Fellowship Opportunity | Brooks International Fellowship Programme

Tate and Delfina Foundation
Full-time, six-month fellowship
Fellowship duration: Monday 23 June – Sunday 7 December 2025
Application deadline: Thursday 30 January 2025, 17:00 GMT

Tate, in collaboration with Delfina Foundation, invites applications for the Brooks International Fellowship Programme 2025. Now in its eleventh year, the highly successful programme enables international visual arts professionals to work with Tate colleagues for six months in 2025, complemented by a residency at Delfina Foundation.

Fellows will receive reimbursement in the forms of accommodation, travel costs, visa support, and a £40 per day living allowance bursary. Find out more information and apply on the Tate jobs site.

Brooks International Fellowship 2025 in Tate St Ives Programme Team

Tate welcomes applications for a Fellow to work with Tate St Ives, located in an artistically important coastal town in the far southwest of England, at a significant moment of change. The Fellow will contribute to the development of its artist residency programme, known as the Artists Programme.

Tate are seeking a researcher who will explore different residency models that embed socially engaged practice and community building at their heart, whilst also actively engaging with climate and social justice, developing international partnerships and networks, and connecting with a diversity of cultures and communities (including indigenous communities). They will work collaboratively and openly to inform and inspire the development of an environmentally and financially sustainable framework for the Artists Programme.

Brooks International Fellowship 2025 in Tate Modern Curatorial Division

Tate welcomes applications for a Fellow to focus on developments in ink art across East and Southeast Asia from the modern period (20th century), as Asian artists encountered Western styles and ideas and began to innovate, while still holding on to the key principles of ink practice. This research Fellowship will respond to Tate’s commitment to expand its ink collection and will contribute to forthcoming exhibitions and displays.

The Fellow will work with Tate colleagues to locate the practices of ink artists at the turn of modernity who sought to rethink, reclaim, and revive traditional techniques and philosophies. Together, they will attempt to grasp a more comprehensive story of ink’s development, beyond the prescribed temporalities and frameworks of Euro-American modernism.

Who is the Brooks International Fellowship for?

• The programme is for international practitioners who have expertise in the visual arts or
  subject areas relevant to the Fellowship.
• It is aimed at candidates based outside of the UK, so that they can bring their expertise of
  working in other regions to Tate and to allow them to learn from the cultural sector in the
  UK.
• Candidates should undertake the Fellowship in the spirit of a mutually beneficial cultural
  and professional exchange with Tate.
• Candidates are not expected to have experience in academic research. They may hold or
  be studying for Masters degrees or PhDs, but this is not a requirement to qualify for the
  programme.
• Applications from candidates who are established and experienced midcareer practitioners are encouraged
• Candidates should have a proactive, self-starting attitude to undertaking the research.
  Though Fellows are guided and supported by their Hosts, they should be able to progress
  the research independently when required.
• Candidates should have an interest in undertaking research in museums.
• Candidates should be open to working alongside colleagues in a complex, busy institution
  with multiple sites (as of 31 March 2023, Tate employed 915 people across all sites).