Who We've Funded

For Ainsley Hillard to participate in the International Fibrearts Exhibition and Symposium in Pittsburgh, USA.

www.ainsleyhillard.com

Secrecy - Okumura.

For Mary Husted and Sue Hunt to accompany the exhibition, Open Books Plus, during its presentation at The Sanshung Musuem of Contemporary Art in Hungzhou and to further relationships with a number of galleries, critics and artists.

For Sioned Huws to continue the development of the Aomori Project.

This will be an initial research and development trip for Sue Williams director of Hyperaction.

www.hyperaction.org.uk

With the support of the International Opportunities Fund, John Brown attended the Ligacao International Artists Meeting in Elvas in order to create work in collaboration with other artists for an international exhibition.

www.documentedartspace.co.uk

Application from Karen Ingham to take part in a collaborative project between Wales and Brazil.

Application from the International Ceramics Festival to run a 'pilot' residency award as part of the event: 'The New and Emerging Makers International Residency Award will be offered to potters/artists who work with clay who have graduated in the last 5 years.

http://www.internationalceramicsfestival.org

With the support of the International Opportunities Fund, Wales based photographers Iwanowski & Bedwani travelled to Ireland to collaborate with 2 Ireland based photographers to produce a body of work exploring the position of pagan beliefs in Western Europe through visiting Irish fairy forts.

For Dilys Jackson, to accompany the exhibition tour of 'Iron Maidens', a showcase of Wales based female iron sculptors to Minnesota, Minneapolis and Michigan, USA, and to give a number of presentations, lectures and workshops, to further discussions with university gallery curators, developing collaborations between cast iron sculptors in Wales and the USA.

Application to cover the costs for James Tyson to travel to Melbourne, Australia in order to undertake a five week residency as a the main musical and songwriter (as well as a performer) with Ranters Theatre.

Members of Mess up the Mess were supported by the International Opportunities Fund to travel to Hong Kong to participate in Strangers 2 - an international script writing and performance project involving collaboration between young people and professional artists from Wales, New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong.

For NIgel Jenkins to undertake a research and research tour of the North East Indian states of Meghalaya, Assam, Mizoream, Sikkim, Manipur, Nagaland, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh, and to collaborate with two Indian writers.

Application from iron sculptor Justine Johnson to travel to Buffalo, New York to present her collaboration with the poet Nor Hall and musician Alison Leyton at the Noreaster Conference of Aesthetics and practice in Cast Iron Art.

The North American Association for the study of Welsh Culture and History (NAASWCH) International Conference on Welsh Studies at the University of Toronto, July 30 -Aug 2 2008.

Support for performance artist Sianed Jones to travel to Brazil to continue and develop her collaborative piece 'Border Country' with Capoeira Mestre Alexandre Teixeira da Silva to be performed in 2013, additionally supported by The Royal Shakespeare Company.

www.sianed.co.uk

Application to attend a residency in Portugal with eight other choreographers from seven different countries that Sirol met whilst taking part in danceWEB in Vienna last year.

Dance,

For Walter Keeler to undertake a series of workshops, lectures & demonstrations in USA and Canada, including NCECA 2012.

Taran delivered a series of performances at the Veresk Samhain festival in Moscow with the support of the International Opportunities Fund.

www.myspace.com/ourspacetaran

Gerard and Daniel Kilbride undertook research with the support of the International Opportunities Fund to undertake a collaborative project with partners in Galicia and Brittany to develop plans for a new collaborative piece of music.

www.myspace.com/ourspacetaran