CGS Discovery Day at V&A Museum London
V&A, Cromwell Road, London
Symposium
08/12/2023
Listen to 5 eminent makers describe their journeys and work, explore this amazing gallery, network and more.
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.
David James of Olicana Mosaics
David designs and makes artworks and features for interior and exterior spaces.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Diane Ketteringham
Diane Ketteringham is an interactive installations artist, engaging with passersby to explore their emotional, social and cultural landscapes and inviting them to break conventions. She explores ‘sharing’ in its widest sense through artworks where she is often an active participant.
Alex Hetherington
I sustain a visual art practice (with an emphasis on the moving image, performance, text and sculpture) through various positions as artist, curator, programmer and writer, and often work under a title or pseudonym, for example Modern Edinburgh Film School, Neon John and ‘The Men and...
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.
"Portraits" the virtual 3D exhibition
30/11/2023 Dresden
We are now accepting submissions for our 3D Virtual Exhibition "Portraits". Any artist from any background can submit any of their work. We accept work in all types of techniques: painting, drawing, collage, digital art, photography, video, and sculpture. There is no charge to submit your application, please feel free to share your work with us.
Yael Kaplan
I am a multidisciplinary artist. My work ranges from photography to in between painting, including photography, video, sound, painting, installations, mixed media and objects. ”My work is a presentation of private dialogues that lean on memories and biography as a starting point to a...
Lino print Christmas Card workshop
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
05/12/2023
Design and print your own lino print Christmas cards.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Nicola Garvey
After changing careers later in life, Nicola Garvey graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Leeds Arts University in 2021. Her work is inspired by the everyday and promotes the overlooked and underrated, which is reflected across the wide range of media that she uses.
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.
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...
Chapbook Series #6 ‘The Fragile Knots of Time’
30/11/2023 London
We are in search of emerging writers to submit their work for publication opportunity ‘Chapbook Series #6 ‘The Fragile Knots of Time’’. The writing must be your original work inspired by the theme of the call ‘‘The Fragile Knots of Time’’. Write your own ‘‘The Fragile Knots of Time’’ story in less than 250 words.
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.
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...
Angela Charles / Blackwell
A visual artist recently registered Severely Sight Impaired.(Blind) Formerly combined a career as an artist and curator. Goldsmiths graduate 1989.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Tarla Patel
Tarla Patel explores identity, space and belonging. She combines analogue film and photography with digital media to create layered stories of migration and transition of cultures in today's society. She is also one of the founders of an artist collective called COVert Arts.
Calligraphy Workshop
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
08/12/2023
Enjoy making swooshes and swirls in modern calligraphy with tutor Claire Gould from ‘By Moon & Tide’. You’ll have fun practicing with a dip pen and copperplate nib in this friendly and festive calligraphy workshop.
Call for Artists - Commission for Wilberforce House Museum
30/11/2023 Hull, East Yorkshire
Wilberforce House Museum is looking for artists who identify as Black, or people of colour to apply for a commission to create new work in response to our collections and displays. The commission is delivered in partnership with The Wilberforce Institute at the University of Hull and funded by Arts Council England and the University of Hull.
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'.
Open Call For Artists | Exhibit Online at Luvi Gallery
30/11/2023
Luvi Gallery is holding an international online exhibition "Rise" open to international artists from all around the world.
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...
Ellie Waters
A photo-based artist, through my own history of emigration, from Northern England to Aotearoa, New Zealand (and back and forth..) my work is concerned with notions of home and belonging and how we identify with our surrounding landscapes. I am currently engaged with various long-term social...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Eve Schroeder
Eve Schroeder is a multi-disciplinary artist and maker exploring themes of Fat Justice and Fat activism in contemporary illustration and arts practices. Through this research, she has created work that more accurately and positively represents the fat body.
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.
The Soil Beneath My Feet: Closing Night Event
Fazenda UK, 9 Harrow Place, London, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
30/11/2023
The Soil Beneath My Feet is all about my love of soil, digging in the garden, walking in the forest, and the rain and the wind. Walking barefoot and feeling at one with the earth at times when I am experiencing stress and anxiety, loneliness, or confusion. If I take my shoes off and walk on the earth it calms me, centres my midline and I proceed. Closing Night Event, 1800-2100
January Magazine Feature
30/11/2023
We would like to create an entire magazine issue to showcase the artwork of 1 artist. Will it be you?
Saltaire Inspired
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...
Print It! 2024
01/12/2023 Leeds, West Yorkshire
CALLING ALL INTERNATIONAL CREATIVES! Print it! 2024 The Show removing boundaries.
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.
Viv Owen
Vivid, gestural oil paintings reveal a fascination with emotional states, with the help of unwitting accomplices captured from feature film and TV- their surfaces hint at depths of emotion below. Forever given pause, they comment on emotional entanglement with the artificial as a substitute –...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Jo Liddle
Jo Liddle's practice is based on personal narrative and history, loss, and memory; exploring ideas of time passing and the trace, if any, that we leave behind. She often uses oil paint, but sometimes digital images, to build up a layered surface; removing and rubbing back to reveal a lost memory and creating a tension between the seen and the unseen, or almost seen.
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.
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...
Bow Arts Leyton Studio: Open Studios
Bow Arts Leyton Studio, 452 Leyton High Road, London, London, United Kingdom
Art walk
02/12/2023
Over ten studio-based artist practitioners open their studios for one day of workshops, talks, selling and community building.
Don't Tell Me How To Run My Art School
The new book, Don't Tell Me How To Run My Art School, by CuratorSpace member, John Walmsley and Claire Grey is about the sit-in at Guildford School of Art in 1968 which, at the time, was the longest ever at an educational institution in the UK. That schools, colleges and universities in the UK now have students and staff on their Advisory Boards, is a direct result of this sit-in. The book has been acquired by the National Art Library at the V&A and is available to purchase online.
Andrew Harris
Artist and Freelance Arts Coordinator. Co-founder of Artists First, Signs of Art and founder of CoCreate.
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.
tiny
Aire Place Studios, Aire Place Mills, Kirkstall Rd, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
01/12/2023 to 15/12/2023
APS Gallery presents tiny. A celebration of the little things in life.