Tanoa Sasraku has won the Futures Award, worth £10,000 Haunting , uncomfortable and risky are just some of the words the Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid used to describe the work of the UK artist Tanoa Sasraku upon awarding her the Arts Foundation Futures Award 2021 for visual arts.
Sasraku s win was revealed last night during an online celebration in which the judging panel, consisting of Himid, Andrew Durbin, editor of
Frieze and the curator Fatoş Üstek
announced her as the recipient of the prize, worth £10,000, which will go towards living and working costs.
With a practice that spans drawing, film and flag making, Sasraku s work focuses on her various identities bisexual, British, Black, Ghanaian as well as the ecology of rural Devon, southwest England, where she grew up.