Introduction to Lino Print workshop
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
12/04/2024
Come along and spent a great, creative day learning the technique of lino printing with local artist Sue Rowland. Sue will teach you how to create your own original design and to use the different lino tools to cut the lino plate. Sue will then help you to print your own small edition of fabulous prints to take away with you!
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Mindful Photography Taster Workshop
Scott Creative Arts Foundation, The Art House, Thirsk, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
12/04/2024
Scott Creative Arts Foundation is delighted to be hosting a Mindful Photography Taster Workshop with SCAF Emerging Artist Award 2023 finalist Jacqui Barrowcliffe. This course will use the natural setting of the Foundation and encompasses elements from the different SCAF projects and objectives, connecting in particular with the Living Landscape Project and the 2024 SCAF EAA theme 'PERCEPTION'
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.
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!
Leon Hampson
After completing my post-graduate study in Fine Art at the Royal Academy Schools I've worked as a designer, creative director and digital accessibility practitioner as well as an experimental digital printmaker and photographer. Born in Manchester, I now live in Bradford, West Yorkshire and...
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.
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...
Phenomenology: Film Screening Night Exploring Mental Health
21/03/2024 London
We are now accepting submissions for short films that explore lived experiences of mental health for a film screening night. The event, Phenomenology, will take place on 23rd May 2024, 7 pm - 10 pm, at BLOC (Queen Mary University London) in East London.
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.
2nd Edition ECOFeminism Festival
The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, Clinton Road, London, London, United Kingdom
Festival
13/03/2024 to 23/03/2024
The ECOFeminism Festival runs from 13-23 March and comprises an exciting Festival Events Program, a multimedia group Exhibition 'Branches', and the ECOFeminism Short Film Festival. The Festival and Exhibition Opening Party is on Thu 14 Mar 2024, from 6-9 pm at The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, London.
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...
gurinder sandhu
I was born in a village in Punjab, India. Came over to the UK with my family in the 70's when I was quite young. studied science in the college then later on developed interest in Photography/Cinematography. Went to live in India in the 90's and did Landscape Photography there. Held some...
Living Artists Auction of Contemporary Artworks - Call For Submissions
21/03/2024
Sell your work to American art collectors in our 'Living Artists Contemporary Art Auction'. Sell your work to UK art collectors in our 'Artists on the Rise art Auction'. We invite artists to submit their artworks for our upcoming March/April auction, specifically curated for American art collectors.
Iranian Diaspora: Stories of Sanctuary and Solidarity
Oxo Tower Wharf Gallery (Gallery@OXO), Oxo Tower Wharf, Barge House Street, , Southbank, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
27/03/2024 to 29/03/2024
A multimedia art exhibition about migration, the search for sanctuary and solidarity , showcasing work created by Iranian migrants and refugees during several art workshops, along with work from the collaborating artists and work initiated by the participants and completed by the artists.
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'.
Ball And Chain
22/03/2024 Leeds, West Yorkshire
Ball & Chain Born from the flashes of a dying universe. The balls weigh heavy upon our soul but at last we have been freed. The fetters no longer hang from our bodies. A (performance art) night in Leeds that's ready to take you by the hand. We'll lead you around the daisy chains, up the garden path, ready to kick that freshly relieved ball into the goal hole of life. Yes, it's the first one and each night we will have a theme. We can't stay around venues too long lest The Foundation locate where we are. The deadline for applicants is Friday 22nd March 11pm.
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order To Live: Works of Sue Vaughton
Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
12/03/2024 to 30/03/2024
Artizan Gallery are delighted to welcome photographer Sue Vaughton to the gallery in March where we shall be curating a particularly intimate and personal exhibition of her works in our Basement Gallery.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
GUNA: Views and voices of women
City Screen Picturehouse, 13-17 Coney Street, York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
10/03/2024 to 06/04/2024
GUNA is a version of the ancient Greek word for 'woman' and the work on show explores, promotes and celebrates the creativity of women through the work of emerging and established local artists.
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.
Contemporary British Printmakers - Delamore 2024
24/03/2024 Delamore, Ivybridge PL21 9QT, Devon
Artizan Collective CIC have been invited to curate a supporting exhibition of Contemporary British Printmakers for Delamore 2024 which will feature in their stable block exhibition area alongside regular participants South West Academy. As part of this, we have a limited number of “browser only” exhibition spaces available which we are pleased to be making available on a selective submission basis.
Wet Felting Workshop - Spring Meadow: Create your own wool painting:
Bardsey Arts Studio, 42a Church Lane, Bardsey, , Leeds, West Yorkshire
Workshop
06/04/2024
10am - 3pm: Learn how to create a wool painting using the ancient craft of Wet Felting: Katy, your tutor will teach you the basics of wet felting your first felted picture: Create a unique artwork: Easter / Mothers Day: Free parking: All materials, equipment and instruction included. Tea, coffee, cake available. Beautiful, bright studio space overlooking wonderful Yorkshire countryside: £65.00
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.