Program Dates: February 16-22, 2027
Deadline for New Applications: November 26, 2026 by 11:59 PM EST
Program Cost: $950 CAD (including HST)
Link to Application Form
Program Description:
This residency at
Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts
provides additional, extra-institutional peer-support for creative practitioners undertaking graduate (Masters and PhD) research-creation projects.
Convened by artist Simon Pope, during February 2027 (reading week/mid-semester break for some universities), this week-long residency on Toronto Island provides studio space, accommodation, and peer-led discussion to supplement the support provided by your host institution, committee or supervisory team. Emphasis will be on your own creative practice and its relationship to Masters and Doctoral level research processes. As such, there will be ample opportunity for self-directed work in the studios, as well as group and individual meetings addressing questions that emerge from your own project. You are encouraged to present work-in-progress at one of the sessions at the end of each working-day, and to share insights into your own research process with your peers. We will also touch on more general concerns, such as how to shape a research-creation thesis or project in relation to disciplinary and institutional expectations, the interdisciplinary potentials of research-creation methodologies, approaches to academic writing, and strategies for the presentation and examination of your project. One-to-one meetings attend to the particular details of your project in a familiar diagnostic, supervisory/tutorial mode.
This residency is for creative practitioners currently enrolled either on a Masters or PhD programme, at any stage of the process, and undertaking a research-creation/practice-led project; or those preparing to apply to or prior to beginning a doctoral programme and wishing to develop or review their proposed project. More info.
ABOUT THE CONVENOR
Simon Pope is an artist with over 25 years experience of working within art schools and universities, convening MA/MFA programmes and supervising doctoral students. He holds a practice-led research degree (DPhil) from the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford and is currently a supervisor for Transart Institute/Liverpool John Moore’s practice-led PhD programme.
