The Arts contribute to making a community a vibrant and stimulating place to live, and WA is overflowing with emerging and established talent. The Robert Juniper Award for the Arts is an opportunity to be awarded a $10k scholarship to get you closer to your creative ambitions!
The Robert Juniper Award for the Arts offers up to $10,000 annually to assist talented young people in their development and education as artists. If you are a creative person under 35 years old, with a strong association to the Shire of Mundaring - either through birth, residence, schooling, or work - this Award may give you the opportunity to fulfil a creative project or advance your artistic ability. Funding for the Robert Juniper Award for the Arts is provided through a generous annual contribution from Juniper Galleries, and further supplemented by fundraising by the Trust, annual subscriptions from Friends of the Trust, and donations. It will cost you nothing to apply to be considered for this scholarship.
Who can apply?
Open to all forms of art will be considered, for example conceptual arts, visual arts, craft, performing arts, literature, film and music, and all the sub categories within the genres.
You must under the age of 35 years on December 31st of the year of application.
You must be living, studying or working in the Mundaring Shire, or have done so for a significant part of your life.
What is the scholarship to be used for?
The Award is designed to assist exceptionally talented young people in their future development and education as artists. Applicants must outline a specific project and provide full details of its aims, organisation and costs, and demonstrate how the project will elevate the artist’s profile and/or skill level.
When do applications close?
PRE-SUBMISSION August 31: If you would like your application pre-assessed, as per the section above, then you must have your application in by midnight August 31, and you will receive recommendations within 7 days.
FINAL SUBMISSION September 30: Final Applications must be submitted by midnight on September 30. The online form will disable at this time.