Event

Introduction to Lino Print workshop

The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
12/04/2024

Come along and spent a great, creative day learning the technique of lino printing with local artist Sue Rowland. Sue will teach you how to create your own original design and to use the different lino tools to cut the lino plate. Sue will then help you to print your own small edition of fabulous prints to take away with you!

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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

Constantin Cosmin

Your work is twenty years ahead of time, I have nothing that I can compare it with so we have to define a new term. “Anthony Fawcett”

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Event

MINI TEXTILE HANGINGS WORKSHOP

The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
25/05/2024

Do you have a collection of natural treasures that you’d like to use in your work but are not sure how? This workshop will explore ways of combining fabrics, found objects, natural treasures such as feathers and shells and hand embroidery to create beautiful mini hangings.

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Rebecca Korn

Rebecca Korn's interdisciplinary practice stems from a fascination with the intersections between art and science. Her recent interests explore the posthuman body, investigating ideas around symbiosis, sympoiesis and speculative futures, re/imagining how bodies may adapt/evolve through learning from and with non-human counterparts.

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Event

Reimagining the Landscape

Bulkeley, Cheshire
Workshop
26/04/2024

Two-day weekend art workshops with creativity and mindfulness/well-being at its core. Suitable for all abilities from complete beginners who think they might enjoy being out in a landscape playing with a variety of mixed art media to those with experience who are looking to loosen up their work and get new ideas about artistic process.

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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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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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Event

Mindful Photography Taster Workshop

Scott Creative Arts Foundation, The Art House, Thirsk, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
12/04/2024

Scott Creative Arts Foundation is delighted to be hosting a Mindful Photography Taster Workshop with SCAF Emerging Artist Award 2023 finalist Jacqui Barrowcliffe. This course will use the natural setting of the Foundation and encompasses elements from the different SCAF projects and objectives, connecting in particular with the Living Landscape Project and the 2024 SCAF EAA theme 'PERCEPTION'

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Upcoming opportunity

WAM! Working-class Artist Mothers

20/03/2024     

WAM! Attention Working-class Artist Mothers!

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Natalia Janula

Natalia Janula is a Polish-born artist of Roma heritage, currently based in London. Their artistic practice spans sculpture, moving image, installation and performance. They are interested in urban and natural environments and the slippage between the two. Repeated themes within their work include domestic and fictional landscapes, object oriented ontologies, queer interspecies bodies and the natural world.

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Event

Calligraphy Workshop

The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
05/07/2024

Learn how to write gorgeously swirly modern calligraphy with your tutor Claire Gould, of ‘By Moon & Tide’. You’ll have fun getting to grips with a dip pen and copperplate nib in this friendly and relaxed calligraphy workshop. From initial scratches and swirls you’ll soon be learning how to write beautiful letters, all in the space of a couple of hours!

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Artist profile

Ros Johnson

I run a multidisciplinary practice working in textiles, drawing and painting. My artist lead work is inspired by natural form; intuitively driven and grown over long hours in the studio, it aims to capture the sensuality, tenacity and evolution of natural plant forms. Additionally, I can turn...

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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

Let Us See You Exhibition - APS Gallery Edition

Aire Place Studios, Aire Place Mills, Kirkstall Rd, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
23/02/2024 to 22/03/2024

Showcasing Leeds Talent at APS Gallery!

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Curator profile

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...

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Upcoming opportunity

Phenomenology: Film Screening Night Exploring Mental Health

21/03/2024   London  

We are now accepting submissions for short films that explore lived experiences of mental health for a film screening night. The event, Phenomenology, will take place on 23rd May 2024, 7 pm - 10 pm, at BLOC (Queen Mary University London) in East London.

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Event

From There To Here

Willesden Gallery, The Library at Willesden Green, Ground floor, 95 High Road,, Willesden, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
12/03/2024 to 23/03/2024

FROM THERE TO HERE explores the impact of time. On work. On process. On time itself.

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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

2nd Edition ECOFeminism Festival

The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, Clinton Road, London, London, United Kingdom
Festival
13/03/2024 to 23/03/2024

The ECOFeminism Festival runs from 13-23 March and comprises an exciting Festival Events Program, a multimedia group Exhibition 'Branches', and the ECOFeminism Short Film Festival. The Festival and Exhibition Opening Party is on Thu 14 Mar 2024, from 6-9 pm at The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, London.

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Gabrielle Hoad

Gabrielle Hoad makes work that includes live, ephemeral elements as well as more lasting documentary traces such as photographs, films, publications and objects. She has a long-standing interest in the crossover of art and science.

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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

3rd Community Art Exhibition

Circular ArtSpace, 780 Fishponds Road, behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
11/03/2024 to 24/03/2024

New Col­lec­tive Exhi­bi­tion in Fishponds.

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Artist profile

Debra Sweeney

I am a figurative artist that draws from life and uses mixed media to create my pieces. My main subject is predominantly the figure where I seek to convey the human condition in mood and pose rather than a true likeness of the sitter.

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Upcoming opportunity

Living Artists Auction of Contemporary Artworks - Call For Submissions

21/03/2024     

Sell your work to American art collectors in our 'Living Artists Contemporary Art Auction'. Sell your work to UK art collectors in our 'Artists on the Rise art Auction'. We invite artists to submit their artworks for our upcoming March/April auction, specifically curated for American art collectors.

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Event

Iranian Diaspora: Stories of Sanctuary and Solidarity

Oxo Tower Wharf Gallery (Gallery@OXO), Oxo Tower Wharf, Barge House Street, , Southbank, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
27/03/2024 to 29/03/2024

A multimedia art exhibition about migration, the search for sanctuary and solidarity , showcasing work created by Iranian migrants and refugees during several art workshops, along with work from the collaborating artists and work initiated by the participants and completed by the artists.

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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

Ball And Chain

22/03/2024   Leeds, West Yorkshire  

Ball & Chain Born from the flashes of a dying universe. The balls weigh heavy upon our soul but at last we have been freed. The fetters no longer hang from our bodies. A (performance art) night in Leeds that's ready to take you by the hand. We'll lead you around the daisy chains, up the garden path, ready to kick that freshly relieved ball into the goal hole of life. Yes, it's the first one and each night we will have a theme. We can't stay around venues too long lest The Foundation locate where we are. The deadline for applicants is Friday 22nd March 11pm.

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Event

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order To Live: Works of Sue Vaughton

Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
12/03/2024 to 30/03/2024

Artizan Gallery are delighted to welcome photographer Sue Vaughton to the gallery in March where we shall be curating a particularly intimate and personal exhibition of her works in our Basement Gallery.

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Curator profile

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...

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Melanie King

Melanie King is an artist and curator with a specific focus on astronomy. She is co-Director of super/collider, Lumen Studios, and the London Alternative Photography Collective. Melanie is a practice-based PhD Candidate in Fine Art at the Royal College of Art.

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Event

Let Us See You Exhibition - Left Bank Leeds Edition

Left Bank Leeds, Cardigan Road, Burley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
06/03/2024 to 30/03/2024

Showcasing Leeds Talent at Left Bank Leeds!

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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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Upcoming opportunity

Surreal and dreamlike art open call

24/03/2024   Bath Spa, Somerset  

Phantasmal is inviting artists to submit their work to a captivating art exhibition centred around the theme of Surrealism.

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Event

Graham's Garden - Works of Frances Mason @seasewed

Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
12/03/2024 to 30/03/2024

A Story in Four Parts: Conceal, Peel, Reveal and Characters

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Artist profile

David Ian Bickley

David Ian Bickley is an award-winning media artist whose body of work spans the primitive technological of the 1970’s to the digital cutting edge of today. His media work has manifested as television, installation, electronic music and video art. His themes reside in mythic and folklore motif...

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Event

15th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality

Exhibition
11/03/2024 to 04/04/2024

15th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality.

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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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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

GUNA: Views and voices of women

City Screen Picturehouse, 13-17 Coney Street, York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
10/03/2024 to 06/04/2024

GUNA is a version of the ancient Greek word for 'woman' and the work on show explores, promotes and celebrates the creativity of women through the work of emerging and established local artists.

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Naomi Aderonke

Naomi is a burgeoning multidisciplinary research and narrative led artist who has developed their illustrative and narrative skills past digital art and traditional print into 3D work. Exploring ceramics and textile through tufting, Naomi looks at the form, colours and materials used, not just the image, to create the stories they want to tell. Naomi is a storyteller who thrives on folk, history and culture; looking into ways of exploring that through artistic objects.

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Upcoming opportunity

Contemporary British Printmakers - Delamore 2024

24/03/2024   Delamore, Ivybridge PL21 9QT, Devon  

Artizan Collective CIC have been invited to curate a supporting exhibition of Contemporary British Printmakers for Delamore 2024 which will feature in their stable block exhibition area alongside regular participants South West Academy. As part of this, we have a limited number of “browser only” exhibition spaces available which we are pleased to be making available on a selective submission basis.

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Event

Wet Felting Workshop - Spring Meadow: Create your own wool painting:

Bardsey Arts Studio, 42a Church Lane, Bardsey, , Leeds, West Yorkshire
Workshop
06/04/2024

10am - 3pm: Learn how to create a wool painting using the ancient craft of Wet Felting: Katy, your tutor will teach you the basics of wet felting your first felted picture: Create a unique artwork: Easter / Mothers Day: Free parking: All materials, equipment and instruction included. Tea, coffee, cake available. Beautiful, bright studio space overlooking wonderful Yorkshire countryside: £65.00

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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

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...

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Event

The Great Paignton Paint Out - Legacy Exhibition

Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
24/03/2024 to 21/04/2024

Celebrating a Creative Paignton - Part of Wide Open

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Artist profile

Lucy Cade

Lucy is a painter and educator. She completed an MA Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2023. Recent shows include a guest artist slot in the Young Masters Art Prize exhibition at The Exhibitionist Hotel, hosted by the Cynthia Corbett Gallery; a group show with Stretch, a...

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Event

Collective Creativity

The Atrium Gallery, Bexley Wing, St. James’s University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
10/02/2024 to 26/04/2024

Highlighting Leeds Artists!

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Sam Metz

Sam Metz is an artist based in Hull who creates work that engages with the concept of ‘neuroqueering’. They create sculptural installations that incorporate both film and animation while exploring body-based responses to ecology. As a neurodivergent artist and curator with sensory processing differences, Sam creates work in non-verbal ways that begin and end in movement and embodied interactions without recourse to traditionally privileged verbal and written forms of communication.

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Artist profile

Marilyn Kyle

Though rooted in printmaking, my MA in Fine Art (UAL) encouraged me to expand my practice to include installation and assemblage. I use a range of media including traditional (e.g. print, ceramics) and newer technologies (e.g. laser cut) which I combine to stretch possibilities. My work reflects...

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Event

Snippets of Time

The Station, Richmond, Station Yard, Richmond, North Yorkshire, DL10 4LD, Richmond , North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
09/05/2024 to 22/05/2024

Snippets of Time is a collaboration between 3 artists; Isobel Rooke, Christine Hughes and Hannah Turlington, whose identities as artists coexist with that of being an artist.

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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

Artists Around Wetherby - Open Studios

8 Oakwood Road, Wetherby, Leeds
Exhibition
01/06/2024 to 09/06/2024

Open Studios is in a 6 mile radius of Wetherby. 25-30 artists will be taking part, one of which is myself. Originals, prints, ceramics, cards, glass, felt art at a number of different locations in Wetherby and the surrounding villages. Most artists taking part are open both weekends (just call in) and some during the week by appointment only.

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