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

Miriam Habibe

Miriam Habibe is a contemporary textile artist working with fibres, canvas, organic materials, and painted glass, creating art that flows with the different textures and elements she encounters. Her works often symbolizes the connection between the inner world and the outer environment,...

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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 #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

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

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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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

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.

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Upcoming opportunity

Exhibit in Brazil - Orbital Exhibition

20/02/2025   São Paulo  

A unique opportunity for artists to show their work in a different country without having to be physically present.

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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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Event

12th Community Art Exhibition

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
01/02/2025 to 23/02/2025

Dis­cov­er diverse art­works by 21 tal­ent­ed artists: unique styles, tech­niques, and themes to inspire every art enthusiast!

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Artist profile

Fiona Campbell

I'm an artist, educator and curator. I create sculptural installations, using recycled and found materials. At the root of my practice is the notion of interconnectedness, with a focus on environmental concerns about human exploitation of nature. Projects include step in stone '15 and B-Wing...

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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

24th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality

Circular Artspace - MetArtSpace
Exhibition
08/02/2025 to 24/02/2025

The 24th Com­mu­ni­ty Art Exhi­bi­tion in Vir­tu­al Real­i­ty is now open and acces­si­ble until 24 Feb­ru­ary 2025.

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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

Time and Place

The Station, Station Yard, Richmond, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
14/02/2025 to 25/02/2025

A collaboration of photography and textiles documenting nature through time and history.

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Upcoming opportunity

Gwen May Trust Recent Graduate Award

20/02/2025   London, London  

The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) is offering a student membership of two years plus £1000 from the Gwen May Trust to two recent printmaking graduates. Membership to the society includes the opportunity to participate in RE exhibitions for two years both nationally and internationally. Any printmaking graduate who has graduated in 2024 can apply, there will be two winners.

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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

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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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

Artizan Women's Open Exhibition 2025

21/02/2025   Torquay, Devon  

Artizan Women's Open Exhibition 2025. The Artizan Women’s Open Exhibition has become an established feature of our programme, providing an annual platform to celebrate and amplify the voices of women in the arts. Each year, we continue to reflect on themes of visibility, recognition, and equity, inviting women artists to share their diverse perspectives and talents.

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Event

The Mill Gallery Presents "The Still & Me" Exhibition and "Art By Chance"

The Mill Gallery, Unit 5 Cardinal House, Swinnow Grange Mills, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
07/02/2025 to 28/02/2025

Still Life, but Make It Modern! Plus, Art with a Twist!

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Artist profile

Hayley Mills-Styles

I'm a Yorkshire based textile artist using fabric and thread to tell stories through socially engaged projects.

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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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Event

Emerging Journeys Exhibition

The Fire House, Thurston Road, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
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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Upcoming opportunity

Our Home – Natural World - Publication&Exhibition Open Call for Artists

21/02/2025   Online, Merseyside  

Our Home - Natural World explores the landscape, flora, fauna and everything about our natural world. It can be as something as small as nature in urban spaces or to the biggest and greatest vast landscapes that surround this world.

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Event

Torbay Students Exhibition 2025

Artizan Collective, Unit 5, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
15/02/2025 to 02/03/2025

Nurturing Creative Minds: A Celebration of Young Artists in Torbay.

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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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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

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.

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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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Upcoming opportunity

Men Art/ Special Edition

22/02/2025   Tbilisi  

Collect Art is looking for MEN artists, working in different media, such as painting, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, contemporary jewelry, textile, installation, illustration, mixed media, photography, collage, digital art, and more...

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Event

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.

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Artist profile

Magdalena 'NariVida' Domagalska

I am a visual artist exploring the emotional depth and strength of the human experience through acrylic and mixed-media paintings. My work blends vibrant colors, textures, and abstract forms with figurative elements, creating pieces that celebrate authenticity, resilience, and the beauty of...

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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

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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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 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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Upcoming opportunity

Figures and Forms - Free Open Call - Gallery Informal

22/02/2025   Online, Merseyside  

Figures and Forms is a FREE Online and Virtual Exhibition Open Call by Gallery Informal which invites artists to showcase their unfinished, sketches, scrapped or rejected figurative artworks (or artworks relating to the human body).

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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

Animalium Miscellaneum – Works of Anna Walsh

Artizan Printmaking & Sculpture Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/02/2025 to 29/03/2025

Artizan welcomes London based artist Anna Walsh as we continue our series of solo shows at our dedicated printmaking and sculpture gallery on Lucius Street.

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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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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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Event

Drawing with Charcoal - with Artist Kate Boucher 29th - 30th March 2025

The Old Lock Up Gallery, 19 The Hill , Cromford, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
29/03/2025 to 30/03/2025

Charcoal Drawing with Artist Kate Boucher at The Old Lock Up Gallery, 29th - 30th March 2025

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Artist profile

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...

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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, studying urban identity in North Macedonia. She also runs Aral Sea Productions and is a producer at HERProductions.

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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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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

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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Artist profile

Georges Meisner

My name is Georges Meisner. I am a video artist/filmmaker

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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

Summer Hues, creative workshop

The Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford , Derbyshire., Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
17/08/2025 to 18/08/2025

Two day workshop exploring colour and the therapeutic value of handstitching.

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