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The highlights from the Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2024 💫⁠ Last week's ceremony was a wonderful celebration of truly inspiring artistic and creative practices. Thank you to everyone who joined us in person and online. Watch the moment the five £10,000 Fellowships are announced with all shortlisted artists receiving £1,000 towards their practice. Regenerative Design Fellow⁠: Rhea Thomas Jazz Composition Fellow⁠: Daniel Casimir Theatre Writing Fellow⁠: Tatenda Shamiso Short Documentary Film Fellow⁠: Cherish Oteka ⁠ Visual Art Fellow⁠: Rebecca Bellantoni We’ll also soon be releasing the incredible welcome address given by esteemed playwright, and our Guest of Honour, Roy Williams. Do look back at our feed to watch the extraordinary and wide-ranging work of all the shortlisted artists: Regenerative Design: William Eliot, Aurélie Fontan and Emma Money. Jazz Composition: Romarna Campbell, Jas Kayser and Luca Manning. Theatre Writing: Saffa Benson-Effiom, Laurie Motherwell and Yomi Ṣode. Short Documentary Film: Jessica Bishopp, Rosie Morris and Kateryna Pavlyuk. Visual Art: Dan Guthrie, Alexi Marshall and Rafał Zajko. A heartfelt thank you once again to all the artists, our award Jury members and Nominators for their insights, care and attention; and our Arts Foundation Friends, and Award Supporters for their partnership and belief in the importance of artists: The David Collins Foundation, PRS Foundation and the Yoma Sasburg Estate.⁠ The Awards Ceremony took place on 28 February in London, hosted by our Director, Mary Jane Edwards and featured the premiere performance of a new composition by John Barber (Choral Composition Fellow, 2021) with Echo Vocal Ensemble conducted by Sarah Latto. Filming: Paul Bates (Realm Video)  Editing: Gabrielle Milanese #ArtsFoundationFuturesAwards

Author Ali Smith (Short Story Writing Fellow, 2001) launches her new novel, Gliff: A Novel, at the Southbank Centre in conversation with writer Eley Williams. With a nod to the traditions of dystopian fiction, a glance at the Kafkaesque, and a new take on the notion of classic, Gliff is a moving and electrifying read, a vital and prescient tale of the versatility and variety deep-rooted in language, in nature and in human nature. Date: Sunday 10 November 2024 In Conversation: 7.45pm Location: Southbank Centre Tickets available via the Southbank Centre website Image: courtesy of artist

Tanoa Sasraku (Visual Art Fellow, 2021) is exhibiting in the group exhibition ‘Tituba, who protects us?’ at Palais de Tokyo, Paris curated by Amandine Nana. “Tituba, qui pour nous protéger ?” is a group show which invites eleven artists from France, Great Britain, and North America with Caribbean and African diasporic trajectories to come together around a meditation on the relationships between grief, memory, migration and ancestrality. The exhibition runs from 17 October 2024 to 5 January 2025. Image: Installation view, Tanoa Sasraku, A Tower to Say Goodbye, 2021. Private Collection, London.

Keep an eye out for ‘The Ministry of Time’, a new TV drama based on Kaliane Bradley’s debut novel of the same name, adapted by Alice Birch (Playwriting Fellow, 2014) for the BBC. The six-part series follows a newly established governmental organisation called The Ministry of Time that takes "expats" from various periods — ranging from a French Revolution widow to a Black Plague patient — and drops them in our modern era for a new chance at life. The series will star Aimee Lou Wood, Rebecca Hall, and Joseph Fiennes. Alice says: “I'm so thrilled to be adapting Kaliane's beautiful, funny, joyful, moving, intelligent book with the BBC and A24. Reading it was an exhilarating, thrilling and heartbreaking experience and I'm so excited to bring this story to the screen.” The Ministry of Time is scheduled to be released on the BBC this Autumn. Photo credit: Georgina Ower, 2013

Really honoured to be a Jury member for The Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2025 - Visual Arts - alongside curator Priyesh Mistry and artist Sinta Tantra.

Introducing Sinta Tantra, Jury member for The Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2025 for Visual Art! Sinta Tantra is interested in the interplay between colour, light, geometric and organic forms. Her paintings and installations are created in response to time and space, and are designed to subtly transform throughout the day, offering shifting moods and perspectives. Whether produced on a monumental scale or precisely rendered on canvas, her compositions employ a universal visual language that shifts the focus away from meaning to the emotional and physical experience of the artwork. Born in New York to Balinese parents, Tantra grew up in London where she studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (2003) and the Royal Academy Schools (2006). Her Balinese heritage is central to her practice both in terms of her collaborative working processes and her meditative approach to painting. Tantra’s work has been exhibited at numerous international biennials, art fairs and in group exhibitions such as A New Paradise at the Saatchi Gallery in London (2022), Light in Retrospective at ISA Art and Design, Jakarta (2022), Small is Beautiful (2022) at the Flowers Gallery, London, Framer Framed (2020) in Amsterdam, the Karachi Biennale (2019), the Folkestone Triennial UK (2017) and the Liverpool Biennial UK (2012). Tantra’s work is part of the Government Art Collection, the Benetton Foundation collection, Museum MACAN, the Louis Vuitton collection and other private international collections. We are thrilled to have Sinta’s expert artistic eye and experience on this year’s jury! https://lnkd.in/edHnd3vn The Visual Art Award is supported by the Yoma Sasburg Estate. Image credit: Sinta Tantra, Photo by Ian Pollard. Alt text: A profile image of Sinta Tantra

Introducing Priyesh Mistry, Jury member for The Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2025 for Visual Art! Priyesh Mistry is Associate Curator of Modern & Contemporary Projects at the National Gallery, London where he manages an ambitious programme to connect contemporary art with its historic collections through artists residencies and contemporary commissions, most recently with Céline Condorelli, Nalini Malani and Ali Cherri. Previously, he was Assistant Curator, International Art at Tate Modern where he specialised on art from South Asia for the collection and numerous exhibitions and commissions. He is a Trustee of Studio Voltaire, a member of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the British School at Rome and the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group led by the Mayor of London’s office. We are honoured to have Priyesh's extensive knowledge of contemporary art practice, and care and attention for artistic practice and curation on this year's Jury!⁠ https://lnkd.in/edHnd3vn The Visual Art Award is supported by the Yoma Sasburg Estate. Image credit: Priyesh Mistry, Photo by Hydar Dewachi.

Introducing Marie-Anne McQuay, Jury member for The Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2025 for Visual Art! Marie-Anne McQuay is the guest Curator for Liverpool Biennial 2025. She is currently on secondment from Arts&Heritage as Director of Projects and was previously Head of Programme at the Bluecoat, Liverpool (2015 – June 2022) and Curator at Spike Island, Bristol (2007-2013). She was also Curator of Wales in Venice 2019 with artist Sean Edwards and Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham. Marie-Anne is currently part of the Arts Council Collection Acquisitions Committee 2022-25, on the Advisory of Board of At The Library, Sefton and External Examiner for Art Museum and Gallery Studies MA, University of Leicester 2023-26. As a huge champion of supporting artists’ development, we are delighted to have Marie-Anne’s care and insights on this year's Jury!⁠ https://lnkd.in/evRAMsY5 The Visual Art Award is supported by the Yoma Sasburg Estate. Image credit: Marie-Anne McQuay, Photo by Rhian Askins.

We’re pleased to share that our Creative Director, Satoshi Isono, has been selected to join the judging panel for The Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2025 in the Design category. The Arts Foundation Futures Awards support the UK’s most promising artists and creatives, providing £20,000 unconditional Fellowships to help advance their careers. Satoshi, who leads our studio in New York, will join a panel of esteemed experts, and contribute his wealth of experience from Universal to help identify and recognise the next generation of design talent. We look forward to seeing the work from this year’s entrants. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/erc-Yupu

I am honoured to join the jury panel for the Arts Foundation Futures Awards.