Emerging Curator Award
Call for applications:
Deadline: Midnight, 31 May 2024
Black Church Emerging Curator Award is now in its 6th year. This Award is designed to provide a platform and support for emerging curatorial research and presentation.
To date, Black Church Print Studio exhibition programme has involved significant Irish artists and curators who have approached shows with a keen sense of experimentation.
Black Church Print Studio creates dynamic visual art exhibitions that situate printmaking as a critical practice in contemporary art. By commissioning exhibitions with guest curators, the programme embraces print practices across a spectrum, ranging from traditional techniques to experimental and expanded forms. The exhibitions take place on street level beneath the print studio in the heart of Temple Bar, making visible the inner workings of the studio environment. The artist selection includes work from Black Church Print Studio members and invited artists. These curators respond to printmaking practice with fresh eyes, bringing their own curatorial perspective and experience.
The successful applicant will be given the opportunity to realize a public exhibition of work at the prime location of The Library Project at 4 Temple Bar in January 2025. This award is open to recent graduates.*
‘Curating Unlimiting the Edition gave me an invaluable platform to showcase a range of innovative, exciting print practices. This show was based on an academic paper I had recently written, which challenged the conventions of rarity value systems and limited editions. Working with both emerging and established artists across a wide range of traditional and expanded practices really made my research leap off the page, challenging and rewarding me as I explored the potential of Contemporary printmaking beyond the edition.’
Emerging Curator Award
Black Church Print Studio is offering the successful applicant:
- A €750 curatorial feeÂ
- Equitable payments for all artists*
- 2.5-week exhibition slot at The Library Project with an additional week for installation/take down
- Accompanying public engagement programme including a curator led public event/talk
- Private event for Sponsor/Friends
- Professionally designed graphics, invite, riso exhibition publication
- Exhibition publication printed in house using riso printing
- PR, Marketing, Social Media
- Technical installation support
- Administrative support
- Exhibition Preview Reception
- Exhibition Invigilation
‘My exhibition ‘love you my sweaty’ saw the presentation of newly commissioned work, ambitious large scale site specific work and work that had not yet been publicly exhibited. Alongside giving a platform to some of my favorite artists, this opportunity gave me agency for experimenting with personally driven curatorial ideas. The award vouched for my vision and competence in curation, leading to significant freelance and institutional curatorial opportunities’.
Criteria for Curator
- Creative autonomy with a focus on Print and Expanded Print Practice
- Inclusion of BCPS artists at a minimum ratio of 1:1 to invited artists
- Provide curatorial text/essay for riso exhibition publication
- Available for duration of exhibition installation and preview
- Participate in a curator led public event/talk
- Participate in a ‘Meet the Curator’ private event (for Sponsor/Friends)
- Collaborate with BCPS on social media promotion
‘I was given exactly what an emerging curator needs; time to develop an idea into an exhibition, time to research various artists, space to hold an exhibition, the central location could not have been better’.
How to apply
Work can be submitted directly to [email protected]
In the subject line please state ‘Emerging Curator Award’ application.
Please see notes below for eligibility for this award.
Applicants are asked to send a pdf with the following submission materials:
- CV (2 page max)
- Proposal of theme/concept for exhibition. (750 words max)
- A short statement of interest in working with Black Church Print Studio (150 words max)
- Images of proposed or related art works or other relevant imagery
- Images of previous curatorial projects
Notes:
Ensure you meet curator criteria
*Open to graduates from 2015 – 2024
**Black Church Print Studio is committed to the fair and equitable payment of artists (budget for 6 artists max)
‘I curated ‘Living Balance’, working with artists Hazel Egan, Caoimhe Dalton, Kate Fahey and Suzanne Walsh who I invited to create the exhibition. We collaborated with you to make two special risographs for the show, by Kate Fahey and Suzanne Walsh. I commissioned Manchán Magan to make an audio work called ‘An Encounter with Living Balance’. I gave a Curators talk as part of Art Walk organised by Temple Bar Gallery and Studios and two Curators talks with BA students and tutors Chloe Brennan and Tom O Dea from expanded sculpture, in NCAD. Also, with Black Church Print Studio we commissioned a site specific art work called ‘Palimpsest’ by artist Hazel Egan which I curated, cited within Black Church Print Studio’s glass street cabinet, referencing both the structure and the history of the building’.
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