Turner Prize nominee Rory Pilgrim and Venice Biennale artist Hayley Tompkins are among this year's recipients
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation has revealed the latest recipients of its prestigious Awards for Artists, granting £75,000 to each selected practitioner. Recognized for its commitment to supporting creative individuals, the foundation provides this financial backing as a 'no-strings-attached' prize, offering unrestricted support directly to visual artists.
This year's cohort of awardees brings together five distinct creative practitioners: Linda Bell, Racheal Crowther, Rory Pilgrim, Georgina Starr, and Hayley Tompkins. Among the recipients are several widely recognized figures within contemporary art, including Rory Pilgrim, who was previously nominated for the Turner Prize, and Hayley Tompkins, known for representing Scotland at the Venice Biennale.
Unrestricted funding models such as the Paul Hamlyn Foundation's Awards for Artists are designed to offer recipients freedom in how they sustain their creative practice. By delivering a significant £75,000 award with no obligations or predetermined project outcomes attached, the foundation allows artists like Bell, Crowther, Pilgrim, Starr, and Tompkins to direct the financial support wherever it is most needed in their lives and studios.
Unrestricted grants of this scale remove the immediate financial pressures that often constrain studio practice. For working artists, no-strings-attached funding models demonstrate the vital importance of trusting creators to guide their own time, experimentation, and work without institutional mandates.
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