Opportunity
Creative Places Tipperary Town
Creative Places Tipperary Town is seeking two socially engaged artists from all disciplines, with facilitation experience and a background in Arts and Health contexts, for a six-month residency running from February to July 2025.
These residencies offer the opportunity for artists to engage with the local community, explore collaborative arts practices, and create new works that respond to the social and cultural context of Tipperary Town.
The selected artists will work closely with the Creative Places Project Team and engage with a diverse range of community members, including adults, young people, and children from across Tipperary Town. This includes those accessing services at organisations such as Three Drives Family Resource Centre, St Vincent’s Hospital, and Youth Work Ireland Tipperary, as well as the wider public living and working in Tipperary Town.
The project team is looking for artists who are passionate about working with diverse groups and responding creatively to community needs, fostering inclusive, participatory arts experiences.
Each artist will collaborate closely with one community partner, building meaningful relationships and working together on research and project development. The residency will focus on community engagement, listening to how local voices shape the direction of the work. The aim is to celebrate Tipperary Town—its people, culture, history, landscape, and potential for the future—through active consultation and engagement with individuals of all ages.
Starting in February and ending in July 2025, this residency will immerse each artist in a collaborative environment, addressing arts and health-related issues, and creating work that reflects the community’s social, cultural, and political context. The residency is grounded in the belief that artists and communities can use collaborative arts practices to explore and express the issues that matter most.
Residency goals are to:
- Provide the opportunity for artists to grow and model their collaborative practice.
- Explore sense of place, belonging and cultural identity with people in Tipperary Town.
- Encourage active participation in art practices and creative processes.
- Support positive mental health and improve the wellbeing of participants and staff, through creative engagement.
- Create new collaborative art works that can be shared with wider audiences in August/September.
Artists will receive input and support from the Creative Places Coordinator, Producer, Project Assistant, fellow artists, and partner agency staff throughout the residency.
Applications are welcomed from artists at various stages of their careers and from diverse backgrounds.
Residency Fee
The fee for this six-month residency is €8,000 per artist, covering development, preparation, delivery, and post-production work.
Deadline
The deadline for applications is Sunday 26 January 2025, at 5pm. Interviews will take place the following week, on Wednesday 29 January.
Application process
For further information about the Arts & Health Residency and how to apply for it, please follow this link: https://www.activelink.ie/vacancies/children-youth/112964-creative-places-tipperary-town-open-call-for-artists-in-arts-health-residency
If you have an enquiry about this role, you can email creative.places@youthworktipperary.ie
