'Unframed Futures' Artists Futures Fund’s Fellowship Showcase Opening Night

Celebrating the 2024-2025 Breakthrough Artist Fellows, Unframed Futures, is

the Artists Futures Fund inaugural Showcase. Held at Bankside 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 and provide 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.

Exhibiting Artists: Niamh Tam, Lily Rees, Lauren Pitson, Dale Hardy, Mia Roberts

Exhibition Dates: 10 October – 30 October 2025

SPECIAL OFFER: Enjoy a 20% discount at Bankside Hotel's Art Yard Bar & Kitchen

If you'd like to make dinner plans for after the event, simply head next door to Bankside Hotel's Art Yard Bar & Kitchen for 20% off food and drink. To redeem this offer, please show your Eventbrite Booking confirmation.

In partnership with the Contemporary Collective x Bankside Hotel Artist Residency Programme. For all sales and general enquiries about the residency programme, please contact Jenna Sachs (jenna@degreeart.com).

About Artists Futures Fund:

Artists Futures Fund supports talented individuals to overcome significant barriers that would prevent them from pursuing careers as artists. Our support encompasses place-based Artist Fellowships, bursaries, mentoring, exhibition, networking and professional development opportunities. We co-deliver our current programmes through dynamic partnerships with Higher Education Institutions and cultural organisations across the UK.

Our core mission is to open doors to diverse and exciting futures in the arts.

Artists Futures Fund is an independent charity, founded in 1810, and formerly known as the Artists’ Benevolent Fund (registered charity no: 270585).

We always welcome donations from individuals, corporates, and foundations that add to our resources and help a greater number of emerging artists who face a range of economic, social, cultural, physical and mental health barriers to sustaining professional careers as artists. To find out more about how to make a donation today, please visit: artistsfuturesfund.org/donate-today

About Contemporary Collective:

Contemporary Collective Studio by DegreeArt.com was founded in 2006 to champion and further the careers of promising artists, many of whom the gallery has managed since graduation. The core mission of the Directors is to support talented artists and empower them to continue making and developing through the critical early years of their careers.

Responding to the need in the art world to support young artists in the emerging stages of their careers, Contemporary Collective aims to provide them with meaningful exposure and access to the market place and collectors. The gallery has a proven track record of supporting artists at this formative time as they embark on their professional careers.