Eligibility

Applicants are selected based on their experience, quality of work, project ideas and compatibility with any other residents staying at the same time.

Number of Participants

Applications are invited from individual creative practitioners. You will be provided with a private double bedroom and studio space. There are also communal areas that you will share with two other residents, two hosts and two labradors.

Deadline

February 28, 2019 16:00 UTC

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

March 14, 2019 16:00 UTC

Duration

May 30, 2019 - June 27, 2019

Costs

• €960.00 program fee

Facilities

Desk Space, Individual Studio, Installation Space

Housing

Home-Stay

Public Programs

Open Studios, Retreat, Self-Directed

Disciplines

Conceptual Art, Design, Drawing, Fiber Arts, Fiction, Illustration, Installation, Makers, Nonfiction, Painting, Photography, Playwriting, Poetry, Screenwriting, Sculpture, Textile, Visual Arts

Languages

English

Program Description

Studio Faire is a contemporary art space in South West France, providing residencies for all types of creative practitioner. Situated in the market town of Nérac, in the stunning Lot-et-Garonne region, on the northern edge of Gascony. Here you will find the ‘real’ unspoilt France. Your hosts have many skills between them. Colin Usher is a Photographer and Digital Media expert and Julia Douglas a Mixed Media Artist (specialising in Textiles) and a Web Designer. Residents live and work in the house, studios and gardens of Studio Faire, a 'Maison de maître' built around 1840 and still retaining its period characteristics. Rooms and studios are spacious and mature gardens offer private, shaded space for work and play. Studio Faire offers all creative practitioners a change of pace and the space to create. Visit the website to find out more and to apply.