Artists Futures Fund is delighted to announce Unframed Futures: 2025 Breakthrough Artist Fellowship Showcase
Exhibiting Artists: Niamh Tam, Lily Rees, Lauren Pitson, Dale Hardy, Mia Roberts
Dates & Times: 10–30 October 2025, Monday–Saturday, 10am–3pm
Location: Art Yard Studio, Bankside Hotel, 2 Blackfriars Rd, Upper Ground, London, SE1 9JU
Celebrating the 2024–2025 Breakthrough Artist Fellows, Unframed Futures is Artists Futures Fund’s inaugural Showcase. Held at Bankside Hotel’s Art Yard Studio and delivered in collaboration with Contemporary Collective, this exhibition will make new and exciting forms of artistic expression available to the public while providing this year’s fellows with an opportunity to share their work with a wider audience.
Through a public exhibition, an artist-led panel discussion, and accompanying short films, the group showcase will highlight emerging artistic voices, spark critical conversations about the forms of support needed to ensure that all artists can contribute to the cultural landscape, and foster engagement between artists, gallerists, advocates, and supporters of the arts.
Jasleen Kaur joins Hannah Wallis, Amrita Dhallu and Joshua Donkor for an Artist Panel on Building Pathways in the Arts
The Art of Opportunity: Building Pathways in the Arts, Artist Panel Talk
Date & Time: 10 October 2025, 09:30–11:30am
Location: Art Yard Bar & Kitchen, Art Yard Studios, Bankside Hotel, London, SE1 9JU
Join us for an artist-led panel discussion curated and chaired by Hannah Wallis. Wallis will be joined in conversation by Turner Prize 2024 winner Jasleen Kaur, curator Amrita Dhallu, and former Artist Fellow Joshua Donkor.
Together they will explore the evolving landscape of support structures for artists—what they look like now, and what they might need to become in the future. From short- and long-term support models to collective and mutual networks of care, the conversation will reflect on the diverse pathways artists and curators are forging across formal and informal contexts.
Speakers
Jasleen Kaur – Turner Prize 2024 winner. A London-based artist working across sculpture, sound, and installation, remaking objects from everyday life to renegotiate tradition and agreed myths.
Amrita Dhallu – Independent curator with a focus on diasporic feminist practices, care, and ethno-futurist discourse.
Joshua Donkor – Ghanaian British painter exploring identity and belonging through layered portraiture and personal histories.
Hannah Wallis (Chair/Curator) – Artist, curator, and D/deaf activist dedicated to anti-ableist practice, equity, and long-term structural change in the arts.
This discussion invites audiences into an urgent and generative conversation on how artists can be supported across their careers.
Free to attend — registration via this link
Fellowship Showcase is presented in partnership with the Contemporary Collective x Bankside Hotel Artist Residency Programme.
