Studio residency, peer mentoring and career development award for MA postgraduates from University of the Arts London

Sabrina Fuller, video still from Flow, 2017, single channel HD video, 7 minutes 45 seconds.
Davide Meneghello, Untitled, 2016 from the series Again He Holds Me by the Hand. Courtesy of Florida State Archives.
Jojo Taylor, An Audition for an Hallucination, 2017, moving image, dimensions variable, photo credit Jane Webb
Jojo Taylor, Expeller, 2017, performance with Danielle Greenaway, photo credit Boaz Torfstein
Mētra Saberova, How did she lose it in the first place?, 2016, gif
Limehouse studio exterior

The Award

Between 2012 and 2018 the Lifeboat award supported artists who had completed a postgraduate course at UAL in the previous year. It provided:

  • A fully funded shared studio split between four selected artists for a year in ACAVA’s Limehouse Studios
  • A shared £1,800 award to establish a peer mentoring group with their selected studio mates and an extended network of up to 8 other artists
  • 6 one to one mentoring sessions over the course of the year with a respected artist, gallerist or other art world professional
  • Promotion of activities through Artquest and partners’ newsletters and social media channels

This programme was funded by UAL’s ArtsTemps programme, and managed by Artquest in partnership with ACAVA.

Awardees

2018: The artists selected for the 2018 award were Sabrina Fuller, Davide Meneghello, Mētra Saberova and Jojo Taylor

2016: Awarded artists were Rosemary Cronin, Libby Heaney, Roshana Rubin Mayhew, Verity Slade.  The studio mentor was curator Lucy Day who arranged visits from curator/gallerists Cathy Lomax and Caroll Fletcher. In 2016 the award was supported by UAL’s Postgraduate Community.

2014: Selected artists were Alex Burgess, Laura Fowle, Georgia Gendall, Sarah Roberts. The studio mentor was Ceri Hand who organised studio visits from independent curator Ben Borthwick, curator and writer George Vasey and  curator, writer and editor Francesca Gavin.

2013: Artists Brigitte Mierau, Rebecca Moss, Liam Magee, Joe Twinn were selected for the award. Their studio mentor was Louisa Martin who brought in Attilia Fattori Franchini, Lucy Day and Robin Klassnik of Matts Gallery.

2012: Conall McAteer, Henk Geiskens, Isabelle Gressell, Michael McManus were selected for the award. The studio mentor this year was Sarah Rowles who arranged visits from Soraya Rodrigues and Matt Roberts.