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Jarman Award 2026 Shortlist Announced with Four Artist Filmmakers

award · 2026-06-17

The Film London Jarman Award has announced its 2026 shortlist, streamlined to four artists: Sadia Pineda Hameed, Ilona Sagar, Rhea Storr, and Alia Syed. The £10,000 prize recognizes British artists working with moving images. Hameed's five-channel film 'Anak Where Did We Stay?' mixes family camcorder footage with archive material to tell her mother's migration story, engaging with Joshua Reynolds's 1776 painting 'Portrait of Omai'. Syed, born in Swansea and working between London and Glasgow, has 40 years of experimental film work, including 'Snow' (2019) using footage shot by her father. Storr's 'New Territories (Spectacle Is King)' (2025) focuses on UK carnivals without sound, responding to Isaac Julien's 1984 documentary 'Territories'. Sagar's 'The Body Blow' (2022) examines asbestos-related illnesses in Barking and Dagenham, taking its name from a 1962 radio ballad. The jury, including last year's shortlisted artist Hope Pearl Strickland, praised the artists' grounded lived experience and poetic sensitivity. The award, named after Derek Jarman, is in its 19th year; past shortlisted artists have gone on to win the Turner Prize. The winner will be announced on 24 November 2026 in London. Works will be displayed across the UK and at the Whitechapel Gallery from 17 November to 13 December.

Key facts

  • Four artists shortlisted for Film London Jarman Award 2026: Sadia Pineda Hameed, Ilona Sagar, Rhea Storr, Alia Syed
  • Prize is £10,000
  • Hameed's film 'Anak Where Did We Stay?' is five-channel, mixes family camcorder footage with archive material
  • Hameed's film engages with Joshua Reynolds's 1776 painting 'Portrait of Omai'
  • Syed has 40 years of experimental film work, including 'Snow' (2019) using father's footage
  • Storr's 'New Territories (Spectacle Is King)' (2025) focuses on UK carnivals without sound, responds to Isaac Julien's 'Territories' (1984)
  • Sagar's 'The Body Blow' (2022) examines asbestos illnesses in Barking and Dagenham, references 1962 radio ballad
  • Winner announced 24 November 2026 in London; works displayed at Whitechapel Gallery 17 Nov–13 Dec

Entities

Artists

Institutions

  • Film London Jarman Award
  • Turner Prize
  • Whitechapel Gallery
  • CCA Glasgow
  • Film London
  • Jarman Award
  • BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
  • Nottingham Contemporary
  • Spike Island
  • Barbican Centre
  • Somerset House Studios
  • Stanley Picker Fellowship
  • Architecture and Design Museum Helsinki
  • Nordic House Reykjavík
  • Röhsska Museum Gothenburg
  • Triennale Milano
  • Serpentine Gallery
  • Barbican Art Gallery
  • Hayward Gallery
  • Wellcome Collection
  • Villa Arson Centre National d’Art Contemporain
  • Art Rotterdam
  • King's College London
  • University of Eastern Finland
  • Saastamoinen Foundation
  • Cement Fields
  • MoMA Doc Fortnight
  • New York Film Festival
  • BFI London Film Festival
  • Berwick Film and Media Artist Festival
  • European Media Art Festival
  • Kassel Doc Fest
  • Videonale
  • Kunstmuseum Bonn
  • Artist Film International
  • Bangkok Kunsthalle
  • Tate Lates
  • Lisson Gallery
  • National Museum for African American History and Culture
  • Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
  • VIAD
  • Brown University
  • CIRCAxDAZED London
  • FotoMuseum
  • Aesthetica Art Prize
  • Louis Le Prince Experimental Film Prize
  • Royal Photographic Society
  • Kodak Award
  • Hamburg International Film Festival
  • London Short Film Festival
  • BBC Arts Online
  • Glynn Vivian
  • Courtisane Festival
  • WKV
  • Yale Centre for British Art
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • Moscow Biennale
  • Museum of Modern Art
  • Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
  • Sydney Biennale
  • Tate Britain
  • Glasgow Museum of Modern Art
  • Iniva
  • The New Art Gallery Walsall
  • Tate Modern
  • Talwar Gallery
  • Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists
  • Brent Biennial
  • The Crypt Gallery
  • The Mosaic Rooms
  • The Bluecoat
  • The Box
  • Catalyst Arts
  • Tangent Projects
  • Zamek
  • Mostyn
  • Chapter Arts Centre
  • g39
  • Arcade/Campfa
  • Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Porthmeor Studio Residency
  • Arts Council Wales Perspectives Fellowship
  • British School at Rome Fellowship
  • Freelands Fellowship
  • Jerwood UNIT(e) Residency
  • Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival
  • Wales One World Film Festival
  • FOCUS Wales
  • Queer East Film Festival
  • Oxford University
  • RCA
  • Goldsmiths, University of London
  • Project A Black Planet

Locations

  • London
  • United Kingdom
  • Ebbw valley
  • Wales
  • Swansea
  • Glasgow
  • Barking
  • Dagenham
  • Philippines
  • Britain
  • Bahamas
  • Barking and Dagenham
  • Scotland
  • Ebbw Valley
  • Cardiff
  • Liverpool
  • Plymouth
  • Belfast
  • Barcelona
  • Poznan
  • Llandudno
  • Helsinki
  • Finland
  • Reykjavík
  • Iceland
  • Gothenburg
  • Sweden
  • Milan
  • Italy
  • Stuttgart
  • Germany
  • New York
  • United States
  • Washington D.C.
  • Arkansas
  • Madrid
  • Spain
  • Sydney
  • Australia
  • Walsall
  • New Delhi
  • India
  • Bangkok
  • Thailand
  • Kassel
  • Bonn
  • Hamburg
  • Belgium
  • Moscow
  • Russia
  • Los Angeles

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