Eccles Institute Creative Fellowships at the British Library, British Library

The first fellowship offers a chance for a UK-based creative with an interest in research-based practice (such as a print- or zine-maker, graphic designer, illustrator or writer) to explore the British Library's collections of popular print and political ideas from the Americas (including pamphlets, broadsides, comics, zines and ephemera), and to work with one of London's leading print studios to create a new body of work. For more information on this fellowship, key dates and how to apply, please refer to the https://blogs.bl.uk/files/final-open-call-popular-print-from-the-americas-1.pdf - Popular Print Fellowship Brief.

The second fellowship is an opportunity for a UK-based lens-based artist (such as a photographer, filmmaker or content-creator) to explore the British Library's collections of photographic material of and from Latin-America and the Caribbean (including travelogues, photo books, exhibition catalogues, magazines, newspapers and other photo-related media). If you are interested in interrogating how these regions, their peoples and diasporas have been represented and collected, this fellowship offers a great opportunity to incorporate these critical reflections into a new body of work. In addition to enhanced curatorial support to explore the collections, the fellow will be mentored by leading photographer and scholar of Caribbean and Latin American visual culture, James Clifford Kent. For more information on this fellowship, key dates and how to apply, please refer to the https://blogs.bl.uk/files/photography-fellowship-brief.pdf - Photography Fellowship Brief.

Both fellowships will provide a fixed stipend of £7500 to pay for the equivalent of 30 days carrying out collections research, joining meetings with British Library staff and colleagues, delivering talks or other forms of public engagement, and developing a new body of work. A separate production/public engagement budget will be made available. Full details are included in each fellowship brief.