The Innovate Create Cultivate fund is open to established and emerging creative practitioners living and working in Dumfries and Galloway.
While funds are available, applicants can apply for up to £750 to explore, develop and further their creative practice. £7000 is available in total.
As of January 2019, the fund has been fully allocated. The fund will reopen in summer for applications for 2019/2020.
In 2018/19, ICC funded 12 projects across Dumfries and Galloway, with a total of £6630 spent on a diverse range of creative projects across several art-forms, including performance art, literature, music and multi art form. For full details of awards, contact DGU.
Performance Art
Kirsty Turpie, Denise Zygadlo and Mark Zygadlo each received £250 for travel expenses and subsistence to attend a workshop period in Italy at BRAT’s studios, to support 'Secret Ministry of Pestilence’, a collaborative performance project between performance groups the Secret Ministry based in Dumfries and BRAT, based in Fruili, Italy.
Jenny Stephenson recieved £750 for Nature Focus’, a creative piece on film from an artist’s perspective, which will illustrate the importance of children connecting to nature, giving an insight to alternative ways of expression and learning outside the classroom.
Literature
Linda Wright received £342 to fund travel, accommodation and attendance at ‘Crime and Publishment’, a weekend writing masterclass.
Music
Les Ross and Lewis Boddy of Double Down Disco received £750 each for course fees plus associated travel and accommodation costs for an Ableton Live course, to enable them to explore, develop and further their creative practice using Ableton software and related hardware for music production.
Lucy Renwick also received £750 to support attendance at Ableton Live, to enable the artist to fuse multiple voices with electronic music, exploring how a combination of the two can build a wall of sound.
Multi Art Form
Alyne Jones received £750 to stage a Vanishing Scotland Archive public audio visual event showcasing the textile collection and the people who carry the textile cultural tradition.
Chrys Salt received £750 to work with harpist Wendy Stewart to develop a joint performance piece based on the Weaver sequence, an 11-poem sequence first published in the collection Grass.
Jan Hogarth received £738 to support the artistic development of the innovative practice of embedded environmental art experiences within landscape places called 'thins'.
Adrian Waterworth received £300 to support the development of blacksmithing and metalworking practice.
While funds are available, applicants can apply for up to £750 to explore, develop and further their creative practice. £7000 is available in total.
As of January 2019, the fund has been fully allocated. The fund will reopen in summer for applications for 2019/2020.
In 2018/19, ICC funded 12 projects across Dumfries and Galloway, with a total of £6630 spent on a diverse range of creative projects across several art-forms, including performance art, literature, music and multi art form. For full details of awards, contact DGU.
Performance Art
Kirsty Turpie, Denise Zygadlo and Mark Zygadlo each received £250 for travel expenses and subsistence to attend a workshop period in Italy at BRAT’s studios, to support 'Secret Ministry of Pestilence’, a collaborative performance project between performance groups the Secret Ministry based in Dumfries and BRAT, based in Fruili, Italy.
Jenny Stephenson recieved £750 for Nature Focus’, a creative piece on film from an artist’s perspective, which will illustrate the importance of children connecting to nature, giving an insight to alternative ways of expression and learning outside the classroom.
Literature
Linda Wright received £342 to fund travel, accommodation and attendance at ‘Crime and Publishment’, a weekend writing masterclass.
Music
Les Ross and Lewis Boddy of Double Down Disco received £750 each for course fees plus associated travel and accommodation costs for an Ableton Live course, to enable them to explore, develop and further their creative practice using Ableton software and related hardware for music production.
Lucy Renwick also received £750 to support attendance at Ableton Live, to enable the artist to fuse multiple voices with electronic music, exploring how a combination of the two can build a wall of sound.
Multi Art Form
Alyne Jones received £750 to stage a Vanishing Scotland Archive public audio visual event showcasing the textile collection and the people who carry the textile cultural tradition.
Chrys Salt received £750 to work with harpist Wendy Stewart to develop a joint performance piece based on the Weaver sequence, an 11-poem sequence first published in the collection Grass.
Jan Hogarth received £738 to support the artistic development of the innovative practice of embedded environmental art experiences within landscape places called 'thins'.
Adrian Waterworth received £300 to support the development of blacksmithing and metalworking practice.
