For African Artists’ Foundation to receive this Transformative Award for the innovative project ‘Dig Where You Stand’ at this time is opportune and humbling. We are extremely grateful to Outset for thinking with us throughout the process and for this generous award. It will allow us to create an energised way of connecting contemporary artists and art institutions across the continent with its various diasporas through meaningful exhibition making metabolised through intellectual rigour and in-depth research.

Azu Nwagbogu, Founder and Director of African Artists’ Foundation

Receiving the Transformative Award from Outset Partners allows the Stellenbosch Triennale to continue showcasing the best contemporary art from Africa, by some of its most exciting established and emerging artists, in a non-commercial space at the southern tip of the continent. The Stellenbosch Triennale celebrates and encourages exploration, innovation and curiosity. It is a platform for artists to expand their imaginations without worrying about sales and commissions. At the same time, it encourages and invites audiences to engage in critical dialogue and reflection, resulting in conversations and debates which, while sometimes uncomfortable, pave the way for new ways of thinking and exciting paradigm shifts.

Andi Norton, Founding Trustee and Project Director of Stellenbosch Triennale

The Outset Partners Impact Award allowed Oliver Frank Chanarin and Forma to realise the UK production and complete a very busy period of printing in the photography darkroom. It also ensured we could work with a variety of partners including many charities and small businesses which don’t have access to regular funding. But beyond the financial impact, Outset’s support will open Forma to a network of national and international institutions and art enthusiasts, bringing further attention to Oliver’s work and hopefully creating further opportunities to collaborate, tour the exhibition and generate further institutional acquisitions.

Chris Rawcliffe, Artistic Director of Forma

We are overwhelmed to have been awarded this extraordinarily generous award by Outset. We are currently working with nearly 300 children and young people every week, and this additional support will enable us to train more committed facilitators in The Beattie Method and so extend our reach to more students who need our support in many more schools. Just like our work, the grant will make a huge difference and transform many lives for the better.

Julie Beattie OBE and Maggie Scott, joint CEOs of AT The Bus

In the face of increasing intolerance, it is the ‘long journey of generosity’ of organisations such as Outset that enable us to deliver ambitious and engaged programmes, deeply committed to the fundamental messages of the arts, which are experimentation, multiplicity, love and inclusiveness.

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, The Serpentine Galleries

Outset has brought new energy and imagination to contemporary art by supporting artists that explore new ideas and institutions that seek new paths… The Outset Frieze Tate Fund has brought many important works by emerging artists into the national collection, making it possible for Tate to share some of the exciting developments in contemporary art with a broad public

Sir Nicholas Serota, former Director, Tate