Andy Farr
Andy is an award-winning artist with a strong interest in mental health and well-being. His two most recent projects involved telling the stories of people's mental health through narrative paintings. He is a member of ArtCan a non-profit arts organisation that supports artists.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #25: Matilda Moors
Matilda Moors an artist and academic working with sculpture, writing, print and installation. She deploys languages associated with youth culture to create pieces with a skewed-cartoonesque-cuteness. Her practice and research focus on the tension between cuteness and violence as a way to probe the contradictions in contemporary consumer culture.
CGS DISCOVERY DAY at the V&A, London
V&A London, Cromwell Rd, , London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Symposium
07/12/2024
CGS returns to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for its final event of 2024. Come along to our Discovery Day which is open to all! Join inspired glass artists and listen to their fascinating stories.
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...
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.
Secret Salon: Electric Ladyland - open call for physical works
05/12/2024 London, London
The Secret Salon presents 'Electric Ladyland' on 14th December 2024 A feminist-focused physical Art exhibition hosted by Andree Adley CSM in a network of iconic caves in South London (15 mins from London Bridge). We will be celebrating the anniversary of the legendary Jimi Hendrix's live performance at the caves in December 1967. This open call is for UK based artists physical works - please see description.
Sarah Hutt
Sarah completed a degree in textile design and worked as a colourist and print designer for several years before taking up her career in Education. Although not formally trained in the Fine Arts, she uses her knowledge of print and colour to create her own unique style. She travels with her...
Talking Art with Jess Bugler
Talk
12/12/2024
Jess works in the expanded field of contemporary printmaking, creating prints and installations through a combination of traditional and modern print processes, from linocut and collograph to laser cutting and Risograph. Her work explores the dissonance and complexity of modern life.
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.
The Horton - Festive Marketplace
The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Art fair
13/12/2024 to 14/12/2024
The Horton will be holding two Festive Marketplaces this year, the first on Friday 13th December in the evening, the second on Saturday 14th December during the day.
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.
Talking Art with Layla Jabbari
Talk
19/12/2024
Layla is a freelance printmaker and illustrator from Hull. She works closely with clients on work that often has story-telling and community at its centre. Her projects have involved a variety of outcomes from animations, prints and zines to community art. Her work playfully combines printmaking and collage layered in the digital space.
Emma Lee Cracknell
Since having completed a BA Hons (2013) and MA in Fine Art at NUA in 2014, Emma has shown frequently in Norwich, London and abroad. She has work held in the permanent collection at NUA, and has been seen in both British Vogue and Aesthetica. As a painter, specialising in large scale abstract...
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'.
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...
lois palframan
63 year old lesbian. Degrees in environmental science and art, and Masters in art. Previously:- artists books and minimal abstract drawings as scores; many residencies; solo and group exhibitions internationally. monthly 'connection to nature' drawings, art-writing- prose inspired by the...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #25: Pauline Blanchet
Pauline Blanchet is an award-winning film director and producer whose work explores sports, nationalism, and identity. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the School of Advanced Study and EHESS, studying urban identity in North Macedonia. She also runs Aral Sea Productions and is a producer at HERProductions.
Secret Salon: Electric Ladyland
08/12/2024 London, London
The Secret Salon presents 'Electric Ladyland' on 14th December 2024 A feminist-focused physical Art exhibition hosted by Andree Adley CSM in a network of iconic caves in South London (15 mins from London Bridge). We will be celebrating the anniversary of the legendary Jimi Hendrix's live performance at the caves in December 1967. This open call is for UK and International DIGITAL works.
Greener Grass - A Solo Exhibition by Lidija Antanasijević Winner of the 2022 Flourish Award
WYPW@ the Piazza Huddersfield, 42-44 Princess Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
02/11/2024 to 12/01/2025
Solo exhibition by Serbian-born, London-based artist and printmaker Lidija Antanasijević bringing together various works from across the artist’s expansive practice. The selected works showcase Lidija’s deep knowledge and fascination with printmaking and her mastery of the medium creating a multilayered show, centred around themes of personal and cultural belonging.
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...
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.
Steven Barritt
My photographic practice is focused on the idea of ambiguity and the slippage between the photograph and truth, surface and meaning. Starting from a conceptual engagement with research, my practice often entails carefully constructed images that explore recurring themes of mythologising,...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #24: Sarah Wood
Sarah Wood works with the found object, particularly the documentary image, to interrogate the relationship between the narrating of history and individual memory. Her recent work explores the meaning of the archive, in particular the politics of memory; why some objects are preserved while others are ignored. She also curates artists' film through Club des Femmes, a project co-founded with Selina Robertson.
Maria Walker - These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things Exhibition
The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Exhibition
04/01/2025 to 23/01/2025
Artist Maria Walker, one of the winners of The Horton Summer Exhibition 2024, exhibits a curated collection of her thought-provoking textile and mixed media work.
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.
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...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #24: Samiya Younis
Samiya Younis, a British-born Pakistani artist in London, draws inspiration from her South Asian heritage. Her work blends contemporary and traditional techniques, exploring themes of identity, storytelling, and cultural complexity. Through sculpture, installation, performance, and painting, she challenges narratives, promoting dialogue and new perspectives.
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.