CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #24: Sarah Wood
Sarah Wood works with the found object, particularly the documentary image, to interrogate the relationship between the narrating of history and individual memory. Her recent work explores the meaning of the archive, in particular the politics of memory; why some objects are preserved while others are ignored. She also curates artists' film through Club des Femmes, a project co-founded with Selina Robertson.
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...
Platforma Arts and Refugee Network
Platforma arts and refugee network supports and develops arts and culture by, about and with refugees and migrants. Platforma is managed by Counterpoints Arts in partnership with organisations across the country. Every two years they run the Platforma Festival in a different part of England. They also provide one-to-one information to artists and organisations on subjects including, access to opportunities, contacts, project development and fundraising.
Elemental
Sou’-Sou’-West Gallery, Symondsbury Estate, Bridport, Dorset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/10/2024 to 10/11/2024
Exhibition of environmental art. Fiona Campbell, Ally Matthews & Jan Alison Edwards respond to ideas around the elements, materiality, and the invisible thread binding all life on earth.
Joyful - Cupola Contemporary Art Christmas Exhibition 23 Nov - 4 Jan 2025
29/10/2024 Sheffield
joyful /ˈdʒɔɪf(ʊ)l/ adjective feeling, expressing, or causing great pleasure and happiness. Christmas is a time of celebration and joy, we would like to invite artists and makers to submit work that responds to the title joyful
Lindy furby
I am a printmaker based in Edinburgh Scotland. I travel around the country in my campervan painting plein aire watercolour sketches of the landscape. Back in Edinburgh I convert these sketches into collagraphs and print them either at Edinburgh Printmakers or at home. I am trying to cover the...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #24: Samiya Younis
Samiya Younis, a British-born Pakistani artist in London, draws inspiration from her South Asian heritage. Her work blends contemporary and traditional techniques, exploring themes of identity, storytelling, and cultural complexity. Through sculpture, installation, performance, and painting, she challenges narratives, promoting dialogue and new perspectives.
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.
Fruitmarket
Fruitmarket is a free, public space for culture in the heart of Edinburgh, the Fruitmarket provides inspiration and opportunity for artists and audiences.
We programme, develop and present world-class exhibitions, commissions, publications, performances, events and engagement...
Dartmoor Autumn Residency - creative inspiration from an ancient landscape (final few spaces)
30/10/2024 Bellever, Dartmoor National Park, Devon
Dartmoor Autumn Residency – Creative Inspiration from an Ancient Landscape. Sunday 3rd November – Thursday 7th November. A fantastic opportunity to spend time with like-minded people in the inspiring location of Dartmoor (Postbridge) YHA nestled on the edge of Bellever Forest in the centre of Dartmoor National Park. This fascinating opportunity is curated to inspire art practitioners, researchers and thinkers alike.
Animate Projects
Animate Projects is an arts agency working at the intersection of film, animation and art, established in 2007 by curator/producers Abigail Addison and Gary Thomas. We're based in Derby and Folkestone. Since 2007 we've worked with over 120 artists, filmmakers and animators to make ambitious...
Sally Light (aka Bodkin Beak)
I'm a textile artist/writer with an employment history of working in the textile trades, for whom cloth has to be the natural substrate for my texts and photographic images. My themes are to do with communicating care for our environment through noticing it, and demonstrating how the knowledge...
New Horizons
Stourbridge Glass Museum, Wordsley
Exhibition
30/07/2024 to 17/11/2024
The New Horizons exhibition will showcase both traditional methods of glass making along with modern techniques, all producing contemporary work that challenges and explores the boundaries of glass. All the work on show will be either be made especially for the exhibition or is work which has been made since 2022 but has not been previously exhibited.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #24: Helen Emily Davy
Helen Emily Davy works in a diverse range of media such as installation, printmaking, collage, stained glass, embroidery, and text, incorporating archival material to examine questions related to subjectivity and the body. She often directs her attention to the intersection of science, technology, and representation, excavating the power dynamics which shape their mutual interactions.
Dark Skies, Wild Seas, Inspiring Landscapes - Cornwall (final few spaces)
30/10/2024 Chyvarloe, Helston TR12 7PY, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Dark Skies, Wild Seas, Inspiring Landscapes - Group Artist Residency, Lizard Peninsula Cornwall (Monday, November 18th to Friday, November 22nd 2024). A fantastic opportunity to spend time with like-minded people in the awe-inspiring dark skies and ecologically important location of the Lizard Peninsula of Cornwall. This fascinating arts-science-heritage opportunity is curated to inspire art practitioners, researchers and thinkers alike.
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'.
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...
Contract of Self Care
Luminara Florescu
This toolkit supports a best practice model for artists who have a social practice as well as the participating members of the public involved in their projects. It explores ways of working as a social practice artist that are sustainable for artists, including those with physical and mental health disabilities. Funded by a-n Artist Bursary 2021 TIME, SPACE, MONEY.
Nocturne
44AD, 4 Abbey St, Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
20/11/2024 to 24/11/2024
Nocturne explores the uncomfortable, liminal state between sleeping and waking. Experience Kate McDonnell's immersive installation exploring our relationship with insomnia which opens on November 20th, 2024.
Ryan Peter French
Ryan French graduated with a first degree from Manchester School of Art and is currently based in Manchester. His practice consists of painting, illustration and digital art. The subject matter of his work lies in the human condition, the ability to share and connect our experiences through...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #24: Fiona Campbell
Fiona Campbell is a Somerset-based artist, educator, curator, and a Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. She creates sculptural installations, using recycled and found materials. At the root of her practice is the notion of interconnectedness, with a focus on environmental concerns about human exploitation of nature.
The Naked Artist Collection
Jules Emporium, 5 New Rd,, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Exhibition
02/11/2024 to 30/11/2024
The Naked Artist, aka Suzie is a prolific free style emotive driven artist. This is captured through her lens and artwork over the last few decades. They will be showing a mixture of old artworks from previous exhibitions and some new photography pieces along with her love of words that are expressed in her work.
'Ultra Processed People' Experimental Video and Short Film Curated Showreel
30/10/2024 Vienna
'Ultra Processed People' Experimental Video and Short Film Curated Showreel VCAS - Vienna Contemporary Art Space (a small artist run organisation based in Vienna) is pleased to announce our Open Call to submit work for inclusion in 'Ultra Processed People' an experimental video and short film showreel dedicated to exploring the nature of ultra processed food and its impact on society, culture, and the human experience.
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.
Christine Heath
I am a textile artist living near the coast and influenced by the rough weather and the wonderful colours of the sea and the moors . I have a studio -- The Black Cat studio and like to do series of works based on the landscape and the seasons . Also climate change , with a big collection now...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #24: Sarah Goudie
Sarah Goudie works with contemplative making practices to investigate feminist narratives of touch and witness. She is fascinated by the space of drawing and the poetics of beauty and injury, poise and longing through the enduring presence of objects and land.
CGS DISCOVERY DAY at the V&A, London
V&A London, Cromwell Rd, , London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Symposium
07/12/2024
CGS returns to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for its final event of 2024. Come along to our Discovery Day which is open to all! Join inspired glass artists and listen to their fascinating stories.
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...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #24: Diana Terry
Diana Terry works in drawing, painting, collage and sculpture to explore how art can embody thought and emotions. With a background in teaching alongside her professional art practice, she has exhibited extensively including at Merzbarn, Scotland, Kolaj Fest, New Orleans, and The Mall Gallery, London, as well as being selected for the New Light Prize Exhibition.
Greener Grass - A Solo Exhibition by Lidija Antanasijević Winner of the 2022 Flourish Award
WYPW@ the Piazza Huddersfield, 42-44 Princess Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
02/11/2024 to 12/01/2025
Solo exhibition by Serbian-born, London-based artist and printmaker Lidija Antanasijević bringing together various works from across the artist’s expansive practice. The selected works showcase Lidija’s deep knowledge and fascination with printmaking and her mastery of the medium creating a multilayered show, centred around themes of personal and cultural belonging.
Jon Pountain
I am a Liverpool based painter and a member of Bridewell Studios. My work embraces the mystical and metaphysical. My latest paintings “The Sacred Mountain’ offer the viewer a journey into a place between worlds, bathed in the light of the moon, they are steeped in stillness and a connection...
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.