Awards
As a Social Enterprise and charity, Cockpit Arts’ fees are below commercial rates making the incubator package affordable. We also provide sponsored Awards to talented designer-makers who cannot afford the full fees.
Awards and Benefactors Include:
NEW! Cockpit Arts / Leathersellers’ Award 2012
Deadline Friday 2 March. Applications are invited for The Cockpit Arts / Leathersellers’ Award 2012 judged this year by British designer, Simon Hasan. The prestigious annual Cockpit Arts Award is designed for a talented designer-maker who is seeking an injection of business development support to help take their creative business to the next level. For 2012 the focus of the Cockpit Arts Award is the innovative use of leather, with generous sponsorship from The Leathersellers’ Company Charitable Fund. In return for a free place at Cockpit Arts for a year the winner will be required to develop new work where leather is a major constituent and to identify a venue in which to showcase this, in conjunction with Cockpit Arts.
For further information download the Call For Entries and Application Pack or alternatively email adrian@cockpitarts.com or call 020 7419 1959. Interviews with shortlisted applicants will be held on Friday 16 March 2012.
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Cockpit Arts / The Clothworkers Foundation Awards 2012
Now closed for entries. This award aims to assist weavers to set up in business by providing studio space and business support provided by Cockpit Arts as well as shared use of looms. 6 Awards will be made in 2012 to applicants who demonstrate entrepreneurial spirit as well as creative excellence and craft skills.
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The Cockpit Arts / NADFAS Award
This annual Award is supported by The National Association of Decorative & Fine Arts Societies (NADFAS) and supports a designer-maker practising a traditional craft requiring skills at risk of dying out. Past recipients include Alex Bishop (2010), Tobye Le Vaillant (2009), Tamasyn Gambell (2008) and Thomas von Nordheim (2007). The Call for Entries for the 2012 Award will be announced in Spring 2012.
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The Cockpit Arts / Worshipful Company of Turners Award
This Award supported by the Worshipful Company of Turners aims to help an aspiring or established turner i.e. someone who practices the art and craft of turning on a lathe in wood or other materials. In 2011 a joint Award was made to Eleanor Lakelin and Frank Bogus Rolfe.
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The Cockpit Arts Award
This annual award worth £4,000 aims to provide the space and time for an established designer-maker to significantly grow their business, increase their profitability and develop their profile. The winner of this award in 2010 was James Lethbridge. The winner of this award in 2011 was ceramicist Billy Lloyd.
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The Cockpit Arts Radcliffe Craft Award
This award, supported by the Radcliffe Trust provides a further spring board to business success for Cockpit Arts Creative Careers participants. Winners of the Radcliffe Award in 2010 are Emma Hamshare and Kethi Copeland.
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The Bellhouse Award
The Bellhouse Award supported by the The Bellhouse Foundation was awarded to Ornella Iannuzzi, Lucy Fergus and Katherine Wardropper in 2007.
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