Time and space: How awards can help unblock creativity Four award-winning artists talk about the many obstacles to creating their work about 2 hours ago
What stops creative people from working? I don’t mean the regular procrastination (which I prefer to imagine as valuable thinking time). I mean, what are the larger obstacles to getting work done? Unlike a great deal of arts funding, which is given for specific programmes and projects, the Golden Fleece Award, now in its 20th year, aims to remove more general impediments to creativity. This year a prize fund of €60,000 will allow €10,000 to be offered to each of six artists and makers at various stages of their careers. Meanwhile the RDS Craft Awards, which has been running in various guises for more than 50 years, has also just bestowed €10,000 each on five emerging makers.