Applications have opened for a major arts local arts competition

The John Nicholson award looks to help support artists on the Isle of Man, and offers a bursary for artists, to be awarded on October 1, later this year.

Since the formation of the award by the Rotary Club of Rushen and Western Mann in the name of the famous artist John Hobson Nicholson, it has supported many local artists, with the specified aim to ’advance visual arts in the Isle of Man, by way of grants, awards bursaries or prizes’.

The most recent recipient of the award is art student and musician Alice Dudley.

Application forms can be found at iomarts.com