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.
Vivienne Beaumont
I am a textile artist. I work with imagery and themes relating to the cyclical nature of female life and archetypes of the feminine. My interest in the ephemeral nature of life and the feminine is symbolised in the use of flowers and in the cornucopia of harvest, where I use gold as a metaphor...
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!
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...
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.
Ann Simpson
I was born and raised in County Durham and began a Fine Art Degree later in life after a professional career in mental health. Concern with vulnerable bodies and minds and that lived experience not surprisingly found its way into my art work and the way this can be expressed in the making process.
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.
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...
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...
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.
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'.
Building Bridges 2024
28/04/2024 Derby
Calling all artists and creative practitioners in Derby! Artcore is offering a two-month local residency from May 10th to July 7th, with an opportunity to visit Osnabruck, Germany, for two weeks around late May to early June (dates TBC). This unique experience is open to two Derby-based artists interested in connecting with international artist communities and gaining insights from cross-cultural experiences.
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...
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.
Susan Wright
An experimental printmaker using etching and other print making techniques. The work is concerned with the temporal transformation of discarded and forgotten objects into new printed images which emulate the landscape, becoming imaginary map like places. A new 2 or 3 dimensional narrative...
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.
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.
Collect Art Book Edition: 101 contemporary artists and more... Volume 6
28/04/2024 Tbilisi
Collect Art continues publishing books of '101 contemporary artists and more...', which include painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, sculpture, textile, illustration, collage, digital art, installation, architecture, and in addition, literature, researched-based texts, fictional and non-fictional stories, poems and short stories.
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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Judith Walker
Judith Walker has practiced art in London for over 40 years. Walker has always placed a strong emphasis on the use of colour, while enjoying the tactile qualities of art materials to produce abstracted forms. Walker’s work provides glimpses of her internal emotions to engage with her audience...
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.
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.