Would you like to reach new audiences?
Do you have a new or ongoing body of work that you would like to display?
Would feedback on work in progress be beneficial?
Are you interested in participating in supportive dialogue with your peers?
Would a display bursary enable you to take your work to the next level?
Studio Shots is a dynamic new strand of programming at firstsite which invites applications from ENAS member artists. This is a testbed opportunity, designed to enable artists to professionally develop through displays of recent or ongoing work which is at an experimental stage. Four artists will be selected for this opportunity, one per two-month slot between March and December 2015. The space is an area of high footfall, in the lounge area adjacent to the main galleries and café, which will provide opportunities to attract new and varied audiences.
Each slot will consist of a two-month display period and an opening event/ Salon discussion on the work or ideas raised by the work. This is an opportunity for the selected artists to generate dialogue around their work with an audience of peers. Selected artists will work with firstsite and ENAS staff to select, market, interpret and install work. A bursary will be awarded to selected artists which aims to further the work selected and may be used to contribute to, for example, framing or other mechanisms by which work can be made display-ready (including equipment and transport).
Studio Shots is designed to complement the development of emerging artists that firstsite supports through its exhibition programme, the annual Collectors’ Group Bursary Awards and fostering of initiatives such as ENAS, Slack Space and Essex Summer of Art.
Bursary: £400 per artist.
Deadline: Friday 20 February 2015
Artists will be shortlisted and informed of the selection in the following week. Selection will be made on strength of application only.
Unfortunately, feedback cannot be given for unsuccessful applications.
Timescale: The first slot will open on 13 March alongside the spring season exhibition launch. Each Studio Shot thereafter will run as follows:
13 March – 3 May
6 May – 5 July
8 July – 6 September
9 September - 8 November
Work must be ready to be installed/ deinstalled with a three day period and should be also transported within that time.
Dimensions of the space :
8.3m x 3.4m (28.22m²)

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What interests you about this professional development opportunity?
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Can you identify or propose recent or ongoing work that you would be interesting in displaying and gathering feedback on?
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What is the rationale for this work (influences, current reading etc.)?

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Do you have ideas about how you would display this work?
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Please propose how you would intend to use the bursary.
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How would you seek to evaluate this work?
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Preferred slot (every effort will be made to work around existing commitments)
☐ March – May
☐ July - September
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May - July
September - November
Deadline for all applications: 5pm, Friday 20 February 2015. Artists will be shortlisted and informed of the selection in the following week. Selection will be made on strength of application only and no interviews will be held. Unfortunately, feedback cannot be given for unsuccessful applications.
Please send all applications by email or via Dropbox/ WeTransfer to jane@firstsite.uk.net