Available Funding

Art Fund – Commission Grants

Art Fund are keen to support the commission and acquisition of new work, and they welcome proposals for exceptional projects with significant public impact.

Commissioned work often has a singular ability to respond and reveal new aspects to collections or places in direct, timely ways, and commissioning an artist(s) to create a new work of art for a museum collection can help to forge closer relationships with artists and audiences.

Applications for commissions are considered as a part of the acquisitions programme. As such, they would expect any commissions to be of international, national or regional significance.

For your application to be successful you will also need to make a strong case in the following three areas:

• Benefit to the artist
• Benefit to the organisation
• Benefit to audiences

Funding ranges from a few thousand pounds to tens of thousands of pounds.

• We normally fund only part of the cost of a commission
• There is no fixed percentage for which you can apply
• We can advise you on the appropriate level of grant request before you submit your application

Grant amount: there are two levels of grants available:

• Small grants: £7,500 and under
• Main grants: above £7,500

Deadline: Main Grant applications are decided five times a year (February, May, July, October and December). Small Grant applications are decided on a rolling basis.