Kurtis L Perrigo
I am a self taught sculptor of stainless steel pieces, I have been a metal polisher for over 20 yrs and have worked with all types of metal
Featured artist: Amanda Jobson
Published: 18/02/2019
Amanda Jobson is a visual artist based in Hastings on the Sussex Coast. Here she describes her recent explorations into ethnography and place through photography and video.
YVAN / Corridor8 writing residency
Deadline: 22/02/2019 Location:
Yorkshire & Humber Visual Arts Network (YVAN) and Corridor8 are looking for a critical/creative writer to become part of a conversation about the Yorkshire visual art ecology.
Sara Bantran
An artist who loves colour. Combining science and art. And is fiery as well as bold in brushstrokes and colour application.
New artist-led studios and gallery for Lincoln
Published: 04/02/2019
This week’s featured organiser is Anne Stansfield, a Lincoln-based creative whose ambition is to develop a new artist-led studios and gallery space in the area.
ORBIT: Submissions for Reviews/Articles for new online platform for emerging artists/writers!
Deadline: 22/02/2019 Location: Liverpool
ORBIT is a (for the timebeing) online initiative, aiming to support and showcase the work of emerging artists and writers throughout the UK, with the initial aim of publishing reviews/articles and hosting residencies on a weekly basis. ORBIT hopes to act as a platform for discussion and collaboration between artists at all different stages of their career from all across the country.
Cupola Contemporary Art
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...
Open Call: Miniature Works
Deadline: 24/02/2019 Location: Altrincham, Cheshire
We are seeking small artworks to take part in a group show next April.
Sarah Louise Hawkins
I am an artist working predominantly with sculpture and drawing. My current body of work consists of architectonic structures and geometric constructions of repeated grid patterns and forms. Fundamentally, my work is driven by my interest in colour, form, material and space.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #2: Romily Alice Walden
Published: 29/01/2019
We are delighted to announce the winner of CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #2, Romily Alice Walden, who is based between London and Berlin. Romily’s work explores ideas of sickness, disability and embodiment through installation and performance.
SOLO Open Call
Deadline: 24/02/2019 Location: London, London
SOLO, a not for profit group of artists, actively helping each other to succeed in their individual efforts and improve their careers, is offering a promotional opportunity. We are creating a showcase magazine and inviting artists to submit their work for entry. This magazine format is targeted directly at galleries, the design of which, places each artist foremost, in its presentation. We aim to publish quarterly and we select recipients (galleries) as carefully as we select artists. This first edition will be London based, and only 100 galleries will receive the magazine. We constantly strive to widen our community and include artists from a wide range of backgrounds, working in a vast array of media whether traditional or contemporary. The SOLO magazine serves to provide a voice to our network and highlight individual art practices to galleries, institutions, and eventually, to the general public. Initially, the magazine will be designed, printed and circulated physically, and eventually, will be expanded to have a digital and online presence.
Saltaire Inspired
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...
Adele Jackson
I’m currently exploring the connection between the sun, Antarctica, and human activity over the austral summer season. I describe myself as an environmental artist. I’m interested in the interrelationships between people, places, culture and nature. In 2017, I moved from the UK to New...
New arts magazine with a focus on the Far North
Published: 28/01/2019
As part of our focus on highlighting the work of arts organisations and how they support artists, we spoke to Ian McKay from ART NORTH Magazine, a new publication which aims to showcase artists working outside urban centres, in particular those in the Scottish Highlands and their Nordic neighbours.
Queerology-Open Call-Heavy Souls Exhibition, Switzerland
Deadline: 24/02/2019 Location: Vevey
For our upcoming Heavy Souls exhibition at Emergency gallery in Switzerland we have been asked to take along some texts to accompany the exhibition. Heavy Souls will feature artists from Queerology making work about their experiences of misogyny.
Open Call for "Moving Stories: Transitions" exhibition
Deadline: 25/02/2019 Location: London, London
“Moving Stories: Transitions” is a touring exhibition showcasing the stories of those who have experienced migration in London; those who have travelled and those whose communities, churches and lives have been changed by the movement of others. The exhibition will aim to challenge some of the issues surrounding migration in London, opening the conversation up about the media’s portrayal of migration whilst giving a voice to actual migrants and in the process celebrating what migration brings to London.
Jo Hunter
I am a textile artist and tutor working from my home in North Yorkshire. On completing a degree in textiles from Winchester school of Art in 1994, I worked as a designer for a number of years before becoming a teacher. After years of inspiring art in the classroom, I returned to my first love...
Visual Representations of Multilingualism Competition
Published: 21/01/2019
CuratorSpace has been working in partnership with BAAL (British Association for Applied Linguistics), Multilingual Matters, and the AILA Research Network for Creative Inquiry and Applied Linguistics, to deliver their new competition, Visual Representations of Multilingualism. The competition aims to provide a creative opportunity to explore new ways of representing multilingualism through visual means and to stimulate debate and raise awareness about innovative ways of thinking about multilingualism. Dr Jessica Bradley explains further.
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Call for Artists: Radar Artist Fair 15-17.03.19
Deadline: 25/02/2019 Location: London, Greater London
Submissions now OPEN for The Radar Artist Fair 15-17.03.19 / Old Spitalfields Market. New monthly Artist Platform amplifying the next wave of artistic talent over 3 days. Over 55 exciting artists a Month will showcase their work to a global audience of over 75,000 a weekend to inspire and connect the next generation of artists/collector.
50 Jewish Objects artist 2019
Deadline: 25/02/2019 Location: Manchester, Greater Manchester
As part of major new public engagement initiative of the University of Manchester's Centre for Jewish Studies, we seek to select an artist for a two-month project working to create Manchester-based artwork and public encounters in response to one or more of the historical and unique Jewish artefacts and manuscripts held at Manchester University’s John Rylands Library. The selected artist will liaise with a post-doctoral researcher to select an artefact or manuscript and learn about the chosen object in depth. We are looking for works of creative engagement with an object (or objects) responsive to the historical, cultural, linguistic or artefactual research currently being undertaken about them by scholars and which will be able to draw interest from general audiences at one or more artist’s workshops explaining and displaying the artwork created during the project period. The artefacts and manuscripts are part of the material cultural of Jews living in a variety of Jewish and non-Jewish historical and cultural settings. We welcome ideas for creative responses and artistic interpretations in visual/plastic/musical/digital media from artists of all cultural backgrounds. The payment for the two-months’ period is £6,615 (note: all expenses, costs and taxes are be covered by the artist).
Theresa Easton
Theresa Easton is a printmaker and activist working with artist’s books, based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Printmaking and artist’s books provide a platform for Easton’s interpretation of social history and cultural...
Neale Willis
I am particularly interested in creating conflict between what enters the machine and what leaves it. By manipulating data to create ambiguities within the certainties of the digital realm, it's possible to breed uncertainty from the usually reassuring definite of binary data and letting...
£5m PPL insurance now available with CuratorSpace
Published: 15/01/2019
£5m Public & Products Liability (PPL) artist insurance provided in association with specialist brokers Hencilla Cansworth is now included with the new CuratorSpace Artist Plus subscription.
Video artists on Leeds Big Screen: January 2019
Published: 03/01/2019
CuratorSpace is working with Leeds Big Screen to showcase artists with a connection to Yorkshire who work in film and video. Films will be screened in Millennium Square at 1pm and 6pm daily throughout January. Here are the artists who will be showcased this month.
Louisa Stylianidi
I make storytelling devices in the form of sound sculptures, installations and performances, considering poetry as a form of resistance and collaging words together as materials, while thinking of the role puns and tongue twisters play in language. I also make podiums to read from, while also...