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IS THE 2025 EMMA O'KANE BURSARY IN YOUR NAME? APPLY NOW
In 2024, the Emma O’Kane Bursary was awarded to interdisciplinary artist, Subhashini Goda. In accepting the award she said - "Acknowledging how important dedicated time and space can be for artists, this bursary will give me the opportunity to play, resist, revolt, think, accept, and transform my embodied practice in the direction I want to take in my continued artistic journey. I look forward to honouring Emma O'Kane's ethos through this deconditioning and equipping myself for such artistic transgressions, in all good cheer and seriousness - an anchoring process that would make me more confident by giving me the necessary creative vocabulary for all the endeavours to follow."
The Emma O’Kane Bursary is an award for independent artists who want to think beyond the boundaries of their art form and practice and to explore dance or a physical language in their work. It honours the exceptional ethos and artistic practice of artist Emma O’Kane who died in 2021.
‘Go big or go home’ was an Emma expression. She would say it to encourage (and challenge) those she worked with to be ambitious and brave about what they wanted to achieve artistically. Emma believed in people’s potential and in trying things out. She was never afraid of failure. The purpose of the bursary, why it exists and its unique contribution to artists, aims to capture this essence.
The bursary is open to professional artists of all types and talents. Whatever your background, lived experience or artistic practice, if you have the CURIOSITY to explore and integrate dance, movement or other forms of physical language in your work, the COURAGE to push art form boundaries and to challenge norms and the AMBITION to be the best that you can be as an artist, we would love to hear from you.
News Post. 10 December 2024