spacecraft Graduate Residency Award 2025

Limerick School of Art & Design TUS  spacecraft Graduate Residency Award 2025 

Announcing the inaugural year of the spacecraft Graduate Residency Award!

Spacecraft is delighted to be offering this award for the first time this year. The aim of this award is to celebrate and nurture the creative practitioners emerging from the fine art department at Limerick School of Art & Design, to provide supports and resources for recent graduates to sustain and develop their practice and to provide an opportunity for them to build connections with the wider creative networks/communities in Limerick city. We cannot wait to see all the incredible artworks within the fine art department and to learn more about the practices of this year’s cohort of artists.

For this first year of the award it is only open to students graduating from the department of Fine Art at Limerick School of Art & Design TUS in 2025. 

What the awarded artist will receive: 

 40 days residency across four month in the spacecraft Project Space (Mid-July – Nov 2025)

How the selection process will work: 

 The spacecraft selection panel will attend degree show private view and make a selection of six shortlisted candidates 

 The six shortlisted artists will be invited to submit applications (Deadline 23 rd June) 

 The panel will then invite those who have applied for an informal chat about their applications

 The panel will then select the awardee and arrange with them a start date and schedule of access to the project space which aligns with their needs/work commitments etc. 

Shortlist artists application process: 

The six shortlisted artists will be invited to submit applications for the spacecraft Graduate Residency Award in order to be considered for the opportunity. 

The artists will be asked to submit:

 Up to 5 samples of work (Please provide either images of works or links to videos, sound pieces, if needed) – this can be from your degree show or from another body of work

 An artist statement (Max 350 words)

 An artist bio or CV

 A Project Outline (Max 500 words)

Please answer the following questions; What project/body of work would you want to develop during the residency? What kinds of themes, questions, concerns, materials, processes would you be exploring during the residency? How would you use the space?

How would you use the facilities and resources available during the residency?

 Project timeline/plan: An outline of how you would use the allocated days in the project

space  (Template will be provided) 

Deadline for shortlisted artist applications: 23rd of June