Want to make an idea a reality? The Jameson Works can help

Date
18 February 2016

Chances are if you’re a creative person, you’re not short of ideas. While these are often created to brief, we know there are loads of you out there with big ideas for more personal projects, which for whatever reason remain unrealised, sitting fidgeting in your brain or in a sketchbook. Having the time and space to do something about these little nuggets of creativity is an important thing, and The Jameson Works wants to help take them from thoughts and sketches into the fully-fledged projects they deserve to be.

The Jameson Works is a community for designers and makers that offers support in the form of bursaries and an online platform to help creatives make work around particular themes. It’s just launched its new Bursary for 2016 based on the theme Transition and Transformation, and wants to hear about your ideas – whatever stage you’re at in your career. Philanthropists that they are, Jameson says that all it wants to do is “support those who have good ideas and good stories to tell.” It adds: “It also doesn’t matter what you do, whether you’re a furniture maker, a designer, a photographer, or an artist. You could be anyone doing anything, just tell us how much you need and what you need it for, and we’ll need to know how it links to the brief Transition and Transformation.”

The bursaries are awarded for any amount of money between £100 and £4,000, and previous recipients have ranged from printmakers, ceramicists, furniture designers and sculptors to leatherworkers, painters and musicians.

If you’re in need of inspiration, look no further than the Transition and Transformation project that electronic music producers and creative duo Tim & Barry are working on with Jameson. The pair are working on a mobile unit that draws on the UK’s history of rave culture and aims to bring music to the road, creating a “bespoke mobile studio space” that will travel to five cities around the country.

To apply, you have to be over 18 and living in the UK working in any creative discipline. More than one application can be submitted, and the deadline is 13 March 2016 for this brief.

The online submissions page features a simple submissions box where The Jameson Works is looking for an explanation of “what you want to create, or what you’re already creating, what tools you need and the amount of money needed to achieve it,” in 300 words or less. You’re encouraged to include photographs, mood boards or a short video to support the application.

For more information on how to enter and previous bursary recipients visit the site here.
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Christina Liu, previous recipient of The Jameson Works bursary for her 3D printed ceramic project

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Work by Matt Valentine, previous recipient of The Jameson Works bursary for his floriography themed print work

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Work by Kingsley Thompon, previous recipient of The Jameson Works bursary for his leather-working project

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Work by Thor ter Kulve and Rob McIntyre, previous recipients of The Jameson Works bursary for their CanopyStair project

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Poster for The Jameson Works bursary on the brief Transition and Transformation

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