Taking Place: Lincoln 2022/23
UKNA is excited to be launching a year-long programme of activities in Lincoln.
Drawing on our history and bringing our learning into a new direction which will offer a new era of support for artists, a new creative ecology for cities, young people and their communities; creating a model for a more cohesive and sustained offer to the sector.
The new programme, 'Taking Place’ will focus on collaborative explorations by creatives, audiences, communities, young people and universities. The project aims to inspire communities with free access to high quality arts; celebrate and show the wealth of new talent in this country, and position Lincoln as a place where artists from across the city, region, and nationally can connect.
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Foundations
UK New Artists are looking for creative young people in Lincoln and Lincolnshire to join 'Foundations', a six month programme of training and activity for aspiring artists of all disciplines, aged 14-19yrs. The programme will include Workshops, Go and see trips and Mentoring.
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Creative Citizens: Leicester City Takeover 2022
Creative Citizens is the Talent Development strand of our City Takeovers, in which we work with a range of community partners across the city to create opportunities for young people to engage with and create art. For Leicester 2022 we worked with 30 young people from Leicester, and partnered with Attenborough Arts Centre and Pedestrian.
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Creative Citizens, Lincoln 2022 - 23
Throughout 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.
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Inspire Me
Are you a previous YCA winner or nominee? Aged 16-19yrs? Want to attend a live arts event in Nottingham FOR FREE every month? Join Inspire Me, a new monthly club hosted by UK New Artists and Young Creative Awards, exclusively for YCA alumni.
Each month attend a live arts event at a city centre venue in Nottingham (think comedy, music, dance, visual art) and then go for a drink afterwards to socialise and share thoughts.
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Robert Walters UK New Artist of the Year Award 2022
The 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.
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Derry~Londonderry Weekender
The 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).
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UKNA City Takeover: Leicester 2022
New 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.
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Future Producers
UKNA 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.
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Navigating 2021 & Beyond
Navigating 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.
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Robert Walters UK New Artist of the Year Award 2021
The 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).
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Blackpool Weekender 2: The Coast is Queer
UKNA’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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Mediterranea Biennale, San Marino 2021
The 19th edition of the Mediterranea Young Artists Biennale took place in San Marino, between 14 May - 23 October 2021. Artists from across Europe and the mediterranean presented exhibitions, performances and dialogue in this exciting international exchange. This edition was curated by the participants on the nomadic curatorial programme: A Natural Oasis? led by Alessandro Castiglioni and Simone Frangi.
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The Arts in 2025
In July and November 2020, UK New Artists teamed up with Voicemag.uk to host online discussions about the future of the arts industry. Unlike many similar conversations at this time, this was not about the impact of Covid or Brexit, lockdown or social distancing, but instead about the ways in which the arts must become more sustainable, environmental and accessible in order to grow and flourish over the next five years.
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Artsmark
UK New Artists is an Artsmark Partner organisation, one of a number of Arts Council England endorsed network of organisations who are devoted to bringing great arts and cultural opportunities to children and young people.
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Arts Award
Arts Award is a range of unique qualifications that supports anyone aged up to 25 to grow as artists and arts leaders, inspiring them to connect with and take part in the wider arts world through taking challenges in an art form - from fashion to digital art, pottery to poetry.
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Creative Citizens Weekenders
Next Generation Weekenders are micro residencies for young creatives (aged 14-18yrs). The projects provide young people with the opportunity to experience new art forms, meet professional artists and explore progression routes and creative career opportunities.
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The Art of Working (Internationally)
Part of Eurodesk’s Time to Move 2020 campaign, The Art of Working (Internationally) is a series of short documentary films featuring interviews and work from three UK artists. The interviews focus on the influence and impact of having international experiences either through festivals, exhibitions/performances or residencies.
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Making New Friends
In Autumn 2020, UKNA invited young people from across the UK to connect and meet with with international artists and other young creatives through a series of zoom get togethers.
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The Viewing Room 2020
The Viewing Room is UKNA’s brand new virtual gallery. The inaugural exhibition, titled Somewhere Between Reality and Obscurity presents new work by twelve of the UK’s most exciting emerging visual artists.
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