Funding awarded to art studio in Limerick

A CONTEMPORARY art studio in Limerick city has been awarded funding under the Visual Artists Workspace Scheme 2023.

Set up in 2017 by graduates of Limerick School of Art and Design, spacecraft is a non-profit art studio facilitates artists working in a variety of disciplines in an open plan studio and is specifically aimed at emerging artists.

Under the Visual Artists Workspace Scheme 2023, The Arts Council has announced a total funding of €695,774 will be distributed to 30 studios and workspaces across Ireland, including one in Limerick.

The scheme aims to support artists’ workspaces throughout the country, to provide the best possible working environment for visual artists, and, to enable a level of subsidy for the artists working within these spaces.

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Overall, the funding will support facilities for 950 individual practising visual artists across the country. This is an increase on 839 individuals and €460,000 funding in 2022, which represents a 50% year-on-year.

Director of the Arts Council, Maureen Kennelly, commented: “Artists need good spaces to work in and the workspaces supported through this scheme represent a key component of the critical infrastructure for the visual arts nationally.”

“Supporting existing workspaces like this is part of our bigger vision, which includes the development of a campus for artists at Odlums Flour Mills,” she concluded.