Application Deadline: 5th of January 2025, 12 Midnight

Interdisciplinary Residency Dates in 2025:
 March 10th - 23rd
 August 11th - 24th
 October 6th - 19th
 November 10th - 23rd 

*Each residency can host up to 16 practitioners selected through open call or via partnerships.

 Selected by:

Juana Adcock: Born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, based in Scotland, Juana Is a Poet and Translator working in both English and Spanish.

Deniz Uster: Is an artist, researcher and milliner with an indefatigable passion for astronomy, geology and microbiology.

Interdisciplinary Residency Programme:

The Interdisciplinary Residency Programme 2025 is open to those working across the arts, who have urgent projects to address, or require time to focus on a specific area of development in their work. The programme is open to applications from National and International artists, researchers and creative practitioners working across all art forms. This can include, but is not limited to, writers, musicians, architects, producers, dancers, choreographers, curators, designers, educators and researchers.

The Interdisciplinary Residency is an opportunity to spend two weeks of highly focused time with peers working in a broad range of practices and can be a test bed for new ideas and work.

More About the Interdisciplinary Residency Programme:

The Interdisciplinary Residency Programme at Hospitalfield has been devised to appeal across all art forms. It has been planned as an opportunity to support those working across the arts to provide space to focus on the development of their work.

We will ensure that this is a productive time set within the retreat-likeenviornment of Hospitalfield. The residency period is two weeks long and each residency can host up to 16 people, Hospitalfield facilitates a programme of interaction and discussion within the group to encourage community within the residency cohort.

This residency is an opportunity that appeals to those arts professionals who need time to work on a specific project, undisturbed, in a supportive environment. The selectors bring together a group that reflects a broad range of practices, who will find the time invaluable and gain much from working within the residency setting.

We encourage applications from those working in creative practices that feel that the residency would be of benefit to their work. It’s important that residents commit to the entire residency period, to provide consistency for the group and to make sure you can immerse yourself in the situation and your work.

 Recent redevelopment to the estate and facilities provide even more opportunities for our residents. In 2024 we re-opened our 19th and 20th century studios after extensive restoration work. These studios allow large working spaces for a broad range of visual arts and other practices, as well as space to conduct research. We also launched our new 21st century studio, that has been designed for artists working with moving image, sound, and photographic practices.

 For 2025 South Lodge, a contemporary house on the estate, will provide accommodation for our focus on supporting new writing. We are looking for up to 4 writing residents per residency period who are interested in joining us as we develop this part of our programme.  

 Residents have their lunch and dinner provided in a communal setting during the week and are provided with fresh produce at the weekend. These times are a valuable opportunity for socialising and afford residents more time to concentrate fully on their work.

The Facilities:
 Our vision for the programme is to provide space, hospitality and groups of artists working alongside one another. This is not a workshop model residency, but there are facilities to support a range of practices. 

 The 19th and 20th century studios are large purpose-built artist studios, which are North facing, creating a steady light throughout the day. These large studios now have underfloor heating, increased insulation as well as large sinks and accessible bathrooms. They are well suited for painting, installation, sculpture, ceramics, drawing and other making based practices as well movement and performance.

The new 21st century studio features a space suited to recording of sound, music and performance and an editing studio which is ideal for editing moving image or sound. Both studios can be fully blacked out from light and have sound insulation. The editing studio has a cinema grade projector and surround speakers. Also in this new building is a small wet dark room for B&W development and printing. This is our first full year of using the 21st century studio and we will be welcoming feedback and input from residents over the year about how we can best use and resource this new building.
 

The South Lodge is a 4-bedroom house that suits our new strand of residencies dedicated to supporting writers. Residents will have communal writing space in the lodge itself as well as access to the study in the main house and our growing 21st century library and reading space.

Where applicable, practitioners may also work in some of the rooms in the historic house, the Memorial Chapel, and can participate in tours and discussions about the heritage and collections.  

If attending in the summer months or in good weather, we can also facilitate outdoor working and enable access to the garden and grounds.

Programme streams:
Whilst the residencies are open to a very broad range of practices, we have some places set aside in each residency period for some specific practices. If you are applying for any of the below, please make sure and note this on your application in the allocated space. 

Print, Each residency period we award one PRINT Place on the Interdisciplinary residency which provides solo access for one artist to work in the Kinpurnie Print studio which is designed especially for safe etching and mono printing. Please indicate on the application form when you apply whether you would like to be considered for this place and detail how you will use this in your project proposal. 

Photo, If you would like to use the small B&W dark room, please detail this in your proposal. This is the first full year of using our new photographic studio and we are still in a ‘testing’ period so it would be best used by experienced photographers. This facility can be shared by two residents in a group.

Writing, Please indicate on the application form if you are applying for a space in our South Lodge space that is dedicated to supporting writers.  Residents will have communal writing space in the lodge itself as well as access to the study in the main house and our growing 21st century library and reading space. Residents on the writing programme will still eat with and share activities with the residents using the main studios.
 

Residencies include:
Full board catering
Individual bedrooms
24-hour access to the artist studios
Access to heritage spaces and rooms in Hospitalfield House and Grounds

How to apply:  

Selectors are looking for applicants who apply with an urgent project or can demonstrate clearly what their project or focus for the residency will be.
Please note we actively discourage proposals which are site specific or directly draw on Hospitalfield itself as we want people to come with, and leave with, work which is relevant and useful to them in a wider context. 

Applicants have roughly a 1 in 3 change of being awarded a place on this residency programme
 

Eligibility:
Undergraduate students are not eligible to apply to this residency
If you are still studying at the point of the deadline, you can't make an application, please apply in the future and join our mailing list to hear about other residency news and deadlines including our Graduate Residency.

We welcome applications from individuals, and those wishing to work in collaborative groups please get in touch with us at programme@hospitalfield.org.uk ahead of your application  if you are planning to apply as a collective to discuss this further.

Costs:
 £990 (including VAT) per person for a two week, self-funded, subsidised, full board catered residency with 24 hour access to studio space. [This cost represents a 51% subsidy]
 

Self-funded:
The Interdisciplinary Residency Programme is a subsidised, self-funded residency, it costs £990 per person to attend. It is not supported directly through public funds.

We expect that some of the applicants will pay for themselves, and others will look to professional bodies, local cultural support structures, private trusts, or advocating agencies for support. Many practitioners secure funding from national and trust funders to undertake the residency.

Examples of these Nationally would be; Creative Scotland project funding, A-N Artist Bursaries, Arts Council England DYCP funding, regional VACMA Artist & Craft Maker Awards, Hope Scott Trust, Royal Scottish Academy Residencies for Scotland Scheme and The Cross Trust in Scotland. For agencies in other countries, practitioners can request information from relevant Arts Councils and artist support organisations.

 If you are selected for the residency by our panel, we are happy to provide supporting documentation, such as an official letter, after the offer has been made.

Hospitalfield Interdisciplinary Residency Guide to Funding

Access:
Your residency proposal can be submitted either as text or as an audio file via the online form, please get in touch if you have questions regarding the application process.

On the application form there is space for you to include any access requirements, mobility, or health factors you would like to inform us about.  Hospitalfield is a 19th century artists’ house and there are several steps and stairs up to many of the rooms in the house and between the House, and around the Grounds.

After you are awarded a place, you are given the option of completing a more detailed access rider where you can raise access requirements.

The studios are fully accessible and have fully accessible bathroom facilities. There is access to shared and private working spaces.

Dining at Hospitalfield happens together and the residency involves being part of a group which you can engage with as much or as little as suits you.

There is space on the application form to tell us about any dietary requirements you have. 

Prior to your application we aim to provide as much helpful information as possible around access to best inform your decision about whether to apply. If you have any questions, please email programme@hospitalfield.org.uk
 

Questions and further Information about Hospitalfield
 Hospitalfield’s Residency Programme supports artists, researchers and creative practitioners working across all art forms in the production of new work. While each strand of our programme has its own focus, our overall intention is to provide space and time for artists to focus on questions, problems and ideas that will have an impact for them now and into the future.
 Participants in the programme live and work in the house, studios, gardens, and courtyards of the estate. The location, overlooking the North Sea, provides an extremely peaceful place to work. Hospialfield is situated on the edge of the small town of Arbroath, once off the threshold of the estate you are within walking distance of useful amenities and the beach. Arbroath station is on the east coast train line from London to Aberdeen and is linked to all the main Scottish towns and cities by train and buses. The long daylight hours in the spring and summer, beautiful coast line and high percentage of sunshine hours defines this part of Scotland.
 Further information about our residencies and facilities can be found on residency pages of the website, HERE

Further information about Hospitalfield can be found HERE

For more information or for questions about the Interdisciplinary Programme please email programme@hospitalfield.org.uk

More about the Selectors:

Deniz Uster (b.1981-Istanbul), is a Scotland-based multidisciplinary artist researcher. Spanning across geological and scientific inquiry, Deniz Uster’s art practice is permeated by anthropological and historical research to form pluralistic social narratives, using science fiction as her primary discipline. A fictional shift in nature within these ‘filmic’ narratives forms the foundation for alternative social structures, cultures, economic systems, futures and histories.  Uster continues to create cinematic speculative-fiction narratives through miniature dioramas, installations, films, drawings and sculptural headpieces under the brand name OTHERSCAPES.

Juana Adcock, was born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, she is a poet writing in both English and Spanish. She is the author of Manca (Tierra Adentro, 2014), Vestigial (Stewed Rhubarb, 2022), and Split (Blue Diode, 2019), which was a Poetry Book Society Choice, and I Sugar the Bones (Out-Spoken Press, 2024). She is co-editor of the anthology Temporary Archives: Poetry by women of Latin America (Arc, 2022) and translator of Laura Wittner’s Translation of the Route (Bloodaxe/PTC, 2024) and Hubert Matiuwaa’s The Dogs Dreamt. She performs regularly at literary festivals in Europe, Asia and Latin America



Photo Credit: Ruth Clark

 

This residency is made possible with the support of a one-off grant from the Foyle Foundation, that we are delighted to have received in 2024

Application Deadline: 8th Of December 2024 12 midnight.

Dates of Residency: March 31st - April 27th, 2025

Places: 6

Artist Residency Bursary:  £2200

Travel Budget:  £100

Eligibility: UK-based Contemporary Visual Art Practitioners

 
Selectors:

Rhea Anastas: Rhea is an independent curator and an associate professor at the Department of Art, University of California, Irvine. She is based in Los Angeles, California.

Richard Birkett: Richard is a curator and writer based in Glasgow, UK, He is the Festival Director of Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art

About the Residency:
The Foyle Foundation Residency is a four-week funded programme with 6 places available for UK-based Contemporary Visual Art Practitioners. Selected artists receive a bursary that supports them during the residency.  This residency is devised for those developing their working lives within the scope of contemporary visual art practices.

Artists are invited to submit an application that describes an urgent project, or specific focus of work, that they will address during the month-long programme.
Pressure on places is high and applicants are advised to articulate why this is the right time for them to be working on this project, and how this will impact the development of their work going forward.

It is important that residents can commit to the entire residency period, to provide consistency for the group and to make sure you can immerse yourself in the situation and your work.

The residency includes; studio visits with the selectors and peer to peer discussion facilitated by Hospitalfield, full board catering, 24 hours access to studio space.
Artists in residence on funded programmes are invited to contribute to our pamphlet series as a way of documenting their time at Hospitalfield. More information on this can be found HERE.


About Hospitalfield:
Dedicated to contemporary art and ideas, Hospitalfield has an international reputation in the visual arts for our artist development programmes through residencies and commissioning. Over the last ten years our programmes have given time and space to artists to develop new work at a pivotal time in the development of their careers.

Participants in the programme live and work in the house, studios, gardens and courtyards of the estate. The location, overlooking the North Sea, provides an extremely peaceful place to work. Hospialfield is situated on the edge of the small town of Arbroath, once off the threshold of the estate you are within walking distance of useful amenities and the beach. Arbroath station is on the east coast train line from London to Aberdeen and is linked to all of the main Scottish towns and cities by train and buses. The long daylight hours in the spring and summer, beautiful coastline and high percentage of sunshine hours defines this part of Scotland.


Further information about the Selectors:
Rhea Anastas is an independent curator who has held faculty positions at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; and the Department of Art, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine. With eleven artists and filmmakers (including Moyra Davey, Andrea Fraser, Christian Philipp Müller, Jeff Preiss, R. H. Quaytman, Karin Schneider, and Jason Simon), she cofounded Orchard, a cooperative gallery on New York’s Lower East Side with a predetermined three-year lifespan (2005–8). At Orchard and across her collaborations as a writer and curator, Anastas has innovated with research, exhibition-making, and publishing as artistic forms.

Richard Birkett is a curator and writer based in Glasgow, UK. He is the Festival Director of Glasgow International 2024, and was previously Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London from 2017-2020 and Curator at Artists Space in New York from 2010-2016. He has worked with artists, writers, filmmakers and performers including Terry Atkinson, Julie Ault, Julie Becker, Bernadette Corporation, Andrea Büttner, Chto Delat?, Forensic Architecture, Em Hedditch, Morag Keil & Georgie Nettell, Chris Kraus, Sam Lewitt, Taylor Le Melle, Laura Poitras, Cameron Rowland, Hito Steyerl, Cosey Fanni Tutti and The Wooster Group. He is the author of the book Donald Rodney: Autoicon (Afterall Books, 2022). 

How To Apply:
Selectors are looking for applicants with urgent projects that can demonstrate clearly what their project or focus for the residency will be. We anticipate a high number of applications to this funded residency. Applicants are advised to articulate their project proposal clearly and demonstrate why this is the right time for them to be working on this project, and how this will impact the development of their work going forward. Artists are discouraged from making a site-specific proposal in relation to Hospitalfield.
Application should be made via the online form on submittable linked at the top and bottom of this page.

Eligibility:
You must be two years out of education to apply for this residency, please join our mailing list to hear about other residency news and deadlines including our Graduate Programme.

Access:
Your residency proposal can be submitted either as text or as an audio file via the online form, please get in touch if you have questions regarding the application process.

On the application form there is space for you to include any access requirements, mobility, or health factors you would like to inform us about.  Hospitalfield is a 19th century artists’ house and there are several steps and stairs up to many of the rooms in the house and between the House, and around the Grounds.

After you are awarded a place, you are given the option of completing a more detailed access rider where you can raise access requirements.

The studios are fully accessible and have fully accessible bathroom facilities. There is access to shared and private working spaces.

Dining at Hospitalfield happens together and the residency involves being part of a group. There is space in the application form to tell us about any dietary requirements you have.

Further information:

Information about the Residency Programme at Hospitalfield:

HERE

Further information about how we work with Artists:

HERE

Please email any questions about the residency or application toprogramme@hospitalfield.org.uk

Photo Credit: Ruth Clark