The Perimeter Studio Award
The Perimeter is pleased to announce The Perimeter Studio Award, a scholarship programme designed to increase opportunities for emerging artists after the completion of their degree at the Slade, University College of London, in partnership with Metroland Cultures. This award will select one graduating MA/MFA student for a 1-year rent free studio space, professional development opportunities, mentorship sessions and a cash bursary.
As a neighbouring institution, The Perimeter Studio Award aims to support one emerging artist graduating from the Slade by recognising the challenges faced during the precarious and pivotal transitional period from leaving art school and entering into a career as an independent artist.
Awards will be allocated based on merit and need. Applications will be received through an open call for eligible students and selected by two shortlisting panels.
About the Award
This 1-year award will provide
• A rent-free studio space at Metroland Cultures
• A bursary of £2,000
• An individualised programme of mentoring and professional development
Eligible Students
• Final Year MA or MFA Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art
• Eligible to remain in the UK for the duration of the residency from 1 July 2025 for 1 year
Application Period
2025 Applications are now closed, and will re-open May 2026
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About Metroland Cultures
Metroland Cultures offers a year-round, free public programme featuring events, exhibitions, workshops, artist development initiatives, studio residencies, youth programmes, and a biennial festival across the London Borough of Brent.
Within their building, they host a social space, an artist-in-residence programme, an exhibition gallery and public programme. Their studio holders host various resources and programmes used with and by different communities and groups including a printing press and zine library, a community cinema and film school, a radio station, and a range of events, programmes, and workshops.
They offer rent free onsite studios which support artists and grassroots community organisations, and build mentoring development and commissioning programmes for local early-career artists.
The artists they support in the building are artists who are resourcing and holding others in the city who are also committed to working at the intersections of art and social justice and art and community care.
Current Award Recipient (2025-2026):
Jess Heritage (b. 1993, Pontefract, West Yorkshire)
Heritage graduated from this year's MA Media department at Slade School of Fine Art.
Jess Heritage has a performance based practice in which precariousness, and the stumbling of language is an essential material within the work. Her research asks the question; what does language produce when it fails, and how does this failing produce the palpable affect of an experience which resists articulation?
Heritage's works are often concerned with experiences which refuse to be defined neatly in language; instead, their practice attempts to perform the feeling of language as it hovers, slips, and refuses to lay down neatly alongside a given experience. These works often use provisional structures, and utilise the rehearsal as a performative act to map out narratives which fall between structure and indeterminacy.