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

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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