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Deveron Projects is an international socially-engaged arts organisation, embedded in Huntly, Scotland, for 30 years. Our residencies and projects build deep and meaningful collaboration between artists, communities and places through the process of making art. This work aims to create relationships between people and across differences, connect our town and the people who live here with global justice movements, and realize ambitious and sector-leading interdisciplinary artworks.
In partnership with Mondriaan Fond, Deveron Projects’ Publics Residency offers the selected artist a funded 3-month residency in Huntly. Living and working in rural north-east Scotland, the artist will become a part of the communities that make up Deveron Projects and the wider ecologies of the town. They will be supported to collaborate, experiment and expand their practice through an intensive period of mutual learning, making and conversation with others. Through this process, the artist will be supported to develop new work to share/present at the end of the residency period.
For whom
Visual artists working in any medium are welcome. Experience of socially-engaged practice is not essential, rather a desire to collaborate, experiment and learn with others as part of your creative process.
In their application, artists should indicate a (draft)plan for their residency connected to the location and context of Deveron Projects and to your existing practice. This could include, climate crisis, community building, ecologies, migration, food, politics, rurality, colonial histories/presents, overlooked narratives and lived experiences, social justice. This plan can change once the artist starts engaging with the residency.
For this residency it is not possible to apply as a duo.
Work period
There is one work period available:
- 1 May 2025 – 31 July 2025.
The host organisation has flexibility within their programme. If these dates are not possible, you can discuss other dates with the organisation.
How much?
The Mondriaan Fund makes a subsidy of € 8.563 available for an artist to help cover travel expenses, material costs and living costs. This sum is intended for 1 person. In addition, the selected resident is expected to pay a 10% personal contribution. The Mondriaan Fund automatically takes this into account in their ultimate subsidy, you do not need to do anything.
The cost of accommodation and workspace, networking and presentation/public engagement is covered for the artist, paid directly to Deveron Projects by the Mondriaan Fund.
The artist will have sole use of Deveron Projects’ custom, accessible, ‘Artists’ House’. There is one double-bedroom and a double ‘bothy’/ cabinbed. There is a large, open plan and flexible studio space, self-catering kitchen and wetroom.
Artists are welcome to stay with their partner/friend/family at no extra charge. For more information on the capacity and accessibility of the accommodation, please get in touch with Deveron Projects (vasb@qrireba-cebwrpgf.pbz). The Artist’s House accessibility guide can be found here.
This residency has an small access budget, which can be used if required to support your comfortable participation in the residency. Some examples of how this may be used include, but aren’t limited to: slower travel, childcare, mobility aids, communication aids, travel buddy.
The contribution to artists based in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom can be increased to meet any higher travel costs. This is looked at per situation.
Please note! This application must be submitted in English.
Application
The deadline for submitting an application for a work period in 2024 is Thursday 21 March, before 16.00 (Dutch time zone) / 11.00 (Caribbean time zone).
Before submitting an application, please see the Residency page for the terms and conditions, application procedure and assessment procedure.
Please also read the terms and conditions applicable to Mondriaan Fund contributions.
Selection
The selection is made by an advisory committee. Based on the submitted documents, the advisory committee selects the residents. A representative of Deveron Projects participates in the meeting.*
*Please note! Be aware that the processing time for this selection procedure may exceed three months
Other grants for residencies in the Netherlands and other countries
Because only 1 or 2 residents can be selected for any given residency during each application round, it is inevitable that many will be disappointed. For this reason, we point out that it is also possible to apply for an Artist Project at a different residency location. The specific Artist Project residency applied for may not be one of those already being offered in the Mondriaan Fund application rounds.