Who we've funded

Anderson, Sven

To create a multi-sensory installation exploring vibration and perception. To produce a series of texts focused on urban residential architecture, vibration and intimacy to accompany the installation. To present the installation in both international and Irish contemporary art spaces.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

ANU Productions

To present The Boys of Foley Street, a large-scale, site-specific performance embedded with RFID technology. This is the third instalment of ANU Productions’ four-part Monto Cycle and will be performed as part of the 2012 Dublin Theatre Festival.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

Artlink Ltd

A themed programme of four artist residencies at the dedicated studio and galleries in Fort Dunreem (an ex-military base on a remote headland in Inishowen) with open studio workshops and projects engaging with local rural communities and themes of resistance and rebellion prompted by the site.

Visual arts

Donegal County Council

Asylum Productions

To spend two weeks as company in residence at the Granary Theatre to develop an allegorical satire on the flaws in a global free market economy and the collapse of western capitalism, using toys, fairy-tales and a kid's playroom.

Theatre

Cork County Council

Away With Words / Brothers of Charity Services Galway

Away With Words will create a multi-media installation inspired by the dreams of more than 200 people with intellectual disabilities and carers gathered at Galway 2011 National Advocacy Conference. This installation will be hosted at 2012 Limerick conference and Galway Social Inclusion Week.

Arts participation

Galway County Council

Ball, Derek

A collaborative development of the score and libretto of an opera in Irish, with music by Derek Ball and words by Cathal Searcaigh.

Opera

International

Béal

To further develop the work of improvised music theatre group The Open Rehearsals. To develop new techniques of improvised opera and to continue a collaboration between musicians, composer, director and actors.

Opera

Dublin City Council

Beattie, John

To complete two new HD video works for solo exhibition at the RHA Gallery II & III in November 2012. To hire third-party expertise and access to essential resources and facilities. To produce, complete, and represent new challenging work at a high-level of presentation.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

Bickley, David

To return to a form of landscape film making, began over 30 years ago, using self -developed digital and analogue cinematographic techniques.

Film

Cork County Council

Boss, Owen

To research and develop new work in 2012, for completion in 2013, to mark the centenary of the 1913 Lockout. To embrace artistic risk in order to accomplish the ambitions and artistic goals of the project. To produce a collaborative live art piece with Louise Lowe and ANU.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

Butler, Jean

To develop a full-length solo, inspired by Jean's codified past and present aesthetic considerations. To collaborate with a composer to develop a greater authorship in her work. To challenge the notions and boundaries of what it means to be an Irish dancer working in a contemporary context.

Dance

Dublin City Council

Calipo Theatre Company

To present a new play by Neil Watkins in Project, Dublin, utilising an immersive theatrical experience that uses film, 3D animation and a live orchestral score.

Theatre

Louth County Council

Cashe, Breda

To produce Time Stands Still - a new work inspired by the life of pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, facilitating a new collaboration crossing of the boundaries between theatre and visual arts co-presented with The Performance Corporation.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

City Hall Project

To produce new work for performance using a unique acoustic space as a compositional determinant, where audio content accretes over a four-day concert series. To invite audience intervention using sound triggers placed in the Rotunda and mixed live by the composer Daniel Figgis. To bring new audiences to City Hall, Dublin.

Music

Dublin City Council

Clancy, Ger

To create an original theatrical spectacle. The emphasis is on engaging the audience (children and parents) to make, create and become part of the performance. The children will participate in the event giving them the experience of following a narrative and working with professional puppet makers.

Street arts

Dublin City Council

Clare, Mark

To complete a new project for presentation at the invitation of LKV Studios in Norway. To make innovative and challenging new work that breaks with traditional parameters of presentation to engage as wide and varied audience as possible. To transport the work for presentation.

Visual arts

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

Collins, Pat

To make a non-narrative and experimental film on the subject of the Fastnet Lighthouse.

Film

Cork County Council

Concorde

To develop a series of events building on the success of Up Close with Music, 2011-12. To provide opportunities for performers, composers and listeners to interact in the process of creating new music. To enable Concorde to perform new work, review existing repertoire, and meet an expanding public.

Music

Galway City Council

Conroy, Amy

To create a new inter-disciplinary play, infusing text and spoken word, developing ideas through collaborative workshops with a group of performers and musicians, and through a series of interviews with teachers and workshops with students.

Theatre

South Dublin County Council

Cranitch, Ellen

To compose a new opera based on James Joyce's short story The Dead. To further develop a collaboration with librettist/playwright Tom Swift. To present a 'work-in-progress' version of the work at Kilkenny Arts Festival 2013.

Opera

Dublin City Council

Croi Glan Integrated Dance

To create a new double bill of integrated dance (solo and duet) to tour in winter 2012-13, working with artists Liz Roche and Caroline Bowditch. To challenge the organisation artistically and physically. To scale down so easier for venues to book the organisation. To extend audience reach. To raise profile of integrated dance.

Dance

Cork County Council

Deane, Raymond

To complete the orchestration of the second half of the opera Oskar and Alma and prepare a vocal score (voices and piano). To input this into the Finale computer notation system. To hire an expert to prepare a conductor's score as well as parts for all performers.

Opera

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

Decadent Theatre Company

To create a quality production of a 'Skull In Connemara' with a highly reputable creative team, developing the existing production model between Decadent / Townhall Galway, and working with additional partners to ensure a longer production life.

Theatre

Galway City Council

Diatribe

To produce high-profile launch concerts for eight forthcoming Diatribe Records releases in 2012-13. To facilitate a dedicated media campaign for each title. To provide substantiation for the ongoing investment into the arts through the increased international visibility of contemporary music from Ireland.

Music

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

Duncan, Adrian

To publish Paper Visual Art in three high-quality, place-specific hard-copy formats during 2012 and 2013. To engage with and cover separately Dublin, Cork, Limerick. To hold seminars / talks about art writing in each place we stay.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

Dunne, Shaun

To stage a piece of new writing on the subject of unemployed tradesmen in Ireland at Absolut Fringe 2012, in collaboration with a sound designer, a choreographer, another performer and a set designer.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

Ergodos

To present the premiere performance of the Ergodos Mozart Project. This performance will pair Mozart's classic Clarinet Concerto with a brand new work for the same forces by Irish composer Garrett Sholdice. The music will be performed by Jonathan Sage and Ergodos Musicians.

Music

Dublin City Council

Erraught, Terence

To create a live event / video work within a gallery setting. To acknowledge Patsy Touhey's achievements as a Galway musician / vaudeville skit actor.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

Ffrench, Anne

To research and construct a traditional rope bridge joining two islands off the Irish coast. To document this event with photographic and video evidence. To suspend this bridge as an installation within the Mermaid Arts Centre Gallery as a part of Ffrench/Harte solo exhibition in February 2013.

Visual arts

Cork County Council

Fogarty, Jane

To examine the construction of histories through archival means. The result of this work will be an exhibition inclusive of a series of published texts. Fogartys sculptures will be fabricated in her studio and installed in mountainous locations and Lunney will document this process.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

Gael Winds

To celebrate the two artforms of music and poetry/literature together by performing evocative, impressionistic pieces alongside some carefully selected prose. To explore the repertoire of the wind quintet featuring pieces by Irish and international composers. To perform in new inspiring spaces in Dublin.

Music

South Dublin County Council

Galway University Hospital Arts Trust

A series of patient-led art workshops will lead to the collaborative production of a book and exhibition for dialysis units throughout Ireland. They will physically enhance the clinical environment and capture ephemeral aspects of care that humanise it and will improve passive and negative experiences whilst promoting best practice.

Arts participation

Galway City Council

Hanratty, Conor

To present Tom Lane's opera FLATPACK in the Dublin Fringe Festival 2012. This will be the Irish premiere of this newly reworked, original and accessible work. It will encourage new audiences for opera in Dublin, by presenting a fresh and witty take on the form.

Opera

South Dublin County Council

Healy, Martin

To fund the production of an experimental film of a disused monorail track in Orleans, France, exploring outmoded technologies and the utopian imagination. To shoot the film on Red Epic camera technology. To commission a specific soundtrack for the film.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

Higgs, George

To draft innovative opera for electro-mechanical device and singers, and to design/build a prototype machine with support of the National Sculpture Factory experimental workshop collaboration between singers/composer/choral director with support of Cork Opera House Revise score/machine for performance in 2013

Opera

Dublin City Council

Immigrant Council Of Ireland

A partnership of arts/community organisations to provide a space to creatively communicate the diverse experiences of Muslim women in Ireland. Using storytelling, theatre, workshops through a collaborative process it will provide a space for Muslim women, promoting diversity and social inclusion.

Arts participation

Dublin City Council

Irvine, Jaki

To film and record: people making sounds on the streets of Mexico City and Irish singer Louise Phelan as these sounds and actions are reflected in her vocal work. To explore the unstable space of holding on and letting go to what is familiar, of finding one's feet and one's voice in a foreign culture.

Visual arts

South Dublin County Council

Jiménez González, José Miguel

To present a new work as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2012, using Franz Kafka’s The Trial as a foundation for a theatre piece around the concept of politics, and to develop a model for audience participation which reflects how society engages with political processes.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

Jones, Jesse

To make two 16mm films to be collaged as a lenticular projection using state of the art programming techniques.

Film

South Dublin County Council

Kelly, Sally-Anne

A site-specific experimental and non-narrative short film at the public baths on Dollymount Strand.

Film

Fingal County Council

Landmark Productions

To begin development on a radical new opera. To build on the creative collaboration between two seminal artists, Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh, that began with Misterman. To form a co-producing partnership between a leading theatre producer and ambitious new opera producer to premiere the work in 2014

Opera

Dublin City Council

Langan, Clare

A short experimental film exploring the idea of chaos versus control, which will be exhibited as a single channel film and multi-screen installation.

Film

Kerry County Council

Le Cain, Maximilian

To work collaboratively with composer, Karen Power, to explore images at the limits of visibility and sounds that the ear cannot normally pick up.

Film

Cork County Council

LUXe

LUXe will make a large-scale musical carousel Palace and associated icons and costume. These pieces will enable LUXe to present both an installation and finale focus for tourable processional spectacle in an adaptable way that suits the scale and budget of rural towns in Ireland and Europe.

Street arts

Donegal County Council

Lyons, Ruth

To develop a large-scale public installation in collaboration with Project Arts Centre. The installation entitled ‘The Forgotten Works’ will be an extensive timber structure housing lights to be located on the centre’s street-facing balcony.

Visual arts

Kerry County Council

Mac Erlaine, Seán

To create a new performance piece 'Alas Awake' for woodwinds, electronics and choir based on Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. To devise this new work compositionally and in part collaboratively with a choir.

Music

Dublin City Council

McAdam, Trish

To make a drama/documentary-style experimental exploration of narrative, specificity, memory, viewpoint and truth. It will touch on the subject of limitation on women's social behaviour.

Film

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

McDevitt, Yvonne

To make a non-narrative film for cinema and a multi-channel installation, experimenting with Bunuel's geometric editing principles.

Film

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

McHugh, Eoin

To produce new sculptural work for the TR1 Kunsthalle. This will involve the creation of works in Ireland and their assembly and final fabrication in Finland.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

McKenna, Lucy

To create a new and ambitious installation for Kilkenny City during the Kilkenny Arts Festival. To complete this piece to create risk-taking work on a large scale in an exterior location.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

Ó Conchuir, Fearghus

To commission and perform solos from the six artists who created Tabernacle. Through open rehearsals and public engagement, to assemble the solos into an evening-length performance called Cure. To premiere at the DDF 2013 before further national and international touring.

Dance

International

Ó Cuirrín, Tadhg

To curate and stage a high-quality group exhibition of contemporary visual art in a venue in Galway city. To bring together several artists, at varying stages of their careers, with a shared attitude towards their creative practice. To tour this exhibition to a number of venues around the country.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

O'Donoghue, Paul

To make a one-off audio-visual installation using multiple screens in a sculptural form.

Film

Dublin City Council

O'Sullivan, Margaret

To make Little Bird, an opera in development, with the libretto/score by Julie Feeney based on The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde and commissioned by Festival Firsts (Cork Midsummer, Dublin Theatre, Galway Arts & Kilkenny Arts Festivals).

Opera

Cork City Council

Occupy Space

To develop a programme of events in order to maximise Limerick's potential as a cultural hub. To provide a series of artist talks, student tours and establish an Education Officer to expand our overall audiences. To provide essential opportunities for artists both exhibiting and volunteering with us.

Visual arts

Limerick City Council

Pallas Projects/Studios

To host three ambitious exhibitions in a new flagship city centre project space. To partner with local initiatives to cooperate on the implementation of a long-term access programme. To develop a marketing plan to attract and engage with new and diverse audiences for contemporary artist-led practice.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

Pascoe, Keith

To perform the complete sonatas for piano and violin by Mozart and Beethoven. To put on a series of seven concerts throughout the 2012/13 season featuring all twenty-seven sonatas. A rarely performed cycle, the concerts will be accessible to both connoisseurs and the uninitiated.

Music

Cork City Council

Red Kettle Theatre Company

To produce Michael Mulcahy's new play, Atlantic Star, providing a Waterford audience with a follow-up to last year's sell-out production of The Country Girls, and to continue its commitment to new writing - giving the play an outing at the Dublin Theatre Festival.

Theatre

Waterford City Council

Resurgam

To build audience awareness and appreciation of seldom heard repertoire, instruments and performing styles. To develop highly specialised performance skills for Irish singers. To establish a popular time and venue firmly in the Dublin concert calendar

Music

Dublin City Council

Rigaki, Evangelia

To collaborate with the poet W.N.Herbert. To collaborate with Michelle O'Rourke and David Collier in creating a unique and stylised way of singing. To push the roles of singers and musicians, yet being assessable and humorous for the audience

Opera

Dublin City Council

Ronan Guilfoyle

To compose, rehearse and perform music based on the music used in the works of Joyce - written while he was in Dublin and Paris. To use text from these works as an improvisational generator. To rehearse and perform these pieces with a mixed French and Irish group in Dublin and in Paris.

Music

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

Shiels, Sarah Jane

To integrate the group as theatre artists in five rural/suburban communities. To develop a new theatrical form and expression, which each individual can actively respond to and benefit from. The project will cultivate responses into a fully accessible production for the Dublin Fringe Festival.

Arts participation

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

Smalis, Angeliki

To create an advanced interactive music/dance performance environment in which the dancer’s movements generate and control all of the sonic aspects. To build a prototype system and explore its potentialities in a performative environment. To discover a true integration between dance and music

Dance

Limerick City Council

South Wind Blows

To film the creative convergence of five gifted performers, The Gloaming, who share a common aesthetic. To capture the tension between innovation and established norms and conventions in traditional music as illustrated in performance and conversation. To ensure the content created reaches the widest possible audience.

Traditional arts

Wicklow County Council

Sweeney, Eric

To compose the libretto and music for an opera. To enhance the creative process with innovative use of a choreographer, a designer, an experimental voice coach, a director and others. To work with Waterford Institute of Technology music lecturers, students and resources to workshop the opera as it comes into being.

Opera

Waterford City Council

Theatre Lovett

To produce a new Theatre Lovett show for families, made to tour, engaging seven established actors, musicians and designers.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

THEATREclub

To research a performance examining the history of social housing in Ireland, and working collaboratively to put this research into practice. To present an in development work-in-progress as part of Dublin Theatre Festival, sharing the process to date with audiences and potential future presenters.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

Turrisi, Francesco

To organise the Irish launch of a CD called Birth. Birth was recorded in April 2011 and features Italian trumpet player Fulvio Sigurta, Portuguese drummer Joao Lobo and Francesco Turrisi on the piano. The CD launch will take place in late September 2012.

Music

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

Walker and Walker

To focus on social potentiality through a narrative of revolt recounted by an individual's actions. To create an installation consisting of a film and sculptural intervention. Through reconstructing an action of Buren and filming a text by Vaneigem, to address issues which remain relevant to this day.

Visual arts

Leitrim County Council

White, Louise

To develop a piece by collaborating with a visual artist and a core team of performers, creating a new design vocabulary using projections of specially generated art works, in order to investigate the sense of loss generated by abandoned buildings in our communities in a topical and urgent exploration.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

Wilson, Ian

To collaborate on a 40' chamber concerto with/and for three of Ireland’s leading improvisers and the ConTempo Quartet. To traverse the spectrum from notated to improvised music in an innovative and expressive way. To present it in 2013 in Dublin (KBR @ NCH), Cork Midsummer Festival and ConTempo summer series.

Music

Leitrim County Council

Wonderland Productions

To create "headphones" theatre, using wireless technology that enables actors to interact with unseen voices/characters, interactively engaging audiences in a unique experience of a Bulgarian immigrant’s hopes, dreams and loneliness, and offering a unique understanding/perspective on mental health.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

Askeaton Civic Trust

To commision five artists to create new artworks for a site-specific project. The theme is based upon the Hellfire Club ruin in Askeaton, County Limerick. To continue to develop the role and purpose of contemporary art in the town through projects involving the local community.

Visual arts

Limerick County Council

Association of Irish Composers

Mentoring of composers by composers. To develop works through feedback with professionals. To advance creative musical practise during a recession.

Music

Dublin City Council

Away With Words / Brothers of Charity Services Galway

To facilitate a series of exploratory theme-based workshops for people with severe learning disabilities and staff. This will lead to 18 performances of a new multi-sensory and participative theatre production: Paddy Joe’s.

Arts participation

Galway County Council

Béal

A festival of concerts of new music by Irish and International figures including music unfamiliar to Irish audiences. A choral project, innovatively staged in collaboration with a director and a lighting designer. To develop Béal's mission to explore the range of possibilities in music/text.

Music

Dublin City Council

Brady, Kevin

To invite U.S. pianist/composer Bill Carrothers to Ireland to work with a piano trio. To book a period of time in 2012 at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakarrig. To work on new compositions.To develop new material for performances/workshops taking place in 2012/13

Music

Dublin City Council

Browne, Sarah

To create a new artwork that challenges and extends collaborative practice. To make work in a new context that will be of significance internationally, and will explicitly engage with urgent social issues as well as how they are represented within the visual arts

Visual arts

Kildare County Council

Carpet Theatre

To devise a wordless mask theatre adaptation of 'The Pigeon', a novella by Patrick Suskind, in co-production with Mermaid, Bray.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

Carroll, Justin

To create a new body of work for an improvising jazz quartet through the process of collaborative composition. To rehearse / workshop new material for a week. To perform the new music in a concert setting.

Music

Dublin City Council

Carswell, Jaimie

To devise with a team of creative artists a new comic-absurd theatre show about the sub-culture of the tango. To create a new piece of comic theatre for venues based in the North West region.

Theatre

Sligo County Council

Chrysalis Dance

To create, rehearse and produce an original double bill in 2012. To commission composer Jesse Ronneau to create an original score. To forge a new partnership with the ConTempo String Quartet, Galway's ensemble in residence.

Dance

Galway County Council

Circus Gerbola

To create a new aerial musical clown piece, in collaboration with Fidget Feet aerial dance, in order to bring work of international quality to urban towns and rural villages of Ireland.

Circus

South Dublin County Council

Coogan, Amanda

To curate and produce a live exhibition of 12 artists at the LAB, Foley street. To commission new works from innovative practionners of live performance art. To produce an exhibtion in Dublin that will tour to London and Derry.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

Cork Circus

To build on the collaboration between Tangle Theatre and Cork Circus to create a street puppet show. To develop new skills by working with puppetry and clown professionals.

Street arts

Cork City Council

Enclave Review

To publish four issues of Enclave Review, a review of national and international contemporary visual arts. To raise the level of critical debate in Ireland. To commission texts from high- quality established and emerging writers. To keep ER free of charge and develop an online archive to enhance audience access.

Visual arts

Cork City Council

Engage Art Studios

To maintain and programme a dedicated 1800 sq ft contemporary gallery in the heart of Galway. To create a nationally recognised platform for young and innovative curators through the presentation of seven exhibitions. To initiate dialogue with new audiences through a monthly series of public outreach events, screenings and talks.

Visual arts

Galway City Council

Fagan, Cleo

To curate an educational programme on contemporary visual art for fifth-class students at St Catherine's Primary School, Rush.

Visual arts

Fingal County Council

Fanzini Brothers

To create a show, directed by Joe Dieffenbacher, to comedically explore the play between traditional and contemporary circus styles.

Street arts

Kerry County Council

Fortune, Michael

To engage a group of older people in traditional song research and composition using predominantly internet communication. To work in partnership with the National Library of Ireland, ITMA and the Bealtaine festival. To disseminate new songs to audiences via a project website and a concert in the NLI.

Arts participation

Wexford County Council

Gangos, Christina

To produce a series of intimate filmic documents, portraying people immersed in Limerick’s gang-wars, which will be presented in several different forms including gallery exhibitions and in cinemas.

Film

Limerick City Council

Higgs, George

A collaboration between a composer and two musicians to design and build a musical door. To compose a piece of music for the door. To perform as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2012 reaching an audience of 24000 people.

Music

Dublin City Council

Hope, Grainne

A collaboration between Musique et Sante, Kids Classics and Crumlin Childrens Hospital to design a programme to increase patient participation in music in hospitals. This is the first time the programme will be presented in an Irish hospital.

Arts participation

Meath County Council

Kaleidoscope Night

To present 13 Kaleidoscope Nights at the Odessa Club, Dublin in 2012. To offer a unique platform for new music, collaborative processes and traditional forms of classical music in an informal and beautiful setting. To build a passion and curiosity for music of all genres in audiences.

Music

Dublin City Council

Landmark Productions

To produce the world premiere of a new play, by Irish writer Emma Donoghue, presented in partnership with HATCH and Dublin Theatre Festival and directed by Annabelle Comyn.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

Legitimate Bodies Dance Company

To mount a dance production for Legitimate Bodies Dance Company based in the Irish midlands which marks the fifth anniversary of the company. To create stimulating and practical ties with Dance House Lemesos in Cyprus. To continue to advocate the natural place for dance in rural Ireland.

Dance

Offaly County Council

Lovett, Louis

To develop Theatre Lovett’s newest show for children, with eight established actors, musicians and designers stepping into the world of children’s theatre to mine and explode de la Mare’s 1939 'Animal Stories'.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

LUXe

To establish a processional landscape-spectacle form that journeys through several sites ending with a celebratory finale of spectacle performances.

Street arts

Donegal County Council

Lynch, Sean

To continue specific research into undervalued aspects of Irish art history through artistic endeavour. To produce an art installation, consisting of stone-carving, photographs and slide projection. To exhibit the project in upcoming exhibitions in Ireland and abroad in 2012 and beyond.

Visual arts

Kerry County Council

Making Strange Theatre Company

To create a theatre piece exploring memory, regret, choice and stories. To continue Making Strange's experimentation with new forms of genre-bending work.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

Martin, Emma

To create a new dance-theatre work that will be performed with an original composition and design. To premiere the work in Dublin as a part of ABSOLUT Fringe 2012, followed by a tour in 2013.

Dance

Dublin City Council

Mc Hardy, Orla

To explore the possibilities of relationships between different media, techniques and methods of display in order to make and present experimental work in film. To explore ideas of place and spoken language informed by Donegal and its people.

Film

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council

McAtamney, Aoife

To choreograph and produce EMPTY ECHO, a dance piece for five dancers with musician Tom lane, in Dublin in August 2012. To provide professional morning class/dance workshops for the Irish dance community.

Dance

South Dublin County Council

McCluskey, Dara

To make a short film with an approach combining the creative processes of film, dance and visual arts.

Film

Monaghan County Council

Melvin, Adam

To create a large-scale performance installation involving multichannel sound, light sculpture and live quater-tone bass flute. To develop the collaborative partnership between composer Adam Melvin and the ensemble, Rarescale. To create the first multimedia piece for quarter-tone bass flute.

Music

Donegal County Council

Monster Truck Gallery and Studios

A visual arts programme of challenging, engaging and innovative contemporary art works. To increase supports to artists through appropriate gallery facilitation, production and exhibition fees. To present projects by artists and a curatorial panel through budgetary expediency.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

Mulholland, Fiona

To organise a high-quality visual art exhibition to run concurrently with the MacGill Summer School in Glenties, Co. Donegal, July 2012. To promote contemporary visual art to new audiences. To showcase the work of emerging and established visual artists with a connection to Donegal.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

Murphy, Luke

To expand a short duet titled 'Drenched' into an evening-length work. To work with a number of international partner organisations to premiere this work in Ireland and extend its reach through performances in several venues. To reach a broader audience base through clear investigation of a universal idea, employing a vibrant approach to dance theatre with visceral physicality and a fully self-aware theatricality.

Dance

Cork City Council

O'Brien, Liam

To investigate concepts for a radical new promenade version of King Lear, engaging and collaborating with leading Shakespeare expert Rob Clare in order to facilitate a deep level of collaborative engagement with the text.

Theatre

Limerick County Council

O'Sullivan, Tony

To workshop a new experimental music theatre piece called 'Hoodooville', in order to enable the development of innovative ideas in a collaborative and inter-disciplinary context and to explore the possibilities of new developments in the artform, be it in score, libretto and/or staging.

Theatre

Cork City Council

Perinetti, Jean-Marie

To explore the origins and dynamics of early European farce and renew this genre in a contemporary context, through building a team by fostering creativity and blending different skills into a common theatre practice.

Theatre

Sligo County Council

Phelan, Alan

To fund the production of a short film, the last piece in a fifteen-part project. To create an experimental film of the highest quality that can be made available to different audiences and contexts. To support the dissemination of the film for screenings in various venues.

Visual arts

Dublin City Council

Quiet Music Ensemble

To hold an open call for new works for Quiet Music Ensemble by young composers. To workshop and perform the new works. To extend the repertoire of QME with especially composed works by Irish and international composers.

Music

Cork County Council

Scannell, Raymond

To create a unique theatrical piece to be realised at a professional level with the support of Cork Midsummer and Dublin Fringe Festivals.

Theatre

Cork County Council

Sligo Jazz Project

The Sligo Jazz Project 2012 will consist of a year-round program of up to eight concerts and workshops plus an international Summer school and jazz festival in July 2012, comprising six days of workshops, masterclasses, jam sessions and concerts with a faculty of renowned International and Irish musicians.

Music

Sligo County Council

Staniforth, John Paul

To develop a new circus show based around tightrope, manipulation and mime by building on established working practices, creating new working practices, and expanding skills. To focus on audience participation and engagement.

Circus

Waterford County Council

THEATREclub

To devise and present THE FAMILY in the Project Arts Centre and the greater Dublin area in 2012 and to continue working collaboratively with a creative ensemble, tackling social concerns and appealing to new audiences.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

Tighe, Dylan

To create and deliver an innovative new theatre presentation about depression, bipolar and mental illness by devising work from original and found texts and materials, personal diaries, medical records and research.

Theatre

Dublin City Council

University College Cork School Of Music

Lifesounds will bring together, in an equal and safe environment, professional artists, music students, older adults and youths from Cork city. It will facilitate the collaborative creation of a new multimedia performance piece which will inspire, build capacity and provide professional development.

Arts participation

Cork City Council

Yurodny

To present and document the work 'Silences'. To facilitate a period of research and open workshop in which new virtual instruments and gestural interfaces for acoustic instruments are developed and tested. To enable the musicians for independent control of their new interface in subsequent performances.

Music

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council