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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

Jemma Gunning

I am a printmaker specialising in etching, focusing on themes of abandonment, decay, and transformation. My work captures the fragility of both built and natural environments, using print to create dramatic tonal contrasts. I explore the intersection of heritage and environmental change, often...

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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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Couched/Laid Bayeux Stitch Workshop

The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
24/05/2025

Often known as Bayeux stitch, laid and couched work was used all over Europe throughout the middle ages, often for very large pieces of embroidery/ Learn this fun easy technique using naturally dyed wool.

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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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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

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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Upcoming opportunity

Open Call For All Artist: Daydream

10/02/2025   London, London  

We sincerely invite artists to participate in this group exhibition exploring reconstruction and multifaceted imagination; the exhibition will be taken part at the centre of Camden Town, London.

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Artist profile

Becky Nuttall Artist Poet

Becky comes from an artistic and literary background based in Brixham Devon. She studied art in the early seventies but got diverted by literature and, latterly, the social development of adolescents. The research undertaken as part of her MA reconnected her to her own adolescence and its...

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #25: Matilda Moors

Matilda Moors an artist and academic working with sculpture, writing, print and installation. She deploys languages associated with youth culture to create pieces with a skewed-cartoonesque-cuteness. Her practice and research focus on the tension between cuteness and violence as a way to probe the contradictions in contemporary consumer culture.

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Event

Two Day Stained Glass Workshop

The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
14/02/2025 to 15/02/2025

On this two-day course, you will learn the basic skills of stained glass – choosing from a template or creating your own suitable design. The panel will be made up of coloured glass, some painted and kiln-fired glass, and soldered lead.

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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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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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Upcoming opportunity

Art in the Garden 2025

10/02/2025   Near Fareham, Hampshire  

Competition for external artworks to be shown at Art in the Garden 2025 in Hampshire. This is an open call to any artist or maker working in any medium, living in Hampshire or the adjoining counties. Entrants must be 18 years of age or over, including students.

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Event

Bright and Beautiful - Works of Caroline Barker

Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
10/01/2025 to 15/02/2025

Artizan Printmaking and Sculpture Gallery 2025 Relaunch!

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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

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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Artist profile

David Barton

Born Bury Lancashire 1943. Goldsmiths College and ATC Course. On the ATC Course I became a student of Anton Ehrenzweig, whose emphasis on the process of searching for and testing out ideas with words, drawings and paintings in what he called “Tease & Worry Books” in order to find,...

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Event

Crafting & Cocktails: York Minster Felting Workshop

New Holgate Hotel, 106-108 Holgate Rd, Holgate, York, United Kingdom
Workshop
19/02/2025

An evening of wet felting and cocktails in a beautiful hotel in the centre of York.

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #25: Kayleigh Peters

Kayleigh Peters is a visual artist and facilitator. Her work focuses on themes of health, wellbeing and connection to earth and nature through the lens of her personal experience of living with hidden illness.

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Upcoming opportunity

Paint Lab 2025 - A weekend of live painting inspired by science.

10/02/2025   London  

Paint Lab 2025 – a weekend of live painting inspired by science!

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Event

Let Us See You: A Citywide Artistic Journey

Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Farsley
Exhibition
08/01/2025 to 23/02/2025

After an inspiring year championing creativity in Leeds, Let Us See You concludes with a spectacular exhibition at Sunny Bank Mills Gallery in Leeds.

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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

Dalby Forest Winter Residency

13/02/2025   North Yorks Moors National Park  

A new experimental residency at Dalby Forest, North Yorks Moors National Park.

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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

12th Community Art Exhibition

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
01/02/2025 to 23/02/2025

Dis­cov­er diverse art­works by 21 tal­ent­ed artists: unique styles, tech­niques, and themes to inspire every art enthusiast!

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Artist profile

Rebecca Korn

My interdisciplinary practice stems from a fascination with the intersections between art and science; especially in relation to the body. Recent interests have turned to the posthuman body, investigating ideas around symbiosis, sympoiesis and speculative futures, re/imagining how bodies may...

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #25: Emily Hawes

Emily Hawes is an artist and educator based between Lancing and Bournemouth, working with 8mm & 16mm analogue film. Her films unearth the interconnections between places, people, histories and ecologies.

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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

Geopark Artist Residencies

Exhibition
20/09/2024 to 28/02/2025

Artists to Reveal Geopark Stories Through Creation of New Works

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Upcoming opportunity

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY ART EXHIBITION MARCH 2025

14/02/2025   London, London  

CALLING ALL WOMEN ARTISTS! International Women’s Day Art Exhibition: EMPOWERHER: CREATIVITY, COURAGE & MAGICAL THINKING /SECOND EDITION. CasildART invites women to submit their work for the second edition of EmpowerHER: an art exhibition to celebrate International Women’s Day Month in March 2025.

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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

Open call for Grim zine - art from, by, and about the North

14/02/2025     

Open call to submit to a zine. Grim is all about art from, by, and about the North of England. Open to any 2D art form - painting, printmaking, photography, writing, collage, and poetry

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Event

Emerging Journeys Exhibition

The Fire House, Thurston Road, Northallerton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Competition
06/12/2024 to 28/02/2025

Join us for Emerging Journeys, an exhibition celebrating the artistic growth and achievements of 25 talented Yorkshire artists from our previous Emerging Artist Awards. This unique showcase offers a glimpse into their journeys as they evolve and establish their voices in the art world.

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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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Artist profile

Miriam Habibe

Miriam Habibe is a contemporary textile artist working with fibres, canvas, organic materials, and painted glass, creating art that flows with the different textures and elements she encounters. Her works often symbolizes the connection between the inner world and the outer environment,...

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #25: Pauline Blanchet

Pauline Blanchet is an award-winning film director and producer whose work explores sports, nationalism, and identity. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the School of Advanced Study, studying urban identity in North Macedonia. She also runs Aral Sea Productions and is a producer at HERProductions.

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Event

The Mill Gallery Presents "The Still & Me" Exhibition and "Art By Chance"

The Mill Gallery, Unit 5 Cardinal House, Swinnow Grange Mills, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
07/02/2025 to 28/02/2025

Still Life, but Make It Modern! Plus, Art with a Twist!

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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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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

A Sense of Place - An Exhibition by Maggie Thompson & Susan Wright

WYPW @ the Piazza Huddersfield, 42-44 Princess Alexandra Walk, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
25/01/2025 to 22/03/2025

This exhibition considers the different ways one can experience, think about, and get a sense of a place. It asks the viewer to think about place in the past, in its present form, and to imagine how it might be changed in the future.

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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.

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Artist profile

Qinlin Yang

A drawer, printmaker, and book artist based in London.

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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

Feminism & Contemporary Art: Disobedient Bodies

The Old Waterworks, North Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
Symposium
06/02/2025 to 27/03/2025

A short course for artists and enthusiasts who want to learn about feminist theories influencing contemporary art today.

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