Freelands Art Fund Acquisition

This partnership between Freelands Foundation and Art Fund offers grants of up to £60,000 for museums to acquire contemporary art and increase public access to work by women artists in the UK. The programme is launching an open call for museums and public collections interested in acquiring work by Everlyn Nicodemus, the 2024 Freelands Award winner. The Freelands Art Fund Acquisition enables museums and public collections to acquire work by Freelands Award-winning women artists. Through bolstering contemporary collections in the UK, this initiative increases public access to work by women artists and brokers new relationships between artists, organisations, museums and their audiences. Museums can consider acquiring any existing work by the artist, including but not limited to works exhibited at the award exhibition. Applicants can acquire more than one work, as long as their proposal remains within the allocated budget of £60,000. The programme will open for expressions of interest on 7 October 2025 with a deadline of 19 December 2025.