Six-month international fellowship at Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral to support individual practice and research. Nicky Coutts made the film Reminiszenzen der Erinnerung (2010) and the book Thought Sequences (Berlin, Argobooks) during this period.

Research trip to Tokyo supported by the Saskawa Foundation and the University of the Arts to develop an artwork Eastern (2010) for the exhibition Connecting Green and Urban Space.

Diawa Foundation Award (2008) for a research trip to Kyoto, awarded to enable research of pagodas, informing a work commissioned for the Tatton Park Biennial (2008).