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

    • Winning poet Ahren Warner at the Awards

    • Sir Andrew Motion announced the six winners of the £10,000 fellowships last night at the Arts Foundation Awards hosted at Pentagram London. The categories include Sculpture, Opera Composition, Poetry, Product Design, Animation and Choreography. Click here for the results ...

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    • Find an Artist

    • Need to find a particular artist? Got a commission? Searching for specific crafts people? Or just keen to check out 20 years worth of winners across all types of artforms.

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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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    • Want to See The Awards?

    • See how they work at the 2010 Awards when Sir Nicholas Hytner, Director of the National Theatre handed over the fellowships and how the winners reacted.

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