The Art House will be running the final four bursaries out of the programme of 12 during 2005.

The selection of the artists for the last three bursaries of the programme of 12 has now been completed.

Alexis Stevens, at ArtSway has now completed her residency, and currently has her work installed in the main gallery, until 19 June.

Suraya Raja is now working with English Nature, the government agency responsible for the conservation of wildlife, and is exploring issues around the processes involved in the management and restoration of the Humberhead Peatlands National Nature Reserve, near Doncaster.

Sam Clayton and Mark Jacobs will be working in collaboration at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, near Wakefield, during August. They will be exploring how the patterns of use of the Park have changed over its history.

The final venue has now been confirmed as Cartwright Hall, the magnificent art gallery in Lister Park in Bradford. It houses extensive collections of 19th. and 20th. century British art, international prints and contemporary South Asian art and crafts. Amelia Crouch will be working as artist in residence during July and August, and will be exploring relationships between text and image, and between context and interpretation.

For further details of the venues and artists, click on the images to the right or on the links above.

Also this year glass artist Nathalie Liege is completing her designs for glass etching and staining within the renovated St. Luke's Church in Grimethorpe - for details see Nathalie Liege