Workshops & Courses
Creative Thinking About Funding
Learn how you can navigate the funding landscape as a Creative Practitioner
Through an artist-centred approach this is a practical, discursive, insightful and instructive talk to help artists at all stages of their careers. Rosalind will run through the fundamental aspects of considering funding and the different types of funding possibilities out there, tactics to employ for approaching these strands and top tips on how to bring together a campaign. Part of a funding bid Is to be entrepreneurial and creative in whom might fund your work and thinking outside of prescribed routes that are often oversubscribed and highly competitive.
What you will get from the session:
1. Fundamental and philosophical building blocks of approaching a funding proposal
2. Building agency and strategy in how you move in the sector
3. How to spot, seize, create and maximize opportunities to help create a legacy for yourself as an artist and to help springboard new possibilities and projects as a result.
4. Building ways to collaborate with artists, arts professionals, funders and organisations to help you prosper collectively through shared resources, practices and ideas.
About the facilitator:
Rosalind Davis is a Curator, Artist, art consultant, teacher/mentor, writer and designer. Davis has curated over 30 exhibitions to date and an ambitious group show at Arthouse Jersey 2023 and was the Curator at Collyer Bristow Gallery in London 2016 -20.
Independent curatorial projects have been curated Trace Elements | 1971 at The Factory Project produced by Thorp Stavri, London (2021) Athens Art Fair- Platforms, Athens (2023), and Standpoint Gallery, Arthouse1 and Geddes Gallery, London. Davis co-directed Art Organisations Zeitgeist Arts Projects (2012-15) at Bond House Gallery (ASC) and Core Gallery 2010-12.
Davis is co-author of ‘What they didn’t teach you at art school’ and lectures at universities, galleries and organisations across the world including the RCA, ICA, Camden Arts Centre, UAL and is a mentor for Artquest, Plop Residences, previously with a-n and works as a private mentor. As an artist Davis has exhibited nationally and internationally and work is held in a number of private and public collections including Soho House.
Website: https://linktr.ee/Rosalinddavisartist
What you will get from the session:
1. Fundamental and philosophical building blocks of approaching a funding proposal
2. Building agency and strategy in how you move in the sector
3. How to spot, seize, create and maximize opportunities to help create a legacy for yourself as an artist and to help springboard new possibilities and projects as a result.
4. Building ways to collaborate with artists, arts professionals, funders and organisations to help you prosper collectively through shared resources, practices and ideas.
About the facilitator:
Rosalind Davis is a Curator, Artist, art consultant, teacher/mentor, writer and designer. Davis has curated over 30 exhibitions to date and an ambitious group show at Arthouse Jersey 2023 and was the Curator at Collyer Bristow Gallery in London 2016 -20.
Independent curatorial projects have been curated Trace Elements | 1971 at The Factory Project produced by Thorp Stavri, London (2021) Athens Art Fair- Platforms, Athens (2023), and Standpoint Gallery, Arthouse1 and Geddes Gallery, London. Davis co-directed Art Organisations Zeitgeist Arts Projects (2012-15) at Bond House Gallery (ASC) and Core Gallery 2010-12.
Davis is co-author of ‘What they didn’t teach you at art school’ and lectures at universities, galleries and organisations across the world including the RCA, ICA, Camden Arts Centre, UAL and is a mentor for Artquest, Plop Residences, previously with a-n and works as a private mentor. As an artist Davis has exhibited nationally and internationally and work is held in a number of private and public collections including Soho House.
Website: https://linktr.ee/Rosalinddavisartist
