A selection of visual artists working in a variety of media tell Catherine Marshall how the award of bursaries from the Arts Council has nurtured their practice
Once upon a time it was the Medicis and their friends who provided the financial backing for artists to make new work. Those patrons have been rightly celebrated over the centuries, but for all their ambition to nurture genius as they interpreted it, even the most enlightened generally offered commissions within well established patterns.
