Akeroyd Collection

Conditions is based in studio space at 89 Gloucester Road and 11 Spencer Place in Croydon. The project is an artist-run multi-purpose studio space to be used for production, development, exhibitions and events, started in 2018 by Matthew Noel-Tod and David Panos. This summer they will be presenting ARTHUR JAFA / MARK LECKEY, HARDCORE / LOVE opening on Saturday 28 June at Conditions, 48 Whitgift Centre, Croydon CR0 1UQ. The exhibition will run through 10 August 2025. Mark Leckey's Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, 1999 is included in the show, an edition of which resides within Akeroyd Collection.

Shane Akeroyd is a supporter of Conditions Studio Programme.

On May 15 2025, Art Basel named Shane Akeroyd among 36 recipients of its inaugural Art Basel Awards, honoring influential figures in contemporary culture. Other honorees include Tony Cokes, Pan Dijing, Saidiya Hartman, David Hammons, Lubaina Himid, Lydia Ourhamane, Joan Jonas, Ho Tzu Nyen and Grace Wales Bonner. In December 2025, during Art Basel Miami Beach, the medalists will vote to select 12 gold medalists from among themselves in a peer-driven process in honour to their contribution to contemporary culture.

Presented in partnership with BOSS, the 2025 Art Basel Awards feature nine categories. Three are dedicated to artists - emerging, established, and icon - while the remaining six recognise cross-disciplinary creators, curators, museums and institutions, patrons, allies, and media and storytellers.

Ed Atkins is best known for his computer-generated videos and animations. Repurposing contemporary technologies in unexpected ways, his work traces the dwindling gap between the digital world and human feeling. He borrows techniques from literature, cinema, video games, music and theatre to examine the relationship between reality, realism and fiction.

This career-spanning exhibition features moving image works from the last 15 years alongside writing, paintings, embroideries and drawings. Together, they pit a weightless digital life against the physical world of heft, craft and touch. Atkins uses his own experiences, feelings and body as models to explore themes of intimacy, love and loss. For Atkins, the exhibition represents a reimagining of the messy, unravelling realities of life.

'My life and my work are inextricable. How do I convey the life-ness that made these works – my life-ness – through the exhibition? Not in some factual, chronological, biographical way, but through sensations. I want it so the more you see, the richer, more complex, less authored, less gettable things become.'

- Ed Atkins

Shane Akeroyd is a supporter of Ed Atkins' exhibition at Tate Britain. Here is a selection of press that has been published through the exhibition's run.

On 27 March 2025 Shane Akeroyd and acclaimed artist Wawi Navarroza, explore the relationship between artists and their patrons, examining how support and collaboration shape artistic expression. The discussion will cover key topics such as the significance of patronage in the art world, the impact of financial and emotional support on the creative process, and how these partnerships influence the evolution of contemporary art.

Prestige at Art Basel Hong, 2025: 12pm - 12.45 pm, Exchange Circle, Level 1 Concourse (near Entrance 1A), Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre

The following videos by Sin Wai Kin have been acquired by Tate with funds provided by the Shane Akeroyd Fund for British Art 2023.

A Dream of Wholeness in Parts, 2021
Dragon Woman, 2019
Maybe once you were a planet, 2019
You have not been given the words to describe how multiple yourselves are, 2019