Artists in Residence 2024-25
Ready to explore what happens when music and digital collide? Us too.
Please note: applications for 2024/25 are now closed and the application form is no longer available. This page is live as a record of the application process and criteria, or to help you prepare for future applications or research.
We’re looking for two artists with exciting ideas that need some time, space and money to develop them. Interested in using digital technology to develop the ways you create or perform music? We want to hear from you.
You might be an ideal candidate for the Artist in Residence programme if this sounds like you:
- I have experience of leading my own creative projects, performing, recording, and collaborating with other artists
- I’m committed to making exciting and ambitious work
- I write my own original music, improvise or use technology to create new work
- I’m interested in using this residency to learn more about digital technology and tools to explore new ideas in my music
- I’ll benefit from the support of The Glasshouse’s Artist Development team, Digital team and programme partners.
- I’m based in the North East or Cumbria
- I’m over 18
Need to know
Check out the answers to some frequently asked questions.
Applications closed Wednesday 28 February at 5pm.
About our Artists in Residence Programme
If selected, you’ll be an Artist in Residence for 10 months from September 2024 to June 2025. You lead your project with support from our team. You decide how to spend your time and the money available. In June you’ll get to share your work right here at The Glasshouse.
Support includes:
- A support grant of £4,000 towards your time
- £750 to buy equipment
- £500 for creative support, such as mentoring or tuition
- £500 to spend some time away from everyday life working on your project (an artistic retreat if you like)
- Access to the rehearsal spaces at The Glasshouse
- Access to mentoring and creative support from international media arts agency, Mediale
- Access to leading-edge facilities and expertise through the Advanced Media Production (AMP) Network
- An opportunity to present your work to an audience at The Glasshouse in June 2025. This might be a live performance, online experience or installation.
- Documentation of your project and / or journey throughout the residency. For example, filming of your performance, livestream broadcast, photography etc.
- Support from the Artist Development and Digital teams
- Wellbeing support from British Association for Performing Arts Medicine (BAPAM)
- Access costs – more info below.
- Support from our partners at Newcastle University.
If you still have questions before you apply, check out our FAQs.
And if you want to chat to one of our team please contact Adele or Matthew on artistdevelopment@theglasshouseicm.org or call 0191 443 4569 / 0191 443 4649 (Monday to Thursday 9am-5pm).
What kind of projects are we looking for?
We’re not picky when it comes to genres of music. We don’t have any particular topics in mind. The main thing we’re looking for is an interesting project idea that explores what happens when music and digital collide. Something that will stretch you as an artist and give you time to learn new skills.
We’re here to help you develop creatively and move forward with your career. Digital could apply to audio and sound, immersive and interactive technology, music tech, gaming, web, visuals, applications exploring augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), artificial intelligence etc. These are some examples but there may be others.
As a new kind of programming for us at The Glasshouse, we’re keen to discover new ideas and ways of working and presenting music along with you – supported by our expert partners who are leading the way in this field.
If you still have questions before you apply you might find the answers you need on our Frequently Asked Questions page.
And if you want to chat to one of our team before applying, please contact Adele or Matthew on artistdevelopment@theglasshouseicm.org or call 0191 443 4569/0191 443 4649 (Monday to Thursday 9am – 5pm).
Applications for 2024/25 are now closed.
Equal Opportunities
We recognise that some communities have not been represented in our previous work. We want to make sure this opportunity is available to everyone, no matter what your background or the challenges you’ve faced.
For example, we would love to hear from you if you:
- Are d/Deaf, have a disability, learning difficulty or significant long-term health condition which affects your daily life
- Describe yourself as neurodivergent (this might include dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, ADHD, autistic spectrum, Tourette’s syndrome and others)
- Consider yourself to be from a working class background
- Received free school meals in secondary school
- Grew up in a family receiving Universal Credit or state benefits
- Have ever lived in council or social housing, been on the housing register
- Have ever lived in sheltered accommodation or experienced homelessness
- Experienced being in care at any point
- Were a young parent or young carer
- Have been a refugee or asylum seeker
- Are from the African, South, East and South-East Asian, Middle East, Latinx or North African diaspora, or have experienced racism
These are some common examples of challenging circumstances but there may be others.
Applications are now closed.
Please find the link for the application form below. We’ll collect information about you and your project to help us with the selection process.
To complete an application you’ll need:
- Your artist bio
- Links to your music and any online examples for digital work
- Some details about the project you’d like to work on during the residency and why it’s important to you
- Name and contact details of someone who can provide a reference for you. Please note we will only contact them if you’re selected for the programme.
- Please note, you can’t save the form. We recommend saving the information you need in a Word document and then pasting into the form. Download a copy of the form as a Word document.
- Make sure you submit your application via the form. You can’t apply using the word document.
What happens next?
Once you’ve completed the form please click the ‘Submit’ button. You will see a message on the screen thanking you for your application. If you’d like to save your response, click the button ‘Save my response’ to look back over your answers.
A small number of artists will then be invited for a face to face interview on Wednesday 20 March. All applicants will hear from us by the beginning of April.
If you’re not selected, we would still like to give you some feedback on your application. You might want to apply again in the future.
Access costs
Additional money is available for access requirements that might improve your experience. These might include transport costs for d/Deaf and disabled artists, a personal assistant or care worker, BSL interpretation, information in large print or another language, for example.
If you want to speak to someone about your access requirements before applying, please contact Matthew or Adele on artistdevelopment@theglasshouseicm.org or call 0191 443 4569 / 0191 443 4649 (Monday to Thursday, 9am – 5pm)
Programme Partners
Mediale
Dynamic and ambitious, Mediale work year-round to develop and deliver new commissions, live events and artistic development.
They deliver careful, long-term interventions & holistic artist development, whilst producing high profile arts events that stimulate new thinking.
Mediale maintains the highest possible standards of curation, delivery and production; commissioning and producing globally significant work that is accessible to all while championing diverse talent.
Through incorporating technologies into their works, the artists they work with bridge the gap between the new and the traditional, to challenge and inspire.
Mediale is fundamentally focused on national and international impact. They take bold artistic risks, programming diverse, powerful and provocative work from across the globe.
Advanced Media Production (AMP) Network
The Advanced Media Production (AMP) network represents the UK’s first networked advanced media production studios, and the UK’s first interconnected 5G enabled facility designed to explore research and innovation capabilities in media production.
The network, formed by studios at PROTO in Gateshead and Dock Street in London interconnected to additional capabilities at Digital Catapult HQ, is at the forefront of UK innovation and will lead the way in how convergent technologies and virtual environments will transform media production, creating new workflows and production tooling.
Newcastle University
Newcastle University’s music department is one of the largest in the country, offering extensive performance opportunities for its students including the Live in the King’s Hall series.
Their vibrant community of scholars and practitioners research, compose and perform a broad musical repertoire – covering classical to contemporary, jazz to folk, and everything in between. They have strong links across the region with key venues and institutions including The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, home of the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the Samling Academy and Opera North. The department also has links with Culture Lab, Newcastle University’s hub for research in digital creative practice and film practice at Newcastle University.
