Steven Brown
I have returned to working as an artist after a long career as a Mental Health Nurse and have rediscovered the joy that creating art can bring. I work primarily with printmaking, working from a group studio in the Rossendale Valley in Lancashire. My surroundings, amongst the valleys on the...
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.
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.
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...
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.
Abstracted - Exhibition Open Call for Artists
07/11/2024 Online, Merseyside
"Abstracted" is an exhibition and a publication surrounding all works of abstract- what you portray with your abstract work (or your process) in your artistic practice. We encourage you to take the subject matter as conceptually or literally as possible, as it is a form of creative research on contemporary abstract art.
Sue Lynn
Sue is a contemporary artist from Yorkshire and has been painting for over 30 years. Gaining a Diploma in Fine Art and Crafts at Leeds College of Art, then going on to complete a BA Honours Degree in Art and Design at Bradford College. Primarily Sue use oil paint, to draw out intangible...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
Melanie King
Melanie is interested in the relationship between the environment, photography and materiality. Melanie intends to highlight the intimate connection between photographic materials and the natural world. Melanie is currently researching a number of sustainable photographic processes, to minimise...
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.
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.
Call for Performers
10/11/2024 Barking, London
Are you a poet, singer, or performer with a passion for the environment? We’re looking for talented individuals to take the stage at “I Am An Arktivist,” an exciting event dedicated to inspiring action on climate change and promoting sustainability.
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'.
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...
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.
Young Masters: For the Love of Art History - Call for Artists
10/11/2024 London, London
Young Masters’ latest project is an open call for an exhibition of works on the theme of ‘for the love of art history’, selected and curated by Director and Founder of Young Masters, Cynthia Valianti Corbett. We’re looking for artists who are inspired by their own love of art history to submit their work on this theme via the CuratorSpace platform until 10 November 2024.
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.
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.
Adrian James LRPS
I am a freelance photographer with a wide range of photographic interests, so I don't specialise in any particular genre. I do, however, love to create images that offer an unusual perspective on the every-day, which enables me to embrace macro photography, as well as documentary and street...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.