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Honoured to have been awarded the Henry Moore Foundation Artists Award 2025
"The Henry Moore Foundation has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting UK artists with a further £100,000 in unrestricted funding. This summer, 50 sculptors from across the UK each received a £2,000 grant to support their practice in any way they choose through the third round of the Foundation’s Artist Award Scheme, which aims to alleviate the growing financial pressures faced by artists amid the UK’s mounting cost of living crisis and arts funding cuts.
Originally launched in 2020 as a response to the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Henry Moore Foundation’s Artist Award Scheme was designed to offer meaningful financial support to artists during times of crisis. That year, the Foundation awarded £60,000 to 40 artists. In 2022, the fund was expanded to £100,000 in response to the escalating cost-of-living crisis—an amount that has been maintained in 2025.
The 2025 recipients reflect the rich diversity of contemporary sculpture in the UK, spanning a range of career stages, backgrounds, and artistic approaches. The fund is unrestricted, allowing artists the flexibility to use the money however they need to, whether that’s paying studio rent, buying materials, or bridging funding gaps for projects that might not, otherwise, proceed.
The 2025 artists were selected through a UK-wide nomination process involving 25 leading voices from the non-profit arts sector, representing all regions of the UK. Nominators included Viviana Checchia, Director of Void in Derry; Nicole Yip, Director of Spike Island in Bristol; Andrew Parkinson, Curator at Pier Arts Centre, Orkney; and Karen McKinnon, Curator at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea."
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