Event

Landscape, Stems and Form

Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
17/09/2024 to 16/10/2024

Taking A Deeper Look - Connecting With The Landscape and Environment

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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

Hermione Crowe

Textiles designer/maker/tutor specialising in embroider, knitting, crochet and spinning.

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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

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Mill Bridge Gallery, 3 Mill Bridge, Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
21/09/2024 to 19/10/2024

Built in 1675 and a Grade II listed building, Mill Bridge Gallery is managed by a group of six local artists, all working in different media. They have teamed up with a further seven local artists who have exhibited at The Gallery previously, all of them creating artwork in various media that is specific to our autumnal theme.

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Curator profile

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...

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Event

Randomness in Focus

Willesden Gallery, 95 High Rd, London
Exhibition
15/10/2024 to 26/10/2024

The inspiration for this exhibition comes from the randomness of the tiny marks and scrapes I see throughout my day. They could be a tiny scuff on a wall or pavement; cracked plaster on a tube station platform, paint drips or smudges on his easel or studio floor. These marks trigger my mind and take me to another place and I hope others have the same experience too when seeing my work.

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Resource

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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Upcoming opportunity

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SCULPTORS - Gilbert Bayes Award for early career sculptors 2025

15/10/2024   South Kensington, London  

The Gilbert Bayes Award for early career sculptors is given annually by the Society to a small group of outstandingly talented sculptors. Selected by the sculptor members of the Society’s Board and a guest judge, the award provides vital support during what can be a difficult transition from study to professional practice. The award is open to sculptors of any age or nationality, with or without formal training and working in any style of media.

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Event

Wildlife Unleashed : Solo Exhibition By Anne Bardsley

Merseyway Shopping Centre, Stockport, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
21/10/2024 to 27/10/2024

This exhibition is a rare opportunity to see some of Anne's original artwork, limited edition prints, and unique gifts that feature vulnerable and endangered animals from around the world all presented in a variety of artistic styles.

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Artist profile

Adam Davis

Hello I'm Adam, I'm born and bred in Hertfordshire but currently living in north west London. Painting has always been a passion of mine and now I'm seeking to turn my love of art into creating unique pieces for all to enjoy.

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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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Event

10th Community Art Exhibition

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
10/10/2024 to 27/10/2024

New collective exhibition!

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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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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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Event

Affinity

Nolias Gallery, 60 Great Suffolk St, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
23/10/2024 to 27/10/2024

Affinity: A Joint Exhibition by Bradley Mallett and Hannah Pratt A collaboration by old friends sharing one passion

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Upcoming opportunity

IOAEA Online Residency Program - Fall/Winter

15/10/2024     

We are delighted to announce the open call for our Online Residency Program, inviting eco, social, and political artists worldwide to participate in a six-week online program from November 2024 to February 2025.

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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

21st Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality

Exhibition
09/10/2024 to 01/11/2024

Online the new Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality

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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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Artist profile

K.Komix

I am a working class queer artist.

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Event

Human Experience II

Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
06/10/2024 to 03/11/2024

From the Edinburgh Fringe to the English Riviera: “The Artists’ Pool” Come to Take a Dip with Artizan Collective

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News article

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.

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Upcoming opportunity

Wembley Park Art Trail: Phone Boxes Installation

17/10/2024   London, London  

Wembley Park Art Trail: Phone Boxes Winter Installation An open call for artists to create an interactive winter installation, using Wembley Park's restored K2 phone boxes as symbols of dialogue and connection. This installation will transform the phone boxes into illuminated mini-galleries, inviting the public to reflect on communication in today's digital age.

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Event

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.

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Upcoming opportunity

The Fronteer Open 2024 - Open Call

18/10/2024   Sheffield, South Yorkshire  

Submissions for The Fronteer Open 2024 are now open. Fronteer Gallery's annual open exhibition offers the chance to win an exhibition for two prize winners. Sponsored by CuratorSpace.

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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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Event

Animal Magic

Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
29/10/2024 to 16/11/2024

Relationships and Interactions - Vanishing Species

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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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Event

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.

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Artist profile

Estella Scholes

I am a contemporary artist based in Crewe, with strong links to North Wales and the Welsh Borders. I originally trained as a painter but now specialise in various techniques of original printmaking, print collage, and in artists books. I worked in adult education for many years, and run...

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News article

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.

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Resource

Funding library

The White Pube

This library is a resource of successful funding applications that you can learn from to write your own bids. It also includes links to other resources such as application templates and crib sheets.

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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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Upcoming opportunity

Time: The Passage of Time and Cycles of Life

19/10/2024   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.

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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

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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Upcoming opportunity

#Release Your Inner Rebel Selfie / Self-portrait competition

20/10/2024     

Release Your Inner Rebel and win exciting prizes!

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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: 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

Gino Parisi

Gino Parisi has a passion for all things creative, channelling creative energy in order to manifest thought provoking artwork. ”When I look at a painting that I have finished, I have no idea how I did it and I wouldn’t be able to repaint it, I have no idea where it came from. I have...

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News article

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.

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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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Resource

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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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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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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News article

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.

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Event

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.

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Artist profile

JILL TEMPORAL

I am a female visual Artist from Doncaster working from my rurally situated Studio, I am inspired by the beauty of the natural world and paint predominately using my preferred mediums of Acrylic and watercolour paint. My paintings often include elements of neo impressionism and I work with a...

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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

Creative Life Drawing in Provence, France 2025

Maison Sylvette, Place Du Patiol, Camaret sur Aigues, France
Workshop
15/09/2025 to 21/09/2025

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.

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