In partnership with Speakers for Schools, UKNA’s virtual work experience programme saw eight 14-16yr olds join us in the Google Classroom for a week of artist-led workshops, talks and activities, exploring the UK arts industry, new artists and potential career paths.
Read MoreUKNA is proud to partner with The Robert Walters and Saatchi Gallery for an artistic exploration of how the legacy of the Covid-19 pandemic will reshape the future of work. In a week-long social media event, taking place 3-9 August 2020, Saatchi Gallery, UKNA and Robert Walters will be calling their followers to share artwork that provokes discussion about how the change and experiences of the lockdown period have influenced the world of business.
Read MoreCurated by Claudio Zecchi and based on research by Frédéric Xavier Liver, this micro-residency uses the signs and symbols of basketball such as lines, nets and jerseys, to rethink the playground.
With Michael Jordan's jersey on our shoulders and a ball in hand, we will define and craft our own playground to share and play together over the Weekender.
Read MoreCelebrating Catterntide is a one day festival that commemorates the long forgotten ‘Catterntide Day’, an annual celebration of St Catherine, the patron saint of lace and textile makers. UK Young Artists, Nottingham Trent University’s (NTU) Lace Archive and Backlit Gallery (itself a former textile factory) host a range of family-friendly activities to ignite and inspire people on this important archive and Nottingham’s social history.
Read MoreUKYA & Platform Nord are pleased to announce a new international joint working programme for young artists to gain a better understanding of international working and the value of intercultural dialogue. United will be delivered in two parts: part one will be held in Leicester in the UK, and part two will be held in Kristiansand, Norway.
Read MoreThree unique organisations are collaborating to provide a significant platform and stepping stone for young artists. The Robert Walters Group UK Young Artist of the Year Award in partnership with Saatchi Gallery discovers and champions exceptional artists who are representative of contemporary Britain.
Read MoreNo one belongs here more than you is a participatory performance exclusively for SO Festival 2019, led by artist and curator Chiara Dellerba. It invites participants to look at Skegness through the looking glass of nine artists who took part in ‘Terrain Vague’, the Skegness weekender residency run by UK Young Artists in collaboration with So Festival in April 2019.
Read MoreThis spring UKYA have been working with community partners; Backlit Gallery, Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum, Nonsuch and Improving Lives Nottingham to deliver a series of creative projects, with funding from Nottingham City Council's Family and Community Learning team.
Read MoreUK Young Artists is taking four UK artists to work with an international group of young artists from the Republic of China and South Korea as part of the 2019 YIYUAN TANG Museum & Foundation Artshake in China in September 2019.
Read MoreCreative Citizens is UKNA’s Talent Development strand as part of our City Takeovers. This was a new aspect for Nottingham 2019, for which we worked with four partners across the city to commission projects and develop new opportunities for young residents to explore and expand their creativity.
Read MoreTerrain Vague is our third micro residency, and this edition is run in partnership with the So Festival. The weekender focuses on learning how we can regenerate a place by exploring its leftovers and its use of public spaces. Artists are called to map, re-imagine and influence Skegness. Moreover the residency aims to examine the way in which we transform our surroundings to reflect and enact the utopia of our dreams.
Read MoreFrom 7-13 February 2019, 250 artists from all over the UK, Europe, South Korea and China brought their work to Nottingham for what was truly an unforgettable week. Presenting performance in the streets; poetry on the bus; gigs across the city; exhibitions in disused spaces; interventions in cultural venues and so much more.
Read MoreThe Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library in partnership with UK Young Artists are excited to present G R A F T showcasing artists living, working and making across the UK today.
Come and celebrate making and see over 20 UK young artists perspectives on being human - and how we are all grafters working towards something. See highly colourful film, print, and ceramics, playful sculpture, and installation through to live dance and experimental performance. G R A F T provides twists and turns, highs and lows and a wealth of curiosity and imagination in an uncertain but still human world.
Read MoreIn collaboration with Life Coach Sarah McNicol, in 2018 UKYA supported 5 artists through our pilot Cultural Leadership Programme. Selected artists were George Grace Gibson, Charlie Birtles, Sufea Mohamed Noor, Connor O’Mara, Katie Amanda Smith and Tom Stockley.
Read MoreUK Young Artists worked with Studio XX and the artist Natacha Clitandre for over a year to ignite and deliver a project which would see how Natacha and UK Young Artist alumni Louise Orwin might support a cross border residency.
Read MoreThe Cornish weekender took place Between 13-16 April 2018 in partnership between UK Young Artists and Porthmeor Studios, St Ives. 11 artists across all art forms, selected from an open call, were invited to participate in the programme.
Read MoreUK Young Artists has worked with The Mighty Creatives and Arts Connect, with investment from Spirit of 2012, to deliver a series of arts festivals inspired by the work of William Shakespeare. The project spans three years, with a different cohort of artists leading each year in regional settings in 12 areas of low cultural engagement across the East and West Midlands.
Read MoreUKYA worked in partnership with Seojung Art Centre and Superior Gallery, Seoul and Chung Ang University to take 13 of the best young artists in the UK to Seoul in October 2017 to present their work alongside 10 young Korean artists. During their time in South Korea the artists participated in collaborative
workshops, talks and visits to local cultural events; facilitating intercultural exchange and international collaboration. Artists work was presented at the National Assembly of Korea, Seoul, in partnership with Seojung Art Centre and at other exciting locations.
Delivered in partnership with Primary, Nottingham and BJCEM, the Work In Common residency brought together 11 UK and International artists with an interest in how we choose to work with others and across disciplines to produce art. It encouraged participants to discuss and experiment with different ways of working, to ask what it is to collaborate, and to test out speculative ideas together. Here you can read the Work in Common diary from UKYA.
Read MoreUK Young Artists selected six artists to represent the UK at the Biennale of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean 2017. The biennale took place in Tirana & Durres and saw 230 artists from across Europe and the Mediterranean present their work in cultural venues and unusual places and spaces. Dance, performance, visual arts, music, poetry, digital art and film animated the cities and artists connected and collaborated across a fantastic 5 days in Albania.
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