Open Call: 2025 Catalyst Residency from FSAS & Create

Catalyst Residency, offered in partnership between Create and Fire Station Artists’ Studios (FSAS), offers a socially engaged artist from an under-represented ethnic background a one-month residency in Dublin 1 during June 2025. The residency is intended as an artist-led incubation period which allows them to develop their practice and their networks with targeted support from the residency partners. In 2018, Create and the Fire Station Artists’ Studios formed a unique partnership to offer Catalyst Residency as part of the Artist in the Community Scheme, managed by Create, and the range of residencies offered by FSAS. Catalyst Residency is aligned with both Create and FSAS’s long-standing commitment to collaborative, socially engaged arts practice; and to supporting communities and artists on the margins of society. The residency has opened a dedicated space for Create and FSAS to work with and support artists from under-represented ethnic backgrounds. Each year, the residency responds to the specific needs of successful candidates, offering skills and opening relevant networks across the arts sector. Catalyst Residency emphasises the opportunity for the recipient to develop their artistic practice. The residency offers artists the opportunity to be mentored by a range of practitioners (see below); it is designed to enable the successful candidate to step away from their everyday responsibilities and to instead immerse themselves in a dedicated period of reflection, mentoring, peer-to-peer conversation and strategic networking. We invite expressions of interest from artists with a track record of collaborative socially engaged arts practice.