Selected by the artists Richard Billington, Ceal Floyer and Ken Lum, and opening at the Liverpool Biennial in September 2008, New Contemporaries 2008 features the best of the new crop of art school graduates in the UK, chosen through open submission. New Contemporaries is recognised for supporting new work and artists at the start of their professional careers. In its present form, since 1989, it has created a valuable critical and informal network where artists and selectors remain in contact.

Featured artists: Pio Abad, Adam Ajina, Allsopp & Weir, Güler Ates, Steve Bishop, Paul Bratt, Stewart Cliff, Beth Collar, Alexia de Ville de Goyet, Joe Doldon, Jeremy Evans, Anwen Handmer, Chris Hanlon, Gabriel Hartley, Gerd Hasler, Neil Hedger, Tyler Bright Hilton, Sam Holden, Alex Hudson, Peter Joslyn, Emmanuel Kazi Kakai, Eva Kalpadaki, Katharina Kiebacher, Rinat Kotler, Raakhee Lakhtaria, Andrew Larkin, Ian Law, littlewhitehead, Joseph Long, Jo Longhurst, Ellen Macdonald, Allison Maletz, Jane Maughan, Sarah Michael, Haroon Mirza, Yoca Muta, Gemma Nelson, Sachiyo Nishimura, Yo Okada, Joep Overtoom, Heather Phillipson, Patricia Pinsker, Giles Ripley, Constance Slaughter, Rita Soromenho, Naomi St Clair-Clarke, David Stearn, Nicholas Tayler, Esther Teichmann, David Theobald, Jason Underhill, Manuel Vazquez, Lara Viana, Jane Ward, Anita Wernström, Paul Westcombe, Jeanine Woollard.