Residencies, Internships and Fellowships Fund 2024

Key themes and round observations

This opportunity is offered once every three years as part of the For the Arts funding programmes. The Fund will next be offered in 2027.

The Fund supports the delivery of a range of opportunities for artists and practitioners to create work or develop their practice or skills within different communities across artforms. 

The Fund received significant interest from providers across the motu and most applications were from organisations; applications were especially high to our General Arts funding pool.   

There was a mixture of new and existing opportunities across all art forms with the majority (77%) offering opportunities to both early career and established practitioners.

Most of the applications (64%) were to support Residencies; 26% were Fellowships and 10% were for Internships. 

When deciding on which applications to fund, the assessment panel considered:

• the range of recommended residencies, internships, or fellowships, including their demographic spread
• needs within different artform eco-systems and whether artists and practitioners will be well-served through the recommended residencies, internships, or fellowships
• how the residencies, internships, or fellowships will support the development of the artform and its infrastructure
• the amount and type of financial contribution or co-investment

Applications were of high merit and funding was very competitive. 

Successful applications are mainly for established opportunities based on the proven impacts for practitioners, their critical support of arts infrastructure and identified needs within the artform. Most of the supported opportunities are for residencies, although there are three training opportunities that support career pathways in targeted art forms.  There is representation across the art forms and across the mōtu. Most opportunities are located in Tāmaki, although many of these are available to artists and practitioners located nationally or internationally.

Strong applications under the Residencies, Internships and Fellowships Fund tended to:

• clearly articulate the benefit and impact of the opportunity on the recipient.
• clearly identify the communities they served and were specific in their design of the residency, fellowship or internship in delivering to the needs or opportunities of those communities.
• provide robust and thorough evidence of planning to support successful delivery, including a safe, inclusive, and accessible environment with appropriate support throughout.
• provide detailed budgets and evidence of strong co-investment (financial or non-financial) which was above the minimum requirement of 10%.
• demonstrate strong alignment with Creative New Zealand’s Interim Investment Intention (General Arts funding pool) Te Hā o ngā Toi - Māori Arts Strategy (Ngā toi Māori funding pool) and Pacific Arts strategy (Pacific Arts funding pool).

Funding offered    

Note: Amounts are the total funding offered across three years.

Artspace Aotearoa Trust

$150,000 towards the salary and programme of the Kaiwhakamahiri Pirihi Taiwhenua Curatorial Internship

Auckland Museum

$120,480 towards a residency for a Pacific artist at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland Museum's documentary heritage collection

Auckland Pride Incorporated

$141,000 towards an artist stipend for a senior and an emerging artist, guest lecturer and mentors

Hone Tuwhare Trust

$75,000 towards the development of two Tuwhare Residencies

Lilburn Residence Trust

$150,000 towards a 9-month composer residency at the Lilburn Residence

McCahon House Trust

$126,000 towards two New Zealand artist stipends, videographer and writer fees, and admin costs   

Pataka Arts and Cultural Centre

$150,000 towards ICCA Global Delegation Programme

Publishers Association of New Zealand - PANZ

$150,000 to deliver the PANZ Internships Programme

TAHI New Zealand Festival of Solo Performance Limited

$135,000 towards an annual creative residency for artists that supports solo theatre practice and develops new ideas

Te Pou Theatre

$150,000 towards the delivery of a kaupapa Māori internship series, local & international residency opportunity at Te Pou Theatre

University of Canterbury

$123,000 towards a residency for Aotearoa New Zealand writers at the University of Canterbury

Wellesley Studios

$150,000 towards Wellesley Studios Residency Programme