Event

Intro to Ecological Film Making Workshop

The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
16/08/2025

This workshop offers an easy and experimental introduction for anyone interested in making moving-images responding to the natural world. The workshop provides an overview to non-fiction filmmaking (AKA creative documentaries), enthusing participants with the techniques to play with creative approaches towards documentation in their own lives.

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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

Kate Crumpler

Kate is a London based artist specialising in large scale sculpture and installation. Her monumental sculptures and vulnerable performances are simultaneously bold, theatrical and sensitive.

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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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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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Event

Touring Exhibitions Demystified - Get Your work into museums and art galleries.

Online Webinar
Workshop
29/06/2025

This session helps artists position themselves for touring exhibitions by creating compelling, museum-ready collections. Learn how to gain attention from curators and programmers, navigate proposals, and get your work hired for touring. Discover how exhibitions move from venue to venue.

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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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Resource

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.

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Event

Untethered

WYPW at the Piazza Huddersfield, 42-44 Princess Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
05/04/2025 to 14/06/2025

This solo exhibition by artist Lucy May Schofield brings together a selection of work on paper and textile presented alongside new sculptural pieces. The show centres around her relationship to light and time, showcasing the performative prints she creates each solstice and equinox within the vast Northumberland landscape.

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Upcoming opportunity

English Riviera Summer Open 2025

14/06/2025   Torquay, Devon  

Torbay's annual Summer visual arts highlight.

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Curator profile

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...

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Event

Spring Sculpture Exhibition

Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
05/04/2025 to 21/06/2025

The Artizan Sculpture Season offers a refined exploration of contemporary sculpture, presenting a series of quarterly exhibitions that showcase the diverse practices within 3D art.

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Artist profile

Nesta Pilkington Sculpture

Nesta Pilkington is the working name of Suzy Maxwell MA (Falmouth 2006). A main concept of the work is a love of animals, who they are and how they touch our lives. Where we and they 'meet' is a sort of cross-species connection. It is a spiritual connection and when they inevitably die, we feel...

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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

The Hide Installation and Sculpture Showcase 2025

The Hide Artist Retreat, Pinfarthings, Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
14/06/2025 to 22/06/2025

The Hide Installation and Sculpture Showcase (THISS) presents artworks by artists from London, the South West and local young people in gardens on the edge of Minchinhampton Common, Stroud. This free exhibition is part of Stroud’s annual Site Festival, showcasing unique contemporary sculpture in a stunning rural location.

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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

27th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality

Circular Artspace - MetArtSpace
Exhibition
21/05/2025 to 22/06/2025

Circular ArtSpace presents the 27th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality, a vibrant celebration of creativity unfolding online from 21 May to 22 June 2025. This immersive digital showcase brings together a wide range of artistic voices, offering global audiences an engaging and interactive way to experience contemporary art.

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Upcoming opportunity

Creative Alliance Internship Opportunity

15/06/2025   Blackburn, Lancashire  

This is a new opportunity to join The Bureau Team through the Creative Alliance Paid Internship Programme. The Bureau Centre for the Arts are looking for an individual to join our team as part of The Creative Alliance Internship Programme. We are a small organisation operating on a DIY ethic- we all do a bit of everything so this is an ideal opportunity to learn a variety of roles in a creative organisation.

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Resource

Case studies for reducing your carbon footprint

Sustainable Arts in Leeds

SAIL are a group of organisations, individuals and networks, working together to promote a zero carbon / zero waste future for the cultural and creative industries of Leeds and beyond. Their website features case studies of how SAIL members on how they’ve managed to reduce their carbon footprints.

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Event

Artizan Collective Geopark Artists Residency Exhibition

Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
25/05/2025 to 22/06/2025

Artistic Journeys Through Torbay’s Heritage

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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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Upcoming opportunity

Open Call: "Stillness" — A Curated Photography Exhibition

15/06/2025     

SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN: "STILLNESS" – INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION. Allora Gallery invites photographers from around the world to submit work for our upcoming online group exhibition, "Stillness."

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Event

GLOUCESTERSHIRE SOCIETY OF ARTISTS - ART EXHIBITION

LOWER SLAUGHTER VILLAGE HALL, LOWER SLAUGHTER, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
18/06/2025 to 24/06/2025

Art Exhibition held by the Gloucestershire Society of Artists at Lower Slaughter Village Hall near Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire known as the 'Venice of the Cotswolds'.

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Artist profile

Lucy Milligan

I'm Lucy, an artist based in Derby. I love to paint realistically in oils and acrylic, and dabble in mixed media. Nature is a huge source of inspiration and I also find challenging but rewarding to paint portraits and attempt to capture someone's personality in the painting.

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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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Event

Community Artists' Fair

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Art fair
28/06/2025

Join us for a vibrant day cel­e­brat­ing local creativity!

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Upcoming opportunity

The Muse Residency Program 2026

15/06/2025   London, London  

Since 2004 The Muse / Gallery & Studio has supported a residency program, offering recent graduates subsidised studio space, a gallery to show and the means to cultivate both client and industry connections.

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Event

Shards of Memory

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/06/2025 to 29/06/2025

A solo exhibition by TG Freeson. 19–29 June 2025

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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

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

Anise Academy | Summer 2025

Anse Gallery, 27-33 Malham Road, London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Workshop
17/07/2025 to 18/07/2025

Join us on 17 & 18 July 2025 for 2 days of talks, discussions and workshops lead by Gallerists, Directors, Art Critics, Artist and other art professionals. We'll cover a wide range of topics to help you navigate the commercial art scene.

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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

Immigrant Opera Artist Call

15/06/2025   London  

Immigrant Opera is a new immersive theatre show with an ethical mission - to help creative immigrants integrate into the UK cultural sector while raising awareness about the impact of totalitarianism on individuals and communities. Our aim is to build a platform for collaboration between local professionals and immigrant talent, where artists who were previously censored by authoritarian regimes can reclaim their voices, and audiences can gain first-hand insight into war and dictatorship through the human perspective.

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Event

History of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Online, London, United Kingdom
Talk
22/06/2025 to 27/07/2025

Exploring the Art of MENA Led by a renowned art historian, critic, and Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS, University of London, this online course examines modern and contemporary art from the Middle East and North Africa. Covering key movements since the 1930s, it explores global influences, curatorial trends, and the role of diaspora across diverse media, from painting to performance.

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Artist profile

Hannah C Gleeson

I specialise in watercolour and acrylic paintings and have been painting as long as I can remember. It's my love and passion. I love to celebrate the beauty in the natural world around us! I find myself drawn to the sea and so many of my paintings focus on the ocean, and also the moon which...

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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

Summer Exhibition

The Mill Gallery, Unit 5 Cardinal House, Swinnow Grange Mills, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
20/06/2025 to 03/08/2025

The Mill Gallery Presents Summer Exhibition 2025. A vibrant celebration of contemporary creativity!

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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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Event

Artist Talk: Natalia Millman and Kate Ray, Founder, Art of Grieving

St Peter's Church, St Albans , Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Talk
13/08/2025

Natalia Millman, lead artist of "Letters to Forever" project in conversation with Kate Ray, the founder of Art of Grieving. Artist Talk: Natalia Millman & Kate Ray. 13th August, 1-2PM

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Upcoming opportunity

Hebden Bridge Print Fair

15/06/2025   Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire  

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

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

Change, release, Belonging for the Ukrainian community

St Peter's Church, St Peter's Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
17/08/2025

Self-discovery, stree release and gentle movement practice in Ukrainian language. 17th August, 1-4.30PM

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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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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

Mindful Clay

St Albans Museum & Gallery, St Peter's Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
19/08/2025

A mindful clay workshop to gently explore loss through creating personal grief jars in a supportive space. 19th August, 1-3PM

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Artist profile

Josie Purcell

I am an eco-conscious photographic artist based in Cornwall, UK, taking inspiration for my work from my coastal and rural surroundings. I predominantly employ nature-based photographic processes and/or digital techniques to create images that spark conversation about our diverse environments and...

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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

Caring for Carers: for companions of people with dementia

St Peter's Church, St Peter's Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
20/08/2025

A creative wellbeing workshop for companions of people with dementia to explore self-care through movement, writing and art. 20th August, 1-3.30PM

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Gil Mualem-Doron

Gil Mualem-Doron is a transdisciplinary artist working across photography, film, large-scale installation, and textile art. His work focuses on decolonial practices, intersectional identities, everyday urbanism, and social and climate justice. While his practice is research-based and socially engaged, it is deeply influenced by his lived experiences as a neurodiverse, queer, Jewish migrant, and is firmly rooted in activism.

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Event

Letters to Forever

St Peter's Church, St Albans , Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
06/08/2025 to 28/08/2025

Letters to Forever is a project by artist Natalia Millman that explores how personal stories of loss are retold through visual art.

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Artist profile

Sharon James

I am a multidisciplinary artist, based in Dorset. I am a full time artist but also a mother of three. I work figuratively and abstractly predominantly I’m a painter. I have a B.A. Hons in Printmaking 2:1 and an M.A in Printmaking with Distinction from Camberwell School of Art. I am prolific...

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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

‘Letters to Forever’: Performance and Experimental Film Screening

St Peter's Church, St Albans , Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
28/08/2025

A collaborative performance blending experimental film, sound and live readings to explore the grief, memory, and transformation.

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