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Peer review
Emilia Telese explores peer review funding for the arts within a holistic art and social environment.
The UK cultural funding system is a vast and varied landscape: a landscape that is more or less visible by those who approach it, according to the results they want to obtain, the mode of approach and the knowledge of its various incarnations. As any artist who has ever researched funding for their own project knows, there are hundreds of organisations which support artistic endeavours in Britain, yet to many others, those that are most visible are the ones with ‘Arts’ attached to their name, which can at times act like a neon sign attracting frustrated moths, believing the sign is their only source of light. Funding cuts to any of the four main UK Arts Councils – England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland – have justly generated debate and consternation amongst those in the field, and have been the ones to make the national news, but the intrinsic solution to this discussion is not one of doom, but one of active participation. The publishing in January 2008 of the McMaster Review – commissioned to Sir Brian McMaster, former director of the Edinburgh international festival by James Purnell, at the time Secretary of State for Culture – urged funders...
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