Announcement of the Age & Opportunity and Tyrone Guthrie Centre residency award 2025
Fingal County Council Arts Office in partnership with Age & Opportunity and the Tyrone Guthrie centre announce the opening of the 2025 residency award.
Fingal County Council Arts Office in partnership with Age & Opportunity and the Tyrone Guthrie centre announce the opening of the 2025 residency award.
This residency award offers a professional visual artist and a professional writer over the age of 50+ the opportunity to research or develop new work. These residencies aim to celebrate and support older artists at all stages of their careers working in literature and visual arts. Recipients will receive two separate 2-week long residencies (1 month total per artist) including a small stipend. The residency must take place between July and December 2025.
On announcement of this award, Fingal County Council Arts Officer, Sarah O’Neil said ‘The Age & Opportunity and Tyrone Guthrie Centre residencies award facilitates connecting people and ideas through art. This residency is the perfect opportunity for an artist to learn more from their peers or develop their own work.’
To be eligible to apply applicants must be a professional artist (Visual Artist or Writer) aged 50 +; Recognised as a professional artist by their peers – for example, membership of an associated professional organisation and must have been born, studied, or currently reside in the Fingal administrative area.
Fingal County Council welcomes and encourages applications from all communities and particularly encourages artists from under-represented communities to apply.
About Age & Opportunity:
Age & Opportunity is the national organisation that provides a range of opportunities for older people who want to get more involved in arts and culture, sport and physical activity, civic engagement and personal development.
Specifically, the Arts programme aims to support and provide resources for artists, arts participants/audiences and arts organisations. This is done through the annual Bealtaine Festival, which is Ireland’s month-long (May) national festival celebrating the arts and creativity as we age and the Resource and Development Programme.
About the Tyrone Guthrie Centre:
Based in rural County Monaghan, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre is a cross-border organisation that offers time away, space to work, and opportunities for collaboration and networking for artists and ‘other like persons’ that facilitates the development of their practice across all art forms. Annaghmakerrig House, otherwise known as the ‘Big House’, is situated in the quiet countryside of County Monaghan, and together with the self-catering cottages, studios and performance spaces, as well as the lake and forests, gardens, and fields, The Tyrone Guthrie Centre is a place where creativity flourishes amid the many pressures and distractions of contemporary life.
Applications should be submitted via the online form or by emailing the application form to
Any queries relating to the award may also be directed to
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