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

Jo Walton

Jo creates abstract sea/colour-scapes focusing on horizons, using gold, silver, copper metal-leaf, oil-paint, playing with rust and verdigris on plaster and wooden panels. Her work is inspired by extensive travel - sailing in her twenties delivering yachts, and her childhood years living in...

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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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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #27

The CuratorSpace Artist Bursary is a quarterly award to support contemporary artists to develop their practice, The artists selected for CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #27 are Kenny Ros, Kerrie Hanna, Amy Jackson, and Chloe Monks.

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Event

The Horton, Epsom - Festive Makers Market - December 2025

The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Art fair
06/12/2025

The Horton Marketplace - approximately 40 stallholders selling their handmade items which include jewellery, textiles, ceramics, artwork and much more!

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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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Resource

Artist Rates of Pay

Artist Union England

A guide to help artists and their employers in England to determine fair pay for artists' labour.

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Event

Needle Felting workshop - Create your own place mat and coaster set

Bardsey Arts Studio, 42a Church Lane, Bardsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
30/08/2025

10 am-1 pm: Short Saturday Morning Workshop: Near Leeds: August 30th: Get ready to unleash your creativity in this needle felting workshop where you'll craft your own unique placemat and coaster set!

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Upcoming opportunity

Artist Callout: Commission for Krankenhaus Fringe and Harbour Festival

18/07/2025   Ravenglass and Whitehaven, Cumbria  

Rosehill Arts Trust is thrilled to be working with Muncaster Castle and Krankenhaus Festival to unveil a new commissioning opportunity as part of the Krankenhaus Fringe Festival this August Bank Holiday, alongside a second opportunity to showcase the commission at Harbour Fest in Whitehaven on Saturday 30 August 2025.

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Artist profile

James Tebbutt

James Tebbutt, an artist based in Northampton, produces vivid, gestural and energetic abstract works on canvas using a multitude of media. He has shown his art throughout the UK and his paintings feature in many private collections all over the world.

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Event

Anise Academy | Summer 2025

Anse Gallery, 27-33 Malham Road, London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Workshop
17/07/2025 to 18/07/2025

Join us on 17 & 18 July 2025 for 2 days of talks, discussions and workshops lead by Gallerists, Directors, Art Critics, Artist and other art professionals. We'll cover a wide range of topics to help you navigate the commercial art scene.

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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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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

New materialism feminism theatre: The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes, Ground Floor G05, St. James’ Hatcham Church (exhibition space & labs), Hatcham Church Hall, St James’s, London, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
17/07/2025 to 19/07/2025

This leaking-out film disguised as live performance investigates how nonhuman matter choreographs human bodies. Free tickets available.

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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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Upcoming opportunity

Lightlab 2025

18/07/2025   Durham, Blackpool, Wigan  

Durham County Council, Lightpool Festival and Wigan Council are delighted to announce an incredible opportunity for artists living and/or working in close proximity to the North East, Blackpool and Wigan Borough. The programme aims to encourage the development of high-quality light art with artists from a diverse range of backgrounds who may have never worked with light before.

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Event

Feathers & Fields - An exhibition of watercolours by Cat Barrett

Ilkley Arts Studio, 4 Castle Yard, Ilkley , United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/07/2025 to 20/07/2025

Ilkley Arts is delighted to host a brand new solo exhibition by local artist and Ilkley Arts trustee, Cat Barrett, taking place over the weekend of Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th July at the Ilkley Arts Studio. This pop-up show, titled Feathers & Fields, brings together Cat’s latest collection of watercolour and ink paintings inspired by open skies, birdlife, and the quiet poetry of landscape.

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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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Curator profile

13 b

13b is an artist run project space and gallery founded by Louise Winter at her home in the medieval town of Kamnik, Slovenia. Born out of a desire to create a space for artists to show their work and try out ideas outside of the traditional white cube, the gallery explores questions of what...

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Event

FLUX Exhibition 2025

The Bomb Factory, 206 Marylebone Road, London, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
17/07/2025 to 20/07/2025

FLUX Exhibition returns for 12th Edition at The Bomb Factory Marylebone 80 international artists, live performances and a new collectors’ lottery club are hitting London – 17-20 July 2025.

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Artist profile

Pippa

The majority of my work is an experiment. I usually think of the process of making as play - exploring materials that I have to hand, including light, and watching where they take me.

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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

History of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Online, London, United Kingdom
Talk
22/06/2025 to 27/07/2025

Exploring the Art of MENA Led by a renowned art historian, critic, and Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS, University of London, this online course examines modern and contemporary art from the Middle East and North Africa. Covering key movements since the 1930s, it explores global influences, curatorial trends, and the role of diaspora across diverse media, from painting to performance.

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Upcoming opportunity

Navigation and journeys exhibition - open call

19/07/2025   Sheffield, South Yorkshire  

Fronteer Gallery are looking for small artworks that explore themes of journeys and navigation. This could be a pilgrimage, ancient routes or tracks, waymarkers, seafaring, or any other themes relating to navigating a journey.

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Event

16th Community Art Exhibition

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
03/07/2025 to 27/07/2025

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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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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Upcoming opportunity

In Light of All This: Soft Power, Strong Voices

19/07/2025   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.

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Event

28th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality

Circular Artspace - MetArtSpace
Exhibition
12/07/2025 to 30/07/2025

Circular ArtSpace presents the 28th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality, a vibrant celebration of creativity unfolding online from 30 June to 30 July 2025. This immersive digital showcase brings together a wide range of artistic voices, offering global audiences an engaging and interactive way to experience contemporary art.

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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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Artist profile

Mary Duggan

I create jewellery in sterling silver, argentium silver and gold. My inspiration comes from organic shapes and from fractal patterns. I also create limited edition intaglio prints based on fractals.

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Event

Summer Exhibition

The Mill Gallery, Unit 5 Cardinal House, Swinnow Grange Mills, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
20/06/2025 to 03/08/2025

The Mill Gallery Presents Summer Exhibition 2025. A vibrant celebration of contemporary creativity!

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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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Resource

Leeds Arts Health and Wellbeing Network

A network to champion, support and connect people interested in how arts and culture can have benefits for health, care and wellbeing in the Leeds City Region. Focus on Place-Based Arts and Health, Creative Ageing, Creativity Wellbeing, Creativity Workforce Wellbeing. Regional and general resources available.

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Event

Artist Talk: Natalia Millman and Kate Ray, Founder, Art of Grieving

St Peter's Church, St Albans , Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Talk
13/08/2025

Natalia Millman, lead artist of "Letters to Forever" project in conversation with Kate Ray, the founder of Art of Grieving. Artist Talk: Natalia Millman & Kate Ray. 13th August, 1-2PM

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Upcoming opportunity

Sunny Bank Mills Christmas Market 2025

20/07/2025   Farsley, Leeds, West Yorkshire  

Apply now for Sunny Bank Mills Christmas Market 2025! We're looking for artists, designers and makers to fill our iconic 1912 Mill with handcrafted gifts from Friday 28th November to Sunday 30th of November.

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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

Retrospective - Works of Brenda Hartill

Artizan Printmaking & Sculpture Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
12/07/2025 to 16/08/2025

Welcoming prominent collagraph artist and fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, Brenda Hartill for a retrospective of her works

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Upcoming opportunity

Winter Saltaire Makers Fair - 25th & 26th October 2025

20/07/2025   Saltaire, Bradford, West Yorkshire  

Call for CONTEMPORARY CRAFT designer-makers working in a wide range of HANDMADE disciplines to exhibit work at the WINTER SALTAIRE MAKERS FAIR on Saturday 25th to Sunday 26th October 2025.

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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

Change, release, Belonging for the Ukrainian community

St Peter's Church, St Peter's Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
17/08/2025

Self-discovery, stree release and gentle movement practice in Ukrainian language. 17th August, 1-4.30PM

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Artist profile

MOSAICNMIXEDMEDIA by Jane Walters-Morris

I originally trained as a ceramic designer with a BA (hons) from Loughborough. I had my range of tableware in a number of specialist interior shops but more recently I have been working in mixed media and mosaic. I live in Nottinghamshire at the edge of Sherwood Forest. The main theme of my...

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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

Mindful Clay

St Albans Museum & Gallery, St Peter's Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
19/08/2025

A mindful clay workshop to gently explore loss through creating personal grief jars in a supportive space. 19th August, 1-3PM

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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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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

Caring for Carers: for companions of people with dementia

St Peter's Church, St Peter's Street, St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
20/08/2025

A creative wellbeing workshop for companions of people with dementia to explore self-care through movement, writing and art. 20th August, 1-3.30PM

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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

English Riviera Summer Open Exhibition

Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
29/06/2025 to 24/08/2025

A vibrant celebration of contemporary visual art.

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Artist profile

Elcin PERSSON

I am an artist living in London. I studied Fine Arts in Paris. My work explores the relationship we have with nature.

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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

17th Community Art Exhibition

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
31/07/2025 to 24/08/2025

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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