You are here: Home » News, views and events » Archive » Awardee and recipient archive

Awardee and recipient archive

  1. Alice Krige and Paul Schoolman

    Actress Alice Krige and her director husband Paul Schoolman ran NESTA-funded drama workshops with prisoners and prison officers in three Welsh prisons, in preparation for the inmates' role, alongside world-famous actors, in the film CAESAR. Such was the p

  2. Children's Palaces, Kids' Clubs Network

    The Curiosity and Imagination project, based at Kids' Clubs Network, examined the need and potential for innovative, community-based learning centres where children could go to discover and develop their talents.

    Centres for curiosity and imagination website
    Kids’ Clubs Network

  3. David Kelsall, Skyshots Ltd

    David Kelsall has designed a miniature auto-controlled airship which can be used for film, photography, surveillance and survey work. So compact it can be folded up and carried as hand luggage, the airship can be used easily in any location or situation -

  4. Dr Ken Skeldon

    Dr Ken Skeldon's shows get people excited about science. With a NESTA Fellowship, he has the opportunity to build on his accomplishments and push the boundaries of scientific entertainment still further.

  5. Francis Kay

    Francis Kay used NESTA's investment to further his work on a new and safer breathing valve for divers operating in deep and cold waters - the first major innovation in this field for more than 40 years. NESTA's support enabled Francis to prepare prototype

  6. Freddie Kofi

    Singer and songwriter Freddie Kofi (winner of a 2005 British Academy Song Search Award) secured a NESTA Fellowship to expand the appeal of British-based Gospel music by making it more relevant to modern Britain.

  7. Garry Kennard

    NESTA's support enabled actor and writer Gary Kennard to launch the Winchester Festival of Art and Mind in 2004. His organisation Art and Mind now stages a series of festivals and symposia on how the brain reacts to art.

  8. Hannes Koch, Operation: Schoener Ltd

    Graduates of NESTA's Creative Pioneer Academy, Hannes Koch and Florian Ortkrass - together with Stuart Wood - are establishing international reputations for their designs, including launch product Watchpaper (a digital clock embedded in wallpaper). Their

    Operation: Schoener

  9. Josaphat Kabukoba

    NESTA funding helped Dr Josaphat Kabukoba to develop a new approach to surgical stitching. His loop and clip design is easier and faster to use than traditional sutures, so could make keyhole surgery shorter and much more widely available, helping patient

  10. Jude Kelly

    Acclaimed theatre director Jude Kelly used her NESTA Dream Time to set up Metal, a space for creative collaboration among artists. As well as working with artists, Metal applies multi-disciplinary thinking to bold, creative ideas.

  11. Matt King, OrderlyQ

    NESTA's support enabled OrderlyQ to launch its 21st century solution to a 21st century problem - phone and internet queues. Businesses using OrderlyQ give their customers an estimated queuing time when they first phone through. The customer can then hang

  12. Petra Kuppers

    NESTA supported Dr Petra Kuppers in her plans to make a ground-breaking CD ROM resource to help people experiencing mental illness to begin their own community artwork.

  13. Rob Kesseler

    As NESTA Fellow at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, Rob Kesseler developed artworks showing the beauty of plant form in microscopic detail. As a result of such work, Rob was made a Professor at the University of the Arts in London and Prince Charles ha

  14. Robert Kinson

    Robert Kinson developed an automatic gearbox capable of delivering twice the acceleration of that in a traditional manual gear vehicle, as well as being smooth, economical and environmentally-friendly. Initial NESTA funding enabled him to develop and test

  15. Steve Sumner and Trevor Keena, Ledal Ltd

    Steve Sumner and Trevor Keena designed the Ledal, a bike pedal that lights up automatically in the dark when the bike is ridden, switches off in daylight and shines white to the front and red to the rear - even if the pedal flips over. Visible for 1000 me

News, views and events