Open Call to Artists | Arts + Health – Two Artist Bursaries 2025

The national arts and health website is offering two bursaries to artists in 2025, funded by the Arts Council and the HSE. Two bursaries worth €3000 each are available to individual artists or a group of artists working across any artform(s) to tell the story of an arts and health project they are delivering.

Are you an artist delivering an arts and health project? Would you like to showcase the project to a larger audience? See the bursaries below:

1. The Artist Documentation Bursary invites artists to document a project being delivered with a health or social care community, with two awards available.
2. The Emerging Artist Bursary is available for an early-career artist to reflect on their arts and health practice.

Applications are now open for both bursaries with a closing date of Friday 6 June 2025.

artsandhealth.ie Artist Documentation Bursary 2025

The bursary is applicable to the documentation of arts and health projects across all arts practice areas (participatory arts, performance arts, environmental enhancement) in the Republic of Ireland.

The purpose of this award is to support professional artists working in arts and health contexts to enhance their documentation practice. The bursary can be used to produce a short film / animation, audio work, publication or visual documentation about an arts and health project, for public viewing.

An endorsement from the health or social care provider must be included with the documentation proposal.

The artist documentation bursary aims to:

• Showcase arts and health practice to national audiences;
• Support artists to strengthen their documentation practice;
• Raise awareness around the impact of arts and health practice;
• Inspire artists, healthcare staff and health service users involved in arts and health projects.

The bursary cannot be used to engage a professional to document a project. Artists can allocate a portion of bursary funding to support skills development in documenting their practice, for example, through mentoring or training.

Application process 
Download the application form, eligibility criteria and FAQs here:
https://www.artsandhealth.ie/assets/uploads/2025/04/Application-form-artsandhealth.ie-artist-documentation-bursary-2025.docx

artsandhealth.ie Emerging Artist Bursary 2025 

Professional artists with an emerging arts and health practice are invited to apply for the artsandhealth.ie Emerging Artist Bursary 2025 to reflect on their practice.

The bursary is open to individual early-career artists working in any artform in the Republic of Ireland.

Early-career artists working with healthcare communities are not always afforded the same opportunities to reflect on and interrogate their practice as their more experienced peers. This bursary is purposely designed to provide artists with the headspace for reflective enquiry as they develop and shape their arts and health practice.

Learning that arises from the bursary will be shared with the wider arts and health community via artsandhealth.ie. How this learning is presented is at the discretion of the bursary awardee.

One bursary award of €2000 will be offered to the successful applicant.

Application process 
Download the application form, eligibility criteria and FAQs here:
https://www.artsandhealth.ie/assets/uploads/2025/04/Application-Form-artsandhealth.ie-Emerging-Artist-Bursary-2025.docx

CLOSING DATE
The closing date for both bursary awards is Friday, 6 June 2025 at 12 noon.

artsandhealth.ie is the national website for arts and health in Ireland, managed by Réalta, the national resource organisation dedicated to developing arts and health in Ireland. The artsandhealth.ie bursaries 2025 are funded by the HSE and the Arts Council.