Intro to Ecological Film Making Workshop
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
16/08/2025
This workshop offers an easy and experimental introduction for anyone interested in making moving-images responding to the natural world. The workshop provides an overview to non-fiction filmmaking (AKA creative documentaries), enthusing participants with the techniques to play with creative approaches towards documentation in their own lives.
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.
Norma Foulds
I am an artist, maker, finder of things. I love to draw and use print. Sharing my knowledge and skills is an adventure, I am always learning from the people I work with and it is always amazing when people find they can achieve great things given the opportunity .
Couched/Laid Bayeux Stitch Workshop
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
24/05/2025
Often known as Bayeux stitch, laid and couched work was used all over Europe throughout the middle ages, often for very large pieces of embroidery/ Learn this fun easy technique using naturally dyed wool.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Gil Mualem-Doron
Gil Mualem-Doron is a transdisciplinary artist working across photography, film, large-scale installation, and textile art. His work focuses on decolonial practices, intersectional identities, everyday urbanism, and social and climate justice. While his practice is research-based and socially engaged, it is deeply influenced by his lived experiences as a neurodiverse, queer, Jewish migrant, and is firmly rooted in activism.
Japanese Papercut Workshop
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
06/09/2025
In this mindful and session, professional artist Pui Lee will help you to create your own unique design to be cut into paper to create a wonderful artwork to take home with you
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...
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.
Creative Hand-Stitching Workshop with Maria Walker
The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Workshop
18/01/2025
Create a unique and striking hand-stitched textile artwork from a simple line drawing in this full-day workshop.
Dreams & Memories - Free Open Call - Gallery Informal
17/01/2025 Online, Merseyside
Dreams & Memories is an Online and Virtual Exhibition Free Open Call by Gallery Informal. It invites artists to showcase their unfinished sketches and scrapped or rejected artwork revolving around the theme of dreams and memories.
ieva pazemeckaite
Ieva Pazemeckaite (ieva_bee) studied art from a young age at an art-based Primary and High School in Lithuania. Studied at the Lithuanian Art Academy where she decided to focus more on graphic design. Graduated BA Graphic design and Multimedia in the United State. My work is based of linocut...
Maria Walker - These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things Exhibition
The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Exhibition
04/01/2025 to 23/01/2025
Artist Maria Walker, one of the winners of The Horton Summer Exhibition 2024, exhibits a curated collection of her thought-provoking textile and mixed media work.
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.
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.
January in Colour
Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
11/01/2025 to 26/01/2025
The Annual Members' Exhibition
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...
The Horton Epsom - Makers Market - March 2025
19/01/2025 EPSOM, Surrey
Calling all artists and makers! We are planning our next curated arts and craft market, which will be on Saturday, 1 March 2025. This is an opportunity to showcase your items in The Horton Arts Centre, a beautifully renovated Grade II listed building. We’re especially looking for artists and those with a specific craft who design and make their own original items.
Artizan Collective Studios Exhibition Showcase
Artizan Collective, Unit 5, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
07/01/2025 to 02/02/2025
Discover the Studios, Support Local Art
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.
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...
Villa in the Jungle
Collective Action space, 56 Church Road, Hove, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Exhibition
11/01/2025 to 06/02/2025
Villa in the Jungle is a film installation by Gil Mualem-Doron, exploring the ideological and economic motivations behind Israel’s settlement project in the Occupied West Bank, as well as preparations for new settlements in Gaza and their devastating impact on the Palestinian population.
Julie French
I create drawings and paintings with machine thread, mostly onto furnishing fabrics and mainly using animals as inspiration, often using childhood memories as a starting point . I am inspired by a love of textures and layers and, although this can be achieved with paint, I believe that stitched...
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.
Two Day Stained Glass Workshop
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
14/02/2025 to 15/02/2025
On this two-day course, you will learn the basic skills of stained glass – choosing from a template or creating your own suitable design. The panel will be made up of coloured glass, some painted and kiln-fired glass, and soldered lead.
Call for Early Career Makers: Rising Stars 2025
20/01/2025 Farnham, Surrey
Rising Stars is a nationally recognised platform designed to support and celebrate early career makers, including students and graduates from BA and MA programmes in crafts, design, and applied arts across the UK. As one of the oldest arts charities in the country, New Ashgate Gallery has a long history of fostering emerging talent. The programme offers a vital first step into the marketplace, featuring a curated selling exhibition, further career opportunities, and audience development.
Bright and Beautiful - Works of Caroline Barker
Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
10/01/2025 to 15/02/2025
Artizan Printmaking and Sculpture Gallery 2025 Relaunch!
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'.
Dark Peak Photo Festival Lite
20/01/2025 Glossop, Derbyshire
"Calling all Dark Peak local or regionally linked artists who would like to display their own photographs on the theme “Lost & Found” in the window walk section of the Dark Peak Photography Lite Festival 2025".
Let Us See You: A Citywide Artistic Journey
Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Farsley
Exhibition
08/01/2025 to 23/02/2025
After an inspiring year championing creativity in Leeds, Let Us See You concludes with a spectacular exhibition at Sunny Bank Mills Gallery in Leeds.
George Sfougaras
I am an artist and recent curator.
My research and practical work are beginning to focus on the formation and expression of personal, religious and cultural identities. I have begun to exhibit and comment on the work that I generate in the form of blogs and publications....
Judy Boyt
Sculptor, artist working in bronze, resin, clay and drawings. Figurative and semi figurative human and animal world. Working in monumental scale down to small size with bronzes in the public realm such as Evocation of Speed in Epsom Town Centre and Rebellion in the City of London. In process...
Geopark Artist Residencies
Exhibition
20/09/2024 to 28/02/2025
Artists to Reveal Geopark Stories Through Creation of New Works
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.
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.
Emerging Journeys Exhibition
The Fire House, Thurston Road, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Competition
06/12/2024 to 28/02/2025
Join us for Emerging Journeys, an exhibition celebrating the artistic growth and achievements of 25 talented Yorkshire artists from our previous Emerging Artist Awards. This unique showcase offers a glimpse into their journeys as they evolve and establish their voices in the art world.
Contemporary Textiles Exhibition - Open Call
20/01/2025 Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Fronteer Gallery are looking for textile artwork by artists from across the UK for our exhibition Contemporary Textiles.
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...
A Sense of Place - An Exhibition by Maggie Thompson & Susan Wright
WYPW @ the Piazza Huddersfield, 42-44 Princess Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
25/01/2025 to 22/03/2025
This exhibition considers the different ways one can experience, think about, and get a sense of a place. It asks the viewer to think about place in the past, in its present form, and to imagine how it might be changed in the future.
Fragments of Reality: Art in the Digital Age
20/01/2025 London
SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN! We are in search of visual artists to submit their art to be showcased in an online exhibition. Artists of all mediums and from all countries are welcome to apply, including painters, sculptors, photographers, designers, and video artists.
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.
Feminism & Contemporary Art: Disobedient Bodies
The Old Waterworks, North Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
Symposium
06/02/2025 to 27/03/2025
A short course for artists and enthusiasts who want to learn about feminist theories influencing contemporary art today.
Cameron Lings
Cameron Lings is a contemporary artist from the industrial-known town: Scunthorpe, UK. His practice combines elements of science and mathematics, these factors are critical in realising his uniquely abstract forms, where artistic form is generated from data-sets. Material choice also proves...
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.
Artizan Printmakers and Sculpture Open Season – Winter
Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
28/11/2024 to 29/03/2025
Introducing our new venture as we transition to a dedicated Printmaking and Sculpture Gallery.
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.
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...
Two Day Ply-split Braiding workshop
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
28/03/2025 to 29/03/2025
This two-day workshop is an introduction to ply-splitting, and gives a good grounding in the key ‘stitches’ or ‘weaves’ that are used. We start simply and build gradually, making braids, small mats and projects.
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.
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
Adele Jackson
I’m currently exploring the connection between the sun, Antarctica, and human activity over the austral summer season. I describe myself as an environmental artist. I’m interested in the interrelationships between people, places, culture and nature. In 2017, I moved from the UK to New...
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.
Creative Life Drawing in Provence, France 2025
Maison Sylvette, Place Du Patiol, Camaret sur Aigues, France
Workshop
19/05/2025 to 25/05/2025
For any skill level, this class brings out your creative potentials in a joyful atmosphere, and beautiful environment. With home cooked food and tasty wines from the region, this 6 day course is a perfect unwind and delight where you can explore your creativity working in the studio and outside with time and freedom to experiment with different mark making materials and methods of expression.