Artists Futures Fund Advisory Group exists to offer informed, experience-based advice that helps shape the ongoing development of the Artists Fellowships Programme and other forms of artist support. Members provide perspective, sector insight, and constructive guidance to ensure the programme remains artist-centred, relevant, and responsive to current realities.
AFF Advisory Group
Russell Martin
Russell Martin is a visual artist, writer and arts administrator from Glasgow, based in London since 1998. Over a varied career he has co-organised and curated interdisciplinary arts events and exhibitions, taught about career development in the creative industries, worked as an artist on independent residencies and workshops, led gallery education projects, and maintained a fragmentary, ongoing and idiosyncratic career as an artist. He wrote his first novel in 2025.
Since 2001 Russell's art practice has been sustained working part-time for Artquest, a free advice and career development service for visual artists, backed up by research and data activity to evidence artists working conditions, barriers and ambitions. Artquest is a public programme of University of the Arts London supported by Arts Council England
Joshua Donkor
Joshua Donkor (b. 1997, UK) is a British-Ghanaian painter whose work uses portraiture as a tool explore diasporic identities through multiple generations of family.
Although the subject matter of the work is deeply personal, the paintings connect and communicate to all audiences, allowing them to respond deeply to the images. The artists use of image transfers provides a crucial glimpse into the subjects defining memories and family histories. This allows the audience to almost trace the stories running through the individuals life.
Joshua completed the AFF Fellowship in 2020-21.
Delphi Cambell
Delphi Campbell (b. 1998) is a self-proclaimed “crippled, mad and queer” sculptor exploring the multifaceted self through figurative and abstract self-portraiture. Aiming to confront the limited and hegemonic portrayal of disability in popular culture, Delphi’s relationship with chronic illness is at the core of her artistic practice - and her doctoral research. Sickness and queerness align in her objects, allowing her to embrace multiple illnesses in the forms that may superficially appear as fun and frivolous; but are a more radical challenge in confronting the narrative of living in an othered body, and ideas of being 'normal’.
Delphi completed her Artists Futures Fund Fellowship in 2020-21.