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

Iram Iqbal

I am an Islamic artist who creates both traditional and contemporary art. Using Arabic Calligraphy, Islamic architecture and other symbolic imagery I use my art to show the beauty of Islam and address the many misconceptions about Islam.

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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

Touring Exhibitions Demystified - Get Your work into museums and art galleries.

Online Webinar
Workshop
29/06/2025

This session helps artists position themselves for touring exhibitions by creating compelling, museum-ready collections. Learn how to gain attention from curators and programmers, navigate proposals, and get your work hired for touring. Discover how exhibitions move from venue to venue.

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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

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.

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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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Upcoming opportunity

Dis Cutz

22/06/2025   UK  

Pulled and pushed by life's weather, we are looking at pulling together a zine called 'Dis Cuts'. This is to include the current responses to the welfare cuts and assisted dying. There have been many protests, social media posts, letters to MP's and others, as we are living in it. This is an opportunity to hold some of that together and be an opportunity to speak up.

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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

Spring Sculpture Exhibition

Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
05/04/2025 to 21/06/2025

The Artizan Sculpture Season offers a refined exploration of contemporary sculpture, presenting a series of quarterly exhibitions that showcase the diverse practices within 3D art.

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Artist profile

BOXXHEAD

Half painter, half print maker and two thirds street artist, BOXXHEAD is a mixed media abstract artist whose work can be found at exhibitions and galleries across the UK.

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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

The Hide Installation and Sculpture Showcase 2025

The Hide Artist Retreat, Pinfarthings, Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
14/06/2025 to 22/06/2025

The Hide Installation and Sculpture Showcase (THISS) presents artworks by artists from London, the South West and local young people in gardens on the edge of Minchinhampton Common, Stroud. This free exhibition is part of Stroud’s annual Site Festival, showcasing unique contemporary sculpture in a stunning rural location.

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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

27th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality

Circular Artspace - MetArtSpace
Exhibition
21/05/2025 to 22/06/2025

Circular ArtSpace presents the 27th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality, a vibrant celebration of creativity unfolding online from 21 May to 22 June 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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Upcoming opportunity

Go! Artists - Oldham Art Fair

22/06/2025   Oldham  

GO! Artists - Oldham Art Fair invites Artists, Makers, and Creatives to display and sell their work in an important cultural space in Greater Manchester. Taking place on Saturday, 15th November 2025, at Gallery Oldham, this event is a celebration of local talent and a chance to connect with the artistic community while promoting creativity throughout Oldham and beyond.

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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

Artizan Collective Geopark Artists Residency Exhibition

Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
25/05/2025 to 22/06/2025

Artistic Journeys Through Torbay’s Heritage

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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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Upcoming opportunity

Many Hands - Documentary Photography Zine Open Call

22/06/2025   Leeds, West Yorkshire  

Submit your zine or book to be part of the Zine Library for our upcoming photography exhibition exploring class, community and the changing face of industry.

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Event

GLOUCESTERSHIRE SOCIETY OF ARTISTS - ART EXHIBITION

LOWER SLAUGHTER VILLAGE HALL, LOWER SLAUGHTER, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
18/06/2025 to 24/06/2025

Art Exhibition held by the Gloucestershire Society of Artists at Lower Slaughter Village Hall near Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire known as the 'Venice of the Cotswolds'.

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Artist profile

Lisa Riot

I am an emerging visual artist exploring human experience and connection. Based on the edge of the New Forest, I use this inspirational environment in much of my work. Using narrative, language and visual impact to explore themes such as motherhood, our connection to nature, the body and...

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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

Community Artists' Fair

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Art fair
28/06/2025

Join us for a vibrant day cel­e­brat­ing local creativity!

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Upcoming opportunity

Open Call for Artists - 28th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality

22/06/2025     

Open Call for Artists! Be part of the 28th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality—an immersive and accessible showcase curated by Circular ArtSpace, a not-for-profit gallery based in Bristol. Open to artists worldwide, this exhibition offers a unique opportunity to exhibit in the Metaverse and connect directly with a global audience.

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Event

English Riviera Summer Open Exhibition Launch

Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
28/06/2025

Now in its tenth year, the English Riviera Summer Open returns for another vibrant celebration of contemporary visual art from across the UK

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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

Shards of Memory

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/06/2025 to 29/06/2025

A solo exhibition by TG Freeson. 19–29 June 2025

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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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Upcoming opportunity

The Horton Epsom - Makers Market - August 2025

22/06/2025   EPSOM, Surrey  

Calling all artists and makers! We are planning our next curated arts and craft market, which will be on Saturday 30 August 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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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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Artist profile

Laura Scull

A southwest artist living in the northwest which practices her mark making skills in a variety of mediums depending on the project and how well that idea can translate into an visual outcome.

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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

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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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

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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Upcoming opportunity

Drawings

24/06/2025   Tbilisi  

We are now accepting submissions for our upcoming online exhibition and publication of "Drawings." This edition invites artists from all backgrounds, disciplines, and stages of their careers to submit works that explore the infinite possibilities of drawing as both a medium and a process.

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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

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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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

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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Artist profile

Michaela Lesayova

I am a largely self-taught artist, my art practice spanning work with natural colour and experimental and sustainable film photography. I was born in former Czecho-Slovakia and my present art practice is informed by my Slavic roots and folklore cultural heritage. I am a freelance artist,...

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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

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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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

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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Artist profile

Jo Birch

Photographer

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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

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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