Rebecca Carr
I'm a fine artist and illustrator mainly working from my studio at home. I have taken part in events and exhibitions and have taught at various times over the years. As well as selling my cards and prints through my business lalabuds, I also like collaborating with artists for exhibition who...
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.
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...
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.
Call for Submissions: Urban Symbiosis - the Art of Living Exhibition
18/09/2024 Newport, Monmouthshire
This is an open invitation to all BAMM members to take part in BAMM's upcoming exhibition entitled 'Urban Symbiosis - the Art of Urban Living' in Newport, south Wales. Members are invited to submit up to 2 pieces of mosaic work, 30cm x 30cm in size (including any frame). It is intended that all works will be for sale.
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...
Rosalynd Aranel Byass
Rosalynd Byass is a modern surrealist born in South Shields, England and now lives and works in Jarrow, England, working primarily in oils. She aims to visualise her mental reality with a focus on her experience with her mental health day-to-day, which includes anxiety, depression, OCD and PTSD,...
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.
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.
Creative Life Drawing in Provence, France 2024
Maison Sylvette, Place Du Patiol, Camaret sur Aigues, France
Workshop
24/09/2024 to 30/09/2024
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.
Dwellings - Open Call Exhibition
18/09/2024 Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Fronteer Gallery are looking for artwork for their upcoming exhibition Dwellings. This could involve any kind of dwelling, from houses to tents, sheds, and caves. It can also encompass artworks about windows and doors.
Dark Skies
Ballroom Arts, 152a High Street, Aldeburgh , Suffolk, United Kingdom
Exhibition
04/09/2024 to 01/10/2024
This exhibition of the work of artist and photographer Judy Goldhill explores our complex relationship to darkness and the night. Traditionally, in literature, art and film, dark skies offer a motif of dread and foreboding, as darkness falls transforming the everyday into the unknown, creating a space to
Phoebe Thomasson
I used painting as a kind of self-help therapy for years before pursuing a dedicated painting practice. Art is now a staple in my creative diet and abstract is my favourite dish! I seek to feed the world with art! Its a challenge and a calling as I believe in the power of making art to evoke...
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.
As Old as the Hills
Zig Zag Building, Morland Road, Northover, Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
21/09/2024 to 06/10/2024
Community art project rooted in environment and heritage, culminating in an immersive contemporary art exhibition plus events for Somerset Art Weeks Festival (Venue 45).
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'.
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...
Case studies for reducing your carbon footprint
Sustainable Arts in Leeds
SAIL are a group of organisations, individuals and networks, working together to promote a zero carbon / zero waste future for the cultural and creative industries of Leeds and beyond. Their website features case studies of how SAIL members on how they’ve managed to reduce their carbon footprints.
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.
Becky Mann
Becky is a freelance illustrator based in Leeds, UK. Becky creates work mainly focusing on favourite meals; food and drink, along with animals, plants and feelings of nostalgia. She graduated from the University of Brighton in 2012 having studied Fine Art Printmaking and has focused on the...
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.
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...
Whispers of Autumn: Seasons of Transition
19/09/2024 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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
sonia e barrett
I started working with black communities in the beginning because I felt that when members of the black community were engaged in my work, I could claim the title of visual artist. I see my work as an intervention into spaces of intergenerational wealth created by triangular trade. I also see...
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.