Artlinks has revealed the recipients of the €30,000 in bursaries in the five ArtLinks partner Counties of carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford, and Wicklow for 2010.
In County Kilkenny the successful recipients are theatre practitioner Gillian Grattan who is receiving €1,000 to assist her in moving forward in her chosen field.
Mycrofilm’s, Alan Slattery and John Morton received €1,000 which will assist them in producing a new short film.
And also in Kilkenny visual artists Andrew Ryan and Julie Moorhouse both received €1,000 each assisting them in the development of their respective skills and practices.
Co Kilkenny arts officer, Mary Butler remarked that these bursaries will make a huge difference to the recipients to further concentrate on working in their chosen field and they would benefit greatly from the awards. She thanked the Arts Council, the director of ArtLinks and her colleagues in the other partner counties for their continued support to ArtLinks which is one of the best professional arts development partnership programmes in the country.
Details of the award recipients from the other counties can be seen on www.Artlinks.ie
