Funding

Jerwood Foundation has awarded a grant of £30,000 over two years to support Oxford International Song Festival's Young Artist Programme. This support will enable Oxford Song to further develop their programme from Spring 2024. The Young Artist Programme offers a range of high-quality training and performance opportunities for duos in the early stages of their careers.

Jerwood Foundation awarded a grant of £10,000 to support Start the Press! at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. The centrepiece of Start the Press! is a vintage, flatbed printing press from Wolverhampton School of Art. A cohort of West Midlands printmakers will operate the press, producing original prints and filling the gallery walls as work is made in real time. The exhibition includes a display of printmaking on loan from Jerwood Collection.

Jerwood Foundation has awarded a grant of £25,000 to Brixton Chamber Orchestra. This support helps enable their Christmas 2023 and Summer 2024 tours of housing estates in Lambeth. The funds will go toward the fees for young professional musicians. Brixton Chamber Orchestra seeks to inspire local people of all backgrounds to engage more deeply with the arts and each other, across demographic divides. 

Jerwood awarded a grant of £60,000 to help enable a creative residency at Studio Wayne McGregor for emerging artists pushing the boundaries of dance, movement and physical intelligence. RESIDENT 6 will invite six artists to make Studio Wayne McGregor their home for a year. The artists will have access to the studio’s full range of spaces for making, researching, experimenting, collaborating and sharing. 

Jerwood Foundation has awarded a two-year grant of £20,000 to Paintings in Hospitals. This support enables them to conserve, restore and digitise a portion of their extensive art collection so that the works can be enjoyed by the public again. By being able to restore the artworks to museum quality condition, Paintings in Hospitals can increase the number of artworks offered for loan across the UK and enable them to digitise part of the collection to share online with a wider audience.

With £72,000 funding from the Jerwood, the Jerwood Composer+ programme is committed to supporting two composers a year in 2023 and 2024. LSO Jerwood Composer+ nurtures extraordinary early-career composers to realise their artistic ambitions through a 15-month placement, supporting them to curate, plan and deliver two unique events. Composers gain valuable knowledge and insights, alongside practical experience to develop their own opportunities and enable a step-change in their careers.

Jerwood Foundation awarded a £1,000 grant to Persona Arts. This support helps fund the production of the Flying Dutchman performances in July 2024. This is a culimination of a two year project of inspiring, educating and recruiting local volunteers, community singers and young people to be part of the process in one of Wagner's most celebrated operas.

Jerwood Foundation renewed its support of Scherzo Ensemble for a third year. Scherzo Ensemble is a professional development platform for young singers who have recently completed their training. Jerwood Foundations funding helps young professional performers at the start of their career.

Thanks to new funding from Jerwood Foundation, Glyndebourne is expanding its talent development scheme for orchestral instrumentalists. The renamed Jerwood Pit Perfect offers recent graduates the opportunity to join The Glyndebourne Sinfonia during Glyndebourne's autumn season. The programme, which has been made possible by Jerwood Foundation's support over three-years, is able to offer two additional Associate Pit Perfect positions. 

Jerwood Collection and Arnolfini are collaborating on a three-year project which will draw on Jerwood's extensive collection of modern and contemporary British art to bring to life Arnolfini's exhibition archive. The project offers an exciting opportunity for a MA Curating student to delve into Arnolfini's past exhibitions and Jerwood's collection.

Jerwood awarded a grant of £42,947 to support Take It Outside, a new artist development programme led by 101 Outdoor Arts – National Centre for Arts in Public Space. Six extraordinary individuals will lead innovation and artform development over the next decade, creating outstanding new work of international quality for outdoor contexts. 

Jerwood has awarded a grant of £60,000 to Bush Theatre. This funding helps enable Staged by Jerwood, a two-year programme that will enable the commissioning of four plays by the Bush’s Emerging Writers Group along with assisting with production costs. 

Jerwood has awarded a grant of £57,728 to Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA). This helps fund four, month-long residencies based in Dundee Contemporary Art's Print Studio to take place over two years. The residencies will be aimed at early-career UK-based artists who wish to explore and expand their practice when working with print. Artists will gain access to DCA’s world-class equipment and support from expert printmakers in a collaborative studio environment, with the aim to encourage experimentation and learning. 

Jerwood has awarded a grant of £45,000 which enables FPG x Jerwood Presents to commission two artists to produce their first solo institutional exhibitions. Focal Point Gallery (FPG) is a public contemporary art gallery in South Essex. FPG presents four major exhibitions per year alongside an ambitious programme of workshops, talks, film screenings, and offsite projects.

Jerwood awards a £60,000 grant to support Shechter II’s 12-month Performance and Development Programme. This programme includes a six-week creation process, and a UK and international mid-scale sustainable tour with community and outreach delivery. 

Jerwood New Playwrights has received new funding of £60,000 through Jerwood, to continue supporting the theatre’s work across three areas Writer Development; Introduction to Playwriting Groups; Jerwood New Playwright. This will enable one early-career writer/artist the opportunity to become a Jerwood New Playwright and see their work produced in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre.

Jerwood has awarded a grant of £40,655 to support Co-Act, a new Artist Development Programme for socially engaged artists hosted by The NewBridge Project. Co-Act will bring together four early-career artists to develop collaborative and socially engaged ways of working. They’ll learn new skills and approaches and be able to explore their own values and ethics with support from each other, specially invited mentors, and NewBridge.

Jerwood has awarded a grant of £64,000 to support CoDI is a multi-faceted development programme for Welsh and Wales-based music creators. Tŷ Cerdd’s CoDI Composer Pathways is a multi-faceted programme with the aim of creating a community of composers and providing them with developmental opportunities.

Jerwood Foundation awarded an annual grant to the Natural History Museum to support three exhibitions, which will be shown in the Jerwood Gallery at the Museum. The second exhibition in the Contemporary Arts Programme, The Polar Silk Road, showcased 67 images by photographer Gregor Sailer exploring the existing, potential, and unexpected impacts of a new global trade route that is opening due to melting Arctic Sea ice.