Nineteen professional artists from across the arts disciplines have received a Creative Wales Award, and Michael Cousin, Sioned Huws, John Metcalf and Laura Thomas have received the inaugural Creative Wales Ambassadors Awards. The Creative Awards, of up to £25,000, are available for Welsh artists every year, to guarantee an income to enable them to take time to experiment. The Ambassadors Awards, also of £25,000, aim to recognise significant individual achievement in the arts, to raise the profile of Welsh culture outside Wales and to provide financial support for artists to develop new work. The award requires artists to demonstrate a strong partnership with two host organisations, one based in Wales and one outside Wales. The aim of the partnership is to provide a platform for the work the artist develops during the period of the award and to further promote art being produced in Wales.
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