FAQs

Who Offers the Award?

The Robert Juniper Award for the Arts (the Award) is administered by the Mundaring Bicentennial Scholarship Trust (the Trust) which was established in 1988 to provide scholarship awards for young artists to enable them to develop their artistic ability or talent through a specific project.

Who can apply?

You must under the age of 35 years on December 31st of the year of application. You must have a strong association to the Shire of Mundaring, either through birth, living, studying or working in the Shire, or have done so for a significant part of your life - even if you no longer do so (for example lived in the Shire as a child but have since moved away).

As from 2014, past Winners of the Mundaring Bicentennial Scholarship Award, or past recipients of the Robert Juniper Award for the Arts are not eligible to apply. However, recipients of the Bob and Trish Juniper Visual Arts Award (awarded from 2011 to 2015) are eligible to apply for the Robert Juniper Award for the Arts full scholarship.

Members of the immediate families of the Trustees are also not eligible to apply.

What kind of artists can apply?

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.

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.

The scholarship can not be used for materials (such as art supplies) or for equipment (such as building a studio, purchasing a laptop, musicians equipment such as guitar amps etc) or for school fees and university fees.

Preference will be given to applicants who are able to articulate:

• the need for funding to meet the costs of a specific project or course of development - please note this does not include school/college/university fees BUT can apply to skillset workshops/programmes/master classes

• how this project will benefit the applicant in their future Arts practice

It is important that the project enables the applicant to learn new skills and develop as an artist or performer.

Your project should demonstrate:

• growth of your Arts practice through research and/or development that focuses on the pursuit of excellence and personal development

• activities that build upon or enhance your practice, and will assist you to develop your professional profile

• Proposed projects can include activities such as:

  • Research and development

  • the creation or presentation of new work

  • Professional and skills development of individual artists

  • Production of a creative performance

  • Commissions in fields such as writing, music, theatre, choreography and/ or the visual arts

  • Collaborations designed to produce new work involving two or more individuals, groups or organisations, or artists working within the community

  • Internships

  • Mentorships

  • Residencies

  • Workshops and Master Class Tuition

Supporting Materials

• Applicants, particularly performance artists, must demonstrate the quality of their skills by submitting relevant, high quality supporting materials, examples of their work in the form of images, audio or video, on CD, DVD, USB or electronically. Performing artists must submit professional quality reproductions of their work.

• Visual artists may include up to 12 images of their work, with a chronology of work submitted.

• Original artwork and examination portfolios should not be submitted with your application, although the judges may ask to see original work during the adjudication process.

• please send additional information in a separate document(s) if there is insufficient space to upload online. Please send via email to secretary@mundaringarts.org or post to the address given in the footer.

• Applications will not be accepted if examples of work by the applicant are not included. NOTE: links to websites are acceptable but not links to social media platforms.

• You must send a stamped self-addressed envelope with your application if you wish your support material to be returned.

• Birth certificates are not required at the application stage but applicants may be required to submit evidence of date of birth later.

Your project cannot be any of the following :

• A fundraising activity or have the awarding of prizes as its main focus

• Activities that are part of school or university core course requirements

• Tuition fees for school/college/university

• For your own personal artist’s wages

• for basic materials or equipment

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Can I contact a Trustee for help with my application, before I submit it?

Absolutely. You are advised to prepare your application well in advance of the closing date, so that you can submit it by the pre-submission date, which is August 31 of each year. The Trustees will assess your application and if you have not addressed the selection criteria to your best advantage a Trustee will contact you to help you focus your application to give you the best chance of success.

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.

What happens after I submit my application?

ADJUDICATORS: Once the Application process has closed, the Trustees hand over all the applications to independent Adjudicators. Adjudicators are chosen based on their expertise and experience in the various disciplines of the applicants for that year. The Adjudicators meet with each other to determine the outcome of each application, ensuring that the selection criteria of the application has been addressed. The RJAFTA Secretary and any other Trustees may attend the Adjudicator’s meeting, to oversee the process and to ensure that the process is followed with due diligence. The adjudication process can sometimes be quite lengthy. When the Adjudicators have reached a decision and recommended a recipient, the successful applicant with be advised by December 1st and unsuccessful applicants will be advised shortly afterwards:

Please read the following carefully :

The RJAFTA Trustees, Patrons, or Sponsor (Juniper Galleries), and Friends of The Trust (donors) DO NOT have any influence on the outcome of who will be the Award Recipient. We do not make recommendations on who we think the Award should go to, or make suggestions that may influence the Adjudicators.

Where do I send my application?

The application must be completed online HERE

Who can give me further information?

The Trust Secretary,
Chris Durrant
9299 6093
chrisctd@bigpond.com