The Arts Foundation announced the five recipients of the Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2026 at an Awards Ceremony in London
The Arts Foundation announce the five recipients of the Arts Foundation Futures Awards £20,000 Fellowships are:
Theatre: Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu
Music: William Marsey
Visual Art: Zein Majali
Film: Dorothy Allen-Pickard
Literature: Fahad Al-Amoudi
The five winning fellows received their prizes from the judges at an awards ceremony, featuring a welcome address from renowned poet and novelist Ben Okri and a live performance from Festival Voices, conducted by Gregory Batsleer, the Arts Foundation’s Choral Conductor Fellow of 2015.
The annual Arts Foundation Futures Awards support the UK’s most promising artists and creatives at a pivotal moment in their career, providing £115,000 in unconditional grant funding, awarding five transformative £20,000 fellowships, with all shortlisted artists receiving £1,000 towards the development of their practice.
Mary Jane Edwards, Director of The Arts Foundation, said:
“From bold new cinematic voices and inventive poetic forms, to groundbreaking compositions, visionary theatre work and radical visual art, the Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2026 celebrate the extraordinary breadth of creative practice shaping our cultural landscape. The courage, curiosity and commitment of these Fellows and shortlisted artists remind us why independent creativity matters now more than ever. We’re proud to deepen our support for artists across film, literature, music, theatre and visual art, and to champion the vital contributions they make to our shared cultural life. There’s no doubt their work will resonate far beyond this moment.”
The Arts Foundation Futures Awards 2026 are generously supported in partnership with The David Collins Foundation, The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Fund of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation, and The Yoma Sasburg Estate.