INDEPENDENT MAKERS AND PRESENTERS

- FELLOWSHIP -

About

A Fellowship is an opportunity for an established independent artist to secure significant funding towards the advancement of their professional career and arts practice.

The Fellowship is open to South Australian artists and practitioners who are recognised as outstanding professionals in their field, and have an extensive track record of artistic practice and recognisable achievement. It enables an artist to undertake a sustained period of creative development that will extend their professional practice and lead to the production and presentation of significant new work.

Artists should propose a major project or area of practice that they are developing, or wish to develop, which will enhance their reputation and career. Funding may assist projects locally, nationally or internationally.

A Fellowship is granted only once in an artist’s career.

Eligibility

Applicants must be Australian citizens or have permanent resident status and live, or be primarily located, in South Australia.

The following applications are ineligible:

  • projects already completed, or due to be completed, before the commencement of the funding period. Funding will not be provided retrospectively
  • projects without professional outcomes, such as amateur productions, the self-publication of literary works, fundraising, competitions, awards and prizes, as well as projects forming part of a course of study, including graduation activities
  • screen-based projects aimed at the cinema, film festivals or television, and media projects with a purely commercial outcome. Some activity will be eligible when incorporated into projects in other art form areas. Speak to Arts South Australia if you are unsure.

Funding in this category is not available for:

  • enrolment in courses of extended post-graduate study or other training
  • proposals by groups and organisations
  • purchase of equipment, unless it is proven to be essential for the development of the artist’s practice and where purchase is the more economically viable option
  • stand-alone touring of productions, exhibitions, concerts, etc.

Criteria

You must address the Criteria specified in Essential reading before applying. Artistic Merit and Viability are the two key criteria to consider in your proposal. Address the Engagement and/or Development criteriaas they relate to your proposal - your proposal may meet all criteria. You do not need to respond to each individual bullet point.

In addition, the following criteria apply specifically to the Fellowship funding program:

  • a demonstrated track record of achievement
  • the expertise and capacity of the artist to undertake and complete the defined outcomes of the project
  • a plan to bring the developmental and presentational activity of the project to fruition
  • letters of confirmation and commitment from project partners such as production houses, independent producers, arts organisations and high profile venues
  • confirmation of resources to complete the project. Applicants should clearly indicate the resources they will bring to the project, including funding and in-kind contributions made by professional supporters, presenters or partner organisations. Only include those in kind contributions that materially affect the budget; these should be realistically costed at equivalent commercial rates
  • the project's benefits to the wider South Australian community. Applicants should identify the target audience and describe how they might share their work, skills and experience with the community, arts industry peers and emerging artists.

Application Advice

Use the Fellowship application form to apply for this grant.

You should discuss your application and budget with the relevant Arts South Australia Arts Development Officer, and look at past grant recipients as a guide.

Eligible expenses

Eligible expenses include / What this category does not fund
LITERATURE
  • Living allowances
  • Stationery costs
  • Hire of an office or equipment
  • Travel
  • Accommodation
  • Artist’s fees
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Eligible expenses include
PERFORMING ARTS
  • Performers’ fees
  • Creatives’ fees (such as composers, choreographers, designers, etc)
  • Producers’ fees
  • Commissioning fees
  • Seasons of work and touring regionally, nationally and internationally
  • Living allowance, daily allowances and salaries for creative and technical personnel
  • Travel, freight and direct presentation and production costs
  • Materials, venue and equipment hire
  • Marketing costs
  • Administration and accountancy
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Eligible expenses include
VISUAL ARTS & CRAFTS
  • Artists’ fees
  • Living allowance, daily allowances and salaries for creative and technical personnel
  • Curatorial costs, catalogue essay writer’s fees, design costs, materials, photography
  • Travel, freight and direct presentation and production costs, catalogue printing
  • Materials, studio and equipment hire
  • Exhibition costs
  • Marketing costs
  • Administration and accountancy
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  • Manuscripts aimed at the education sector
  • The preparation of work intended for, or the costs associated with, self-publication
  • Individual writers seeking to employ an editor to work on a manuscript or to market their own titles
  • Film, TV and games scriptwriters (who should contact the South Australian Film Corporation)
  • Purchase of equipment
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What this category does not fund
  • Amateur productions
  • Purchase of equipment
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What this category does not fund
  • Framing costs
  • Purchase of equipment

Rates of pay for artists can vary depending on the skills and experience the artist brings to the project. Where an award or industry standard clearly applies, applicants are encouraged to comply. Where there is no award, it is advisable to quote industry standard rates for artists. For guidance on awards and rates of pay or other arrangements, contact:

  • Australian Writers' Guild (AWG)
  • Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA)
  • National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)

Where the presentation of a work will result in box office income the amount must be shown in the income column of the budget and should be conservatively estimated at 40% of the capacity of the venue.

Support material

Support material is extra items submitted in support of your written proposal. Support material will be viewed by assessment peers and tabled at the assessment meeting.

Only submit material that is directly relevant to your proposal and ensure that visual support material is high quality. Support material will not be accepted after the closing date.

Support material may include:

•books, publications, manuscripts, programs, catalogues etc. These items can be paper-based and provided with your original application

•URL links to vimeo, youtube or other websites are preferred

•music and video support material must be supplied in a format that is easily duplicated and playable on a range of devices. Edited highlights of 3 – 5 minutes are recommended

•all digital support material must be fully PC and Windows compatible and accompanied by a short written description for conceptual installations or multimedia.

Visual art, craft and design applicantsare required to submit images in PowerPoint form. The PowerPoint must be accompanied by an image list, including dates and full descriptions of the works. A total of nine (9) images for individual applicants or twenty (20) images for a group can be submitted.

Written materials such as CVs, letters of support and media clippings should be included as part of the written application. They are not considered support materials as such, but are useful for providing a history of the artist.

It is recommended that the electronic copy of your application and your support material are submitted together on a single USB. All USBs and files contained on them must be clearly identified with the applicant’s name and project title.

The total combined size of your application and support material must not exceed 6MB of data. Your support material must be in a format which is of the highest quality achievable within the data limit.

Hard copy support material can be collected from Arts South Australia after notification of the result of your application. If not collected within two months of notification, Arts South Australia will dispose of material.

Key Dates

Closing date: 5pm, 6 August 2018
Notification date: October 2018

Commencement date: 1 November 2018

Amounts available

One grant of $40,000

Who to talk to

Peter Grace

Manager, Artists’ Grants & Awards Program
Phone: 08 8463 5429
Email:

Julia Moretti

Arts Development Officer, Artists’ Grants & Awards Program
Phone: 08 8463 5455
Email: