CAIMIN AND LIV TO RECEIVE €15K FUNDING BOOST
Two Wicklow artists have each received a Next Generation award worth €15,000.
Caimin Gilmore and Liv O’Donoghue are two artists who have shown exceptional promise, according to the Arts Council, the government agency for funding and developing the arts. The Next Generation programme recognises and promotes a selection of artists from different disciplines and gives them the time they need to develop their practice.
Caimin is a multi-instrumentalist and composer. He recently toured as double bassist for Lisa Hannigan’s ‘At Swim’ world tour. Some of his career highlights to date include playing with Aaron Dessner of The National, The Staves, supporting Bon Ivor in Kilmainham, The James Corden Show, Other Voices and Glastonbury Festival.
He recently co-arranged music for the RTECO and 2FM’s highly praised ‘Story of Hip Hop’ and he regularly works with Crash Ensemble, RTECO and Ulster Orchestra.
Liv is a maker and performer based in Dublin. She trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in the UK, graduating with the Outstanding Achievement award in 2007. As a maker, her work has been shown widely in Ireland, and abroad, as part of CODA Festival in Norway, DancEUnion in London, Works & Process in Austria, Laiks Dejot (Latvia), B-Motion (Italy), and Festival Instances (CND Chalonsur-Saone, France), among others.
Awarded with €15,000 each, the innovative young artists work across music, literature, circus, theatre and architecture, and are based in all four provinces of Ireland. In Spring 2018, the 24 chosen artists will take part in a collective week-long residential programme at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig, Co Monaghan.
Arts Council Director Orlaith McBride said: ‘Each year we have the difficult job of choosing from the dozens of excellent applications we receive, and in 2017 our task was harder than ever. We chose to support 24 artists of great potential from a diverse range of practices and disciplines, and I look forward to seeing their work for many years to come. I wish each of our recipients every success.’