Writing Funding Applications

Building on Writing About Your Art Practice, this workshop offers practical guidance on developing compelling funding applications by walking through successful examples.

Focus areas

– Artist statements and summaries
– Using AI without losing your artistic identity
– Budgeting and documentation
– Editing for word counts and language precision
– Mapping practice to funding objectives
– Building networks and securing support letters

Suitable for artists across all disciplines.

Meet your tutor

James Merrigan is an artist and critic. For 15 years he has invented online and printed identities for his writing and publications, from +billion-journal (2010-17) to Small Night (2019—). In 2011 he was awarded the inaugural Critical Writing Award by Visual Artists Ireland and The LAB Dublin. As co-curator of Gorey School of Art’s Periphery Space for 8 years he has worked alongside Emma Roche to develop exhibitions such as “Soul–Beating” (2017) and “peripheriesPOST” (2023). Recent exhibitions and publications include WEAREFETISHISTS (Garter Lane Arts Centre, 2023), and TALK (Librairie Yvon Lambert, Paris, 2024). He has been invited to write for the “Death of Painting” chapter for Routledge’s forthcoming Companion to Contemporary Painting (2026), and was selected for Houston Texas-based F Magazine’s “In Memoriam” issue, 2026. This year he will print and exhibit screen-printed projects in collaboration with artists and artist-editors under Small Night Projects at Carthage Hall Lismore and Small Night Zine at Green on Red Gallery Dublin. He teaches at Gorey School of Art and lectures in Psychoanalysis and Art at Trinity College Dublin. James has been awarded several Arts Council Bursary and Project Awards, including in 2026. He teaches at Gorey School of Art and lectures in Psychoanalysis and Art at Trinity College Dublin. His writing circa 2024-26 is found exclusively on SubStack at merrigan.substack.comand Small Night projects at smallnightzine.org