Fingal County Council announce the Age & Opportunity and Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Award 2026

Fingal County Council in partnership with Age & Opportunity and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre welcome the return of the 2026 Residency Award. 

This Residency Award offers a professional visual artist and a professional writer over the age of 50+ the opportunity to develop their practice, by creating time and space to think and reflect and 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 a 2-week long residency including a small stipend.  The residency must take place between July and December 2026.

 Application Process

Those wishing to apply for the Age & Opportunity Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Award should complete the application online form via submit.com and are quire to upload a biography, CV and samples of work. 

 Eligibility criteria

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;
• Applicants must have been born, studied, or currently reside in the Fingal administrative area.

Full guidelines are available to download and view here:

Applications must complete an online form via submit.com no later than Friday 27th March 2026 at 4pm

The Link to applications can be found here: https://submit.link/4CM

Any queries relating to the award may be directed to  [email protected]