A self portrait of Kaspar wearing a mask of collaged ethnographic images in the dumpster of the Humboldt Forum (2024), masked performance, UDK: Berlin IFKIK. Image: Barbara Beilitz.
Featured Grantee Story13 Aug 2025
Kaspar Schmidt Mumm
Context is everything – and for artist Kaspar Schmidt Mumm, it’s also homework while he studies at UDK Berlin.
Elias Jamieson Brown will undertake a director's attachment with renowned Australian director Benedict Andrews on the Tchaikovsky opera Pique Dame in Munich, Germany.
An Emerging Artist Grant supported Kerensa Diball in undertaking professional development opportunities in the UK, namely a mentorship with artist Bryony Kimmings.
Chloe Martin and Alexandra Hines will be supported to undertake a 10-week period of intensive comedy improvisation training at the Groundlings Theatre and Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles, USA.
A Cultural Trust grant will assist actor and writer Ben Noble in studying Contemporary and Classical Text (Acting) at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Playwright and 2015 grantee Louris Van de Geer brought her love of psychoanalysis to the stage with her latest play, 'Looking Glass', which recently ran at fortyfivedownstairs. She took the time to answer a couple of questions about the play and her practice.