Kildare County Council Arts Service invites applications from Kildare-based professional artists to the Executive Coaching for Creative Professionals Bursary Award 2024.
The award will provide professional artists based in County Kildare an opportunity to discuss artistic career and explore goals and how best to achieve them with a specialist Executive Coach Matthew Ralli, over four x 90-minute sessions. An Executive Coach is a non-judgemental and confidential sounding board who helps professionals increase self-awareness, clarify goals, achieve development objectives and unlock potential.
Matthew Ralli is an accredited Executive and Personal Coach as well as the Artistic Director of Speckintime, a theatre company based in Co. Kildare. Matthew's coaching practice, In the Round, provides specialised one-to-one coaching for creative professionals. He was awarded the 2018 Artistic Entrepreneur Bursary Award from Kildare County Council Arts Service.
This specialised coaching can help artists who:
- wish to explore ways to develop an emerging career in the arts
- are looking to maximise their ongoing career
- would like to rekindle their artistic passion and talent
- are struggling to manage their career with other life commitments
- are suffering a crisis of confidence in their art and career
We welcome applicants who represent the diversity of Irish society. We encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of your gender, sexual orientation, civil or family status, religion, age, disability, race or membership of the Traveller Community, or socio-economic background.
We welcome applications from artists whose first language is not English.
Kildare County Council is committed to fair pay and a policy to Pay the Artist. Please refer to the Arts Council's policy on
Paying the Artist.
Your attention is also drawn to
safetocreate.ie, where you will find more information about the Safe to Create Dignity at Work programme which aims to impact change on the culture and practices of the arts sector in Ireland to provide safer working conditions for artists and arts workers.
Application deadline
Applications will only be accepted via the online application form.
Applications must be submitted before the deadline at 12pm Wednesday 28th February 2024.
Applications submitted after the deadline will not be accepted.
We suggest that applicants try to submit their application form early in case of technical difficulties. Should they arise, please email arts@kildarecoco.ie and we will endeavour to respond as soon as possible.
Supporting Material
It is advantageous to include supporting material that enhances your application. Applicants should not assume that the independent assessment panel are familiar with your work or your previous funding history. The panel will use the supporting material to get a better understanding of the track record of your creative collaborator(s) and the feasibility of your proposal.
Information Session
Kildare County Council Arts Service will host a number of Information Sessions in locations throughout the county about applying for arts grants and bursary awards with Kildare County Council. Sessions will be of particular interest to individual artists, art collectives, community groups, youth groups and schools who intend to apply for Arts Grants from Kildare County Council in 2024.
Information Sessions:
Please note that information imparted at each session will be the same - there is no need to register to attend all 3 sessions. All are welcome to attend this FREE session, but booking is recommended.
In addition, information videos and application guides will be made available via Kildare Arts Service’s
YouTube and social media channels from Monday 22nd January 2024.
If you need help to complete and submit your application we want to hear from you. Please email or call the Arts Service team at least three weeks before the award deadline, or as early as possible, to give us time to assist you. Email: arts@kildarecoco.ie / Tel: 045 980872.