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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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

ali gane ceramics

Ali Gane is a Yorkshire-based ceramicist who creates work that has a sense of place, a feeling of connection and familiarity. Primarily a hand builder, her work is informed by the shapes, forms, structures and colours of the natural environment. She combines white earthstone and red earthenware...

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Event

The Horton, Epsom - Festive Makers Market - December 2025

The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Art fair
06/12/2025

The Horton Marketplace - approximately 40 stallholders selling their handmade items which include jewellery, textiles, ceramics, artwork and much more!

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News article

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.

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Event

Art Lab September 2025

Everybody Gallery, Shaw Lane, Halifax
Talk
13/09/2025

Presenting: Michael Burkitt & Michael King

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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

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

Virtual exhibition: 'Once upon a time in the Latvian landscape' - Kenny Ros CuratorSpace bursary 27

Exhibition
08/08/2025 to 04/09/2025

‘Once upon a time in the Latvian landscape’ is a continuous photo sequence reflecting on the cultural status, the spiritual guidance and the physical presence of monumental oaks in Latvia.

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Upcoming opportunity

Guest Curator Open Call – The St. Regis Venice

03/09/2025   Venice  

The St. Regis Venice and Artelier are seeking a Guest Curator for the inaugural St. Regis Venice Exhibition. The opportunity is offered on a freelance basis from September 2025, with the Exhibition opening May 2026.

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Artist profile

Jeremy Morgan

In my painting I aim to walk a precarious but playful path along boundaries: between object and product, digital and analogue, flat and physical, design and art, work and play. I’m aiming to find a response as a painter working in a digital age – a response which I accept will flex and...

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Event

Protest & Pride – Art as Resistance

The Mill Gallery, Unit 5 Cardinal House, Swinnow Grange Mills, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
15/08/2025 to 05/09/2025

We’re launching The People’s Gallery with our first ever exhibition and you’re all invited!⁠

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News article

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.

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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

GESTURES

The Mill Gallery, Unit 5 Cardinal House, Swinnow Grange Mills, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
15/08/2025 to 05/09/2025

A Radical First Look from the Resilient Artist Cohort

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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

Eating the Mountain

03/09/2025   London, London  

Eating the Mountain: We swallow the land; It swallows us In an era where landscapes are gradually receding and identities are constantly shifting, how do we once again answer: “Who am I?” “Where do I come from?” “Eating the Mountain” was originally a way of life for those who lived by the mountains, and also a rural idiom in Chinese. Today, it is reactivated as a cultural metaphor—pointing to how we, through food, land, body, and memory, seek belonging and shape the self.

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Event

Neighbourly Persuits

Ballroom Arts, 152A High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Exhibition
04/09/2025 to 09/09/2025

Neighbourly Persuits

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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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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

Such Stuff as Dreams

Ballroom Arts, 152A High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Exhibition
04/09/2025 to 09/09/2025

….Such Stuff as Dreams….

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Artist profile

Lindy DeMelo-Garner

Lindy works from her studio in Cheadle and is inspired by her coastal New England roots. Her work is colourful as she layers glazes to make pieces with movement & depth. She strives to make functional tactile pieces people will reach for time and again.

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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

Summer felting & textiles workshops in Bardsey, near Leeds

Bardsey Arts Studio, 42a Church Lane, Bardsey, , Leeds, West Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
05/07/2025 to 13/09/2025

A fun series of short felting & textiles workshops. Saturday morning sessions. Tutor led. Practical, hands-on, crafting. Needle felting; wet felting; nuno-felting; block printing & patchwork. Barn conversion arts studio, near Leeds. Free parking: Refreshments: Short sessions: Small groups: Bardsey Arts Studio 42a Church Lane, Bardsey LEEDS LS17 9DS. Average price per person £35:

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Upcoming opportunity

Membership Applications Summer 2025

04/09/2025     

The Royal Society of Sculptors champions sculpture and the artists who create it. As a member, you will join our professional network of sculptors from around the world. We support and connect our members at all stages of their career.

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Event

Nuno-felting - Create your own Cowl / Neck Warmer

Bardsey Arts Studio, 42a Church Lane, Bardsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
13/09/2025

Join us for a cosy workshop where you'll learn to craft your very own felted cowl to keep you warm in style. Barn studio. Small group.

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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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Upcoming opportunity

Dreams & Nightmares- Call For Artists

04/09/2025   London, London  

Could dreams and nightmares be the potent driving force behind our creative processes, the mysterious catalysts igniting the flame of artistic inspiration?

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Event

LOOP2025

Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton Street, London, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
09/09/2025 to 14/09/2025

I am exhibiting this September as part of LOOP2025.

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Curator profile

13 b

13b is an artist run project space and gallery founded by Louise Winter at her home in the medieval town of Kamnik, Slovenia. Born out of a desire to create a space for artists to show their work and try out ideas outside of the traditional white cube, the gallery explores questions of what...

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Artist profile

Jacqueline Irwin

I am a mixed media artist with a background in textiles, creating decorative gallery pieces that combine stitch, print, and paint. My work is rooted in traditional techniques, but I am drawn to pushing their boundaries—experimenting with form, material, and context—while maintaining a deep...

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Event

Carshalton & Wallington Art Group – Autumn Exhibition 2025

All Saints Church, High Street, Carshalton, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
13/09/2025 to 14/09/2025

The Carshalton and Wallington Art Group (CANDWAG) presents its Autumn Exhibition 2025, a vibrant celebration of local creativity and community. The exhibition showcases an exciting mix of painting, drawing, and mixed-media work, with styles ranging from contemporary abstraction to traditional realism.

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News article

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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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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Event

SPACE BETWEEN 

Ballroom Arts, 152A High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Exhibition
11/09/2025 to 16/09/2025

SPACE BETWEEN 

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Upcoming opportunity

AIAAR - Open call - Indigenous art residency

05/09/2025   Dearna / Tarnaby  

Call for Indigenous Artists – AIAAR 2026 Aejlies Indigenous Arctic Art Residency in Dearna, Sweden. AIAAR is a residency for Indigenous artists from the Canadian North, hosted by the Sámi cultural center Aejlies. Set in Dearna (Tärnaby), Sweden – a mountain village in the heart of Sápmi – the residency offers a unique opportunity to develop your ideas and artistic practice in a collaborative, Indigenous-led environment. Deadline for applications: September 5, 2025.

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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

Memento Vivere (Remember to live)

Crypt Gallery, Euston Rd. (Duke's Road Entrance), London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
06/09/2025 to 18/09/2025

Memento Vivere: An evocative art exhibit by SLART at the Crypt Gallery, inviting reflection on life, death, & beauty hidden in plain sight. Opening night 6th September 6-9 pm.

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Upcoming opportunity

Anonymous Anomalies

06/09/2025   London  

Anonymous Anomaly is a group exhibition exploring the concept of rooms as redefinable spaces. Perpetual movement informs the state of places, boundaries become porous, and their contents ever changing, requiring constant redefinition, in our instance shifting into the form of a gallery.

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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

Summer Sculpture Exhibition

Artizan Printmaking & Sculpture Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
05/07/2025 to 20/09/2025

Featuring works of Lucy D'Auvergne, Emmy Palmer, Emma Baldwin and Zoe Clare

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Artist profile

Christelle Wealth

Christelle is an Abstract Expressionist artist Base in Manchester United Kingdom. She is a devoted Painter who seek a collaboration with art-science and ecology across her work. In her paintings, she seeks to connect with man's earliest forms of self-expression and create a strong sense of...

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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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Event

Hebden Bridge Print Fair

Hebden Bridge Town Hall, St Georges Street, Hebden Bridge, United Kingdom
Art fair
20/09/2025 to 21/09/2025

Celebrating a wealth of print makers, this annual fair is a must see. With an excellent reputation and strong social media following this event is run by printmakers Rachel Red and Julia Ogden. With an emphasis on traditional printmaking techniques the fair showcases limited edition prints, textiles and much more.

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Resource

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.

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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

Flourish Award For Excellence in Printmaking 2025

WYPW @ the Piazza Huddersfield, 42-44 Princess Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/07/2025 to 21/09/2025

Selected from open submission, the 14th Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking brings together a diverse range of printmaking by selected artists from across the UK, presented in venues in the north of England in 2025/26, starting in Huddersfield.

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News article

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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Event

Touchlines of fortitude

The Beach, 197 Waldegrave Rd, Teddington
Exhibition
12/09/2025 to 21/09/2025

Celebrating female resilience, creativity and empowerment through visual art and storytelling. Exhibition will feature works by three local female artists: Touchlines of Fortitude founder Agnieszka Lokaj, Gina DeCagna and Tahira Mandarino.

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Artist profile

Karl Russell Vickers

Museum worker and studio holder at serf in Leeds city centre. I've been making work for 10 years since graduating, during which time I have been involved in various projects, both artist-led and institutional, within the region. My practice involves collage, found image and arrangements and has...

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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

18th Community Art Exhibition

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
04/09/2025 to 27/09/2025

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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