Introduction to Lino Print workshop
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
12/04/2024
Come along and spent a great, creative day learning the technique of lino printing with local artist Sue Rowland. Sue will teach you how to create your own original design and to use the different lino tools to cut the lino plate. Sue will then help you to print your own small edition of fabulous prints to take away with you!
Kate Pettitt
I am an artist and designer living and working in York, UK. My paintings and drawings explore the natural environment and the human form, and are often elemental, instinctive and textural. Inspired by movement, shifting light and changing weather conditions, I aim to capture the character and...
MINI TEXTILE HANGINGS WORKSHOP
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
25/05/2024
Do you have a collection of natural treasures that you’d like to use in your work but are not sure how? This workshop will explore ways of combining fabrics, found objects, natural treasures such as feathers and shells and hand embroidery to create beautiful mini hangings.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Rebecca Korn
Rebecca Korn's interdisciplinary practice stems from a fascination with the intersections between art and science. Her recent interests explore the posthuman body, investigating ideas around symbiosis, sympoiesis and speculative futures, re/imagining how bodies may adapt/evolve through learning from and with non-human counterparts.
Reimagining the Landscape
Bulkeley, Cheshire
Workshop
26/04/2024
Two-day weekend art workshops with creativity and mindfulness/well-being at its core. Suitable for all abilities from complete beginners who think they might enjoy being out in a landscape playing with a variety of mixed art media to those with experience who are looking to loosen up their work and get new ideas about artistic process.
Alice Bradshaw
Alice Bradshaw is an artist, curator and writer. She is interested in discarded, everyday materials and words. Recycling and repetition are important strategies in her work, which sets up a dialogue around the value of rubbish through objects, publications, exhibitions and events. Alice's...
Leeds Arts Health and Wellbeing Network
A network to champion, support and connect people interested in how arts and culture can have benefits for health, care and wellbeing in the Leeds City Region. Focus on Place-Based Arts and Health, Creative Ageing, Creativity Wellbeing, Creativity Workforce Wellbeing. Regional and general resources available.
Mindful Photography Taster Workshop
Scott Creative Arts Foundation, The Art House, Thirsk, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
12/04/2024
Scott Creative Arts Foundation is delighted to be hosting a Mindful Photography Taster Workshop with SCAF Emerging Artist Award 2023 finalist Jacqui Barrowcliffe. This course will use the natural setting of the Foundation and encompasses elements from the different SCAF projects and objectives, connecting in particular with the Living Landscape Project and the 2024 SCAF EAA theme 'PERCEPTION'
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Natalia Janula
Natalia Janula is a Polish-born artist of Roma heritage, currently based in London. Their artistic practice spans sculpture, moving image, installation and performance. They are interested in urban and natural environments and the slippage between the two. Repeated themes within their work include domestic and fictional landscapes, object oriented ontologies, queer interspecies bodies and the natural world.
Calligraphy Workshop
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
05/07/2024
Learn how to write gorgeously swirly modern calligraphy with your tutor Claire Gould, of ‘By Moon & Tide’. You’ll have fun getting to grips with a dip pen and copperplate nib in this friendly and relaxed calligraphy workshop. From initial scratches and swirls you’ll soon be learning how to write beautiful letters, all in the space of a couple of hours!
Lucy Cade
Lucy is a painter and educator. She completed an MA Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2023. Recent shows include a guest artist slot in the Young Masters Art Prize exhibition at The Exhibitionist Hotel, hosted by the Cynthia Corbett Gallery; a group show with Stretch, a...
Case Study: The Kent Downs AONB
The Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is a nationally protected landscape stretching from the white cliffs of Dover to the Surrey and London border. With ancient bluebell woodlands, rugged chalk coastline, internationally rare chalk grassland, and ragstone villages, there is beauty to explore all year round. The North Downs Way National Trail, one of 15 national trails in England and Wales, is home to the arts trail, and much of it follows the legendary Pilgrims Way from Canterbury to Winchester.
Gender-affirming Surgery Fundraiser
29/03/2024 Leeds, West Yorkshire
We are looking for queer and trans artists who explore queerness as part of their practice to be part of an art exhibition/open mic event to raise money for Jordan's gender-affirming surgery. This will take place at Wharf Chambers in Leeds on 3rd April 2024. This is an unpaid opportunity due to it being a fundraising event.
YVAN
YVAN is made up of Visual arts professionals, individual artists and makers, studios, collectives, Higher and Further Education departments and professionals, visual arts organisations and artist networks in Yorkshire. Alongside region-specific advice, opportunities, events and support, they have also gathered regional and general resources to support artists in developing their practice.
Egg tempera painting workshop
Rivelin Park Cafe (meeting point), Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
06/04/2024
An Easter themed egg tempera painting workshop running from 10:00 to 13:00. We'll take a walk around Endcliffe to gather inspiration and I'll show you how to make tempera paint and create a painting on a panel to take home.
The Art House
The Art House provides studios and programmes offering time, space and support for artists and associates to develop their creative practice and progress their professional careers.
The Art House building is home to 45 artists' studios and three makerspaces - a print studio, ceramics...
Iranian Diaspora: Stories of Sanctuary and Solidarity
Oxo Tower Wharf Gallery (Gallery@OXO), Oxo Tower Wharf, Barge House Street, , Southbank, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
27/03/2024 to 29/03/2024
A multimedia art exhibition about migration, the search for sanctuary and solidarity , showcasing work created by Iranian migrants and refugees during several art workshops, along with work from the collaborating artists and work initiated by the participants and completed by the artists.
Art Opportunities at Gallery 33
29/03/2024 Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Opportunities are available for artists to showcase work at Gallery 33 as part of the Gallery’s yearly art exhibitions programme. This independent high-street art gallery is committed to showcasing high-quality art which includes jewellery, ceramics, sculptures, glass, painting (all media) and printmaking. The exhibition of work is for a period of 4 months beginning in March.
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order To Live: Works of Sue Vaughton
Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
12/03/2024 to 30/03/2024
Artizan Gallery are delighted to welcome photographer Sue Vaughton to the gallery in March where we shall be curating a particularly intimate and personal exhibition of her works in our Basement Gallery.
Case Study: Fronteer
Fronteer is run by Michael and Sharon Borkowsky and began as a freelance arts initiative to provide exhibition spaces and host open calls for artists. In October 2020 they opened a gallery of their own; Fronteer Gallery in Sheffield and have established the annual art prize 'The Fronteer Open'.
b-side
b-side is an arts organisation based in Dorset, UK. We work with and commission artists to make new site-responsive work revealing the marginal, often forgotten and less commercial aspects of our coastal towns and communities. We invite professional artists to make artworks in response to...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Melanie King
Melanie King is an artist and curator with a specific focus on astronomy. She is co-Director of super/collider, Lumen Studios, and the London Alternative Photography Collective. Melanie is a practice-based PhD Candidate in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art.
Shape Arts
Shape Arts is a disability-led arts organisation which works to improve access to culture for disabled people by providing opportunities for disabled artists, training cultural institutions to be more open to disabled people, and through running participatory arts and development programmes.
GUNA: Views and voices of women
City Screen Picturehouse, 13-17 Coney Street, York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
10/03/2024 to 06/04/2024
GUNA is a version of the ancient Greek word for 'woman' and the work on show explores, promotes and celebrates the creativity of women through the work of emerging and established local artists.
Alex Hetherington
I sustain a visual art practice (with an emphasis on the moving image, performance, text and sculpture) through various positions as artist, curator, programmer and writer, and often work under a title or pseudonym, for example Modern Edinburgh Film School, Neon John and ‘The Men and...
Case Study: Benji Appleby-Tyler
Benji Appleby-Tyler is an emerging artist turned curator, who is currently studying Fine Art at University. He create an open call on CuratorSpace to work with other artists on his participatory project 'IDEA Portable Protest Kit'. Artists followed instructions to construct a 'soap box' and create an individual performance which was collated into a showreel.
Wet Felting Workshop - Spring Meadow: Create your own wool painting:
Bardsey Arts Studio, 42a Church Lane, Bardsey, , Leeds, West Yorkshire
Workshop
06/04/2024
10am - 3pm: Learn how to create a wool painting using the ancient craft of Wet Felting: Katy, your tutor will teach you the basics of wet felting your first felted picture: Create a unique artwork: Easter / Mothers Day: Free parking: All materials, equipment and instruction included. Tea, coffee, cake available. Beautiful, bright studio space overlooking wonderful Yorkshire countryside: £65.00
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Naomi Aderonke
Naomi is a burgeoning multidisciplinary research and narrative led artist who has developed their illustrative and narrative skills past digital art and traditional print into 3D work. Exploring ceramics and textile through tufting, Naomi looks at the form, colours and materials used, not just the image, to create the stories they want to tell. Naomi is a storyteller who thrives on folk, history and culture; looking into ways of exploring that through artistic objects.
Mentorship & Artist Development Workshop at Feelium Gallery, London
31/03/2024 London, London
This art mentorship, guided by Feelium Gallery's co-founder, offers a brief but impactful 2-day intensive workshop or shorter 1:1 sessions. Tailored for artists at any career stage, the program focuses on positioning participants in the art world. Explore diverse artist portfolios, study successful residency and grant applications, and delve into relevant literature on artist positioning. The mentorship equips you with practical skills in portfolio construction, bio writing, and artist statement development. Join us to refine your artistic identity and navigate the art landscape with confidence.
Case studies for reducing your carbon footprint
Sustainable Arts in Leeds
SAIL are a group of organisations, individuals and networks, working together to promote a zero carbon / zero waste future for the cultural and creative industries of Leeds and beyond. Their website features case studies of how SAIL members on how they’ve managed to reduce their carbon footprints.
Karen Sherwood
Cupola Contemporary Art was established in 1991 and has grown to become on eof the largest most highly respected privately run contemporary art galleries in the North of England. With a reputation for quality shows and innovation, the gallery regualrly hosts approximately 10 themed or solo...
Julie Cassels
After an initial career as a Systems Analyst, I took a career break, to raise a family, I studied Visual Arts (Salford University), 2004, then an M.A. in Textiles/Fashion (Manchester Metropolitan University) 2005. I have a studio at Rogue Artists’ Studios CIC, Manchester. My work has been...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Sam Metz
Sam Metz is an artist based in Hull who creates work that engages with the concept of ‘neuroqueering’. They create sculptural installations that incorporate both film and animation while exploring body-based responses to ecology. As a neurodivergent artist and curator with sensory processing differences, Sam creates work in non-verbal ways that begin and end in movement and embodied interactions without recourse to traditionally privileged verbal and written forms of communication.
Case Study: ARTbound
ARTbound is an arts organisation, developed and managed by photographer and curator, Meg Oxford. It began in 2014 and primarily creates events and exhibitions, by building partnerships with other art organisations, galleries and creative venues, to support artists in showing and selling their work.
This Is The Seventh Wave
The Regency Town House, 13 Brunswick Square, Brighton & Hove, United Kingdom
Exhibition
03/05/2024 to 12/05/2024
Group exhibition curated by Dee Ferris and Judy Stevens. Featuring Polly Arnett, Nicholas Carrick, Emma Critchley, Alej ez, Dee Ferris, John Haywood, Solange Leon Iriarte, Andre Lichtenberg, Catalina Mejia Moreno, Judy Stevens, Francisca Vidal Vergara+Pulso Austral, Arantza Vilas, Carole Villain and Jonathan Wright.