Advisory Group
Artists Futures Fund Advisory Group exists to offer informed, experience-based advice that helps shape the ongoing development of the Artists Fellowships Programme, Annual Showcase curation 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.
Russell Martin
Russell Martin, a Glasgow-born visual artist, writer and arts administrator based in London since 1998, has curated interdisciplinary events, taught creative career development, led gallery education projects and pursued an independent art practice. Since 2001, he has worked with Artquest, supporting artists through research, advocacy and professional development initiatives nationwide.
Seren Metcalfe
Seren Metcalfe (b.1997, Yorkshire) is a London-based artist, writer, and curator. She is the founder and director of The Working Class Creatives Database, through which she develops exhibitions, residencies, and events in collaboration with institutions across the UK.
Joshua Donkor
Joshua Donkor (b. 1997, UK) is a British-Ghanaian painter whose collaborative portraits challenge monolithic representations of Black identity. Working closely with sitters, he layers personal photographs, fabrics and belongings into richly textured paintings. His deeply personal works explore memory, heritage and cultural hybridity, creating intimate narratives that resonate widely across diverse audiences. Joshua completed the Artists Fellowship in 2020-21.
Hannah Wallis
Hannah Wallis is an artist, curator and Co-Programme Director at Grand Union. Her practice spans curating, performance, film and writing, exploring access, equity and embodied transformation. A former curator at Nottingham Contemporary and Wysing Arts Centre, she serves on several arts boards and advisory groups, championing inclusive and equitable cultural practice.
Delphi Campbell
Delphi Campbell (b. 1998) is a sculptor exploring disability, queerness and chronic illness through figurative and abstract self-portraiture. Describing herself as “crippled, mad and queer,” her practice and doctoral research challenge dominant narratives of normality, using playful yet radical forms to confront experiences of living within an othered body. Delphi completed her Artists Fellowship in 2020-21
Matthew Collins
Matthew’s creative practice encompasses art, writing and graphic design. He trained as an artist, and has previously worked in the commercial gallery sector.
Matthew has exhibited work at Backlit Gallery, Nottingham; The Royal Standard, Liverpool; Kunstpodium-T, Tilburg and Spanish City, Whitley Bay. He has also contributed to publications including A Queer Anthology of Rage (Pilot Press, 2018).