The Grants to Artists sub-committee is drawn from the Council's Visual Arts Advisory Committee, which includes museum directors, art critics and art historians as well as representatives from the Arts Councils of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Selection is made on the basis of the applicant's slides, r sum and proposal.
The sub-committee will also take into account the comments of the British Council Directorate in the country concerned, as to the standing of the gallery and the value of the exhibition in terms of Council policy for that country. The British Council is the United Kingdom's international organisation for educational and cultural relations. Registered in England as a Charity.