10 April 2025
Two New Eccles Fellowships for Creative Practitioners!
The British Library is well known as a scholarly research library holding millions of printed books, archives and manuscripts. Less known are the vast resources in a wide array of formats and from all over the world, available to artists and creatives looking to find new sources of inspiration for their practice, and new spaces to think and research in.
The Eccles Institute for the Americas and Oceania is therefore excited to announce two new fellowship opportunities for UK-based creative practitioners to immerse themselves in the British Library’s Americas collections.
The first fellowship offers a chance for a UK-based creative with an interest in research-based practice (such as a print- or zine-maker, graphic designer, illustrator or writer) to explore the British Library’s collections of popular print and political ideas from the Americas (including pamphlets, broadsides, comics, zines and ephemera), and to work with one of London’s leading print studios to create a new body of work. If you’re someone interested in an aspect of the Americas’ ideological histories, currents and futures, and fascinated by how materials and design, images and text can work together to carry political meaning, this might be the fellowship for you. For more information on this fellowship, key dates and how to apply, please refer to the Popular Print Fellowship Brief.
The second fellowship is an opportunity for a UK-based lens-based artist (such as a photographer, filmmaker or content-creator) to explore the British Library’s collections of photographic material of and from Latin-America and the Caribbean (including travelogues, photo books, exhibition catalogues, magazines, newspapers and other photo-related media). If you are interested in interrogating how these regions, their peoples and diasporas have been represented and collected, this fellowship offers a great opportunity to incorporate these critical reflections into a new body of work. In addition to enhanced curatorial support to explore the collections, the fellow will be mentored by leading photographer and scholar of Caribbean and Latin American visual culture, James Clifford Kent. For more information on this fellowship, key dates and how to apply, please refer to the Photography Fellowship Brief.
The deadline for applications for both fellowships is the 2 June 2025 at 10:00 and the fellowships will start in September 2025.