Or is there an opportunity here for "no Arts Council funding no fee" services - following the idea of those insurance experts who advertise on afternoon TV and specialise in victim compensation? I'm being cynical I suppose ...
dave On 7 November 2011 14:55, Simon Biggs <[email protected]> wrote: > Most times I've been successful in acquiring Arts Council funds it has been > through indirect means - somebody applying on my behalf, usually through a > commissioning body (gallery, producer, festival, etc). The people who hold > responsible positions in such organisations are expert grant writers and > have a much better hit-rate than 2.5%. If that is the likely success rate > then I'd tend to feel it is not worthwhile applying. You need a better > likelihood than that. Even 10% is marginal. 20% is about when it starts to > get worthwhile, in terms of the odds. > One of the main reasons I shifted from being a freelance artist to working > in academia was due to issues around funding. During the 80's and 90's I'd > been lucky with ACE, British Council and other funders. But in the late 90's > the new government changed the focus of arts funding, which resulted in many > of the key funding avenues being closed down (like the new film fund - which > happily funded new media projects with reasonably serious amounts of money). > The writing was on the wall and the research councils started to look like a > better bet, with relatively generous fellowships available, as well as > medium to large project funds being available to creative practice based > projects, especially if technology was involved (eg: six or seven figures). > Things are more competitive now, with less money available and more > applicants than ever, but the hit-rate is still better than 10% and, for > some funds, much better than that. Follow-on funding, for those who have > already held research council funds, is better than 50/50. > State funding of the arts is in a dire situation now and it is little > surprise that many feel it is pointless to apply - but if you look at it > another way, somebody has to apply and you can't win it if you aren't in > it. I'd recommend you develop a relationship with one or more sponsoring > organisations that can work with you on developing a relationship with the > funders. They need to know you a bit, understand what you are doing and why > and to develop a trust based relationship. In hard times they are even more > risk averse than normal. > best > Simon > > On 7 Nov 2011, at 12:09, dave miller wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > Simon Biggs > [email protected] www.littlepig.org.uk @SimonBiggsUK skype: > simonbiggsuk > [email protected] Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh > www.eca.ac.uk/circle www.elmcip.net www.movingtargets.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
