Springboard (The Opportunities and Challenges on the Other Side of Graduation)

Springboard brought together a panel with wide experience of the journeys of emerging artists across both across the commercial and not-for-profit sector. Working as artists, curators and gallerists, they shared their varied experiences and illuminate systems and structures in place to support those embarking in the field.

Kirsty Ogg, Director of New Contemporaries, chaired the conversation and was joined by artist Rachel Jones, Russell Martin (artist and Director, Artquest, a public programme of University of the Arts London) and Ellie Pennick (CEO & Founder, Guts Gallery).

Springboard was hosted by Freelands Foundation to coincide with the Freelands Painting Prize 2022, the third exhibition of winning graduate painters in our annual competition celebrating outstanding painting at undergraduate level.