Artist Support
WHAT’S ON OFFER
Jo specialises in supporting artists in shaping their career development and reaching their artistic potential and goals. They offer regular strategy advice sessions (bookable times), consultancy, and workshops for artists and people in the creative industries at all stages of their careers, working across visual art, dance, theatre, and performance.
Strategy Sessions:
1.5-hour online artist strategy sessions to talk through ideas, map an application, work on time management, set goals, and all the sticky, indescribable stuff in between.
Book here, or enquire here
Fundraising / Application Writing:
1-day (minimum) support planning, shaping, editing, scribing and writing a funding application (budgets and evaluations).
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Access Support (for applications):
Jo is an experienced support worker for grant applications (Arts Council of Wales, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Creative Scotland or Arts Council England, British Council). Once you know the shape of your projects/fundraising needs, if you qualify for access support (if you are dyslexic, neurodivergent and/or disabled), Jo can support artists to navigate these funding models and support writing their application.
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RATES
Strategy Sessions: (online, 1.5 hours): £100
Fundraising / Application Writing: Editing and consultancy (online, day rate): £400
Access Support: Editing and consultancy (online, day rate): £funder’s rate
PRIORITIES
Jo’s services are open to all; however, they always prioritise artists who are disabled, neurodivergent, femme, non-binary or trans.
SPECIALISMS
Jo has built a career as an established producer and artist, working across sectors including visual arts, theatre and performance, sound, public events, and activism. They specialise in accessibility and disability, transfeminist ecology, and performance art and activism, collaborating with institutions nationally and internationally.
Jo has lived experience of disability and brings embodied knowledge of collective access practices to their work. They are especially skilled at active listening and supporting artists to develop, organise, and articulate their thoughts, strategies, and ideas.
EXPERIENCE
Over their 15-year-long career, Jo has worked with leading arts organisations to create, deliver and manage projects, artist bursary programmes, residencies, festivals and learning programmes.
Select clients include Scottish Sculpture Workshop (Aberdeenshire) where Jo recently worked for two years as Programme Manager, Battersea Arts Centre (London), Artsadmin (London), British Council (UK & Lebanon), Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Aberdeen Performing Arts, Unlimited (Wakefield), Yaraqa (Beirut), Dance Base (Edinburgh), Art Walk Porty (Edinburgh), Friends of the Earth (Scotland) and Embassy Gallery (Edinburgh). Jo has recently joined Creative Scotland’s cohort of Access support workers - a pilot programme to pair support workers with Artists to help them write funding applications.
Jo has worked with countless artists over the years whose work spans activism, public interventions, performance, film, sculpture, dance, education, sound art and research.
Jo has been selected to take part in several international labs, including the Cifas Producer Academy 2023 (Belgium), Artsadmin Imagine 2020 Summer Lab (London) and the 2018 Emerging Producers Development Programme at Edinburgh Fringe with British Council.
NOTHING IS CREATED IN A VACUUM
Jo would like to give credit and thanks to those individuals who have been key in shaping how they work; none of their working strategies would have been made possible without Phoebe Davies / Fieldwork, Sam Trotman, SSW, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, and Emma Jayne Park.
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BELOW
For funding application writing support FILL IN THIS ONLINE FORM.
Book a 1.5-hour “Walk & Talk” session directly below.
Or send me an email