Artists Exhibition Residencies 2027
Leitrim Sculpture Centre
Open Call for Applications
Leitrim Sculpture Centre in association with Leitrim County Council is offering up to four Exhibition Residencies to visual artists during 2027. Each residency takes place at the Sculpture Centre and includes an artist’s fee of €4,000 inclusive. The residency comes with a one-person exhibition at the end of the residency period and includes accommodation in a private studio apartment with broadband; access to all facilities at the Centre along with technical and curatorial support. The period of residency is for a max of 8 weeks. Up to 1 residency will be provided to artists based in Leitrim. Up to three residencies will be offered to artists from elsewhere nationally or internationally including artists from minority ethnic and migrant backgrounds.
- Application Deadline Midnight Monday 09 November 2026
- Notification by 01 December 2026
- Residencies will take place from Mid-February – Mid-November during 2027
For more information on the scheme see below:
Technical Development Research Residencies (TDR’s) 2027
Leitrim Sculpture Centre
Open Call for applications
Leitrim Sculpture Centre is awarding up to four Technical Development Research Residencies during 2027. These are awarded to artists wishing to explore new directions in their practice through experimental engagement with different materials, processes, and ideas using the technical facilities of the Centre. One residency will be provided to artists based in Leitrim and up to three residencies will be offered to artists based elsewhere within Ireland, including artists from minority ethnic and migrant backgrounds.
Residency Supports
The residency period is 4 weeks and includes an artist’s stipend of €2,000 inclusive. It comes with a residential studio apartment including a private and heated studio, broadband internet; technical & safety support; basic energy and the use of technical facilities specified by the applicant.
The TDR research award is offered for experimental research engagement without the pressure of having to produce an exhibition, or specific project outcome during or at the end of the research period, apart from a short report.
- Application Deadline Midnight Sunday 15th November 2026
- Notification by Tuesday 8th December 2026
- Residencies will take place from March – November during 2027
For more information on the scheme see below:
Professional Development Residencies for Artists hosted by the Leitrim Sculpture Centre
PDR’s provide a practical research and development residential base for artists working in all media who need time to investigate a specific idea and/or explore a technical or material process in order to advance their practice.
Artists on PDR’s typically build in technical training into their residencies availing of the Centre’s experienced technicians to do this, in & Large Fabrication; Ceramics; Woodwork; Mouldmaking; Metal Sandcasting; Metal Fabrication & Forge; Traditional Print; and Analogue Photographic Darkroom.
Previously, artists have received funding from their local County Councils or schemes such as the AC Agility or Bursary Awards, to pay for their time at LSC.
Price for artists with their own funding for a Residency Apartment with access to all technical facilities - €400 per week. Apartments have a double bedroom with a separate studio area, all with shared bathrooms, wifi, washing machine, sitting room and yard.
See Facility Hire rates:
https://www.leitrimsculpturece...
Prices exclude materials, energy for large equipment/ kilns etc and technical/ tutor costs. There is also an additional charge for hot processes.
For artists without funding, we offer a subsidised charge rate. Contact info@leitrimsculpturecentre.ie for information.
LEER (Landscape, Ecology, & Environment Research) Residencies
Leitrim Sculpture Centre
Open Call for Applications
- Currently closed
Leitrim Sculpture Centre is awarding 3 LEER Research Residencies to artists during 2026. This residency programme provides artists working in the field of contemporary visual arts, with the space, time and support for the research and development of new engagements with landscape, ecology and/or environmental contexts and themes.
Specifically, the programme supports artists wishing to explore new thinking, artistic practices, and/or material transformations relevant to rural, landscape, and environmental contexts, discourses, and settings. Artists will use this work to develop new approaches and methods within their own practice, informing new directions for themselves and potentially the Centre. Residencies are offered to artists from or currently based in Ireland.
Successful applicants will each receive a research and development fee of €2,000. Research may be conducted at the Leitrim Sculpture Centre or at any other location of the artists' choosing. The research period is determined by the artist (from Jan-Dec 2026), and successful applicants will be provided with detailed guidelines regarding the form and scope of the research material required. An additional fabrication and exhibition fee of €2000 will be awarded at the end of 2026 or early 2027 (subject to funding) for the public dissemination of the research projects at the LSC galleries in Co. Leitrim. The LEER exhibition is currently planned to open in March 2027.
Residency Selection Panels
Each year a Selection Panel is formed to review the residency applications led by Seán O’Reilly, Artistic Director, together with other members of the creative community.
This year's Selection Panel are: Leslie Ryan (Arts Officer Leitrim Co.Co); Shane Finan (artist, Director, Ait Studios); James Kelly & David McAllister (Technicians LSC); Catriona Leahy (Studio Member Temple Bar Gallery and Studios); Laura Mahon (Director, The Glens Centre); Kierra 0’Toole,( Assistant Lecturer, MA Creative Practice ATU, Sligo); Bettina Seitz (artist, LSC workshop tutor & Board member); Dave Spence (artist, LSC studio holder and Board member).
It is acceptable for artists to apply to more than one residency programme, though applications need to refer to the stated individual residency guidelines.