2026 Grantham Foundation Winners
The Grantham Foundation for the Arts and the Environment announces the winners of it’s 2026 Call for Projects.
Serge-Olivier Rondeau — Winner of the Creation in Visual Arts Award
Serge-Olivier Rondeau is a filmmaker whose practice crosses media arts, experimental ethnography and social science research. His films and installations explore the relationships between humans and non-humans, in particular animals, plants and technology. He has presented his work in numerous exhibitions and festivals in Canada and abroad. He co-directed the feature-length documentary Ressources (2021), which focuses as much on the environment as on the living conditions of humans and animals linked by the slaughter and meat-processing chain. His second feature, Les héritiers (2025), gives voice to a ring-billed gulls colony and explores new ways of living and dying in our landscapes haunted by mass consumption and pollution.
As part of his residency at the Foundation, he will be working on a project entitled La promesse, which traces the plastic production chain to reveal the emergence of new forms of life. Rondeau will explore the impact of these mutations on the way we imagine our environmental futures.
To learn more about the artistic practice of Serge-Olivier Rondeau: https://sorondeau.work/.
Photo credit: Serge-Olivier Rondeau
Louise Morin — Winner of the Research in Visual Arts Award
Louise Morin is a French architect and designer. A graduate of London's Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and ENSA Paris - Val de Seine, she has collaborated and worked with several architectural firms in Berlin, Buenos Aires and Stockholm. She established her studio in Paris in 2019. Her work, which ranges from objects to installations, scenography and architecture, questions our relationship with comfort and our ways of being together.
During her residency, she intends to focus her research on a material – soapstone or steatite, one of whose quarries is less than two hours from the Foundation - and its particular properties: thermal inertia and resistance to heat, which make it a refractory material. To imagine a series of devices, from the scale of the object to the scale of the architecture, exploiting the thermal characteristics of this material. The project will draw on the foundation's interior and exterior spaces, to imagine different usage scenarios for gathering around a hot spot.
To find out more about Louise Morin: https://louisemorin.fr/.
Photo credit: Laurent Chouard
Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster — Winners of the Creation and Research in Architecture Award
Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster are Toronto-based designers, artists and educators who have collaborated since 2003. Together they create spaces and objects that interrupt everyday situations in critically engaging and playful ways. As a multidisciplinary practice, they operate at a variety of scales, from temporary installations to permanent public artworks and architectural projects. Their artistic practice focuses on ‘social infrastructures’ which seek to build community by fostering playful interactions in physical space. Their academic research interests include the role of play in the built environment and alternative methods of documentation as a form of historic preservation.
During their residency at the Foundation, they will be investigating how a potential network of “social infrastructures” could be inspired by nature, providing access to the natural environment while providing much-needed habitat for our non-human neighbors.
To find out more about Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster: https://www.ck-jj.com/.
Photo credit: Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster