Event

MINI TEXTILE HANGINGS WORKSHOP

The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
25/05/2024

Do you have a collection of natural treasures that you’d like to use in your work but are not sure how? This workshop will explore ways of combining fabrics, found objects, natural treasures such as feathers and shells and hand embroidery to create beautiful mini hangings.

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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

Georgia Peskett

Paintings of Nature Morte, memento mori and female conditions. She regularly exhibits her work nationally and internationally. Selected for The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2015, 2019, 2020, 2022 The Columbia Threadneedle Prize 2018, Art on a Postcard 2015,16,17,18, 19, 20,21 Wells Art...

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Event

Reimagining the Landscape

Bulkeley, Cheshire
Workshop
26/04/2024

Two-day weekend art workshops with creativity and mindfulness/well-being at its core. Suitable for all abilities from complete beginners who think they might enjoy being out in a landscape playing with a variety of mixed art media to those with experience who are looking to loosen up their work and get new ideas about artistic process.

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Rebecca Korn

Rebecca Korn's interdisciplinary practice stems from a fascination with the intersections between art and science. Her recent interests explore the posthuman body, investigating ideas around symbiosis, sympoiesis and speculative futures, re/imagining how bodies may adapt/evolve through learning from and with non-human counterparts.

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Event

Calligraphy Workshop

The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
05/07/2024

Learn how to write gorgeously swirly modern calligraphy with your tutor Claire Gould, of ‘By Moon & Tide’. You’ll have fun getting to grips with a dip pen and copperplate nib in this friendly and relaxed calligraphy workshop. From initial scratches and swirls you’ll soon be learning how to write beautiful letters, all in the space of a couple of hours!

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Curator profile

Saltaire Inspired

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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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

Pebble Mosaic Workshop with David James of Olicana Mosaics in Ilkley

Workshop
27/04/2024

Learn how to create a stunning pebble mosaic that will provide a talking point for your garden from David James of Olicana Mosaics.

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Upcoming opportunity

Metamorphosis: Exploring Transformation Through Art

18/04/2024   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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Artist profile

Sofia Sefraoui

My work investigates both the uses of fabrics and the processes of making clothes. Sofia's work always revolved around the concepts of cultural exchanges and trade. Her work always looked at past events and their present consequences. Her research often draws from anthropology and sociology.

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Event

Breaking with Humanity? Double film screening and panel discussion

The Castle Cinema, 64-66 Brooksby's Walk, First floor, London, London, United Kingdom
Talk
19/04/2024

Join us at The Castle Cinema for an evening of engaging films and discussions on how to move on from the ongoing national and global colonial violence and dehumanization the two films explore.

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Natalia Janula

Natalia Janula is a Polish-born artist of Roma heritage, currently based in London. Their artistic practice spans sculpture, moving image, installation and performance. They are interested in urban and natural environments and the slippage between the two. Repeated themes within their work include domestic and fictional landscapes, object oriented ontologies, queer interspecies bodies and the natural world.

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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

The Great Art Competition

Little Longstone Chapel, Butts Road, Little Longstone, Bakewell, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
21/04/2024

Friends of little Longstone Chapel bring you our first en plein air art competition, sponsored by Hobbs Cafe, Loxley Arts, and Richard Whittlestone Wildlife Gallery.

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Upcoming opportunity

Deconstruction and Abstraction - Open Call for Artists

18/04/2024   Liverpool, Merseyside  

Deconstruction and Abstraction is an exhibition exploring how artists deconstruct concepts and elements within their practice while investigating how abstraction intercepts into this.

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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

The Great Paignton Paint Out - Legacy Exhibition

Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
24/03/2024 to 21/04/2024

Celebrating a Creative Paignton - Part of Wide Open

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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

Living Artists Contemporary Art Auction for USA Auction Market

21/04/2024     

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

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Event

Collective Creativity

The Atrium Gallery, Bexley Wing, St. James’s University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
10/02/2024 to 26/04/2024

Highlighting Leeds Artists!

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Artist profile

Hazel Roberts

In my practice I explore the personal, the political, and always the playful. I am heavily influenced by Dada, Bauhaus, Constructivism, French cinema, and the need to bite back from all the bad advice given at art school.

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Gabrielle Hoad

Gabrielle Hoad makes work that includes live, ephemeral elements as well as more lasting documentary traces such as photographs, films, publications and objects. She has a long-standing interest in the crossover of art and science.

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Event

4th Community Art Exhibition

Circular ArtSpace, 780 Fishponds Road, behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
05/04/2024 to 28/04/2024

New Col­lec­tive Art Exhi­bi­tion in Fishponds.

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Upcoming opportunity

MonART

22/04/2024   6 Old Fox Yard, Stowmarket IP14 1AB, Suffolk  

Open Call for artists: MonART. Send us your Digital Work to show in our art gallery.

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Event

Edgelands

The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, Clinton Road, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/04/2024 to 29/04/2024

An exhibition of textile art by Prism Textiles, an international group of exhibiting artists working with or inspired by textiles.

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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

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

Flatland

The FG Gallery, Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/04/2024 to 05/05/2024

Flatland is an exhibition of contemporary painting from the Northwest.

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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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Artist profile

Rups Cregeen

Rups Cregeen's work is concerned with coastal geography: tides, sea states and weather and often focuses on immersion and exposure to water and the elements. The work explores human place in the world and is often site-specific work or performative. Outcomes are often three-dimensional, with...

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Event

This Is The Seventh Wave

The Regency Town House, 13 Brunswick Square, Brighton & Hove, United Kingdom
Exhibition
03/05/2024 to 12/05/2024

Group exhibition curated by Dee Ferris and Judy Stevens. Featuring Polly Arnett, Nicholas Carrick, Emma Critchley, Alej ez, Dee Ferris, John Haywood, Solange Leon Iriarte, Andre Lichtenberg, Catalina Mejia Moreno, Judy Stevens, Francisca Vidal Vergara+Pulso Austral, Arantza Vilas, Carole Villain and Jonathan Wright.

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Melanie King

Melanie King is an artist and curator with a specific focus on astronomy. She is co-Director of super/collider, Lumen Studios, and the London Alternative Photography Collective. Melanie is a practice-based PhD Candidate in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art.

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Upcoming opportunity

Apollo Painting School

22/04/2024   Manchester (UK) and Latina (Italy)  

Apollo Painting School is an intensive 3-month summer programme designed for UK-based emerging artists with a painting practice. The programme will be accessible by open call and the applications will be reviewed by a judging panel comprised of internationally acclaimed artists and educators.

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Event

16th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality

Exhibition
15/04/2024 to 16/05/2024

A new art exhibition in Virtual Reality.

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Upcoming opportunity

Narratives of Care: Interview series

22/04/2024   Online  

We are excited to announce an open call for interviews on the theme of care, inviting artists, and activists to share their insights, experiences, and practices in a series of interviews.

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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

Snippets of Time

The Station, Richmond, Station Yard, Richmond, North Yorkshire, DL10 4LD, Richmond , North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
09/05/2024 to 22/05/2024

Snippets of Time is a collaboration between 3 artists; Isobel Rooke, Christine Hughes and Hannah Turlington, whose identities as artists coexist with that of being an artist.

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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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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

Contemporary British Printmakers @ Delamore Arts

The Wagon Shed Gallery,, Delamore Estate, Cornwood, Ivybridge, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
01/05/2024 to 31/05/2024

Three Galleries and Magnificent Sculpture Gardens Open for the Whole Month of May

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Artist profile

Ellie Seymour

An artist and Arts Educator, Ellie Seymour studied Fine Art Printmaking at The University of Brighton, and has since exhibited work throughout the UK including London, Cambridge and Oxford. She is currently based in Suffolk, responding to the landscape that surrounds her home studio, with...

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Naomi Aderonke

Naomi is a burgeoning multidisciplinary research and narrative led artist who has developed their illustrative and narrative skills past digital art and traditional print into 3D work. Exploring ceramics and textile through tufting, Naomi looks at the form, colours and materials used, not just the image, to create the stories they want to tell. Naomi is a storyteller who thrives on folk, history and culture; looking into ways of exploring that through artistic objects.

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Event

Artists Around Wetherby - Open Studios

8 Oakwood Road, Wetherby, Leeds
Exhibition
01/06/2024 to 09/06/2024

Open Studios is in a 6 mile radius of Wetherby. 25-30 artists will be taking part, one of which is myself. Originals, prints, ceramics, cards, glass, felt art at a number of different locations in Wetherby and the surrounding villages. Most artists taking part are open both weekends (just call in) and some during the week by appointment only.

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Curator profile

Alex Hetherington

I sustain a visual art practice (with an emphasis on the moving image, performance, text and sculpture) through various positions as artist, curator, programmer and writer, and often work under a title or pseudonym, for example Modern Edinburgh Film School, Neon John and ‘The Men and...

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Event

TWO DAY INTRODUCTION TO STAINED GLASS WORKSHOP

The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
14/06/2024 to 15/06/2024

On this two-day course, students will learn the basic skills of stained glass – creating a suitable design or adapting an existing template with guidance from the tutor. The panel will be made up of coloured glass, some painted and kiln-fired glass, and soldered lead.

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Sam Metz

Sam Metz is an artist based in Hull who creates work that engages with the concept of ‘neuroqueering’. They create sculptural installations that incorporate both film and animation while exploring body-based responses to ecology. As a neurodivergent artist and curator with sensory processing differences, Sam creates work in non-verbal ways that begin and end in movement and embodied interactions without recourse to traditionally privileged verbal and written forms of communication.

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Artist profile

Deepa Mann-Kler

Deepa Mann-Kler is a multi-disciplinary artist, primarily working in neon and creating light installations. Her practice also includes painting, drawing and photography.

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Event

Bonsall Art Trail

Bonsall Village, Clatterway, Bonsall, Derbyshire, Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Festival
29/06/2024 to 30/06/2024

Bonsall Art Trail is a new arts trail located in the village of Bonsall on the edge of the peak district. As a curated trail we aim to showcase the work of talented established and new artists and makers who want to exhibit and sell their work. The trail is over the weekend of 29th and 30th June 2024. Please take a look at our opportunity on CuratorSpace to apply.

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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

We Carry It With Us

Workshop
27/03/2024 to 30/06/2024

I'm looking for people willing to be photographed for a photographic portrait project visualising the impact of childhood bullying on adult life.

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