International Opportunities Fund – International Residencies

The Fund supports Wales Arts International’s main priority to ‘nurture Wales’ international artistic, creative and cultural potential in a way that is fair to people and to the planet’.

International Residencies – Arts focused residencies with an international partner where there is significant opportunity to develop artistic practice.

You can apply to the International Opportunities Fund for support to participate in an international artistic residency.
Due to the current volume of applications for international artistic residencies, there will be three deadlines in 2025-26 to which you can apply for support to participate in a residency. This means that the process is fairer for all applicants and applications for residencies will be assessed together.

You can submit a maximum of one application for a residency in any 12 month period.
What we can support?

Artistic residencies that are:

• Organised by an international partner and hosted outside of Wales and the UK
• Offering the opportunity to focus on experimentation and exploration of practice, to connect with other artists and to establish contacts with local arts organisations and artists.
• Time limited
• Not available in Wales or elsewhere in the UK