Initiated in 2019, Luke Jerram set up and funded the annual Dreamtime Fellowship to support artists in his home city, Bristol.
The Dreamtime Fellowship 2026, hosted by Watershed’s Pervasive Media Studio for the first time, will offer space, time, mentoring, financial support and resources for a mid-career Bristol-based artist to take their practice to the next level. Applications are now closed.
The Dreamtime Fellow for 2024-25 was Alexis Over-Papatzaneteas, a multidisciplinary artist working between sculpture, public art and book-making, who is interested in the growing proliferation of data and how data visualisation effects our societies knowledge of topics of socio-economic importance. This interview marks the end of Alexis’ tenure as Dreamtime Fellow, and celebrates the acquisition of his new book, 349, as part of the British Library‘s artist book collection.
In previous years the Dreamtime Fellowship was hosted at Spike Island and was awarded to:
2024/25 Alexis Over-Papatzaneteas.
2023/24 Lou Baker
2022/23 Rosie Baylis
2021/22 Dolores McGurran
2019/20 Izzy Mooney
