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

Margaret O'Brien

I am a visual artist - BA (Limerick School of Art), MFA (Slade School of Art, London), MPhil and PhD (Trinity College Dublin). I have won public funding from state bodies such as Arts Council of Ireland, Arts & Humanities Research Board UK, and Irish Research Council. My work is held in...

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #26: Alice Sheppard Fidler

Alice Sheppard Fidler received the Gilbert Bayes Award from the Royal Society of Sculptors, the CAS Emerging Sculptor Development Award in 2023/4, and is an Associate at Spike Island, Bristol. She is a founding member of Studio Voltaire Gallery and Arts Charity and runs the artist-led initiative The Hide Artist Retreat. Before completing her MA in Fine Art at the University of the West of England in 2020, she worked in design for television, film, and fashion.

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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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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

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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Resource

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.

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Upcoming opportunity

Artist Open Call: Palette x Palate - Art, food, and the land that connects us

02/04/2025   Dungarvan, County Waterford  

CALL TO ARTISTS ‘Palette x Palate’ – A Food-Inspired Art Exhibition Coinciding with the Waterford Festival of Food Dungarvan, Ireland

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Event

Mala Necklace Workshop

The Horton - Epsom, Haven Way, Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom
Workshop
11/04/2025

Friday 11th April, 10am – 1pm Design and make your ‘Mala style’ necklace. This knotted necklace is similar to the traditional Mala in style, using your own sequence of beads and finishing with the traditional tassel.

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Artist profile

Teresa Williams

Since completing my Photography MA (Falmouth) in autumn 2019, I have been working hard to establish myself as a visual artist in the digital field. Alongside this I have been a support to my elderly parents and cared for children of key workers in my family during the pandemic . I ...

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #26: Helen Thompson

Helen Thompson's art practice focuses on the body, movement, and embodied experience, with a strong emphasis on mark-making and line. She works intuitively to create drawings, paintings, and mixed media pieces that explore and express these themes drawing upon personal experiences.

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Event

Children's Lino Printing Workshop

The Horton - Epsom, Haven Way, Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom
Workshop
08/04/2025

Tuesday 8th April, 10.30am- 12.30pm Young artists will learn the traditional relief printing method using poly blocks to create colourful prints to frame at home. Artists will explore images, scale, line, composition, colour and the reduction process to create their prints.

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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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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

Chinese Brush Painting - Magnolia

The Horton - Epsom, Haven Way, Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom
Workshop
10/04/2025

Thursday 10th April, 10:30am – 3pm Capture the spirit of spring with this Chinese Brush Painting workshop. Experienced tutor Angela Reich would love to help you enjoy this unique art form. Anyone can learn – no previous art experience is needed.

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Upcoming opportunity

Open Call For All Artist: INTERGRADE

02/04/2025   london, London  

We sincerely invite artists to participate in this group exhibition exploring the boundary between the virtual and the real world, the artificial and the natural.

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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

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

b-side

b-side is an arts organisation based in Dorset, UK. We work with and commission artists to make new site-responsive work revealing the marginal, often forgotten and less commercial aspects of our coastal towns and communities. We invite professional artists to make artworks in response to...

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Artist profile

Anastassia Zamaraeva

Anastassia Zamaraeva is a London based sculptural ceramic artist. Anastassia's work as an art therapist has had a profound influence on her art practice, which now rests on the meeting point of art and art therapy.

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Event

Care-Full Creativity

Elsie Whiteley Innovation Centre, Hopwood Lane, Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
10/04/2025

How can cultural sector freelancers develop resilient practices that maintain wellbeing and sustain creativity? Free one-day course

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #26: Sam Ivin

Sam Ivin is a photographic artist who explores social issues and the people connected with them. By documenting their stories and perspectives he hopes to provide a more personal, tangible understanding of them. His process often involves hosting photography workshops, where he creates collaborative artwork with project participants.

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Upcoming opportunity

Leek Open Studios - Meet the Maker 2025

04/04/2025   LEEK  

This is a one-day event and will be held on Saturday, 20th September 2025, from 10 am until 4 pm. Leek is a wonderfully creative town, and our event is designed to offer local (30-mile radius) artists or designer-makers the chance to celebrate their creativity and showcase how they work to an engaged and enthusiastic audience.

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Event

25th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality

Circular Artspace - MetArtSpace
Exhibition
14/03/2025 to 12/04/2025

Circular ArtSpace is delighted to announce the 25th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality, an immersive digital showcase running from 14 March to 12 April 2025. This innovative exhibition brings together a diverse group of talented artists, offering audiences worldwide the opportunity to engage with contemporary art in a unique and interactive way.

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Upcoming opportunity

Spring Show

04/04/2025   Leeds  

SPRING Show - Open Call for Exhibition (2 - 5th May 2025)

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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

Artizan Women's Open Exhibition 2025

Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
09/03/2025 to 13/04/2025

The Artizan Women’s Open Exhibition returns for 2025, continuing its mission to celebrate, amplify, and champion women artists in a diverse and inclusive showcase.

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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

Any Other Business

The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park. Clinton Road, London, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
04/04/2025 to 14/04/2025

The renowned international Prism Textiles returns to the Art Pavilion in Mile End with their latest exhibition of contemporary textile-inspired art inspired by Any Other Business.

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Artist profile

Greg Kent

I am a teacher of Geography and until a few years ago I never thought I had a creative bone in my body. I then discovered wood turning and the joy of shaping wood as if it was clay. I have rapidly moved away from traditional wood turning and like to use a variety of non-traditional wood and...

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #26: Milly Aburrow

Through a playful colour palette and a comical stylisation, Milly Aburrow's work characterises the parameters of commercialisation, consumerist society, and particularly contemporary food culture. She was a recipient of the Kenneth Armitage Young Sculpture Prize 2023 and exhibits in galleries across the UK.

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Resource

Artist Rates of Pay

Artist Union England

A guide to help artists and their employers in England to determine fair pay for artists' labour.

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Event

Mind the Gap

Westminster Reference Library, 35 St Martin's Street, London, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
29/03/2025 to 16/04/2025

Have you ever felt stuck, unsure how to move forward? Or the euphoria of a moment so big it feels like you might burst? These extremes and the transitional spaces between them, form the heart of my immersive exhibition Mind The Gap.

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Upcoming opportunity

*** OPEN CALL FOR ALL STUDENTS of ART & WRITING *** GET YOUR WORK PUBLISHED AND BUILD YOUR CV

04/04/2025     

CALLING art students pursuing a BA, MA, or PhD. We are running a student issue and are so excited to see your work included in the art zine Haus-a-rest

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Event

Creative Typography Course

The Horton - Epsom, Haven Way, Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom
Workshop
16/04/2025 to 23/04/2025

Two week course running on the 16th & 23rd April, 1:30pm – 4:30pm. The tradition of illustrating with type dates back to the earliest documents and books.

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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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Upcoming opportunity

Threshold Issue 01: Artwork and Writing Open Call

06/04/2025     

Threshold is an experimental publication. We are accepting submissions of artworks and writings for our first issue around the themes of 'contamination'.

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Event

Hand and Treasure

Hebden Bridge Town Hall, St George's Street, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Art fair
26/04/2025 to 27/04/2025

A curated art and vintage fair in central Hebden Bridge with a good reputation and high footfall. Held at Hebden Bridge Town Hall; a community hub with a cafe and a lovely large hall. The fair is run by artist Julia Ogden and is the fifth fair.

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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

Jasmine Sheckleford

After a recent discovery of Polaroid Instant Camera. My artistic journey has taken me down many disciplines, From what may seem to be outdated photography, To experimental Cyanotypes and emotional ink drawings.

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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.

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Event

14th Community Art Exhibition

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
05/04/2025 to 27/04/2025

Explore a diverse collection of artworks in our unique double-decker bus gallery, showcasing the talent of artists from Bristol and beyond. A true celebration of creativity!

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Resource

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

IMAGINISM – A Celebration of Art & Imagination at Vellum Mill Gallery 🎨✨

Vellum Mill Gallery, 76a Mill Lane , London, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
25/04/2025 to 02/05/2025

**IMAGINISM** is a vibrant exhibition celebrating creativity and imagination through diverse artistic styles. Featuring expressive paintings, mixed media, and sculpture, this dynamic showcase brings together established and emerging artists. Join us at Vellum Mill Gallery for an inspiring journey into art, with live music at the exclusive Private View on 25th April! 🎨✨

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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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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

Swipe Right 4 Art

Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
18/04/2025 to 04/05/2025

Sienna Editions presents their first exhibition 'Swipe Right 4 Art' at Artizan Gallery, opening April 17th for a special two-week showcase.

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Artist profile

Steve Cussons

Steve Cussons is a London-based artist who explores process and materiality through printmaking, drawing and digital media. Finding inspiration from her background in mathematics and physics, she seeks to convey the excitement of the enquiry into the nature of matter and energy. She has been...

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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

Lucy May Schofield - Scrolls: The Continuous Page

WYPW at the Piazza Huddersfield, 42-44 Princess Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Talk
09/05/2025

Join artist Lucy May Schofield as she discusses the scroll as a record of time, distance, and unfolding narratives. In this talk and Q&A, Lucy explores the significance of the scroll as both a historical form and its contemporary relevance in telling stories.

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