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Applications are open for the Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship 2025. The Fellowship supports the Cavendish Arts Science ethos of experimenting, decentring and re-imagining. It is designed for artists to develop thought-provoking ideas through engagement with physicists and those in other fields, and to experiment with new approaches to their practice that are transformative and push boundaries.
Opportunity Details
The Fellowship offers opportunities for playful experimentation and the space to re-imagine beyond conventional artistic and scientific boundaries. It is conceived as a transformative artistic fellowship, designed for artists to explore new approaches and ways of thinking through engaging with scientists and beyond, and motivated by such explorations, to experiment with and develop new artistic work-in-progress.
The opportunity is open to artists internationally and is not confined to any single aesthetic, theme or medium. Artists with no previous experience of working with scientists or in a scientific environment are particularly encouraged to apply. We seek adventurous artists who explore alternative ways of knowing the world, and who work with communities that are not privileged in the mainstream.
Practical Information
The one-year Fellowship will begin in October 2025 and end in October 2026. It includes a residency period in Cambridge, typically of at least six months up to one year. Exact dates of the residency period are flexible and will be agreed with the selected artist.
The Fellowship is financially supported:
Any artist can apply for the Fellowship regardless of medium or practice, nationality or country of residence, as long as the artist is out of full-time education by the start of the Fellowship, over the age of 18 and willing to travel to Cambridge.
They actively encourage applications from artists with no previous experience of working with scientists or in a scientific environment.
You can download a copy of the questions and word limits from this link to help prepare your submission. This document also gives details of the formats and maximum file size of attachments that can be uploaded. Please note this document is just for your reference.
It is not possible to save your online submission and return to it later. They recommend preparing your application in a separate document that you can back up on your computer, pasting the text into the form, and filling in any links or uploading attachments when you are almost ready to submit.
Please note that they will only accept submissions received before the deadline.
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