
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.
Couched/Laid Bayeux Stitch Workshop
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
24/05/2025
Often known as Bayeux stitch, laid and couched work was used all over Europe throughout the middle ages, often for very large pieces of embroidery/ Learn this fun easy technique using naturally dyed wool.

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.

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

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.

Hand and Treasure
Hebden Bridge Town Hall, St George's Street, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Art fair
26/04/2025 to 27/04/2025
A curated art and vintage fair in central Hebden Bridge with a good reputation and high footfall. Held at Hebden Bridge Town Hall; a community hub with a cafe and a lovely large hall. The fair is run by artist Julia Ogden and is the fifth fair.

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.

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.

14th Community Art Exhibition
Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
05/04/2025 to 27/04/2025
Explore a diverse collection of artworks in our unique double-decker bus gallery, showcasing the talent of artists from Bristol and beyond. A true celebration of creativity!

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...

Threads of Connection
19/04/2025 London
SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN! We are in search of visual artists to submit their art to be showcased in an online exhibition. Artists of all mediums and from all countries are welcome to apply, including painters, sculptors, photographers, designers, and video artists.

IMAGINISM – A Celebration of Art & Imagination at Vellum Mill Gallery 🎨✨
Vellum Mill Gallery, 76a Mill Lane , London, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
25/04/2025 to 02/05/2025
**IMAGINISM** is a vibrant exhibition celebrating creativity and imagination through diverse artistic styles. Featuring expressive paintings, mixed media, and sculpture, this dynamic showcase brings together established and emerging artists. Join us at Vellum Mill Gallery for an inspiring journey into art, with live music at the exclusive Private View on 25th April! 🎨✨

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.

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...

Ms Lucy A Best-Shaw
I come from a family of painters and studied Fine Art at 'A' Level. I have been painting landscapes regularly since 2013 and, having retired from a career in nursing in 2015, am now a full time artist, painting and drawing and have studied portraiture under Andres Jaroslavsky and Luke...

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.

Silver Clay Jewellery Workshops
Open Gallery, Open Gallery 18 Rawson Street, Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
26/04/2025 to 03/05/2025
Come and join us for an afternoon of jewellery making with @richardallenjewellery @opengallery.info Halifax and discover the magic of silver clay.

Flourish Award for Excellence in Printmaking 2025 - Call for Submissions
20/04/2025 Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
Open Call for UK-based Printmakers for the 14th Flourish Award celebrating excellence in printmaking. We are looking for creativity, skill, originality, and innovation in traditional handmade print: from relief print and intaglio to screen print, lithography, and more.

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'.

Lucy May Schofield - Scrolls: The Continuous Page
WYPW at the Piazza Huddersfield, 42-44 Princess Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Talk
09/05/2025
Join artist Lucy May Schofield as she discusses the scroll as a record of time, distance, and unfolding narratives. In this talk and Q&A, Lucy explores the significance of the scroll as both a historical form and its contemporary relevance in telling 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...

My Studio for a Week
The Maker Space, Portland Works, Randall Street,, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
03/05/2025 to 10/05/2025
I am moving my home studio to The Maker Space at Portland Works for the whole week of the OpenUp studios in Sheffield from 3rd to 10th May (closed Tuesday 6th).

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.

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.

Carshalton & Wallington Art Group Spring Exhibition 2025
United Reform Church, Stanley Park Road, Wallington , London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
15/05/2025 to 17/05/2025
A vibrant community art exhibition in Wallington, showcasing original artwork by local artists. Free entry, charity raffle, refreshments, and public vote.

Community Mural Harehills
21/04/2025 Leeds, West Yorkshire
We are looking for a Leeds based mural/graffiti artist with a socially engaged practice to work with Harehills Primary School to design and install a vibrant mural for the external walls of a small community building in Harehills. The selected artist will be awarded £1500 to deliver the project. Deadline for submissions is midnight Monday 21st April.

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...

Drawing in Provence
Maison Sylvette, Place Du Patiol, Camaret sur Aigues, France
Workshop
19/05/2025 to 25/05/2025
Maison Sylvette is the home of Sylvette David, who is Picasso's last surviving muse. Isabel is her daughter and as a practising sculptor herself enjoys using their family French home to share her extensive knowledge of drawing and carving. The house is old and a beautiful artistic venue, full of inspiring cameos. This is a truely authentic experience.

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.

Into the Wildwood
Mill Bridge Gallery, 3, Mill Bridge, Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
11/04/2025 to 25/05/2025
This is a themed exhibition staged by the six resident artists at Mill Bridge Gallery. The exhibition will include paintings, ceramics, sculptures and wood turnings.

Alison Lam Art
Alison Lam identifies as a neurodivergent, interdisciplinary socially arts practitioner using differing materials such as porcelain, metals, glass and paper. Alison explores the idea of grief, discardment and ostracisation, through exploring and invsestigating process led investigations. She...

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.
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...

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.

History of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Online
Workshop
27/04/2025 to 01/06/2025
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.

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.