UKNA is delighted to showcase the culmination of a six-month project Taking Place: People Place and Practice this October, featuring 10 brand-new works ranging from film to poetry and performance, all inspired by the heart and soul of Derby and Derbyshire. These new works are presented for the very first time across the city allowing the public to experience the essence of Derby through the eyes of talented new artists, and all for free!
Read MoreUK New Artists will celebrate the beginning of Taking Place: Derby with a showcase of work by some of the best up-and-coming artists from the New Artist Collective #2; a cross-disciplinary group of 12 artists, selected from a nationwide open call.
Read MoreThe Weekend Celebration of Creativity brings together over 38 local and national artists to Lincoln City. Twelve captivating, never-before-seen commissions, born from the heart of Lincoln and created in collaboration with the people, arts organisations and charities, will transform both cultural spaces and unconventional venues alongside other events taking place across the city.
Read MoreNow in its fourth iteration, The Robert Walters UK New Artist of the Year Award in collaboration with Saatchi Gallery discovers and champions exceptional artists who are representative of contemporary Britain.
Selected from over 1,600 artists, the 2023 finalists were: Damaris Athene (London), William Bacon (Oxford), Parham Ghalamdar (Manchester), Sofia Laskari (London), Kieran Leach (Manchester), Elena Njoabuzia Onwochei-Garcia (Glasgow/Macclesfield), Edward Rollitt (Winchester), Anna Tong (London), Pascal Ungerer (Cork, Ireland) and Kim Thompson (Nottingham).
Read MoreStarting from May 2023 the UK New Artists 'Taking Place: Lincoln’ programme fully launches!
In partnership with local sector leading organisations in Lincoln, UKNA are hosting an exciting and informative programme of online and in-person talks; blending the perspective of artists, industry professionals and future producers as part of Taking Place: Lincoln. These free events are open to everyone.
Read MoreThe New Artists Collective 23 has 17 artists, who are working collaboratively for over a year as part of UKNA’s first iteration of Taking Place embarking on an exciting journey in Lincoln; sharing their work, undertaking residencies and collective activities, and taking part in training, networking and mentoring.
Read MoreLincoln Excellence is a new collective of young LGBTQ+ artists, led by UK New Artists and The Chateau founder, Laurie Belgrave, working to bring exciting events and happenings to the city, in response to the severe lack of safe(r) spaces for queer youth in the area. The collective has been working together since March 2023 on a series of new activities.
Read MoreUK New Artists celebrated The Beginning of Taking Place: Lincoln with an exhibition and a collection of live performances by the New Artist Collective; a cross-disciplinary group of 18 artists. The exhibition and live performances celebrated the wealth of talent, skill and diversity within the group and offered the public to enjoy work for free.
Read MoreUKNA’s Weekender #6 takes place at Canopy by Hilton London City, generously supported by 4C Hotel Group. The Weekender is an opportunity to take some time, meet other artists, collaborate and replenish thinking and possible directions for your practice. The residency will centre around discourse, talks and workshops to develop ideas and works which are a direct response to the space, locality of the hotel and the outlined themes. We hope that this place and space will inspire new works as well as being grounds to create collaborative artwork on site.
Read MoreThroughout 2022-23 UKNA will be delivering a range of Creative Citizens projects in Lincoln, including Foundations - a six month creative training and experience programme, Community Commissions - the creation of new public artworks, SEA Training - a professional development course for new artists working in socially engaged contexts, and The Art House - a new youth focused arts space in Lincoln Centre.
Read MoreThe Robert Walters Group UK New Artist of the Year Award 2022, in collaboration with Saatchi Gallery and UK New Artists, provides a significant platform for artists within the first 10 years of their practice, presenting dynamic artworks from the finalists and awarding £10,000 to the winner and £5,000 to the runner-up.
From a record breaking 1,350 submissions, the 2022 finalists were: Anne Moses, Damien Cifelli, Ella van der Straaten, Farnaz Gholami, Habib Hajallie, Jacob Talkowski, Joanna van Son, Polina Filippova, Rodrigues Goncalves, Tyreis Holder.
Read MoreThe Weekender residency was organised in partnership between Centre for Contemporary Art and UK New Artists. This was the fifth iteration of the weekender programme with previous events having taken place in Blackpool ( 2017 & 2021) St Ives (2018) and Skegness (2019).
Read MoreNew and emerging artists from across the UK took over the city of Leicester for a long weekend. Exhibitions, performance, music, writing and film and much more animated cultural spaces and unusual places, presenting the work of over 50 practitioners at the leading edge of contemporary arts.
Read MoreUKNA ran a ‘call for ideas’; seeking three projects, led by artists. UK New Artists supported the selected artists realise their projects, with money, time, space and the support of three brilliant mentors; Garth Gratrix, Olwen Davies and Saziso Phiri.
Read MoreNavigating 2021 & Beyond was a series of free online talks and masterclasses covering a range of topics, to help you navigate and support your creative career.
Led by the UK New Artists team with experts, thinkers and doers in their fields, the talks provided an opportunity to hear from Producers, Curators and Practitioners about their journeys, get some insider tips and advice and ask those burning ‘how to’s.
Read MoreThe awards ceremony took place on Thursday 4th November at the Saatchi Gallery.
Over 900 artists submitted work. The 2021 finalists were: Jukka Virkkunen (London), Molly Kent (Edinburgh), Lucy Gregory (London), Aimee Melaugh (Derry), Sam Tahmassebi (London), Wesley George (London), Jarvis Brookfield (Leicester), Anne von Freyburg (London), Maayan Sophia Weisstub (London), and Catriona Robertson (London).
Read MoreUKNA’s fourth ‘Weekender’, The Coast is Queer was an invitation to artists to explore the trajectory and longevity of queer culture through collective conversations, facilitated workshops and site specific interventions as a means to animate and examine identity through a multitude of lenses and alongside a diverse coming together of artists across the UK. Delivered in partnership with Garth Gratrix and Abingdon Studios.
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