Winners Of The 2010 Arts Foundation Fellowships Announced By Sir Nicholas Hytner

The five £10,000 fellowships were announced at the annual Arts Foundation Awards at Pentagram last night by Artistic Director of the National Theatre Sir Nicholas Hytner. The winning recipients were:

• Ole Bratt Birkeland, Cinematography
• Mervyn Millar, Puppetry
• Julie Cook, Textile Art
• Andrew Lamb, Jewellery Design
• Kate Brown, Graphic Novels

For more information on the artists please go to the Awards 2010 section.

The Arts Foundation hosted an evening introducing the four shortlisted applicants for the Graphic Novel Fellowship; Bill Bragg, Kate Brown, James McKay and Karrie Fransman. Their presentations involved comments and thoughts by artist Posy Simmonds, comic writer Pat Mills and Comica organiser Paul Gravett who were advisors for this fellowship.Pat Mills, Posy Simmonds and Paul Gravett with finalist Bill Bragg at the ICA. By Helen Boobis.

New Website : The Arts Foundation will launch a new website during Spring 2010. The improved site will include more current news by the fellows and encourage those looking for talented artists for commissioning or otherwise to use the site for this purpose.

Pentagram is again hosting the Arts Foundation Awards 2010 on the 20th January at 7.30pm. All five awards will be announced at the awards.