Film London Jarman Award 2025 Exhibition

For the first time in the Film London Jarman Award’s eighteen-year history, Whitechapel Gallery will host a month-long exhibition of films by all six shortlisted artists, from 18 November to 14 December. Featuring work by Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah, Karimah Ashadu, Onyeka Igwe, Hope Strickland, Morgan Quaintance and George Finlay Ramsay, the exhibition will offer audiences the chance to explore an extraordinary range of boundary pushing moving image work.

Films in the Exhibition

• Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah, And still, it remains (2023), 28 mins
  Karimah Ashadu, Machine Boys (2024), 8 mins
  George Finlay Ramsay, Flesh, Wax & Glass: The Age of the Son (2024), 38 mins
  Onyeka Igwe, A Radical Duet (2023), 28 mins
  Morgan Quaintance, Repetitions (2022), 24 mins
  Hope Strickland, a river holds a perfect memory (2024), 17 mins

The exhibition represents the culmination of a nationwide tour of the shortlisted artists’ work, which visits: Barbican Centre, London; IMMA, Dublin; LUX Scotland, Edinburgh; g39, Cardiff; Nottingham Contemporary; Spike Island, Bristol; and Towner Eastbourne.

The Jury who selected this year’s shortlist are: Matthew Barrington, Cinema Curator, Barbican; Shaminder Nahal, Commissioning Editor, Arts and Topical, Channel 4; Maryam Tafakory, 2024 Jarman Awardee; Gilane Tawadros, Director, Whitechapel Gallery; Nicole Yip, Director, Spike Island and Film London Board Member.

FREE ADMISSION

 

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