Short Description

Immersive Arts is a funding and support programme for UK-based artists, designed to help them develop their art by using immersive technologies. Artists at all levels of experience are invited to apply, to explore, experiment or expand how they work with this exciting field of practice.

Eligibility

  • are an individual artist, creative
practitioner or creative technologist (or)
  • are applying on behalf of an arts-based organisation, small group
or collective (10 people or fewer for Experiment
and Explore, up to 50 people for Expand)
  • are based in the UK
  • are aged 18 or over 
  • have a UK bank account in your own name.

How to Apply

Online Application

Program Benefits & Awards

With over £3.6million in funding available between 2024 and 2027, we will support over 200 UK-based artists through three strands:

You could use the funding for:

  • planning, researching and developing,
or delivering, a new immersive arts project
  • attending residencies, relevant events and workshops
  • accessing training and other forms of support
  • buying materials, software licences
and other technical tools
  • paying artists, technologists and other collaborators
  • hiring studio, rehearsal, exhibition or event spaces
  • researching and integrating accessibility options
for audiences’ access needs
  • making audience testing or exhibitions more accessible, diverse and inclusive (by, for eg, paying for BSL interpreters, accessible formats, captioning, etc)
  • marketing your project and developing your audience (Expand and Experiment only)

Entry Fee

None

Location

Bristol,

Timeline

  • Application Deadline: 29 September 2025

Website Link: https://immersivearts.uk/funding/

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