Nottingham Contemporary

Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah are an artist duo based in London. Their work is focused on gathering people together to talk, to learn and to create films. Works by Aburawa and Shah have been exhibited at LUX, Humber Street Gallery, Phillida Reid Gallery and as part of the Brent Biennial in 2022. Festival screenings have included CPH:DOX, Dokufest, London Short Film Festival (awarded Best Short Documentary in 2025) and Blackstar (awarded Best Short Documentary in 2024). Screenings of their work have taken place at Camden Arts Centre (2023), Serpentine Galleries (2023), BAFTA, Mosaic Rooms (2024), Nottingham Contemporary, Framer Framed and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C (2024).

Karimah Ashadu is a British-born Nigerian artist and filmmaker. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including the 60th Venice Biennale, where she was awarded the Silver Lion for Promising Young Participant in the International Exhibition. Upcoming exhibitions include Camden Arts Centre, London. Her work has been shown at Canal Projects, New York, MoMA PS1, New York, Tate Modern, London, Secession, Vienna, Kunstverein, Hamburg, South London Gallery, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, and Trautwein Herleth, Berlin. Ashadu is the recipient of other awards such as the Prize of the Böttcherstraße in Bremen (2022) and the ars viva prize (2020). Public collections include MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the City of Geneva Contemporary Art Collection,the Kunsthalle Bremen and the Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, Germany.

George Finlay Ramsay is an artist working with performance, poetry and analogue filmmaking. He was shortlisted for the Margaret Tait Award in 2023 and has presented work at PAF Olomouc, Czech Republic; Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland; Barbican, London; CTM Festival, Denmark; Beijing People’s Art Theatre, China; BFI Southbank, London; Camden Art Centre, London; CCA, Glasgow and Matadero, Spain; MUBI; NTS Radio; Rupert Residency, Lithuania and Nida Art Colony, Lithuania.

Onyeka Igwe is an artist and researcher specialising in moving image. Recent solo exhibitions include at Peer, London; (2024); MoMA PS1, New York (2023); Highline, New York (2022); LUX, London; (2021) and Jerwood Arts, London (2019). Recent group exhibitions have been held at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Nigeria Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice; Lagos Biennial, Lagos (2024); The Common Guild, Glasgow and South London Gallery, London; (2023). In 2018, Igwe joined Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.), a QTIBIPOC sound system based in South London. B.O.S.S. received a nomination for the Turner Prize in 2021. Igwe’s works are part of the British Film Institute Collection and The Arts Council Collection (UK). She was nominated for the MaxMara Artist Prize for Women 2022-24, awarded the 2021 Foundwork Artist Prize, 2020 Arts Foundation Futures Award for Experimental Short Film and was the recipient of the Berwick New Cinema Award in 2019. Igwe will present a solo exhibition for Art Now, Tate Britain in September 2025.

Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer. His moving image work has been shown and exhibited widely at festivals and institutions including: MOMA, New York; Konsthall C, Sweden; David Dale, Glasgow; European Media Art Festival, Germany; Alchemy Film and Arts Festival, Scotland; Images Festival, Toronto; International Film Festival Rotterdam; and Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami. He was a 2024 MacDowell Fellow.

He was the 2023 IFFR Short Film Nominee for the European Film Awards; the recipient of the 2022 ARTE Award at Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg; in 2021, the Best Documentary Short Film Award at Tacoma Film Festival, USA; the Explora Award at Curtocircuito International Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela; the UK Short Film Award at Open City Documentary Film Festival, London, the Jean Vigo Prize for Best Director at Punto de Vista, Spain, and the Best Experimental Film Award at Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal; in 2020, the New Vision Award at CPH:DOX, Denmark and the Best Experimental Film award at Curtas Vila Do Conde, Portugal.

Hope Pearl Strickland is an artist-filmmaker working across experimental and documentary-based modes. Strickland’s work has screened internationally at film festivals including the 59th New York Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival (2022), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2024) and Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (New Cinema Awards, 2024). Presentations in exhibition spaces include Arnolfini, Bristol; Hasselblad Center at Gothenburg Art Museum and Serpentine Galleries, London. Her work has been commissioned by organisations across the UK including FACT, Liverpool, Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale and Film and Video Umbrella. She has presented work at various academic conferences, including the Ruskin School of Art (2021), The University of Birmingham (2024). Strickland was awarded the Aesthetica Emerging Art Prize in 2023.

Film London is the capital's screen industries agency. They connect ideas, talent and finance to develop a pioneering creative culture in the city that delivers success in film, television, animation, games and beyond. They work to sustain, promote and develop London as a global content production hub, support the development of the city's new and emerging filmmaking talent and invest in a diverse and rich film culture. Funded by the Mayor of London and the National Lottery through the BFI, they also receive support from Arts Council England, Creative Skillset and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Since 2003, Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) has been at the very heart of the sector’s development, bringing artist filmmakers to a wider audience away from the margins. They provide professional support and expert training along with valuable funding and national and international exhibition opportunities in galleries, cinemas and for broadcast. Funded by Arts Council England, FLAMIN has commissioned over 200 productions and supported the careers of countless other artists. Flagship projects from FLAMIN include the commissioning fund FLAMIN Productions, the prestigious annual Film London Jarman Award, and development programmes The FLAMIN Fellowship and FLAMIN Animations, aimed at early career moving image artists.