Returning for its third year, The Michael O’Pray Prize is an award for new writing on innovation and experimentation in the moving image. The winning applicant receives £500 and their text will be published by Art Monthly.

FVU are looking for a Chair of the Board of Trustees. Applications are open and ongoing until we find a candidate.

Forthcoming in 2020, Reman Sadani’s project considers the urge for travel as a strange and mysterious element of the human condition, by renegotiating ideas around the modern displacement of people – from forced migration to cultural exploration. 

Forthcoming in 2020, Guy Oliver’s project is a multi-chapter rumination on the cultural dilemma of the disgraced popular icon.

This summer, see an ambitious film and sound work by Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive) that looks back to the first decade of the UK pop charts (1952-62).

A new commission explores the men's necktie as both a sign of professional distinction and a sexually charged object. Currently showing at Walker Art Centre.