PEUGEOT, in collaboration with Saatchi Gallery, is delighted to announce DYSPLA as the overall winner of the inaugural Artist of the Future Prize 2025 – a new award celebrating innovation in digital art across the UK and Europe.
Selected from more than 1,000 entries and ten outstanding finalists, DYSPLA has been awarded the title Artist of the Future 2025, receiving a prize valued at £10,000 – comprising £5,000 in cash and a £5,000 media package designed to elevate their artistic profile.
Their winning project, DYSPLA_disabled (2024), is a modular collection of 11 sociological digital sculptures and poems created in collaboration with disabled communities across England. Developed during a residency at Arbeit Studios, the work employs structured-light 3D scanning to construct intimate digital vignettes of disabled bodies and lived experiences.
DYSPLA explores the expressive potential created by the technological limits of structured-light scanning. As each sculpture rotates and accompanying poems are read, fractures and gaps created by the scanning process become sites of heightened beauty and meaning. These shards of structured light capture and reveal what is often unseen:
“The disabled experience predominantly means you are acutely aware of the intricacies of one’s body; the experience is internally loud, externally shunned. Holistic presentation is an essential component to artistically expressing the disabled experience, and innovative technologies expand and elucidate the unseen and previously hidden.”
The work was selected for its strength of storytelling and its breakthrough approach to digital sculpture, redefining how digital technologies can be used to capture, interpret, and expand lived experience.
With Innovation as its central theme, the Artist of the Future Prize 2025 honours artists who push the boundaries of creativity, harness technology in new ways, and invite audiences to experience digital art through fresh perspectives.
For PEUGEOT, innovation defines its commitment to pioneering electric mobility and visionary design. For Saatchi Gallery, it reflects the mission to support artists who challenge convention and expand how we think about art and society.
The 2025 shortlist featured exceptional artists working at the forefront of contemporary digital practice:
- Edd Carr
- Filip Haglund
- Sally Smoker
- Lenar Singatullov
- Patchworks Collective – Charlotte Foster, Rehan Moazzam Khan, Yujia Cai, Karstin Naes & Matthew Chan
- AMIANGELIKA
- James David Freeman
- Isolda Milenkovic
- DYSPLA
- Lucy Ellis
The works were selected by a distinguished judging panel spanning the worlds of art, culture and design: Matthias Hossann, Design Director, PEUGEOT; Dominic Harris, British Artist; Darren Styles OBE, Publisher of Attitude Magazine and Rolling Stone UK; Paul Foster, Director, Saatchi Gallery; and Katherine Benson, Exhibition Programming Manager, Saatchi Gallery.
The Artist of the Future Prize 2025 exhibition is open from 25 November 2025 – 11 January 2026 and is free to enter for all visitors. Coinciding with the Gallery’s 40th anniversary celebrations, it also highlights PEUGEOT’s role as Principal Patron.
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