Jarman Award 2026 Nominators
The Jarman Award is a prestigious £10,000 annual prize celebrating artists' moving image in the UK. Each year, FLAMIN approach individuals and organisations with expertise in the area to nominate one artist they are excited about, whose work stood out to them over the previous year.
FLAMIN would like to thank the nominators listed below for their time and consideration in supporting artists' moving image practice.
List of nominators
Siân Addicott, Director, Ffoto Gallery, Cardiff
Pita Arreola, Head of Programmes, Arebyte, London
Cat Bagg, Programme Coordinator, CAST, Helston
Erika Balsom, Critic/Writer, Independent
Matthew Barrington, Cinema Curator, Barbican, London
Melissa Blanchflower, Senior Curator, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Peter Bonnell, Executive Director, DASH
Ruth Bretherick, Curator, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Viviana Checchia, Director, Void, Derry
Moritz Cheung, Co-Director, videoclub, Brighton
Noelle Collins, Exhibitions & Offsite Curator, Towner Eastbourn
Corridor8
Abiba Coulibaly, Writer/Programmer, Brixton Community Cinema, London
Helen De Witt, Programmer, Independent
Ruth Dorber, Curator, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire
Anne Duffau, Curator, A---Z, London
Gareth Evans, Writer/Curator, Independent
George Finlay Ramsay, Artist, Jarman Award Shortlist 2025
Tessa Giblin, Director, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Tom Godfrey, Director, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
Ellen Greig, Curator, Peer, London
Catherine Hemelryk, Director, CCA Londonderry
Natasha Hoare, Senior Curator, Goldsmiths CCA, London
Onyeka Igwe, Artist, Jarman Award Awardee 2025
Samantha Lackey, Director, Liverpool Biennial
Daisy Lafarge, Writer, Independent
James Mackay, Producer, Estate of Derek Jarman
Inês Marques Costa, Curator, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
Maggie Matić, Director, Auto Italia, London
Chris McCormack, Associate Editor, Art Monthly
Tendai Mutaumbu, Programmer/Writer, Independent
Josef O'Connor, Director, CIRCA, London
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Gallery, London
Maria Palacios Cruz, Director, Open City Documentary Festival, London
Sim Panaser, Senior Curator, Chapter, Cardiff
Michael Pattison, Director, Alchemy Film & Arts, Hawick
Matthew Pendergast, Curator, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Cici Peng, Programmer/Writer, Independent
Sarah Perks, Curator, Independent
Melanie Pocock, Artistic Director, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Gail Prentice, Managing Director, Flax Studios, Belfast
Clémentine Proby, Curator, Spike Island, Bristol
Morgan Quaintance, Artist, Jarman Award Awardee 2025
Angelina Radaković, Head of Curatorial, Mosaic Rooms, London
Gabriela Salgado, Director, The Showroom, London
Kinnari Saraiya, Curator, Somerset House Studios, London
Joe Scotland, Director, Studio Voltaire, London
Katie Simpson, Senior Curator, Nottingham Contemporary
South London Gallery
Angelica Sule, Director, Film and Video Umbrella, Nottingham/London
Bolanle Tajudeen, Curator, Black Blossoms, London
Kalliopi Tsipni-Kolaza, Curator, Mostyn, Llandudno
Rosa Tyhurst, Curator, Gasworks, London
Valentine Umansky, Curator, International Art, Tate, London
David Upton, Public Programme Manager, LUX Scotland
Gavin Wade, Co-Director, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Maria Walsh, Writer, Independent
Yi Wang, Director, Queer East, London
Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Artist
Mariam Zulfiqar, Director, Artangel Trust, London
and those who wish to remain anonymous
Jarman Award 2026
Meet the artists shortlisted for the 19th edition of the Jarman Award
