--- title: "Paid arts residency links Jersey, Guernsey and Normandy for 2027" url: https://www.nsfw.info/paid-arts-residency-jersey-guernsey-normandy-2027/ published: 2026-11-09T10:00:46+00:00 modified: 2026-11-09T10:00:46+00:00 author: "Chief Editor" categories: ["Entertainment"] image: https://www.nsfw.info/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/paid-arts-residency-jersey-guernsey-normandy-2027-1024x572.webp summary: "ArtHouse Jersey, Guernsey Arts and RN13bis are seeking three artists for a paid April 2027 residency, with a touring exhibition across all three territories." publisher: NSFW (https://www.nsfw.info) --- # Paid arts residency links Jersey, Guernsey and Normandy for 2027 **In brief:** ArtHouse Jersey, Guernsey Arts and Normandy-based network RN13bis are seeking three artists for a paid international residency in April 2027, culminating in a touring exhibition across Jersey, Guernsey and France. The project, titled *Beyond Our Seas, Between Our Shores*, forms part of Millenium 2027, the European Year of the Normans. ## A Residency Rooted in Shared History Channel Eye reports that ArtHouse Jersey is collaborating with Guernsey Arts and the Normandy-based arts network RN13bis to offer an international residency opportunity for three artists: one from Jersey, one from Guernsey and one from Normandy. The project sits within the broader framework of Millenium 2027, a programme celebrating the shared heritage and cultural connections between Normandy and the Channel Islands. The three-week residency will take place in April 2027, during which the selected artists will travel across all three territories, drawing inspiration from the places they visit, the people they encounter and the connections between these neighbouring communities. Each artist will then develop new work shaped by those shared experiences, with the results forming a touring exhibition. The exhibition is scheduled to open at ArtHouse Jersey’s Greve de Lecq Barracks in early July 2027, before travelling to the Greenhouse Gallery in Guernsey from 14 July to 5 September, and then on to Cherbourg Artothèque in Normandy during the autumn. ## Who Can Apply, and What Is on Offer The opportunity is open to artists working across all disciplines, provided their proposed work is suitable for presentation in a gallery setting. Importantly, applications are welcomed from artists at all stages of their professional careers, meaning emerging talent is just as eligible as established practitioners. Each selected artist will receive a fee of €1,500, alongside a €500 production and materials budget. The project will also cover additional travel costs and a fee for each artist to attend the installation and opening of each exhibition in Jersey, Normandy and Guernsey between June and October 2027. Fluency in English or French is not listed as a requirement, though Channel Eye notes that participating artists should be willing to embrace the opportunities and challenges of working across language barriers. Given that the residency spans three distinct linguistic and cultural communities, that flexibility seems rather more than a polite suggestion. ## The Bigger Picture: Norman Connections Revisited The Channel Islands’ ties to Normandy stretch back well over a thousand years, and Millenium 2027 is designed to bring those connections back into focus for contemporary audiences. For Jersey in particular, the Norman heritage is woven into the island’s legal system, its place names and its dialect, even if daily life does not always pause to acknowledge it. James Tyson, Head of Programme at ArtHouse Jersey, said: “The Channel Islands and Normandy share centuries of history, but what makes this project particularly exciting is the opportunity to explore what connects us today. Bringing artists together across these neighbouring shores creates space for new ideas, perspectives and creative relationships.” He added that ArtHouse Jersey is “delighted to be working with our partners in Guernsey and Normandy to offer artists the chance to develop their practice internationally, create new work and share it with audiences across all three territories.” The Greve de Lecq Barracks venue is a fitting choice for a project steeped in cross-Channel history: a former military site on Jersey’s north coast that has itself been repurposed as a cultural space, a neat symbol of old structures finding new purpose. ## The NSFW Perspective There is something genuinely appealing about a cultural project that leans into what makes the Channel Islands distinctive rather than pretending they are simply a small corner of Britain with better tax rates. The Norman connection is real, deep and chronically underexplored, and if it takes a touring art exhibition to remind people that Jersey and Cherbourg have more in common than a shared stretch of water, then so be it. The fees on offer are modest, as arts funding tends to be, but the experience of developing and exhibiting work internationally across three territories is the kind of opportunity that does not come along often for artists at any stage of their careers. For Jersey’s creative community in particular, international exposure remains a perennial challenge when you live on an island of a hundred thousand people. This looks like a worthwhile antidote to that. *Source: [Channel Eye](https://channeleye.media/artists-sought-for-international-residency-connecting-the-channel-islands-and-normandy)*