The Lewisham Arthouse Graduate Award is an exciting opportunity providing recent graduates from universities colleges and alternative art education programmes with a free studio space, a mentorship programme and production support for nine months.

The Graduate Award was started in 2010, to help artists who have recently left art school and were faced with an increasingly expensive and difficult task of continuing to make art. As an artist led cooperative, we understand the challenges of sustaining an art practice in London and decided collectively to dedicate one of our studios permanently as a free space for a recent graduate and to fund the project ourselves.

We also want to provide more than just a physical space and invite the award holders to become part of our community with peer learning, skill sharing and use of our resources. At the end of the year, the awardee is invited to share the outcomes of their time in Lewisham Arthouse through a public event, such as an exhibition, a workshop, performance, symposium or gig.

 In 2023 we were awarded an Arts Council England grant to enable an exciting new phase of development. We can now offer, amongst other things - an extended mentorship programme, a stipend and a production budget for the final project.

 The grant has also enabled us to expand the programme and offer use of our public spaces and funding for projects initiated by the graduates who were shortlisted.

 To date, we have welcomed 17 graduates to our community with many others contributing via events and performances.

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