Event

Quaker Tapestry Christmas Craft Fair

The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Art fair
22/11/2024 to 23/11/2024

Quaker Tapestry Christmas Craft Fair

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Case study

Case study: The Dispensary Gallery

The Dispensary Gallery is a research-led art gallery in Wrexham. Its dynamic programme of exhibitions and events brings together local, national and international artist-researchers, providing a supportive hub and a space to display their work.

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Artist profile

LightBreath by Nathan Obokoh

Nathan Obokoh is an interdisciplinary storyteller weaving together poetry, performance, colour and light to take people on an elemental journey into the mystery of life he calls LightBreath. These sculptural stories create an unfolding tapestry of vibrant, living colour from a single pure...

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #25: Matilda Moors

Matilda Moors an artist and academic working with sculpture, writing, print and installation. She deploys languages associated with youth culture to create pieces with a skewed-cartoonesque-cuteness. Her practice and research focus on the tension between cuteness and violence as a way to probe the contradictions in contemporary consumer culture.

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Event

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.

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Curator profile

Saltaire Inspired Team

Saltaire Inspired is an ambitious arts charity, creating quality contemporary arts events in unique settings.

We have a vision to establish Saltaire as an internationally recognised centre for the visual arts, inspiring people of all ages and...

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Resource

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.

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Event

11th Community Art Exhibition

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
02/11/2024 to 24/11/2024

A new col­lec­tive art exhibition

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Upcoming opportunity

Colour, International Photography Exhibition

22/11/2024   Glasgow  

Call for entries for an International Photography Exhibition. This month-long exhibition will be a photography exhibition with the theme Colour. Free to submit, open to everyone.

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Artist profile

Jonathan Smith

I am a self-taught, semi-professional painter, based on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. My work is created in oils and seeks to reflect my personal responses to the landscapes around me. My love of the light and the landscape are reflected in my work as are environmental concerns.

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #25: Kayleigh Peters

Kayleigh Peters is a visual artist and facilitator. Her work focuses on themes of health, wellbeing and connection to earth and nature through the lens of her personal experience of living with hidden illness.

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Event

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.

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Case study

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.

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Upcoming opportunity

Monochrome, International Photography Exhibition

22/11/2024   Glasgow  

Call for entries for an International Photography Exhibition. This month-long exhibition will be a photography exhibition with the theme Monochrome. Free to submit, open to everyone.

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Curator profile

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...

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Event

Online Beginners Hand Embroidery Workshop

Workshop
30/11/2024

Learn how to get started with embroidery, creating a stitched sampler using a variety of hand embroidery stitches including satin stitch, feather stitch and French knots. Hayley will guide you through the basics including using an embroidery hoop and transferring a design onto fabric to embroider.

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Contemporary Visual Arts Network England

CVAN England leads a collective agenda for policy change across the visual arts. They campaign to be heard, valued, and recognised so that the sector can thrive now and in the future. Links to nine regional networks across England.

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Artist profile

Dave Mitchell

Dave Mitchell is a Gay artist working predominantly on canvas particularly focused on the pervasive nature of darkness upon a world of colour, as a visual metaphor for mental health challenges in the modern age; primary vision is through the eyes of an LGBTQ+ adult. Dave believes that Art is a...

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Event

The Challenges You Don't See

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
27/11/2024 to 01/12/2024

You don’t always know what someone else is going through

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #25: Emily Hawes

Emily Hawes is an artist and educator based between Lancing and Bournemouth, working with 8mm & 16mm analogue film. Her films unearth the interconnections between places, people, histories and ecologies.

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Upcoming opportunity

Call for Artists: Be Part of “I Am An Arktivist”

24/11/2024   Barking, London  

We invite environmental artists to showcase their work at “I Am An Arktivist” on November 30th—an event that combines creativity and action to inspire a sustainable future.

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Upcoming opportunity

Open Call for Liminal Art

25/11/2024   Leicester  

We want your LIMINAL and SURREAL art for an online gallery exhibition!

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Event

22nd Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality

Exhibition
09/11/2024 to 06/12/2024

The new Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality is up and running. 


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Case study

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'.

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Curator profile

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...

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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.

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Event

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.

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Artist profile

Ali Barker

My work expresses music and sound in colour. I create abstract paintings, mixed-media work and installations inspired by my personal experiences of sound-colour synaesthesia – when I listen to music, each note of the musical scale is perceived as a specific colour. I completed my MA in Fine...

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #25: Pauline Blanchet

Pauline Blanchet is an award-winning film director and producer whose work explores sports, nationalism, and identity. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the School of Advanced Study and EHESS, studying urban identity in North Macedonia. She also runs Aral Sea Productions and is a producer at HERProductions.

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Event

English Riviera Winter Open Exhibition

Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
10/11/2024 to 24/12/2024

Wrapping up another year of Art on the English Riviera

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Upcoming opportunity

OPEN CALL - ARTISTS OF THE SEASON

25/11/2024   London, London  

OPEN CALL TO MULTIMEDIA ARTISTS WORLDWIDE. Submit NOW for an opportunity to get featured for the WINTER Season!

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Upcoming opportunity

Open call for applications for International Artists in Residency Program 2025, Kathmandu, Nepal

27/11/2024   Chobhar, Kirtipur, Kathmandu  

Bikalpa Art Foundation is a dedicated platform for nurturing young artistic talents from around the world. We are committed to fostering creativity and cultural exchange and provide a space for emerging artists to thrive. Our Artists in Residence Program was established in 2013 to support artists and creative thinkers of all genres.

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Curator profile

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...

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Event

Newcastle arts centre winter exhibition

Newcastle Arts Centre, 67 Westgate Road , Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Exhibition
16/11/2024 to 04/01/2025

Annual winter group exhibition featuring all artists associated with the Newcastle Arts Centre

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Case study

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.

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Artist profile

Kate Peel

Exploring psychological and cultural permutations of space guide the focus of Peel's practice. When making work she thinks about how changing the context of space can relocate it into a new spectrum of reference. Her work is deeply embedded in the appropriation of images and material. She ...

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News article

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.

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Event

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.

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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.

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Curator profile

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...

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Event

Geopark Artist Residencies

Exhibition
20/09/2024 to 28/02/2025

Artists to Reveal Geopark Stories Through Creation of New Works

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News article

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.

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Artist profile

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...

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Case study

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.

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Event

Art School Nepal

Til Swuara Hill Farm where you will be overlooking Annapurna Range, Nepal
Workshop
24/03/2025 to 03/04/2025

Art Holiday in Nepal

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