Embroidered panel workshop
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
12/10/2024
You’ll learn how to transfer a design to your choice of beautiful fabrics, alongside basic hand embroidery stitches to bring your design to life. By the end of the workshop you will have learnt different hand embroidery techniques and stitches, how to create and transfer designs, how to embroider lettering and have a completed (or nearly completed) a panel.
Case study: The Dispensary Gallery
The Dispensary Gallery is a research-led art gallery in Wrexham. Its dynamic programme of exhibitions and events brings together local, national and international artist-researchers, providing a supportive hub and a space to display their work.
Cathy Dunbar
I am feminist, artist and activist. My work is multi media, using found materials and performance whatever speaks the loudest . I work in the community with groups helping them to realise an event or action. Also founder and member of several creative groups. core to my work is the belief...
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.
Landscape, Stems and Form
Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
17/09/2024 to 16/10/2024
Taking A Deeper Look - Connecting With The Landscape and Environment
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...
Funding library
The White Pube
This library is a resource of successful funding applications that you can learn from to write your own bids. It also includes links to other resources such as application templates and crib sheets.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Mill Bridge Gallery, 3 Mill Bridge, Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
21/09/2024 to 19/10/2024
Built in 1675 and a Grade II listed building, Mill Bridge Gallery is managed by a group of six local artists, all working in different media. They have teamed up with a further seven local artists who have exhibited at The Gallery previously, all of them creating artwork in various media that is specific to our autumnal theme.
Sensory Stations Pop Up Exhibition & Workshop
10/10/2024 Hackney Wick, London
We are thrilled to invite 1-4 artists to participate in the upcoming “Sensory Stations” Pop-Up Exhibition & Workshop, a unique and immersive experience that explores the intersections of art and our senses.
Mike Hartley
I am a mixed media artist and Designer/ Maker I have always been interested in interdisciplinary or mixed-media arts exploring different mediums, i trained in the North East of England at university of Northumbria in Newcastle. recently designing and building structures for festival...
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.
Wildlife Unleashed : Solo Exhibition By Anne Bardsley
Merseyway Shopping Centre, Stockport, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
21/10/2024 to 27/10/2024
This exhibition is a rare opportunity to see some of Anne's original artwork, limited edition prints, and unique gifts that feature vulnerable and endangered animals from around the world all presented in a variety of artistic styles.
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...
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.
OPEN CALL FOR ART: MYSTICAL
13/10/2024 6 Old Fox Yard, Stowmarket IP14 1AB, Suffolk
Fox Yard Studio is thrilled to announce its upcoming exhibition, "MYSTICAL", during the Halloween Season. The theme is open to interpretation. We look forward to receiving your submissions and curating a diverse and captivating exhibition. This art exhibition will invite our visitors to explore the layers of meaning of the selected works while delving into the supernatural, magical or even the occult. We are looking for artworks of any kind, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, video, textile, digital work and live performance.
10th Community Art Exhibition
Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
10/10/2024 to 27/10/2024
New collective exhibition!
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.
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...
Human Experience II
Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
06/10/2024 to 03/11/2024
From the Edinburgh Fringe to the English Riviera: “The Artists’ Pool” Come to Take a Dip with Artizan Collective
Julia Dunstan
Experimental and innovative multimedia artist exploring the power of meaningful narratives through visual art. Pushing the relationships of materials and processes to challenge people’s assumptions and invite them to see the world in a new and different way that resonates with audiences on a...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #24: Helen Emily Davy
Helen Emily Davy works in a diverse range of media such as installation, printmaking, collage, stained glass, embroidery, and text, incorporating archival material to examine questions related to subjectivity and the body. She often directs her attention to the intersection of science, technology, and representation, excavating the power dynamics which shape their mutual interactions.
THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SCULPTORS - Gilbert Bayes Award for early career sculptors 2025
15/10/2024 South Kensington, London
The Gilbert Bayes Award for early career sculptors is given annually by the Society to a small group of outstandingly talented sculptors. Selected by the sculptor members of the Society’s Board and a guest judge, the award provides vital support during what can be a difficult transition from study to professional practice. The award is open to sculptors of any age or nationality, with or without formal training and working in any style of media.
New Horizons
Stourbridge Glass Museum, Wordsley
Exhibition
30/07/2024 to 17/11/2024
The New Horizons exhibition will showcase both traditional methods of glass making along with modern techniques, all producing contemporary work that challenges and explores the boundaries of glass. All the work on show will be either be made especially for the exhibition or is work which has been made since 2022 but has not been previously exhibited.
IOAEA Online Residency Program - Fall/Winter
15/10/2024
We are delighted to announce the open call for our Online Residency Program, inviting eco, social, and political artists worldwide to participate in a six-week online program from November 2024 to February 2025.
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'.
Quaker Tapestry Christmas Craft Fair
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Art fair
22/11/2024 to 23/11/2024
Quaker Tapestry Christmas Craft Fair
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 #24: Fiona Campbell
Fiona Campbell is a Somerset-based artist, educator, curator, and a Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors. She creates sculptural installations, using recycled and found materials. At the root of her practice is the notion of interconnectedness, with a focus on environmental concerns about human exploitation of nature.
Nocturne
44AD, 4 Abbey St, Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
20/11/2024 to 24/11/2024
Nocturne explores the uncomfortable, liminal state between sleeping and waking. Experience Kate McDonnell's immersive installation exploring our relationship with insomnia which opens on November 20th, 2024.
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.
Wembley Park Art Trail: Phone Boxes Installation
17/10/2024 London, London
Wembley Park Art Trail: Phone Boxes Winter Installation An open call for artists to create an interactive winter installation, using Wembley Park's restored K2 phone boxes as symbols of dialogue and connection. This installation will transform the phone boxes into illuminated mini-galleries, inviting the public to reflect on communication in today's digital age.
The Naked Artist Collection
Jules Emporium, 5 New Rd,, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Exhibition
02/11/2024 to 30/11/2024
The Naked Artist, aka Suzie is a prolific free style emotive driven artist. This is captured through her lens and artwork over the last few decades. They will be showing a mixture of old artworks from previous exhibitions and some new photography pieces along with her love of words that are expressed in her work.
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...
The Fronteer Open 2024 - Open Call
18/10/2024 Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Submissions for The Fronteer Open 2024 are now open. Fronteer Gallery's annual open exhibition offers the chance to win an exhibition for two prize winners. Sponsored by CuratorSpace.
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.
Geopark Artist Residencies
Exhibition
20/09/2024 to 28/02/2025
Artists to Reveal Geopark Stories Through Creation of New Works
Eva Joy
Eva is a multidisciplinary artivist whose ideas circulate around protest, connection, apocalyptic possibilities, climate change and utopia. She often takes an anarchic view to traditional spaces for art and prefers using public interventions and community collaborations to spark energy for change.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #24: Sarah Goudie
Sarah Goudie works with contemplative making practices to investigate feminist narratives of touch and witness. She is fascinated by the space of drawing and the poetics of beauty and injury, poise and longing through the enduring presence of objects and land.
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.
Art School Nepal
Til Swuara Hill Farm where you will be overlooking Annapurna Range, Nepal
Workshop
24/03/2025 to 03/04/2025
Art Holiday in Nepal
Saltaire Inspired Team
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...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #24: Diana Terry
Diana Terry works in drawing, painting, collage and sculpture to explore how art can embody thought and emotions. With a background in teaching alongside her professional art practice, she has exhibited extensively including at Merzbarn, Scotland, Kolaj Fest, New Orleans, and The Mall Gallery, London, as well as being selected for the New Light Prize Exhibition.
Creative Life Drawing in Provence, France 2025
Maison Sylvette, Place Du Patiol, Camaret sur Aigues, France
Workshop
19/05/2025 to 25/05/2025
For any skill level, this class brings out your creative potentials in a joyful atmosphere, and beautiful environment. With home cooked food and tasty wines from the region, this 6 day course is a perfect unwind and delight where you can explore your creativity working in the studio and outside with time and freedom to experiment with different mark making materials and methods of expression.
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.
Creative Life Drawing in Provence, France 2025
Maison Sylvette, Place Du Patiol, Camaret sur Aigues, France
Workshop
15/09/2025 to 21/09/2025
For any skill level, this class brings out your creative potentials in a joyful atmosphere, and beautiful environment. With home cooked food and tasty wines from the region, this 6 day course is a perfect unwind and delight where you can explore your creativity working in the studio and outside with time and freedom to experiment with different mark making materials and methods of expression.