Roscommon & Leitrim County Council Arts Offices announce 2011 TRADE Residency

2011 TRADE Residency

TRADE is a collaborative visual arts programme between Leitrim and Roscommon County Councils providing knowledge, resources and opportunities for visual artists to engage internationally. Rather than considering ‘rural’ as ‘isolationary’, TRADE emphasises that art is a global construct and encourages a freeflow of ideas and opportunities both for local artists to engage internationally as well as for international artists to participate locally.

Since 2006, TRADE consists of two elements – a residential programme and a seminar event. Under our previous residential programmes, artists Alfredo Jaar, Rebecca Fortnum, Darren Almond and John Gibbons each worked with a group of artists from the two counties over the course of a year. The outcomes of which were presented at the TRADE seminar which followed each.

Roscommon and Leitrim County Council Arts Offices are now seeking interest from four visual artists, two from Leitrim and two from Roscommon who would like to work with New York based artist David Michalek for a 20-day period from the end March until December 2011.

Local artists are now invited to complete an application form detailing their interest in this programme and any potential it may have for their practice. The residency will be based in the Dock, Carrick on Shannon.

The residency will last a total of 20 days spread out between the end of March and December 2011. The group of four artists will initially meet for about three consecutive days at the end of March. This meeting will be arranged by the County Arts Offices. From this point on, the group will determine the remainder of the schedule themselves, with each successive meeting lasting anything from two to five days at a time. Applicant artists must be in a position to be able to commit to this schedule. A stipend of €1,000 will be provided to each of the four participating artists and a additional small materials budget is available to develop work over the residency.

• Applications must be submitted before the stated deadline.
• Applications must be fully completed and signed.

Eligibility

Applicants must have been either born or be currently domiciled in Leitrim or Roscommon.

Criteria for assessment

• Artistic ambition
• Proven ability to work in a collaborative context
• The excellence and track record (or potential) of the applicant
• The clarity of the proposal and completeness of supporting information.
• The likely benefit to the applicants practice or career.

Applications must include

• Signed application form (statement of intent)
• Artist C.V.
• Examples of previous work.
• List of enclosed documentation
• Stamped addressed envelope for return of documentation

Completed application forms must be returned to either Roscommon or Leitrim Arts Office by 5pm Friday 11th March 2011.

•    County Arts Office, Roscommon County Council, Roscommon West Business Park, Circular Road, Roscommon.

•    County Arts Office, Leitrim County Council, Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim.

For further information contact Liz O’Dowd on 071 96 21694 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or Philip Delamere on 090 66 37285 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .