I'm guilty of this - have never applied for funding. I always assume I'd
never get any and with the scale of the cuts going on, I've more or less
forgotten that funding even exists!

dave



On 7 November 2011 11:45, marc garrett <marc.garr...@furtherfield.org>wrote:

> Arts funding: why so many artists don't apply for the money.
>
> Dany Louise introduces a report she wrote on arts funding that reveals
> some surprising statistics.
>
> "The key finding is that surprisingly few individual artists apply for
> money in their own right and even fewer are successful. In England, less
> than 5% of artists apply in their own name every year and of those, less
> than 2.5% are successful. This means that there is little direct funding
> being given to artists to pursue and develop their own projects, under
> their own control: under 20% of available funding for the visual arts in
> England, 14% for Northern Ireland and around 18% for Scotland and Wales
> in 2009-2010."
>
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2011/nov/04/arts-funding-artists-dont-apply
>
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