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.
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.
Lucy Crouch
I am an artist based in Leeds. The concept of drawing is the subject of my work, focusing on the crucial role of materiality within an essential language of drawing. My current work uses graphite as both mark-making tool and as a material for the physical structure, allowing the qualities of the...
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.
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.
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!
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...
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.
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.
april flowers : open call for short films/videos
26/04/2024 London
'Keep It Under Your Hat' - a monthly night of music and poetry in East London is seeking short films!
Faye Waddington
Having worked with photography and cinema production, as well as different media and areas of painting, from porcelain to textiles, for over 20 years my art has been expressed in painting silks and photographing instants in the development of the painting process. My painted silks are the object...
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!
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.
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.
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.
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...
Identity, International Photography Exhibition
26/04/2024 Glasgow
Call for entries for an International Photography Exhibition. This month-long exhibition will be a photography exhibition with the theme of Identity. Free to submit, open to everyone.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Dd - (Deborah Davies)
I make what scares me AND WHAT BRINGS ME HOPE………My work is an exploration of power, violence and inequality in society, but also a search for hope, certainty and connection. The disciplines I employ are as varied as the materials I use.
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.
Beginners Hand Embroidery Workshop
The Station, Station Yard, Richmond, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
05/05/2024
An enlightening, creative day designed for those who would love to learn more about hand embroidery – even if you have never threaded a needle before. You’ll learn a range of stitches and how they can be altered, placed together and apart and worked using a variety of threads to create different effects.
Texture, International Photography Exhibition
26/04/2024 Glasgow
Call for entries for an International Photography Exhibition. This month-long exhibition will be a photography exhibition with the theme of Texture. Free to submit, open to everyone.
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.
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'.
Artizan Women's Open Exhibition 2024
26/04/2024 Torquay, Devon
Artizan Women's Open Exhibition 2024
16th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality
Exhibition
15/04/2024 to 16/05/2024
A new art exhibition in Virtual Reality.
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...
LaurenceMorganArt
A disabled artist having to experiment using my non dominant hand, I love to capture a feeling or beauty within my art. Charcoal was the very first thing I picked up and I'm venturing from this trying to recycle my "canvas'" and drawing on anything I can find and reuse. I believe my art...
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.
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.
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.
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
Open Calls Not Cat Calls! Submit work for 'Feline-Thropic' at Redcar Palace
27/04/2024 Redcar
Submit your Cat Art to our upcoming show!
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...
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.
Collect Art: Self-Portrait
27/04/2024 Tbilisi
Collect art is looking for artists, working in different media, such as painting, drawing, textile, illustration, mixed media, photography, collage, and digital art. The theme for the edition is SELF-PORTRAIT.
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.
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.
Liz Whiteside Studio
I am a tapestry artist, weaver and textile designer based in creative studios in Newcastle upon Tyne. My background is as a professional artist before evolving into textiles. I like to use my colour knowledge with fibre creating unique items for people and their homes - such as framed...
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.
‘The way I see it’ art exibition
Horsebridge, 11 Horsebridge Road, Whitstable
Exhibition
05/06/2024 to 17/06/2024
‘Apart’ are a group of ten artists based in Rochester. The exhibit throughout the year and at the wonderful Horsebridge gallery every two years. They are exhibiting oils and mixed media. Private viewing: 8th June.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
Nayna Lad
After a successful and fulfilling career spanning nearly 2 decades as an Art Teacher, I left the profession in 2018 to become a freelance visual arts facilitator . I have worked with numerous establishments throughout the North-West delivering workshops to all age groups and ability levels. My...
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.
PLY-SPLIT BRAIDING - THE BASICS - WORKSHOP
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
13/09/2024 to 14/09/2024
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 – these are things to refer back to in the future should you wish to take things further.