BAME as this state-manufactured term flattens and depoliticises global solidarity between people with a lived experiences of racism.
• We acknowledge the term ‘people of global majority’ as it is factually true with over 80% of the world’s population making up the global majority of non-white peoples.