Case Study: Alan Dunn
Alan Dunn is an artist, lecturer, curator, and Reader in Art & Design at Leeds Beckett University where he lectures on the MA Fine Art course. Through his collaborative projects, he has worked with Bill Drummond, Douglas Gordon, Yoko Ono, Bikini Kill, Philip Jeck, redmentv, Pauline Oliveros, Einstürzende Neubauten and Brian Eno.
Claire A Baker
I am a Visual Artist, Researcher and Maker specialising in textiles, who has recently completed an AHRC-funded practice-based doctorate at Northumbria University. I exhibit regularly both individually and as part of a collaborative partnership and art collectives. My research is communicated...
How to Crowdfund Your Project
With traditional funding routes increasingly constrained, filmmaker Dan Edelstyn shares a practical perspective on building ambitious projects outside conventional systems. Drawing on firsthand experience of taking independently crowdfunded films from idea to international platforms and nationwide screenings, he outlines why developing a direct relationship with your audience may be one of the most viable routes for artists working today.
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...
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.
Community Artists' Fair - Spring Edition
The Vassall Community Hub, Gill Avenue, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Art fair
21/03/2026
Community Artists’ Fair – Spring Edition is a one-day event celebrating local artists, makers and creativity in a welcoming spring atmosphere. Hosted by Circular ArtSpace at The Vassall Community Hub as part of the Bristol Gallery Weekend, the fair invites visitors to discover original art, handmade works and independent design from Bristol’s creative community.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #29
The CuratorSpace Artist Bursary is a quarterly award to support contemporary artists to develop their practice. The artists selected for CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #29 are Henry Cottam, Ngo Chun Tse, Tom Fairlamb, and Maija Liepins. Their projects span photography, video installation, sculpture, and drawing.
22nd Community Art Exhibition
Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
05/02/2026 to 28/02/2026
Explore a diverse collection of artworks in our unique double-decker bus gallery, showcasing the talent of artists from Bristol and beyond.
Still Life/Found Object 2026, International Photography Exhibition
27/02/2026 Glasgow, United Kingdom
Call for entries for an International Photography Exhibition. This month-long exhibition will be a photography exhibition with the theme Still Life/Found Object. Free to submit, open to everyone.
Animate Projects
We support artists to experiment, collaborate and produce bold animation projects. We are a catalyst for connection. We believe that artists’ animation empowers people to see their world differently. The guiding principles that underpin our work are: curiosity, collaboration, support,...
Artizan Collective Studios Exhibition Showcase
Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, United Kingdom
Exhibition
07/02/2026 to 01/03/2026
From atmospheric coastal monotypes to intricate marine-inspired ceramics, discover the latest works from our six resident artists at the 2026 Exhibition Showcase.
STRATIFIED: Memory, Material & Meaning
Mid Street Lab & The Vault, 80 St Georges Road & 42-43 Kings Road Arches, Brighton, United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/02/2026 to 09/03/2026
The title STRATIFIED: Memory, Materials and Meanings refers both to the physical language of the works and to their conceptual depth. Each piece functions as a cross-section, holding traces of earlier actions, partial erasures and renewed gestures. Memory is embedded in material. Meaning is not imposed but accumulated.
Natalya Griffin
My work is inspired by Mycelium and the kingdom of Fungi, nature, and walking. I visualize a myriad of seen and unseen paths, and imprints, made by many walkers, animals, and plants as forces that connect us. Through layering and the process of making, I look to connect with work and find a ...
CuratorSpace launches new 0% commission art selling platform
CuratorSpace is excited to introduce the launch of Exhibtd, a new online marketplace that connects artists and buyers, offering a fair and transparent way to buy and sell original art and limited editions without commission or listing fees.
Ariella Green - Library of Moments
Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, 11 South Grove, Highgate, London, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
06/03/2026 to 19/03/2026
Ariella Green works in textile collage, painting, mosaic, and most recently ‘Papier Collé’ (paper-cut collage) - http://ariellagreen.com/. Her work has always been a highly personal, colourful, artistic response to her experience of home, identity, memory, and current life. This show covers her recent work from 2023 -2026.
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.
Become Our Featured Artist of the Month – Get a Curator-Led Spotlight & Professional Critique
28/02/2026 LONDON, London, United Kingdom
SPIRA9 invites contemporary visual artists worldwide to apply for our ongoing Artist of the Month programme—an international digital platform spotlighting compelling artistic voices. Each selected artist receives a curator-led feature, an online solo exhibition, a professional written critique, and global promotion through our website, annual art book, newsletter, and social media, offering meaningful visibility within an international art community.
35th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality
Circular Artspace - MetArtSpace
Exhibition
26/02/2026 to 22/03/2026
Circular ArtSpace presents the 35th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality, a vibrant celebration of creativity unfolding online from 26 February to 22 March 2026. This immersive digital showcase brings together a wide range of artistic voices, offering global audiences an engaging and interactive way to experience contemporary art.
Metachrosis Issue 6 - Open call for art and writing
28/02/2026 Ireland
Metachrosis Literary is a creative arts magazine based in ireland. Metachrosis was founded to create a space for interdisciplinary experimentation. Encouraging creative collaboration among people from diverse disciplines and experience levels.
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...
Friends of Photography Exhibition
The Mill Gallery, Unit 5 Cardinal House, Swinnow Grange Mills, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
27/02/2026 to 27/03/2026
Friends of Photography: A Community in Focus, a joyful and inclusive exhibition celebrating the work of a local photography collective that meets monthly in the gallery.
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.
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'.
OPEN CALL - Quote & Curate Spring Curation - Opportunity to exhibit at Chelsea Harbour, London
28/02/2026 London, United Kingdom
Open Call for Artists to submit work for the Quote & Curate Spring Curation. Showcase your art at The Design Centre Chelsea Harbour in March 2026 and open up opportunities directly with Interior Designers.
Soulful Creativity
Rydal Hall, Rydal Hall, Ambleside, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
21/04/2026 to 22/04/2026
Using stories of wandering in the wilderness and facing the wildness of life's storms, we will explore how Jesus triumphed over the temptations and tempests of life. Through exploration of stories and passages in the gospels in which Jesus amazed individual characters & crowds we will creatively engage with the 'awe and wonder' of Christ
The Peirson & Peirson Contemporary Art Prize
28/02/2026 Peirson & Peirson Contemporary Art Galley, Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom
The Peirson & Peirson Art Prize is a new national award celebrating the breadth and vitality of contemporary art. Open call to UK-based artists, aged 18+, the prize invites submissions in any style or tradition - Drawing, Painting & Printmaking.
Fun, Family & Group Friendly Felting Workshops
Bardsey Arts Studio, 42a Church Lane, Bardsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
14/02/2026 to 25/04/2026
Workshop Menu You can choose the workshop you would like. On any of the dates; you can choose from the following Menu: * Wet Felt a Picture of your choice * Wet felt your own bag * Wet felt your own bowl * Nuno felt Cowl onto silk In each session you will learn from your tutor Katy, the processes of agitation; fulling and finishing your felted Picture / Bowl / Bag or Cowl. Refreshments
ENCAUSTIC HIVE UK ‘The Art of Place’
Exhibition
30/09/2025 to 28/04/2026
UK Encaustic wax artists Julie Wrathall and Lyn Kirkland have set up an online project group called ENCAUSTIC HIVE UK. The purpose is to foster a stronger connection amongst UK encaustic artists. To encourage creative exploration, in a supportive space. A series of informal zoom calls to make connections, culminating in an online exhibition of UK encaustic titled ‘The Art of Place’.
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.
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...
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 #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.
Lita Doolan
I exhibited at Modern Art Oxford Open Exhibition, Angel Row Gallery Nottingham and Oscar Wilde Rooms Oxford. Film work curated at Brighton Digital Festival, Borderless Lockdown and Kings Cross Film Festival 2022. I studied graphic design and illustration online at UAL. I have forthcoming...
Group Residency Programme, Orkney: Air, Sea and Soil: MICRO-MACRO
The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Palace Village, Birsay, Orkney, United Kingdom
Workshop
20/06/2026 to 27/06/2026
Welcome to all creative practitioners and researchers interested in making, thinking and being in experimental ways. This Group Residency will take you out and about in Orkney, introduce you to the impact of climate crisis, to vast skies and the archipelago that has long been shaped by the sea.
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.
Group Residency Programme, Orkney - Air, Sea and Soil: SOUNDINGS and SURROUNDINGS
The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Palace Village, Birsay, Orkney, United Kingdom
Workshop
27/06/2026 to 04/07/2026
The Group Residency is offered for creative practitioners working in all creative disciplines and for those who have a strong interest in the investigation of the Group Residency themes in relation to space, sound and visuals. The group will comprise of approx. eight international participants.