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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£13.7K
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Spending
£14.4K
Public benefits
a) The direct benefits flowing from this purpose include the much-needed provision of affordable studio spaces for visual artists to create artwork, thus also supporting the development of artistic practices and the professional public careers of artists. b) The direct benefits flowing from this purpose include the enhanced ability of artists to
develop networks locally, nationally and internationally through the provision of well-maintained and professionally engaged and networked studios. c) The direct benefits from this are that members are provided with good quality studios and facilities that support the development and production of high quality and ambitious artworks, thus supporting art practices across a range of media. The longer-term benefits are that these practices and artworks, through exhibition and other public contexts, enhance the richness, diversity and experience of cultural life in Northern Ireland and beyond. d) The direct benefits from this purpose include the increased visibility of the visual art activities of our members through public outputs such as exhibitions, projects and workshops. These platforms and events contribute to the enhancement and richness of art, culture and community in Northern Ireland. e) The direct benefit from this purpose is the enrichment of the public’s experience of the visual arts and creative practices through their encounters with artists and their practices via the context of open studio events, public exhibitions, public talks and community/public engagement events such as the Open Studios. E.g., The Open Studios are an opportunity for the public to engage directly with the artists within the studio environment and to get an insight into their working practices. These public events encourage an enhanced educational and public awareness of visual art creative practice and a deeper understanding of the arts and their role in exploring and communicating a wide range of subjects and ideas. Through regular studio meetings, feedback, and reports the benefits from these purposes will be demonstrated via; a) members’ successes in their artistic practice as demonstrated via exhibition outputs, awards, prizes, public projects, commissions, achievements, recognition at local, national, and international level, and through their career development. b) invitations and studio-visits from local, national, and international networks of curators, interested wider public and art critics. c) promotional materials relating to members’ artwork and exhibitions, highlighting the development of innovative work, showing the recognition received within art networks and in the wider public realm. d) members’ public facing or educational activities, such as workshops, open studios and talks that lead onto further opportunities. e) the diversity, reach and quality of activities, enhancing visual art awareness, value and education within, and to, the wider public and cultural environment. There is no harm arising from any of the purposes. The charity’s beneficiaries are visual artists, the visual arts community and the wider general public. There is no private benefit that flows from the purpose of the charity other than the incidental benefit to visual artists having adequate affordable studios to work in, which is necessary in order to achieve the direct and wider benefits of the charity.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
a) establishing and maintaining good quality artist studios that will provide affordable studio and workspace for visual artists, facilitating and supporting engagement with other artists and professionals in a studio environment; b) providing access to appropriate and secure visual artists studios in an accessible location in order to enable and
enhance professional and public networks on a local, national and international level; c) providing facilities for the production of high quality, ambitious art practice across a range of media; d) promoting the work of artists via a range of forms such as exhibitions, artist talks, public performance, education events, public commissions and publications; e) cultivating creativity and learning through dialogue and exchange, within and beyond the studio, in order to promote the visual arts and the importance of their role within the development of a rich cultural environment.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage or science
Who the charity helps
- General public
How the charity works
- Arts
- Cultural
