Event

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.

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Case study

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.

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Artist profile

Jess Kidd

I'm a Yorkshire based, multi-disciplinary artist, with a current focus on mixed media painting. I graduated in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, London, 2008. I am inspired by art that provokes people to reconsider the familiar or mundane. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) informs both my...

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Event

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.

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News article

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.

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Event

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

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Curator profile

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...

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Resource

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.

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Event

Mala Necklace Workshop

The Horton - Epsom, Haven Way, Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom
Workshop
11/04/2025

Friday 11th April, 10am – 1pm Design and make your ‘Mala style’ necklace. This knotted necklace is similar to the traditional Mala in style, using your own sequence of beads and finishing with the traditional tassel.

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Upcoming opportunity

The Horton Epsom - Makers Market - May 2025

23/03/2025   EPSOM, Surrey  

Calling all artists and makers! We are planning our next curated arts and craft market, which will be on Saturday 31 May 2025. This is an opportunity to showcase your items in The Horton Arts Centre, a beautifully renovated Grade II listed building. We’re especially looking for artists and those with a specific craft who design and make their own original items.

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Curator profile

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...

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Event

Children's Lino Printing Workshop

The Horton - Epsom, Haven Way, Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom
Workshop
08/04/2025

Tuesday 8th April, 10.30am- 12.30pm Young artists will learn the traditional relief printing method using poly blocks to create colourful prints to frame at home. Artists will explore images, scale, line, composition, colour and the reduction process to create their prints.

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Artist profile

Monika Dutta

I am an award winning cross-media artist and filmmaker, having exhibited internationally and worked collaboratively to deliver works that interrogate the role and impact of digital media practice. I have over 20yrs experience of devising and delivering participatory projects. I work with...

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News article

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.

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Event

Chinese Brush Painting - Magnolia

The Horton - Epsom, Haven Way, Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom
Workshop
10/04/2025

Thursday 10th April, 10:30am – 3pm Capture the spirit of spring with this Chinese Brush Painting workshop. Experienced tutor Angela Reich would love to help you enjoy this unique art form. Anyone can learn – no previous art experience is needed.

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Case study

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.

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Event

13th Community Art Exhibition

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
01/03/2025 to 23/03/2025

Explore diverse art­works in a unique dou­ble-deck­er bus gallery fea­tur­ing tal­ent­ed artists from Bris­tol and beyond. A cel­e­bra­tion of creativity!

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Upcoming opportunity

Pets / Domestic Animals

23/03/2025     

A free opportunity to take part in our first online exhibition on the theme of pets/domestic animals. Artwork in any media or style can be submitted.

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Resource

Contemporary Visual Arts Network England

CVAN England leads a collective agenda for policy change across the visual arts. They campaign to be heard, valued, and recognised so that the sector can thrive now and in the future. Links to nine regional networks across England.

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Event

Feminism & Contemporary Art: Disobedient Bodies

The Old Waterworks, North Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
Symposium
06/02/2025 to 27/03/2025

A short course for artists and enthusiasts who want to learn about feminist theories influencing contemporary art today.

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Curator profile

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...

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Upcoming opportunity

Junior Open 2025

24/03/2025   Scarborough, North Yorkshire  

CALL OUT for entries for Junior Open 2025. Deadline for submissions: Monday 24 March 2025.

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Event

Artizan Printmakers and Sculpture Open Season – Winter

Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
28/11/2024 to 29/03/2025

Intro­duc­ing our new ven­ture as we tran­si­tion to a ded­i­cat­ed Print­mak­ing and Sculp­ture Gallery.

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Artist profile

Martin Darbyshire

I am a London based sculptor who explores the interstices between stuff. My work has been exhibited across the UK, and I am an elected member of The London Group, and the Royal Society of Sculptors. I have received and been nominated for prizes and grants that recognise my commitment to...

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News article

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.

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Event

Two Day Ply-split Braiding workshop

The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
28/03/2025 to 29/03/2025

This two-day workshop is an introduction to ply-splitting, and gives a good grounding in the key ‘stitches’ or ‘weaves’ that are used. We start simply and build gradually, making braids, small mats and projects.

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Upcoming opportunity

Call for Artist or Collective for Exhibition Commission

24/03/2025   Halifax, West Yorkshire  

Are you a curator, artist or collective looking for the resources to stage an exhibition of new or revisited work? Thanks to funding gratefully received from Calderdale Council's Multi Year Culture fund, we’re thrilled to announce a new commission opportunity to co-create an exhibition in late 2025 in our spacious and inspiring gallery.

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Event

Animalium Miscellaneum – Works of Anna Walsh

Artizan Printmaking & Sculpture Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/02/2025 to 29/03/2025

Artizan welcomes London based artist Anna Walsh as we continue our series of solo shows at our dedicated printmaking and sculpture gallery on Lucius Street.

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Case study

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'.

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Curator profile

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...

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Event

Sitting Still

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
25/03/2025 to 30/03/2025

10 Years of Life Drawing at The Greenbank

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Resource

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.

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Upcoming opportunity

East Coast Open 2025

24/03/2025   Scarborough, North Yorkshire  

CALL OUT for entries for East Coast Open 2025. Deadline for submissions: Monday 24 March 2025.

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Event

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

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Artist profile

Ursula Vargas

As a Peruvian artist have research and depicted pre-Columbian art and how is reflected in a contemporary context, together with the awareness of climate change and its influence on its habitants from ancient times till now, were human intervention contributes to it.

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News article

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.

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Event

25th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality

Circular Artspace - MetArtSpace
Exhibition
14/03/2025 to 12/04/2025

Circular ArtSpace is delighted to announce the 25th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality, an immersive digital showcase running from 14 March to 12 April 2025. This innovative exhibition brings together a diverse group of talented artists, offering audiences worldwide the opportunity to engage with contemporary art in a unique and interactive way.

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Curator profile

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...

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Event

Artizan Women's Open Exhibition 2025

Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
09/03/2025 to 13/04/2025

The Artizan Women’s Open Exhibition returns for 2025, continuing its mission to celebrate, amplify, and champion women artists in a diverse and inclusive showcase.

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Upcoming opportunity

OPEN CALL – UK ARTISTS FOR COMMISSION FOR LIGHT ART AT LIGHTWAVES SALFORD 2025

24/03/2025   SALFORD, Greater Manchester  

OPEN CALL – UK ARTISTS FOR COMMISSION FOR LIGHT ART AT LIGHTWAVES SALFORD 2025, A co-commission between LOWRY and QUAYS CULTURE DEADLINE FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST: Monday 24th March 8:00am GMT £19,000 commission for a light artwork to show at major light festival at Salford Quays.

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Resource

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.

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Event

Any Other Business

The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park. Clinton Road, London, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
04/04/2025 to 14/04/2025

The renowned international Prism Textiles returns to the Art Pavilion in Mile End with their latest exhibition of contemporary textile-inspired art inspired by Any Other Business.

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Case study

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.

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Curator profile

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...

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Event

Mind the Gap

Westminster Reference Library, 35 St Martin's Street, London, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
29/03/2025 to 16/04/2025

Have you ever felt stuck, unsure how to move forward? Or the euphoria of a moment so big it feels like you might burst? These extremes and the transitional spaces between them, form the heart of my immersive exhibition Mind The Gap.

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Artist profile

jackie sewell

I class myself as a plastic activist and promote the devastating effects plastic has on the environment through my work. I own a Zero-Waste shop called Buy the Kilo and promote these issues through exhibitions that I curate in our small Gallery Space. working with like minded Artists.

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News article

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.

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Event

Creative Typography Course

The Horton - Epsom, Haven Way, Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom
Workshop
16/04/2025 to 23/04/2025

Two week course running on the 16th & 23rd April, 1:30pm – 4:30pm. The tradition of illustrating with type dates back to the earliest documents and books.

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News article

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.

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Event

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.

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Artist profile

Michelle Holland

I am a Book Artist and Weaver, based in Sheffield.

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Case study

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.

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Event

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!

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