The Horton, Epsom - May Marketplace
The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Art fair
02/05/2026
The Horton Marketplace - approximately 40 stallholders selling their handmade items which include jewellery, textiles, ceramics, artwork and much more!
Case Study: Alan Dunn
Alan Dunn is an artist, lecturer, curator, and Reader in Art & Design at Leeds Beckett University where he lectures on the MA Fine Art course. Through his collaborative projects, he has worked with Bill Drummond, Douglas Gordon, Yoko Ono, Bikini Kill, Philip Jeck, redmentv, Pauline Oliveros, Einstürzende Neubauten and Brian Eno.
Dr.Andrew Stevens
Started as a sculptor 5 years ago and had some success - ArtClubChianciano Sculpture Prize 2023- London Biennale; 2024 Boomer Art Award, London; Prize at RBSA Winter Show, Birmingham 2025. Represented by Clifton Fine Art, Bristol; Rothschild Gallery, Exbury and Sculpture Park, Churt, Surrey and...
The Horton, Epsom - August Marketplace
The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Art fair
29/08/2026
The Horton Marketplace - approximately 40 stallholders selling their handmade items which include jewellery, textiles, ceramics, artwork and much more!
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #29
The CuratorSpace Artist Bursary is a quarterly award to support contemporary artists to develop their practice. The artists selected for CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #29 are Henry Cottam, Ngo Chun Tse, Tom Fairlamb, and Maija Liepins. Their projects span photography, video installation, sculpture, and drawing.
The Horton, Epsom - February Marketplace
The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Art fair
28/02/2026
The Horton Marketplace - approximately 40 stallholders selling their handmade items which include jewellery, textiles, ceramics, artwork and much more!
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...
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.
Community Artists' Fair - Spring Edition
The Vassall Community Hub, Gill Avenue, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Art fair
21/03/2026
Community Artists’ Fair – Spring Edition is a one-day event celebrating local artists, makers and creativity in a welcoming spring atmosphere. Hosted by Circular ArtSpace at The Vassall Community Hub as part of the Bristol Gallery Weekend, the fair invites visitors to discover original art, handmade works and independent design from Bristol’s creative community.
Art in Your Eyes
16/02/2026 Boar Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire
Art in Your Eyes is an opportunity for all Artists to exhibit their work in a beautiful venue in the Centre of Leeds, close to City Square and the railway station and next door to the well-known Trinity Shopping Centre. This event will be held on 8th, 9th and 10th May 2026, with a preview evening on 8th May 2026.
Jon Lucas
I am a contemporary artist working with traditional and digital fine art methodology, with a focus on colour and light and have explored various themes in my work. I was born in Chiswick, London and now I am based in Bideford, North Devon.
Contemporary Composition: Still Life Re-imagined through acrylic paint
The Bradbury Makers Shed, Hillsborough Park, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
21/02/2026
A Still Life acrylic painting workshop that encourages a fresh, modern approach to arranging still life and interpreting objects.
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.
CuratorSpace launches new 0% commission art selling platform
CuratorSpace is excited to introduce the launch of Exhibtd, a new online marketplace that connects artists and buyers, offering a fair and transparent way to buy and sell original art and limited editions without commission or listing fees.
Medieval Objects & Materials Intro Course @ Bristol Folk House
Bristol Folk House
Workshop
14/01/2026 to 18/02/2026
This introduction to medieval art will focus on materials and object and not primarily on periods and dates. Each meeting will address one sort of material or object, ranging from gems and reliquaries to manuscripts, ivories, painted altarpieces & textiles. The lecturer, Dr Maeve O'Donnell, is specialised in medieval art history and has 15 yrs of experience in museums and higher education.
Held in Common: Between Us
18/02/2026 London
CISTA ARTS invites artists to submit work for its March 2026 online group exhibition. Held in Common: Between Us explores the space of relation—what circulates, lingers, or unfolds between individuals, bodies, places, and moments in time. The exhibition welcomes works that attend to connection, distance, encounter, and shared presence, without prescribing form or narrative.
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...
The John Ruskin Prize Exhibition
Trinity Buoy Wharf, 64 Orchard Pl, London , London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
29/01/2026 to 21/02/2026
The John Ruskin Prize showcases talent in all media, encouraging interdisciplinary works responding to this year’s theme, Patience in Looking, Truth in Making. Open: 29 Jan - 21 Feb., Wed-Sun, 11-5pm weekdays, 10-5pm weekends. Free entry.
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.
Felting Retreat: Working with Luxury Fibres
Rydal Hall, Rydal Hall, Ambleside, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
25/02/2026 to 26/02/2026
On this course, students will learn how to create gossamer weight felt to make beautiful wraps and scarves.
Clare Morgan
Clare Morgan (aka Curiousinkyme) is a Fine Artist, specialising in linocut printmaking. Clare creates beautiful, original artworks, infused with colours that represent growth and healing. Created for strong, independent individuals to uplift the spirit, helping you to create a meaningful and...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #28
The CuratorSpace Artist Bursary is a quarterly award that supports contemporary artists working across a wide range of disciplines, helping them to test new ideas and develop their practice. The artists selected for CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #28 are Caitriona Dunnett, Natalia Janula, Emanuela Cusin, and Holly Foskett-Barnes. Their projects span photography, sculpture, performance, and socially engaged practice and each artist is using the bursary to explore new materials, processes, and ways of connecting with audiences.
22nd Community Art Exhibition
Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
05/02/2026 to 28/02/2026
Explore a diverse collection of artworks in our unique double-decker bus gallery, showcasing the talent of artists from Bristol and beyond.
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.
International Circular Fashion Week 2026 – Exhibitors & Stallholders Open Call
19/02/2026 Leeds, West Yorkshire
The International Circular Fashion Week Conference (16–17 March, Leeds Beckett University) invites artists, designers, makers, craftspeople, and cultural practitioners to take part as exhibitors and stallholders in a unique global platform celebrating folklore, heritage, culture, and tradition through circular fashion.
Artizan Collective Studios Exhibition Showcase
Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, United Kingdom
Exhibition
07/02/2026 to 01/03/2026
From atmospheric coastal monotypes to intricate marine-inspired ceramics, discover the latest works from our six resident artists at the 2026 Exhibition Showcase.
WC Curated: February Showcase: Threads of Being
19/02/2026
Threads of Being Our identities are stitched into us - in our DNA, in our bodies, in the stories we inherit and remake. This February, WC Curated invites textile artists to explore self, body, and identity through textiles. From genetic threads to personal portraits in fibre, we’re looking for work that reveals what makes us who we are.
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...
STRATIFIED: Memory, Material & Meaning
Mid Street Lab & The Vault, 80 St Georges Road & 42-43 Kings Road Arches, Brighton, United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/02/2026 to 09/03/2026
The title STRATIFIED: Memory, Materials and Meanings refers both to the physical language of the works and to their conceptual depth. Each piece functions as a cross-section, holding traces of earlier actions, partial erasures and renewed gestures. Memory is embedded in material. Meaning is not imposed but accumulated.
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.
Ariella Green - Library of Moments
Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, 11 South Grove, Highgate, London, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
06/03/2026 to 19/03/2026
Ariella Green works in textile collage, painting, mosaic, and most recently ‘Papier Collé’ (paper-cut collage) - http://ariellagreen.com/. Her work has always been a highly personal, colourful, artistic response to her experience of home, identity, memory, and current life. This show covers her recent work from 2023 -2026.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #27
The CuratorSpace Artist Bursary is a quarterly award to support contemporary artists to develop their practice, The artists selected for CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #27 are Kenny Ros, Kerrie Hanna, Amy Jackson, and Chloe Monks.
Friends of Photography Exhibition
The Mill Gallery, Unit 5 Cardinal House, Swinnow Grange Mills, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
27/02/2026 to 27/03/2026
Friends of Photography: A Community in Focus, a joyful and inclusive exhibition celebrating the work of a local photography collective that meets monthly in the gallery.
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'.
Catch The Sun
20/02/2026 Dorchester
Catch The Sun is an exciting opportunity for Dorset-based artists, from children and complete beginners to seasoned professionals, to submit artworks for an exhibition at the new Corn Exchange Gallery in the centre of Dorchester. The exhibition, managed by Dorchester Arts and running from Tues 24th March to Sat 11th April, will coincide with the presentation of Luke Jerram’s Helios at the Corn Exchange over the 2026 Easter holidays. Helios, a seven metre diameter representation of the Sun at an approximate scale of 1:200 million, is the latest in a series of celestial artworks by Luke Jerram, and his Museum of The Moon and Mars caused huge excitement when they visited Dorchester in 2019 and 2022 respectively.
Kinetic Sculpture - Short 4 Day Residency - April
Art fair
02/04/2026 to 05/04/2026
A short kinetic sculpture meet up with a few fellow artists. I am a kinetic wind sculptor and keen to explore and share ideas with others
Squares - Exhibition open call
21/02/2026 Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Fronteer Gallery are looking for square shaped small artworks for their exhibition Squares.
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...
SHED Art Club
The Bradbury Makers Shed, Hillsborough Park, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
11/11/2025 to 21/04/2026
Join award winning artist Donna Brewins-Cook for a monthly relaxing, friendly, adult mindful art club that will SHED the stresses of the day!
Nadia Thompson
Nadia Thompson produces bold, meaningful artwork on paper, canvas, and clay. Her unique creations are a fusion of vibrant colours, intricate patterns, and profound symbolism. Working across different mediums, Nadia brings her artistic vision to life, captivating viewers with her fun, expressive...
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.
Soulful Creativity
Rydal Hall, Rydal Hall, Ambleside, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
21/04/2026 to 22/04/2026
Using stories of wandering in the wilderness and facing the wildness of life's storms, we will explore how Jesus triumphed over the temptations and tempests of life. Through exploration of stories and passages in the gospels in which Jesus amazed individual characters & crowds we will creatively engage with the 'awe and wonder' of Christ
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.
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...
Fun, Family & Group Friendly Felting Workshops
Bardsey Arts Studio, 42a Church Lane, Bardsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
14/02/2026 to 25/04/2026
Workshop Menu You can choose the workshop you would like. On any of the dates; you can choose from the following Menu: * Wet Felt a Picture of your choice * Wet felt your own bag * Wet felt your own bowl * Nuno felt Cowl onto silk In each session you will learn from your tutor Katy, the processes of agitation; fulling and finishing your felted Picture / Bowl / Bag or Cowl. Refreshments
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.
ENCAUSTIC HIVE UK ‘The Art of Place’
Exhibition
30/09/2025 to 28/04/2026
UK Encaustic wax artists Julie Wrathall and Lyn Kirkland have set up an online project group called ENCAUSTIC HIVE UK. The purpose is to foster a stronger connection amongst UK encaustic artists. To encourage creative exploration, in a supportive space. A series of informal zoom calls to make connections, culminating in an online exhibition of UK encaustic titled ‘The Art of Place’.
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.
Stomp the Holy Bones
My work revolves around topics on being female within urban and public spaces, how we move through these spaces, and how we as women are affected in a world that has been built for a very a masculine way of life. I use the term psycho-vandalism to explore how catcalling and the potential of...
Stone Carving Retreat: Stone Carving for Beginners
Rydal Hall, Rydal Hall, Ambleside, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
27/05/2026 to 29/05/2026
This is a high quality workshop where participants will be taught how to create a small stone sculpture that they can keep.
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.
Group Residency Programme, Orkney: Air, Sea and Soil: MICRO-MACRO
The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Palace Village, Birsay, Orkney, United Kingdom
Workshop
20/06/2026 to 27/06/2026
Welcome to all creative practitioners and researchers interested in making, thinking and being in experimental ways. This Group Residency will take you out and about in Orkney, introduce you to the impact of climate crisis, to vast skies and the archipelago that has long been shaped by the sea.