The Trust offers approximately fifteen fully funded awards in the Arts and Heritage Conservation every year in order to give practitioners in these fields, at an early stage in their careers, a chance to gain wider experience and exposure or to study. The balance between Arts and Heritage Conservation varies from year to year depending on demand and performance at interview.
These awards cover international fares, accommodation and living costs in the UK and fees where they are payable.
Length of Awards
Awards are generally from three months to a maximum of one academic year.
Eligibility
Applicants should
- Be Indian citizens domiciled and resident in India
- Be aged between 25 and 38
- Have completed their first degree/diploma or professional qualification in their specialisation and have at least four years working experience
- Not have received CWIT grant within the last 5 years
Applications should include
- Completed application form, including a statement of purpose stating clearly what they want to do in the UK and how they plan to put this to use on returning to India
- Supporting references
- Acceptance letter from the course or programme in the UK to which they have applied or evidence that progress towards acceptance has been made
- Demonstrate a good working knowledge of English
- Portfolio submission in either on CD/DVD, slide or hard-copy format.
The Charles Wallace India Trust supports successful applications from practitioners working in the Arts to attend short courses or one year academic programmes of their choosing and in the following fields: visual arts, music, drama, dance, film, photography and design (with the exception of architecture).
In addition, the Trust supports two awards in specific areas of practice:
- Curatorship of contemporary visual art exclusively through partnership with the Royal College of Art in London.
- An annual three-month residency for one Indian practitioner working in the visual arts, in partnership with Gasworks in London.
The Trust has also supported recent residencies at Spike Island in Bristol. These can be applied for using the standard application process.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an interview Delhi in March 2009. The results of these interviews will be announced by early April 2009.
Curating Contemporary Art:
In 2007, the Royal College of Art and Charles Wallace India Trust launched a jointly funded award for curatorship of the contemporary visual arts. The award is exceptional in that it covers the cost of a two year MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the RCA, and will only be awarded every other year as a result.
A decision about the scholarship which is due to start in September 2009 will be taken in autumn 2008. Please see this page for an announcement.
Click here to apply, please follow the RCA’s standard application procedure.
The application must be forwarded directly to the RCA in the UK.
Gasworks International Residency Programme
In a partnership with the Charles Wallace India Trust the Gasworks International Residency Programme offers an annual residency in London for emerging Indian artists. This residency focuses on professional development, artistic exchange and the development of artistic process. Gasworks offers support and networks with the artistic community in ways which help the artist research and experiment with new work and take steps forward internationally.
Recent Resident Artists from India were Abhishek Hazra Anup Mathew Thomas, Sharmila Shamant and Ranjani Shettar.
Click here to Apply
The application must be forwarded directly to Gasworks in the UK.
The last date of applications will be soon notified
Gasworks will select an artist for the residency and make a recommendation to CWIT.The successful candidate will be notified in April 2009.
The Charles Wallace India Trust supports successful applications from heritage conservation specialists for programmes of upto one academic year in the following fields:
Subjects covered include:
- Management of heritage projects or sites;
- Conservation of materials such as timber, stone, brick, metal (including metal structures), textiles, paper, armour, photographs and film;
- Management of museums.
Applications for short-term internships or programmes of visits can be considered but it is the applicant’s responsibility to make all professional and practical arrangements, including accommodation and travel in the UK.
Entries now invited for the year 2009.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an interview Delhi in March 2009. The results of these interviews will be announced by early April 2009.
The Trust also supports a key award in a specific area of practice:
Professional Placement in Museology – Curating, Museum Conservation or Archaeology
Nehru Trust for the India Collections & Charles Wallace India Trust
The Charles Wallace India Trust and the Nehru Trust for the India Collections joint-fund an annual fellowship for a curator, museum conservator or archaeologist to take up an attachment at the Victoria and Albert Museum or another agreed institution.
Contact the Nehru Trust to apply, please follow the Nehru Trust’s application procedure.
The application must be forwarded directly to the Nehru Trust in India.
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted directly by the Nehru Trust to establish dates for interview.
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