Arts Act Grants 2021
Below is a list of grants available from Kildare Arts Service in 2021 and a record of successful grant applications.
The deadline for application to 2021 Arts Grants was 18th March 2021.
- Arts Act Grant Scheme
- Arts in Education Residency Bursary Award
- Artistic Entrepreneur Bursary Award
- Denis O'Driscoll Literary Bursary Award
- Drama League of Ireland Summer School Bursary Award
- Emerging Visual Artist Exhibition Award
- Executive Coaching for Creative Professionals Bursary Award
- Local Publishing Award
- Research and Thinking Bursary Award
- Platform4 Recording Studio Bursary Award
- Short Grass Short Film Bursary Award (€1,500)
- Short Grass Short Film Commission Award (€12,500)
- Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Bursary Award
- Youth Arts Residency Bursary Award
In addition, Kildare Arts Service welcomed applications to the Kildare Creative Ireland Bursary Awards 2021;
the Creative Ireland Cruinniú na nÓg Bursary Award 2021; the Kildare Decade of Commemorations Artistic and
Creative Bursary Award 2021 and the Kildare Decade of Commemorations Short Grass Film Award.
Information on the projects funded under these awards is published separately.
Arts Act Grant Scheme
Surname | First Name | Organisation | Municipal District (Kildare) | Artform | Project Description | Funding Awarded |
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Burke | Conor | Naas | Theatre / Drama | Perform 'Everything is Grand, and I'm Completely Okay' a one-person show. | €2,000 | |
Butler | Frank | Celbridge Camera Club | Celbridge / Leixlip | Visual Art | Support an immersive 3-D virtual exhibition. | €480 |
Carroll | Tara | Naas | Visual Art | Research and develop a socially engaged art project in the mediums of performance art, video, sculptural objects and textile print. | €1,900 | |
Conway | Natasha | Athy | Visual Art | Engage in studio practice supported by professional mentorship sessions. | €1,255 | |
Cregan | Brian | Naas | VisualArt | Purchase a large format film camera for new portrait series based in Kildare. | €1,000 | |
de Bath | Monica | Kildare / Newbridge | Visual Art | Research and document a visual art project; present a public event with contributions from lead artists and project participants. | €1,800 | |
de Brí | Pamela | Clane / Maynooth | Visual Art | Develop a prototype for a large publishing and online interactive project, reviewing and combining documentation: notebooks, photographs, audio recordings, videos, etchings, paintings and drawings. | €1,250 | |
Fitzmaurice | Edel | Nás na Ríogh Singers | Naas | Music | Record a video of 'A Little Jazz Mass' and perform a live concert. | €1,000 |
Geoghegan | John | Moat Writers | Naas | Literature | Publish an anthology of original work featuring poetry, fiction, memoir, reflective work and short stories from local writers. | €500 |
Gibson | Saidhbhín | Celbridge / Leixlip | Visual Art | Purchase a video editing programme and a battery. | €400 | |
Griffin | Emma | Celbridge / Leixlip | Visual Art | Support individual practice in preparation for a group show. | €400 | |
Hendrick | Pat | Teresa Brayton Players | Clane / Maynooth | Theatre / Drama | Support towards four productions in 2021. | €750 |
Hensey | Noel | Kildare / Newbridge | Visual Art | Support three international exhibitions, one solo and two group including research and production of a new body of work for a solo exhibition. | €1,250 | |
Higgins | Claire | Kildare / Newbridge | Circus / Street Arts | Create a video to research street performance; engage a mentor in street performing, clowning and teaching. | €2,340 | |
Hughes | Kathrina | Element 15 | Naas | Visual Art | Create and present a site-specific contemporary textile art project and exhibition. | €1,750 |
Hynan | Niamh | Kildare / Newbridge | Visual Art | Complete a new series of mixed media paintings. | €400 | |
Kelly | Denis | Celbridge / Leixlip | Visual Art | Develop a series of paintings, exploring colour, form, space, movement and presentation of new work in a solo exhibition. | €1,800 | |
Leahy | Catríona | Clane / Maynooth | Visual Art | Site specific research on cutaway bogs and production of large format photographic prints. | €2,500 | |
Malone | Sheena | Clane / Maynooth | Visual Art | Studio work on a new body of drawings; fine art scans and prints of these works. | €1,230 | |
Malone | Valerie | Martin Malone | Athy | Literature | Draft a novel centred around the Curragh. | €1,000 |
Maloney | Mary Pat | Athy | Theatre / Drama | Develop a theatre performance inspired by the poetry of Pat Ingoldsby. | €1,110 | |
McCarthy | Tamara | Explore Youth Theatre | Clebridge / Leixlip | Theatre / Drama | Produce a new radio play developed as part of Explore Youth Theatre's recent artist in residency project. | €1,300 |
Mulhall | Shirley | Millicent Singers | Clane / Maynooth | Music | Perform a summer concert, contribute towards choir costs and record a CD. | €1,000 |
Murphy | Claire | KARE | Clane / Maynooth | Visual Art | Support a portrait project involving people who live in Kildare who have an intellectual disability. | €1,060 |
Murphy | Kate | Kildare / Newbridge | Visual Art | Develop a new body of work for a joint exhibition and support research for a solo show. | €800 | |
Murphy | Martina | Clane / Maynooth | Theatre / Drama | Work with a director/dramaturg to interrogate and develop a new play. | €400 | |
Murphy | Sharon | Naas | Music | Produce an EP of 4 instrumentals. | €1,200 | |
Nevin | Matthew | Naas | Visual Art | Curate and produce a visual arts project consisting of an exhibition, film and audience engagement. | €1,250 | |
O'Brien | Geraldine | Celbridge / Leixlip | Theatre / Drama | Write a new play and direct it with a cast of local teenagers. | €1,750 | |
Ralli | Matthew | Naas | Theatre / Drama | Develop new theatre project and workshop with actors. | €1,875 | |
Ryan | Mary | Kildare / Newbridge | Theatre / Drama | Develop a play for a digital audience; create and edit a short promotional video. | €2,000 |
Arts in Education Residency Bursary Award
Surname | First Name | School | Municipal District (Kildare) | Artform | Project Description | Funding Awarded |
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Pluincéid | Eoin | S N Cill Cae | Athy | Visual Art | With artist Angelina Forster, explore print processes through the centuries, including eco-printing and the sustainable nature of this style of art. | €2,500 |
McConnon | Catherine | Coláiste Chíaráin | Celbridge / Leixlip | Visual Art | Work with artist and mural maker James Kirwan to develop and create a large scale street art mural using two shipping containers on the school grounds. | €2,500 |
Farrington | Marie | Confey Community College | Celbridge / Leixlip | Visual Art | Work with artist Brian Cregan to create photographic artworks that can be shared and displayed around the school. | €2,500 |
Artistic Entrepreneur Bursary Award, in association with Kildare LEO
Surname | First Name | Municipal District (Kildare) | Artform | Project Description | Funding Awarded | |
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Fay | Michael | Clane / Maynooth | Music | Build online music courses and begin to create, perform and sell original musical arrangements online. | €1,500 |
Denis O'Driscoll Literary Bursary Award
Surname | First Name | Municipal District (Kildare) | Artform | Project Description | Funding Awarded | |
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Emerging Writer | ||||||
Cox | Jade | Celbridge / Leixlip | Literature | Develop a coming of age Young Adult novel set in the Irish midlands in the early 2000s, by engaging in professional mentorship. | €1,500 | |
Professional Writer | ||||||
Clooney | Pauline | Kildare / Newbridge | Literature | Research and write a draft of a historical novel re-imagining the relationship of poet William Butler Yeats and Georgie (George) Hyde Lees. | €2,000 |
Drama League of Ireland Summer School Award
Surname | First Name | Organisation | Municipal District (Kildare) | Artform | Project Description | Funding Awarded |
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Brady-Conor | Tom | An Nuadh Players | Clane / Maynooth | Theatre / Drama | Participate in the 'Dare to Dream -Dare to Direct' workshop with Geoff O'Keeffe. | €600 |
Higgins | Caitríona | An Nuadh Players | Clane / Maynooth | Theatre / Drama | Participate in the 'Dare to Dream -Dare to Direct' workshop with Geoff O'Keeffe. | €600 |
Emerging Visual Artist Exhibition Award with Riverbank Arts Centre
Surname | First Name | Municipal District (Kildare) | Artform | Project Description | Funding Awarded | |
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Whyte | Katie | Naas | Visual Art | Exhibit recent work exploring the changing paradigms of the modernisation of the art world in Ireland and ideas of iconoclasm and Damnatio memoriae (the condemnation of memory) of the social archive in the past and how it applies to artwork today. | €2,500 |
Executive Coaching for Creative Professionals Busary Award
Surname | First Name | Municipal District (Kildare) | Artform | Project Description | Funding Awarded | |
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McLaughlin | Mary | Kildare / Newbridge | Theatre / Drama | Identify goals and aims as a creative artist following recent work changes and challenges to practice. | €600 | |
Gildea | Orla | Celbridge / Leixlip | Theatre / Drama | Reflect and identify ways to progress as a creative artist while balancing a career as a drama teacher and creative arts therapist. | €600 | |
Hynan | Shane | Clane / Maynooth | Visual Art | Refine the focus of artistic practice; explore current lines of enquiry, skills and processes and set bespoke goals. | €600 |
Local Publishing Award
No funding awarded
Research and Thinking Bursary Award
Surname | First Name | Municipal District (Kildare) | Artform | Project Description | Funding Awarded | |
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Blennerhassett | Claire | Kildare / Newbridge | Theatre / Drama | Reflect on practice and explore a shift in direction involving a large and dynamic body of new work. | €1,700 | |
Kelly | Clodagh | Celbridge / Leixlip | Visual Art | Investigate the internal and external space we occupy, the seen and unseen, boundaries interpreted and misinterpreted. | €1,700 | |
Freeman | Lisa | Athy | Visual Art | Work with a curator and researcher as mentor to expand current research in the social, cultural and economic power of linguistics. | €1,700 |
Platform 4 Recording Studio Bursary Award
Surname | First Name | Organisation | Municipal District (Kildare) | Artform | Project Description | Funding Awarded |
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Phelan | Emer | Celbridge / Leixlip | Music | Record an original song composed in the last year. | €900 | |
Boyd | Pat | St Mary's Brass Band | Clance Maynooth | Music | Record a full brass band cd. | €900 |
Breheny | Vince | Clane Maynooth | Literature | Create an audio book of poems and complement them with associated stories. | €900 |
Short Grass Film Bursary Award
Surname | First Name | Organisation | Municipal District (Kildare) | Artform | Project Description | Funding Awarded |
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Gildea | Orla | Wishful Collaborative Productions | Celbridge / Leixlip | Film | Shoot a short film dealing with the search for romance in later life. | €1,500 |
O'Rourke-Glynn | Ryan | Athy | Film | Shoot a short film about one man's epic journey to discover himself and, learn how to ride a bicycle. | €1,500 | |
Weldon | Colin | Veridian 3 Films Ltd | Naas | Film | Explore the landscape of HP Lovecraft's Irish themed 1921 horror short story 'The Moon-Bog', contrasting the fictional Kilderry with its real life inspiration of Kildare. | €1,500 |
Short Grass Film Commission Award
Surname | First Name | Artform | Project Description | Funding Awarded | ||
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McNeice | Katie | Film | When his baby is born intersex, a young rural dad must face his own father’s gendered bullying, and the scars it has already left him. | €12,500 |
Tyrone Guthrie Residency Bursary Award
Decision deferred due to Covid19 restrictions
Youth Arts Bursary Award
Surname | First Name | Organisation | Municipal District (Kildare) | Artform | Project Description | Funding Awarded |
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Ennis | Lisa | Newbridge Family Resource Centre Youth Club | Kildare / Newbridge | Circus / Street Arts | Deliver circus skills workshops for young people aged 10 - 18; explore the basics of circus. | €2,500 |
The deadline for applications to all awards was 18th March 2021.
Kildare Creative Ireland Artistic and Creative Bursary Awards 2021
As part of Kildare's 2021 Creative Ireland programme bursaries are awarded to develop bodies of work with a public interface/engagement.
For the Kildare Creative Ireland Artistic and Creative Bursary Awards applications were invited from individuals and groups to creatively explore themes of:
- Well-being
- Sense of place
- Heritage (which may include historical exploration)
- Music
- STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics)
- Irish language
- Climate change
Organisation / Surname | First Name | Municipal District (Kildare) | Project Description | Funding Awarded | ||
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Run of the Mill Theatre / Byrne | Aisling | Celbridge / Leixlip | A community film project that will explore the history and legacy of the St. Raphaels campus in Celbridge, led by a group of its former residents. | €8,000 | ||
Conway | John | Naas | An immersive virtual reality (VR) and live-performed theatre work occurring in people's homes, informed by lived-experiences of older people in the area. | €6,000 | ||
Speak Up Sing Out | Clane / Maynooth | Choral and performance festival in Kilcock to include performances, workshops and activities for people within the community. | €6,000 | |||
Creative Sewing | Kildare / Newbridge | Community project involving transition year students and members of the local community, working, learning and connecting together to create textile wall hanging that depicts life around the RATH | €3,000 | |||
Foster | Angelina | Athy | Exploring burial grounds of County Kildare, through the process of gravestone rubbing, revealing stories from our past which connect with our sense of place, heritage and language. | €5,000 | ||
Creative Rathangan - Meitheal | Kildare / Newbridge | Explore the transformation of Rathangan's people and environs, its streetscapes, bog lands, and waterways through a programme of interdisciplinary and arts-based workshops. | €6,000 | |||
Gilligan | Shauna | Kildare / Newbridge | Explore the heritage symbolising Brigid through place and archival artefacts, creating new representations of her as an archetype of the sacred feminine in corporating public readings, workshops and a publication. | €4,000 | ||
Hardiman | Josephine | Naas | Develop 'The Book of Kildare', facilitate calligraphy workshops with schools, exhibition in Kildare. | €5,000 | ||
Kearney | Brenda | Clane / Maynooth | Develop a series of public workshops to develop a community seed-sharing project 'Tea by Post'. | €4,000 | ||
Kildare Art Collective | Kildare / Newbridge | Miniature outdoor exhibition installed within a specified radius in Newbridge, as part of an outdoor art trail for JuneFest. | €3,000 | |||
Lynch | Roseanne | Clane / Maynooth | An online Work-in-Progress performance of extracts of a new play about motherhood and climate change with post-show discussion and creative workshop. | €6,000 | ||
St John of God's | Celbridge / Leixlip | A sound art project that creatively explores themes of cultural rights and happiness using the human voice and accessible recording editing software applications. | €3,000 | |||
Down at Heel Productions | Maynooth | A War of Independence podcast soap opera set in Kildare, telling the story of a Maynooth family living through this turbulent period. | €1,500 | |||
Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann | Celbridge / Leixlip | Four 30 minute programmes as part of Fleadhfest to showcase the rich cultural heritage of Kildare through music, song, dance and the language. | €2,000 | |||
John Sullivan Centre Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA) Clane | Clane / Maynooth | Biodiversity Citizen Scientist Workshops with members & local schools on new habitats which have been created in a Biodiversity Garden. | €6,000 | |||
O'Brien | Martina | Naas | 'Mapping the Significant' will look to activated phenological methodologies and practices throughout the county. This will be done through the creation of a novel network of phenological observers; the installation of digital wild-sensing cameras in seven sites; the creation of a limited-edition publication and production of a film to be screened at a pop-up event. | €8,000 | ||
Woods | Paul | Naas | A series of public artworks exploring local fauna, flora and biodiversity in Monasterevin. | €4,000 |
Creative Ireland CRUINNIÚ NA NÓG Bursary Award 2021
Cruinniú na nÓg, the national day of creativity for children and young people takes place on Saturday, 12th June 2021. It aims to celebrate and encourage children and young people’s participation in culture and creativity by providing free, activity-based action in their own locality.
For the Creative Ireland Cruinniú na nÓg Bursary Award 2021, Kildare County Council’s Creative Ireland team accepted proposals from creative practitioners and organisations to host and facilitate creative engagements for and with children and young people across the county for Cruinniú na Óg 2021. More details on projects supported through this award can be found here.
Creative Ireland is a Government of Ireland Initiative.
Kildare Decade of Commemorations Bursary Award 2021
Image credit: Kildare Local Studies Collection
The Decade of Commemorations Bursary Award 2021 welcomed applications from individual artists, art groups, and community projects from county Kildare for artistic and creative community-led responses in all artforms based on some of the following themes:
It is envisaged that the interpretation of the historical events by Kildare based artists and creative practitioners will provide a platform to encourage reflection and the consideration of issues, both past and present, which may be challenging, difficult and sometimes deeply personal.
Surname | First Name | Project Description | Funding Awarded | |||
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Greene | Sharon | Artist's reconstruction of the scene of the Graney Ambush (24 October 1922). | €3,300 | |||
Woods | Paul | Large scale mixed media artwork exploring personal, national and social-political aspects of the 1921-1923 timeline combining imagery, objects, photography, soundscapes, portraiture and textures. | €5,600 | |||
Walsh | Lorraine | Research into local & national archive collections and exploration of the Civil War through drawing. | €7,500 | |||
Coy | Stephen | 100th anniversary of the handover of the Curragh Camp | €1,600 |
Decade of Commemorations Short Grass Film Award
Kildare County Council Decade of Commemorations/Short Grass Films further develops its support for film production in the county. This commission welcome applications for films with a Kildare focus which may focus on human/personal stories, real or imagined. Under this commission scheme, one award of €12,500 was made available towards the cost of the film production. Short film, feature film, documentary, animation, experimental and artist films were welcomed.
Supported by Kildare County Council’s Decade of Commemorations Committee and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 Initiative.
No funding was awarded.