Andrew Cranston
Bridge Theatre
Edwin Heathcote & The Cosmic House
Jeremy Deller
Peter Doig
Tracey Emin
Frieze London & Frieze Masters
Antony Gormley
Holly Hendry
Jochen Holz
Sam Lee
Wayne McGregor
Rufus Norris & The National Theatre
Ali Smith
Bethany Williams
Rose Wylie
The Arts Foundation is a registered charity that supports individual artists and creatives in the UK with unconditional financial Fellowships through the Arts Foundation Futures Awards. We champion the contemporary arts and believe that creative practice is integral to the well-being of society and a human right.
Since 1993 the Arts Foundation has awarded over £1.8 million to the most promising artists in the UK at a pivotal moment in their careers to enable them to concentrate on their creative development, experiment, and realise their artistic potential.
The annual Arts Foundation Futures Awards provides five transformative £10,000 Fellowships, with all shortlisted artists receiving £1,000 towards the development of their artistic practice. Each year the awards focus on broad and innovative art forms across Craft, Design, Film, Literature, Music, New Media, Performing Arts, and Visual Arts.
The vital contribution of the Arts Foundation Futures Awards to the arts in the UK is demonstrated by its past Fellows, many of whom are regarded as contemporary pioneers and have gone on to become leaders in their respective art forms, including: Wayne McGregor (1994), Alice Oswald (1996), Sarah Kane (1998), Asif Kapadia (2001), Ali Smith (2001), Rufus Norris (2002), Carol Morley (2003), Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (2006), and more recently, Simon Fujiwara (2009), Sam Lee (2011), Alice Birch (2014), Hollie McNish (2015), Evan Ifekoya (2017), Holly Hendry (2019), Onyeka Igwe (2020), Klein (2020), and Bethany Williams (2020).
Given ongoing precarity across the arts and culture sector, and with demand and need never greater in the cost of living crisis, we feel it is essential to continue to provide financial assistance to artists and creative practitioners at a pivotal moment in their career trajectories.
We are always greatly encouraged and inspired by the ingenuity and often experimental, interdisciplinary practices of all the Fellows and artists we support each year. We have no doubt their respective work will have a significant impact on our collective cultural life for many decades to come.
This auction offers outstanding works of art and unique experiences that have been donated with the future of progressive arts in mind. Your generosity will help us continue to support exceptional independent artistic and creative talent in the UK, their future development and their vital contribution to society.
Saadi Soudavar, Chair of the Board of Trustees Mary Jane Edwards, DirectorOn
behalf ofall Trustees
Asif Kapadia at the Arts Foundation Futures Awards, 2020
In Lieu Of Keen Virtue, 2017
Ali Smith
Sam Lee
Edwin Heathcote & The Cosmic House
Rufus Norris & The National Theatre
Bethany Williams
Bridge Theatre
Jeremy Deller
Holly Hendry
Jochen Holz
Wayne McGregor
Frieze London & Frieze Masters
Antony Gormley
Rose Wylie
Peter Doig
Andrew Cranston
Tracey Emin
“The £10,000 Fellowship has transformed my career as a visual artist in myriad ways. From the effect that such a substantial and sudden injection of capital has had on my mental well-being, providing me for the first time since leaving home with a solid, financial safety net, to the sense of validation and boost in confidence that the accolade of becoming a Fellow has afforded me.”
Visual Arts Fellow, 2021
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“My work has been developed patiently over long periods, by working within communities and spending time together. I’m most grateful that the Arts Foundation chose to shine a light on theatre makers who are inspired to work in this way. The money was a huge help, easing the anxiety that is so often there humming away in the background around ‘how am I going to pay my rent next month.’ To be able to live more openly and courageously as ideas are explored.”
Theatre Makers Fellow, 2022
Hotel World, 2001
Ali Smith’s personal, original and travelling reading copy of Hotel World, first edition and first printing, 2001. Including a beautiful personal note from the renowned author.
Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. In her highly acclaimed and ambitious book, Ali Smith brings alive five unforgettable characters and traces their intersecting lives. This is a short novel with big themes (time, chance, money, death) but an eye for tiny detail: the taste of dust, the weight of a few coins in the hand, the pleasurable pain of a stone in one’s shoe ...
Exclusive tickets to join the Singing with Nightingales experience, and a signed copy of The Nightingale book by Sam Lee.
Join folk singer and author Sam Lee alongside special guest musicians on an unforgettable journey into nature. Enjoy fireside food, drink, songs and stories followed by an after-dark journey into the woods to meet the nightingale. Once nestled in ear-tinglingly close range to our bird, you will experience a concert like no other as Sam and the musicians join in an improvised duet with their virtuosic night song.
For 2 people in Sussex, Spring 2024.
Private Guided Tour
A private, guided tour of The Cosmic House in Holland Park by Edwin Heathcote, architecture and design critic of The Financial Times.
The Cosmic House is one of the key landmarks in the development of postmodernist architecture. A hugely influential distillation of the ideas at the heart of postmodern thought in culture and science, and a remarkable testament to the polymathic talents of its owners Maggie and Charles Jencks.
For up to 10 people, a 1.5-hour tour at 1.30 pm on Tuesday 12 December 2023.
Exclusive tickets to the Press Night of The House of Bernarda Alba at The National Theatre, including invites to the Press Night Party following the show.
This radical version of Federico García Lorca’s modern masterpiece has been adapted by Alice Birch (Arts Foundation Playwriting Fellow, 2014).
For 2 people on Tuesday 28 November, from 7 pm.
Mini Bookbag
12 cm x 8 cm
Bethany Williams’ Bookbags are inspired by reading wallets and were created with custom woven fabrics developed with their long-term social manufacturing partners, San Patrignano.
The woven fabric is made in London from book waste from the children’s book Horrid Henry by Hachette UK.
Exclusive tickets to the critically acclaimed and sell-out production of Guys & Dolls, directed by Nicholas Hytner at the Bridge Theatre.
Enjoy 4 premium seats in the stalls wrapped around the action, transporting you to the streets of Manhattan and the bars of Havana in the unlikeliest of love stories!
For 4 people on a date of your choosing during Winter 2023.
Bless This Acid House., 2020 Print on Paper 60 cm x 42 cm (unframed dims)
Hand signed, Artist Edition
Courtesy of the artist
Thank God For Immigrants, 2020 Print on Paper 60 cm x 42 cm (unframed dims)
Hand signed, Artist Edition
Courtesy of the artist
Welcome to the Shitshow!, 2019
Silkscreen print
17 cm x 23 cm
(unframed dims)
Hand signed
Courtesy of the artist
Experimental Architecture Fellow, 2019
Hot Mess, 2022
Stainless steel, mild steel, aluminium, ceramic, Jesmonite, rubber, silicone
26 cm x 15 cm x 6 cm
Edition of 20
Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery
Craft Fellow, 2018
Trunk Vase, 2022
Coloured borosilicate glass
26 cm x 17 cm x 10 cm
Cactus Vase, 2022
Coloured borosilicate glass
30 cm x 20 cm x 12 cm
Courtesy of the artist
A spectacular 2-night break in Wayne McGregor’s award-winning contemporary holiday home, settled on the unique shingle beach at Dungeness in one of Kent’s most inspiring nature reserves.
Once a fisherman’s cottage, this magical black timber house boasts 360-degree views and a breathtaking outlook directly to the sea. The abode is also close to Prospect Cottage, Derek Jarman’s famous sanctuary and garden. North Vat is an oasis of calm and beauty and a wonderful short holiday destination for you, your family and friends and even your well-mannered dog!
A 2-night stay for up to 4 guests and 2 dogs (3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms) on a date of your choosing, subject to availability.
Exclusive day-one access to one of the world’s most influential contemporary art fairs, Frieze London and Frieze Masters.
Including lunch for 2 people at Petersham Nurseries (up to the value of £300) and an expert-led tour for up to 4 invited guests. The 2023 edition marks the 20th anniversary of Frieze London.
Fair access from 2 pm, lunch for 2 people at 2.30 pm, and a private tour for 4 additional guests on 11 October.
Antony Gormley
Ambassador
BRAIN FIELD, 2007
Lithograph on 300 gsm Velin d´Arches paper
100 cm x 69 cm
Edition of 40 plus 4 APs
Signed, dated and titled on verso
Donated by the artist
Place; map, 2020
Coloured pencil, pencil and collage on paper
29.8 cm x 21.5 cm
43.2 cm x 34.7 cm x 4 cm (framed)
Signed verso
Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner
Zermatt Series, D1(1-6) (Portfolio of 6), 2022
Giclée Print on Cotton Smooth Rag in Oak frame
Couloir 1 D1-1
114 cm x 80 cm Lost D1-3
114 cm x 90 cm
Alpinist Night D1-5
114 cm x 80 cm
AP23 from an edition of 250 plus 25 APs (all unframed dims)
Couloir 2 D1-2
114 cm x 80 cm
Road to Zermatt D1-4
114 cm x 80 cm
Holy Mountain D1-6
114 cm x 80 cm
Hand signed and numbered Courtesy of the artist
Painting Fellow, 2014
a sinistra, 2023
Oil on hardback book cover
23.8 cm x 15 cm New
Courtesy of the artist and Ingleby Gallery
More Solitude, 2014 Neon
30.6 cm x 115 cm
AP2, Edition of 10, with 3 APs
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity
Courtesy of the artist
Director - Mary Jane Edwards
Chair of Trustees - Saadi Soudavar
Board of Trustees
John Booth - Chair, The National Gallery, The Prince’s Trust
Dennis Chang - Director, Bolton & Quinn
Andrew Comben - Chief Executive, Brighton Dome and Brighton Festival
Jan Dalley - Arts Editor, Financial Times
Virginia Hodge - Creative Director, HodgeSellers
Frith Kerr - Founder, Studio Frith
Monika Parrinder - Writer, Educator and Consultant
Jonathan Reekie CBE - Director, Somerset House Trust
Matthew Slotover OBE - Co-founder, Frieze
Kully Thiarai - Creative Director & CEO, Leeds 2023 Ambassadors
Siobhan Davies DBE
Sir Richard Eyre
Sir Antony Gormley
Asif Kapadia
Wayne McGregor CBE
Rufus Norris
Alexandra Shulman CBE
Ali Smith
Ambassador & Theatre Directing Fellow, 2002
“It certainly had the most profound effect on my career because it did exactly what it was meant to do. In that it brought me time, time to follow my own initiative, my own instinct rather than trying to persuade anyone else that I could follow theirs.
In that year I laid the foundation, of my own art for projects which took me, rung by rung, towards what has for some years been a very compelling and fortunate way to spend a working life. So, I for one am eternally grateful.”
“Apart from a laptop, the only other major requirement for my writing is time. This is both the most precious and the most difficult to obtain and is without a doubt the single most important gift for a writer. The depth of thinking and the extra time for writing that has come with this award have been absolutely invaluable.
This generous award really has been the difference between getting a first draft to my publisher and not. It is as simple as that. I hope this book, when it wends its way out into the world, might go some ways towards helping us rethink how to design a sustainable future.”
Environmental Writing Fellow, 2021
Thank you so much for your interest in our fundraising auction, your participation is hugely appreciated.
Since the Arts Foundation does not receive any regular public funding, increasing the scope and reach of our work is only possible with the generosity of supporters such as yourselves.
With special thanks to:
All the participating artists and organisations who contributed artworks and experiences for this auction, and the studios, galleries and staff for giving their time, care and attention to this fundraising endeavour; Michael Macaulay and Sotheby’s who have so generously lent their time and expertise; Studio Frith; Toklas; Neon Specialists.
Insurance Partner: Hallett Independent and Hiscox
Printing Gavin Martin; printed on Munken Design Pure Smooth 150gsm text and 300gsm cover
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