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Event

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.

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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

Richard Kitchen

I am a visual artist based in York, UK. Formerly a teacher of literature & drama in the UK and Spain, I was awarded an MA in Fine Art in 2020 and went on to co-manage a community gallery and studio at 23 Piccadilly. I'm a co-founder of NAVIGATORS ART, a York-based collective of artists,...

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Event

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.

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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

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

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Curator profile

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....

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Resource

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.

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Event

Carers Strike Art Installation!

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
07/12/2024 to 21/12/2024

Car­ers Can’t Strike!

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Upcoming opportunity

The 2024 Show - Exhibition Open Call for Artists

25/12/2024   Online, Merseyside  

The 2024 Show is a publication-exhibition mix consisting of works from 2024 to celebrate the end of the year and super contemporary artists and their works. We are only accepting work from 2024 in this open call.

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Artist profile

TG Freeson

Contemporary abstract artist. Inspired by the sea, (nature, people), science.

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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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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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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

Capturing the Inner Sound

Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
26/11/2024 to 24/12/2024

Artizan Printmaking and Sculpture Gallery welcomes Exeter based printmaker Val Jones for their closing exhibition of 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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Upcoming opportunity

Living Artists Auction of Contemporary Artworks - Call For Submissions

28/12/2024     

Sell your work to our international art collectors in our 'Living Artists contemporary Art Auction.

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Event

In Search of Ghosts

Exhibition
16/12/2024 to 29/12/2024

Isabel Young Solo Exhibition in Virtual Reality

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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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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

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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Artist profile

Inés Rae

Trained in Fine Art, Rae’s work uses photography, text, video and sound to explore representation, femininity, consumer culture and the everyday. Rae's research aims to analyse the labour of femininity in a contemporary photographic culture where this still remains largely invisible.

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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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Event

Memory Book Workshop with Maria Walker

The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Workshop
10/01/2025

Create a unique and beautiful Memory Book to display a treasured personal item in this full-day workshop.

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Upcoming opportunity

OPEN CALL: THE NEW DAWN

29/12/2024   6 Old Fox Yard, Stowmarket IP14 1AB, Suffolk  

Start the new year on a positive note by being part of The New Dawn, our first show of the year 2025 at Fox Yard Studio. New Year is a synonym for fresh beginnings, a time for reflection, and a chance to make new resolutions. With only a few weeks to go before this year ends, we are inviting artists to participate in our upcoming show, The New Dawn, which looks forward to the new year 2025 with a sense of faith and optimism. It will run from January 10th to 21st, with a private view reception on Friday, January 10th, 6-8 pm.

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Event

23rd Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality

Exhibition
14/12/2024 to 10/01/2025

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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Upcoming opportunity

neuro-diverse open call for solo shows or small groups

31/12/2024   newcastle  

A contemporary Gallery operating here in the centre of Newcastle is run by the members at Inspired Support. Are you an artist looking to share your work with new, wider audiences here in the northeast of England? We’re inviting artists who have a series of work, to put together for a proposal for solo shows or small group shows.

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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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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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Artist profile

Alexandra Campbell

Alexandra is an emerging photographer based in Nottingham, using 35mm film to create her work. She captures nature and abstract portraits that explore themes of connection, identity, and vulnerability.

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Event

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.

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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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Resource

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.

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Event

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.

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Upcoming opportunity

Call for artists for Artsy and Artspacer

31/12/2024   Barking, London  

Calling all environmental professionals and emerging artists! We’re offering an exclusive chance to showcase your work on two of the world’s leading art platforms—Artsy and Artsper. This is a golden opportunity to reach serious collectors in the UK and US, gain global exposure, and elevate your art career. The best part? No upfront fees, only a commission on sales!

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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

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.

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Upcoming opportunity

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #26

31/12/2024     

The CuratorSpace Artist Bursary programme aims to support artists with the cost of projects. Bursaries of up to £500 will be awarded per round.

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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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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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Artist profile

Marina Murvanidze Mitchell

Marina is a Georgian American artist, based in London. She has exhibited in London, New York, Washington, DC, Naples and Tbilisi. Marina had her first solo show in Tbilisi. She holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Art Academy London, MPP from Princeton University, MA English from Tbilisi...

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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

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.

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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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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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Event

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.

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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

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.

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Artist profile

Shona Davies

Shona Davies and Jon Klein both studied at Sir John Cass College of Art where they graduated in 2007 with first class honours. They were also joint recipients of the Owen Rowley Prize and John Cass Purchase prize. Klein specialised in Time Based Media and Davies in Printmaking and 3-D. Dave...

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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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