Artform Development Residencies
PHOTO MUSEUM IRELAND’S five-strand Residency Programme provides essential art form development support for artists working in Ireland. In 2025, the evaluation of our 2024 Artist’s Survey of Needs has directly informed a significant expansion of our Residency Programme. The artists are selected through open calls and nominations by our curatorial team and our panel of international advisors.
Throughout the workplace residencies, the artists are offered:
- Free use of our high-spec artists’ digital studio and unique high-spec production facilities
- Continuous Professional Development training bespoke to their needs.
- Mentoring on workflow and management of artworks.
- Regular critical feedback sessions with Photo Museum Ireland curators.
- Mentoring from our panel of leading international photo experts.
- Promotion across all our platforms.
- Advice on sustainable approaches and photo ethics.
- Advice on creative writing and photobook production from writers, specialist photobook publishers and designers.
- Fees and production costs paid.
Click here to find out more about our panel of advisers.
Early Career Artist Residencies
Supporting the most promising photography graduates as they embark on their artistic careers.
Artists’ Exhibition Residency
Supporting artists to prepare bodies of work for exhibition with Photo Museum Ireland.
Artists’ Development Residencies
Supporting artists to develop new projects through mentorship and access to production facilities.
Artists’ Diversity Residencies
Supporting artists to develop new projects through mentorship and access to production facilities.
Artists’ Archiving Residency
Supporting artists to create high-end digital records of their work to include portfolio collections of key series and expanding in the future to include artists’ interviews, collection of negatives and film.