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  1. Alex Gore Browne

    Fashion knitwear designer Alex Gore Brown attended NESTA's Creative Pioneer Academy to learn new business skills as she built her fashion company, which is now revolutionising women's knitwear.

  2. Carnesky's Ghost Train

    With NESTA's support, producer Jeremy Goldstein and artistic director Marisa Carnesky created Carnesky?s Ghost Train, taking the audience on a real and spectacular amusement park ghost train to explore issues of migration. Hailed as one of the most innova

  3. Catherine Greig

    Catherine Greig used her NESTA Creative Pioneer Award to establish an architectural project that encourages communities to take action and get involved to maintain and regenerate their own environment.

  4. Creative Generation

    The Department for Education and Skills, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and NESTA worked together to launch a creative arts framework, Creative Generation, to help teachers to identify and support gifted and talented artists in schools.

  5. Delta G

    NESTA funded bio-tech company Delta G's early-stage research into a cancer treatment that targets the disease's metabolism in new ways. The company is continuing to apply new knowledge about how we age to the discovery of this and other medicines.

  6. Dreamlab Generation, Dream Ireland

    NESTA supported Dream Ireland's project, Dreamlab Generation, to teach school children about digital technology, giving them insider knowledge of the creative industries.

  7. Dryden Goodwin

    Ground-breaking visual artist Dryden Goodwin used his NESTA Fellowship to produce a new body of video work, to benefit arts audiences and to develop new technology in art. In 2002, as part of the award, Dryden showed a new video installation for Tate Brit

  8. Game On, National Museums of Scotland

    NESTA's support enabled the National Museums of Scotland to produce an educational programme, classroom resources and exhibition, Game On, to explore the educational potential of using computer games as a platform for learning.

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  9. Gaslok

    David Peall used NESTA's investment to finish development of Gaslok, an early warning device to prevent ozone-depleting gases leaking from commercial refrigeration and air conditioning systems.

  10. Goldsmiths, University of London

    Alongside Tate Modern and Tate Liverpool, arts education specialists at Goldsmiths in London worked with teachers in 16 primary and secondary schools to explore how contemporary art can best be introduced into lessons - and the benefits this offers. Their

  11. Graphic Science, Physics to Go

    With NESTA's support, Graphic Science produced Physics to Go, an advice pack to help interested scientists to take fun, educational demonstrations into the community. Compiled with the Institute of Physics to mark Einstein Year, the pack is a 'cookbook' o

  12. Jeremy Gardiner, Defining Digital Art

    Jeremy Gardiner, of the London College of Music and Media, was given NESTA funding to research the potential for an interactive digital arts roadshow to stimulate debate and increase awareness of digital art.

  13. John Gruzelier, Making Waves

    Goldsmiths College secured NESTA funding for Making Waves, a research project with Trinity College of Music and schools in Greenwich and Tower Hamlets to evaluate whether learning to control brain rhythms can aid the process of learning to sing or play a

  14. Joy Gregory

    Photographer Joy Gregory used her NESTA Fellowship to push the boundaries of her art, blending traditional printing processes with cutting- edge digital media. Showcasing her work in her The Language of Flowers exhibition and in her book and exhibition Ob

  15. Keith Griffiths

    Acknowledged as one of the most creative independent film producers working in Britain today and a respected authority on art cinema production and the avant-garde, Keith Griffiths secured a NESTA Fellowship to explore ways in which new digital technologi

  16. Lavinia Greenlaw

    NESTA's Fellowship enabled poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw to explore and create new poetry. Her collection Minsk was shortlisted for the 2003 TS Eliot Prize.

  17. Mark Goulthorpe

    Originally designed as an interactive art piece, Mark Goulthorpe's Hyposurface acts as a mediator between events happening inside and those happening outside a building. NESTA's funding went towards development of the Hyposurface technology, which has pot

  18. Matthew Guinness

    NESTA's support enabled Matthew Guiness to further work on his music calculator, a tool which demystifies music theory and enables people of any age to learn to read music.

  19. Mick Gordon Dream Time

    Mick Gordon - former Associate Director of the National Theatre - used his Dream Time to develop theatre pieces which debate complex ideas in philosophy and science. His first, On Ego, opened at the Soho Theatre, London, in December 2005.

  20. Paul Granjon

    Electronic artist Paul Granjon aims his idiosyncratic work beyond the average contemporary visual arts audience, offering offbeat ways to engage people in arts, science and technology. Since being awarded a NESTA Fellowship, his work continues to be in de

  21. Paula Gjesdal

    NESTA's Fellowship enabled aspiring filmmaker Paula Gjesdal to hone her skills as a film producer and champion black film-making talent in the UK.

  22. Pauline Gallacher

    With an arts and planning background, Pauline Gallacher worked in Glasgow's community-based housing associations before returning to study architecture. Her NESTA Fellowship enabled her to explore the role of public participation in enhancing new building

  23. Ron Geary

    Ron Geary used NESTA investment to further his work on his Structural Integrity Device, for the early detection of metal fractures in oil and gas rigs, to reduce the risk of collapse.

  24. Sarah Gurr

    Fungal biologist Sarah Gurr secured a NESTA Fellowship to explore new treatments for athlete's foot and ringworm, using plant-based oils. Sarah is also committed to improving her own communications skills in her quest to share her passion for science with

  25. Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust

    With NESTA's support, Sheffield Galleries and Museums Trust created a groundbreaking three-dimensional 'soundscape' to accompany an interpretation of metalwork collections housed at the Millennium Galleries' Metalwork Gallery.

  26. Steve Grand OBE

    Scientist Steve Grand - awarded the OBE in 2000 for services to the computer industry - used his NESTA Dream Time to continue research into artificial intelligence. As well as improving our knowledge of robotics, Steve's work is deepening understanding of

  27. The Generating Company

    NESTA's funding enabled contemporary circus the Generating Company (Genco) to stage a debut show to showcase their talents to potential investors. Since then, they have gone onto secure investment through BBC 2's Dragon's Den programme, with two of the sh

  28. Zerbanoo Gifford

    Zerbanoo Gifford has an international reputation as an advocate for the rights of women and children. She used her NESTA Fellowship to explore new ways for ordinary women to connect with inspirational mentors from around the world and is encouraging debat

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