Applications open for the 2024/25 Artist Residency Programme

This year, we are looking for eight artists or companies to join our 24/25 Artist Residency programme. Artists and companies at any stage in their career are welcome to apply. Whether you’re emerging, mid-career or established, if you have a new idea you’re keen to explore, we want to hear from you.

Successful applicants will be given space, time and seed funding to develop a project at artsdepot. Artists and companies on our residency programme will become members of our artist alumni network and will be offered a free place on all of our artist development workshops with industry professionals throughout the year.

Residencies run from September 2024 – July 2025. Successful applicants will receive:

• Up to four weeks of rehearsal space in our Creation Space (this can be split over 12 months as suits your project)
• Work in progress / scratch performance opportunity (if required)
• £1,000 seed funding
• Mentorship / support from the artsdepot team
• Access to hot desking / meeting space
• Professional development workshops
• Networking opportunities

We welcome applications from those underrepresented in the arts and creative sector. We particularly encourage applications from performance-makers from Global Majority or mixed heritage backgrounds, LGBTQ+ performance-makers, D/deaf performance-makers, disabled performance-makers and performance-makers from working class backgrounds.

We are looking for eight artists / companies; five of the spaces will be allocated to artists / companies on the following basis:

Young Artist’s Residency
We are designating one spot for an emerging artist or company aged between 18 – 25. This residency will be given more mentoring support from the producing team at artsdepot during their residency period, as well as a chance to work on their application with a member of our team prior to submission.

Tsitsit Sponsored Festival Residency
We are delighted to be continuing our collaboration with the Tsitsit Festival who will be supporting three artist residencies. Tsitsit are keen to help develop new works that reflect contemporary and historic Jewish identities and cultures. They are particularly interested in work that takes its starting point as the Diaspora British Jewish experience, but their overall approach to work they want to feature is very broad, hence the strapline: ‘If its Jewish enough for you, its Jewish enough for us’.

Barnet-based Artist Residency
We will also be designating one spot to an artist who is based or works in the Borough of Barnet.

To Apply: Before submitting your application, please download the Application Pack from this page.
The deadline for applications is Friday 26 July at 10am.

To submit your application, please complete this online form
If you would like to read the application questions ahead of submitting your application, you can download them here.
You can also apply by video if you would prefer; please see the Application Pack for details of how to do so.

We also ask everyone applying to complete an Equal Opportunities Form. This information is anonymous and helps us understand who is applying for our opportunities. Please complete this online form.

If you have any questions, please email Zoe at artistdevelopment@artsdepot.co.uk