26 November – 23 December 2009




Future Map is London’s premiere annual exhibition of the best emerging talent from the current graduating year at London’s creative powerhouse, University of the Arts London. This year, Future Map will be hosted by 20 Hoxton Square Projects, a collaborative project space dedicated to showcasing emerging contemporary artists.

This academic year alone 9152 students graduated from the University of the Arts London’s six Colleges. London itself has more art and design colleges than any other city in the world making it the global epicentre of emerging talent. Now in its twelfth year, Future Map has steadily built a reputation amongst industry insiders for showcasing a comprehensive overview of the next generation of artists and designers who will define our visual landscape. Future Map can be an important first career break for a young contemporary artist or designer, providing an introduction to top UK and international gallerists, curators, collectors and critics.

The Future Map ‘09 Panel
An expert panel of leading industry insiders will select Future Map 09 exhibitors from across this year’s graduate and postgraduate shows. The works displayed will include a variety of disciplines, ranging from fine art to design, fashion and communications.

The panel for 2009 includes: Frieze founder Matthew Slotover, Caroline Daniel Assistant Editor of the Financial Times, internationally renown collector, Fatima Maleki and Alasdhair Willis of Established & Sons, who will lend his expertise in design to the proceedings.

“Being part of Future Map is a rare chance to see what ideas are driving this generation of new artists; what questions they are asking. The range of work showcased by Future Map offers different answers to the question of what is important, now.”
Caroline Daniel

“Future Map highlights some of the best young artists emerging from Arts London, and by extension therefore, some of the best young artists in Britain. It is always worth paying attention to.”
Ekow Eshun, Artistic Director of the ICA and Future Map 08 panellist

The 176 / Zabludowicz Collection Future Map Prize
This year for the first time, the 176 / Zabludowicz Collection Future Map Prize has been founded to support a graduating student from University of the Arts London. Selected by a panel of invited experts from the annual Future Map exhibition the prize is a £3,000 award and a chance to make an edition for 176 / Zabludowicz Collection. The aim of the prize is to enable the winning practitioner to continue to work in the months following their graduation by both supporting them financially and facilitating a new limited edition by them.

The selection panel for The 176 / Zabludowicz Collection Future Map Prize includes Anita Zabludowicz, Nancy Durrant, Arts Commissioning Editor at The Times and former Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller.

Notes to Editors
1. Former participants include Robert Rush who was selected for New Contemporaries; Zoe Mendelson, has been awarded a Jerwood Drawing Prize as well as commissions for the Fondation Cartier and Modern Painters; Raqib Shaw has since exhibited at Tate, Victoria Miro, the National Portrait Gallery and is in the collection of MoMA; Naglaa Walker’s work has been exhibited at Rokeby gallery, featured in Portfolio and won a Jerwood Photography
Award.

2. Launched in 2007 by Alexander Dellal, 20 Hoxton Square Projects is a collaborative project space eschewing the commercial gallery format to showcase emerging contemporary artists whilst also acting as a creative hub for independent projects. 20 Hoxton Square Projects recently launched a bi-monthly newspaper in July 2009.

3.University of the Arts London is Europe’s largest university for the creative arts, bringing together six of the world’s most famous art and design colleges. They are: Camberwell College of Arts; Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design; Chelsea College of Art and Design; London College of Communication; London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Art.

4. The Zabludowicz Collection was founded by Anita and Poju Zabludowicz in the early 1990s to collect international emerging contemporary art, they opened their London exhibition space, 176 in 2007. 176 / Zabludowicz Collection organizes three exhibitions a year and numerous free events, screenings, performances and talks in conjunction with each exhibition.

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Future Map 09 Facts
Dates: 25 November 2009 – January 2010
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 11am -6pm, Thursday until 9pm, Saturday 12am- 6pm.
Location: Hoxton Square Projects, 20 Hoxton Square, N1 6NT
Nearest Tube: Old Street
Admission Free
www.arts.ac.uk/futuremap