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Event

Talking Art with Ian Chamberlain

Talk
05/12/2024

Through drawing and printmaking Ian Chamberlain reinterprets man-made structures as monuments in the landscape. These structures are architectural metaphors of past and current technological achievements.

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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

Andy Farr

Andy is an award-winning artist with a strong interest in mental health and well-being. His two most recent projects involved telling the stories of people's mental health through narrative paintings. He is a member of ArtCan a non-profit arts organisation that supports artists.

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Event

22nd Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality

Exhibition
09/11/2024 to 06/12/2024

The new Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality is up and running. 


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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

CGS DISCOVERY DAY at the V&A, London

V&A London, Cromwell Rd, , London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Symposium
07/12/2024

CGS returns to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for its final event of 2024. Come along to our Discovery Day which is open to all! Join inspired glass artists and listen to their fascinating stories.

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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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Resource

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.

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Event

Community Artists' Fair

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Art fair
07/12/2024

Join Us for the Com­mu­ni­ty Artists’ Fair – Xmas Edition!

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Upcoming opportunity

Secret Salon: Electric Ladyland - open call for physical works

05/12/2024   London, London  

The Secret Salon presents 'Electric Ladyland' on 14th December 2024 A feminist-focused physical Art exhibition hosted by Andree Adley CSM in a network of iconic caves in South London (15 mins from London Bridge). We will be celebrating the anniversary of the legendary Jimi Hendrix's live performance at the caves in December 1967. This open call is for UK based artists physical works - please see description.

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Artist profile

Sarah Hutt

Sarah completed a degree in textile design and worked as a colourist and print designer for several years before taking up her career in Education. Although not formally trained in the Fine Arts, she uses her knowledge of print and colour to create her own unique style. She travels with her...

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Event

Talking Art with Jess Bugler

Talk
12/12/2024

Jess works in the expanded field of contemporary printmaking, creating prints and installations through a combination of traditional and modern print processes, from linocut and collograph to laser cutting and Risograph. Her work explores the dissonance and complexity of modern life.

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #25: Kayleigh Peters

Kayleigh Peters is a visual artist and facilitator. Her work focuses on themes of health, wellbeing and connection to earth and nature through the lens of her personal experience of living with hidden illness.

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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

The Horton - Festive Marketplace

The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Art fair
13/12/2024 to 14/12/2024

The Horton will be holding two Festive Marketplaces this year, the first on Friday 13th December in the evening, the second on Saturday 14th December during the day.

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Upcoming opportunity

Urban Coincidence: Photography Open Call

05/12/2024   Glasgow  

This open call is interested in images that capture advertising aftermath and moments of urban coincidence. Selected photographs will be exhibited across the city of Glasgow on advertising boards.

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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

VAGARY

Exhibition
02/12/2024 to 15/12/2024

Cir­cu­lar Art­Space presents VAGARY, a solo exhi­bi­tion in the Meta­verse by Can­dice Black

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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

Talking Art with Layla Jabbari

Talk
19/12/2024

Layla is a freelance printmaker and illustrator from Hull. She works closely with clients on work that often has story-telling and community at its centre. Her projects have involved a variety of outcomes from animations, prints and zines to community art. Her work playfully combines printmaking and collage layered in the digital space.

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Artist profile

Emma Lee Cracknell

Since having completed a BA Hons (2013) and MA in Fine Art at NUA in 2014, Emma has shown frequently in Norwich, London and abroad. She has work held in the permanent collection at NUA, and has been seen in both British Vogue and Aesthetica. As a painter, specialising in large scale abstract...

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #25: Emily Hawes

Emily Hawes is an artist and educator based between Lancing and Bournemouth, working with 8mm & 16mm analogue film. Her films unearth the interconnections between places, people, histories and ecologies.

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Event

Carers Strike Art Installation!

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
07/12/2024 to 21/12/2024

Car­ers Can’t Strike!

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Upcoming opportunity

Transcendence | First Edition | Call For Artists

06/12/2024   London  

Will future generations grasp the depth of our love, the transformations we undergo, and the mysteries we conceal just beneath the surface?

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Upcoming opportunity

Postcards 2025 - Open Call

07/12/2024   Sheffield, South Yorkshire  

Fronteer Gallery are looking for postcard sized artworks for their exhibition Postcards 2025.

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Event

English Riviera Winter Open Exhibition

Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
10/11/2024 to 24/12/2024

Wrapping up another year of Art on the English Riviera

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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

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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Event

Capturing the Inner Sound

Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
26/11/2024 to 24/12/2024

Artizan Printmaking and Sculpture Gallery welcomes Exeter based printmaker Val Jones for their closing exhibition of 2024.

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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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Artist profile

lois palframan

63 year old lesbian. Degrees in environmental science and art, and Masters in art. Previously:- artists books and minimal abstract drawings as scores; many residencies; solo and group exhibitions internationally. monthly 'connection to nature' drawings, art-writing- prose inspired by the...

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Event

Newcastle arts centre winter exhibition

Newcastle Arts Centre, 67 Westgate Road , Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
Exhibition
16/11/2024 to 04/01/2025

Annual winter group exhibition featuring all artists associated with the Newcastle Arts Centre

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #25: Pauline Blanchet

Pauline Blanchet is an award-winning film director and producer whose work explores sports, nationalism, and identity. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the School of Advanced Study and EHESS, studying urban identity in North Macedonia. She also runs Aral Sea Productions and is a producer at HERProductions.

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Event

Memory Book Workshop with Maria Walker

The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Workshop
10/01/2025

Create a unique and beautiful Memory Book to display a treasured personal item in this full-day workshop.

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Upcoming opportunity

Secret Salon: Electric Ladyland

08/12/2024   London, London  

The Secret Salon presents 'Electric Ladyland' on 14th December 2024 A feminist-focused physical Art exhibition hosted by Andree Adley CSM in a network of iconic caves in South London (15 mins from London Bridge). We will be celebrating the anniversary of the legendary Jimi Hendrix's live performance at the caves in December 1967. This open call is for UK and International DIGITAL works.

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Upcoming opportunity

23rd Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality

09/12/2024     

Open Call for Artists!

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Event

Greener Grass - A Solo Exhibition by Lidija Antanasijević Winner of the 2022 Flourish Award

WYPW@ the Piazza Huddersfield, 42-44 Princess Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
02/11/2024 to 12/01/2025

Solo exhibition by Serbian-born, London-based artist and printmaker Lidija Antanasijević bringing together various works from across the artist’s expansive practice. The selected works showcase Lidija’s deep knowledge and fascination with printmaking and her mastery of the medium creating a multilayered show, centred around themes of personal and cultural belonging.

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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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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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Event

Creative Hand-Stitching Workshop with Maria Walker

The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Workshop
18/01/2025

Create a unique and striking hand-stitched textile artwork from a simple line drawing in this full-day workshop.

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Artist profile

Steven Barritt

My photographic practice is focused on the idea of ambiguity and the slippage between the photograph and truth, surface and meaning. Starting from a conceptual engagement with research, my practice often entails carefully constructed images that explore recurring themes of mythologising,...

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News article

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.

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Event

Maria Walker - These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things Exhibition

The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Exhibition
04/01/2025 to 23/01/2025

Artist Maria Walker, one of the winners of The Horton Summer Exhibition 2024, exhibits a curated collection of her thought-provoking textile and mixed media work.

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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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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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Event

Geopark Artist Residencies

Exhibition
20/09/2024 to 28/02/2025

Artists to Reveal Geopark Stories Through Creation of New Works

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News article

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.

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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

Angela Charles / Blackwell

A visual artist recently registered Severely Sight Impaired.(Blind) Formerly combined a career as an artist and curator. Goldsmiths graduate 1989.

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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

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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