FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR 2025 JUDGES
Ones to Watch 2025 is our 12th annual exhibition of emerging artists and makers based in or from Yorkshire. This year’s 31 artists were selected by judges Karanjit Panesar, Gill Crawshaw and Helen Moore, along with our Arts Team.
KARANJIT PANESAR
Karanjit Panesar (born 1992) is an artist and filmmaker living and working in Leeds. Panesar’s practice is ambitious, broad and layered.
His starting point is filmmaking and from these films he often builds installations, with sculpture, drawing and writing spilling into and out of the moving image space. He is interested in connecting personal experience to vast structures like global capitalism, media saturation and post-colonialism. Language and the voice are recurring devices in his films, which often operate at the edge of fiction and reality.
Recent solo presentations include: Furnace Fruit (2024), Leeds Art Gallery; Clarence Pier (2022), Aspex Portsmouth; Parts of Wholes (2022), Workplace Foundation, Newcastle; Actor, Container (2021), Two Queens, Leicester; Strange Loop (2019), Turf Projects, Croydon; and THE WAY THINGS ARE (2018), arebyte Gallery, London.
GILL CRAWSHAW
Gill is a curator and researcher. She draws on her experience of disability activism to organise projects which highlight issues affecting disabled people.
Gill has organised exhibitions which have addressed representation of disabled artists (Possible All Along, 2020), charity (Piss on Pity, 2019), and cuts to welfare spending (Shoddy, 2016). Any work that wanted doing (2023) brought together disabled people’s voices from the past and present, as disabled artists responded to Gill’s research into hidden histories of disabled mill workers.
Gill has an MA in Curation Practices from Leeds Arts University. She is a member of the British Art Network Emerging Curators Group 2024.
HELEN MOORE
Helen is an experienced freelance public art, public programme, curation and engagement professional, with a background in Fine Art. She has worked in the Arts and Heritage sector across the North of England for the last two decades.
Helen’s work portfolio includes Bradford 2025, Beam Arts UK, East Street Arts, The Piece Hall, The Tyneside Cinema, York Minster, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and South Asian Arts uk.
Helen is passionate about diversity and widening participation in the arts and is a member of Black Curators Collective; a collective and forum for Black women and non-binary curators in the UK.
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