The Arts Foundation

The Arts Foundation supports emerging talent in the Arts. Whether exploring new avenues or consolidating existing work this £10,000 fellowship has proved crucial in the success of many award winners. Trustees include Aldeburgh Festival Director Jonathan Reekie and director Sir Richard Eyre read more >>>

Arts Foundation Awards 2012. The Winners are as follows:

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    • Wilkie Branson

    • Choreography

      • The focus of Champloo Dance of which Branson is director lies in both dance and film with...
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    • Ahren Warner

    • Poetry

      • Warner is a rising young poet whose first collection, Confer, was published in 2011 and...
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    • Elspeth Brooke

    • Opera Composition

      • Elspeth Brooke likes to break new ground. She is composing an opera, The Commission, in...
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    • Markus Kayser

    • Product Design

      • Kayser grew up on a country farm in northern Germany where he spent most of his time in...
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    • Ruth Claxton

    • Sculpture

      • The internet and its virtual worlds is changing the way people understand, relate to and...
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    • Robert Morgan

    • Animation

      • “Stop animation is, in my opinion, the greatest artistic medium on Earth,” says Morgan. “...
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    • 2012 FELLOWSHIPS ANNOUNCED

    • Markus Kayser, Product Design Winner, talks about winning the fellowship at the Awards night., Sir Andrew Motion announced the six winners of the £10,000 fellowships at Pentagram London.

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    • Fellow Spot

    • Adam MarekShort Story WritingWinner 2011

    • "Money makes a difference - Find out what the fellowship means for artist"
      "Nano-seconds after Grayson Perry has announced my name, I’ve handed in my notice at work and am at my desk in the attic. You see many sunrises and sunsets through the skylight behind me. ..."

      Read more on the winners and what their fellowship meant to them.

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