APT & Fenton Arts Trust Mentoring Award

Initiated by APT Artist Member Mali Morris, the APT & Fenton Arts Mentoring Award ran from 2020 – 2024 and was funded by The Fenton Arts Trust.

The yearlong award was designed to provide space and support during the period between education and professional life, with a collaborative one-to-one mentoring relationship. The award benefitted mentees by helping them develop their practice and broadening their experience within a working studio-community/gallery-complex.

Programme

The Award provided Mentees: 

  • 1 year fully paid accessible studio 

  • specific advice and general support about their current practice  

  • support from their Mentee with their end of year exhibition  

  • discussion about how their practice might fit within the current contemporary art world 

  • introductions to meet relevant members in the community of APT – artists, trustees and staff  

  • advice on their participation in Open Studios

  • opportunities to take part in sub-committee meetings and the Annual General Meeting, to understand how a Charity operates 

  • induction to include H&S tour, Data Protection Guidance and General APT information 

  • opportunities to be involved in other A.P.T led projects throughout the year 

Left to right:
Lottie Stoddart (Year 1), Stanley Tilyard-French (Year 3), AP Nguyen (Year 3), Eleni Zervou (Year 2) and Millie Layton (Year 2)

Application

APPLICATIONS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED

Mentees

Lottie Stoddart
Year One Mentee
Mentored by Rebecca Harper

Ned Armstrong
Year One Mentee
Mentored by Mali Morris

Eleni Zervou
Year Two Mentee
Mentored by Victoria Rance

Millie Layton
Year Two Mentee
Mentored by Sheila Vollmer

Stanley Tilyard-French
Year Three Mentee
Mentored by Chris Marshall

AP Nguyen
Year Three Mentee
Mentored by Bernice Donzselmann

Mali Morris
APT Artist Member & Mentor

APT was ideally suited to offer this Mentoring programme, with the generous support of the Fenton Arts Trust. A small and supportive community of practicing artists welcomed two selected candidates every year for three consecutive years, providing the use of a studio each and regular contact with a mentor. We were particularly glad to be able begin this project during Covid-times, when life became so difficult for so many

Lottie Stoddart
Artist (Year One Mentee)

The APT & Fenton Arts Trust Award was a fantastic platform upon which I have been building my artistic career in the subsequent years. The studio provided a space without financial worries; the mentoring, a touchstone for my developments and investigations; and the final exhibition, a launchpad from which many opportunities have since arisen. I am so grateful for everything this award has provided. 

Stephen J Morris
Ex Chair of The Fenton Arts Trust

Three painter friends were among the founding members of APT and I was delighted that one of them, Mali Morris, supported this scheme from its inception and was more than willing to share her expertise and experience as one of its first mentors. The whole project has been a pleasure for me throughout, most of all at the annual shows of work, every time a fresh challenge. Long may APT and Fenton give support to each new cohort of artists. They need it, and so do we. 

Sue Davies-Scourfield
Chair of The Fenton Arts Trust 

The Fenton Arts Trust has been delighted to be involved in funding the APT Mentoring Award scheme. Although our formal partnership has come to an end due to our policy of limiting the period of funding for each of our beneficiaries, we anticipate that our friendship will continue, and hope that future emerging artists will benefit from mentorship going forward.