Event

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.

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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

Jake-Andrew Nason

I'm a multi disciplinary artist and experimental musician with synaesthesia, and my practice is centred around the way my mind perceives audio stimulus as colour, texture, shape and movement. My aim is to explore sensory perception and the emotional and physical response to the relationship that...

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Iram Iqbal

Iram Iqbal is an Islamic artist who creates both traditional and contemporary art. Using Arabic Calligraphy, Islamic architecture, and other symbolic imagery, she uses her art to show the beauty of Islam and address the many misconceptions about it.

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Event

Saturday LIFE at the Pavilion: Life Drawing in Hillsborough

The Pavilion, Hillsborough Park , Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
26/08/2023 to 16/12/2023

Life Drawing with Donna Brewins-Cook. Enjoy a friendly, relaxed, experimental and diverse Life Drawing class working from the nude model at the modern Pavilion Building in the district of Hillsborough, Sheffield.

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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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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

EcologyNOW

Lapworth Museum of Geology, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Exhibition
06/10/2023 to 20/12/2023

EcologyNOW challenges the position of humans at the top of the classic evolution chain. Pamela Schilderman has created sculptures and drawings to ask visitors to consider whether humans are the most important species on earth today. It is a Sci/Art collaboration between the University of Birmingham, the Lapworth Museum of Geology and the artist.

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Upcoming opportunity

The New Artist- Call For Artists!

09/12/2023   London  

In the last hundred years, humankind has seen unprecedented innovations and changes, from skyscrapers to moon landings, to social media, to human rights, to Art...?

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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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Artist profile

Leigh Ann Willar McDonagh (Gila Girl Art)

I am a 'Liminalist' artist, an illustrator and a writer. My work is populated with a host of creatures, visions, beings and landscapes that enter this dimension through my hands. I am influenced by my connection with the natural, the imaginal, the spiritual and the supernatural worlds.

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Event

First Community Art Exhibition

Circular ArtSpace, Car Park at 780 Fishponds Road, Bristol
Exhibition
07/12/2023 to 22/12/2023

Collective Art Exhibition in a converted double-decker bus

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News article

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.

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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

English Riviera Winter Open Exhibition

Artizan Collective, Unit 5 Fleet Walk Shopping Centre, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
05/11/2023 to 24/12/2023

Wrapping Up Another Year of Art on the English Riviera.

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Upcoming opportunity

SCULPTURAL

10/12/2023   6 Old Fox Yard, Stowmarket IP14 1AB, Suffolk  

OPEN CALL FOR ART EXHIBITION - "SCULPTURAL"

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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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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

Small and Stunning

White Chalk Gallery, Swans yard, Devizes, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
20/11/2023 to 24/12/2023

White Chalks Winter exhibition of select Artists celebrating small and stunning art works

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Upcoming opportunity

Chapbook Series #6 ‘The Fragile Knots of Time’

10/12/2023   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.

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Artist profile

Jasmine Mills

Jasmine Mills B.1996 is a painter based in Cornwall. Her is an exploration of the relationship between figure and land. She draws on the history of locations and is interested in past lived stories. Jasmine gained a BA at Falmouth School of Art (2017). She completed the Turps correspondence...

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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.

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Event

Pop Up Art Path - Winter

Exhibition
29/12/2022 to 31/12/2023

See fresh Art from 7 international digital Artists on an accessible platform. The artwork seeks to connect in a contemporary world.

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Upcoming opportunity

Oversounds

10/12/2023   Bath, Somerset  

Oversounds will be FRESH SALAD's 7th physical exhibition and will be held at new contemporary arts space, Roseberry Road Studios in Bath. The exhibition will run between the 16th-23rd December 2023.

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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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Event

X-PRESSIONS OF THE FUTURE

The Wall Space Gallery, Inverness-shire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
01/11/2023 to 01/01/2024

A cohort of innovative artists exploring 'the Artists vision of the future'

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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 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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Upcoming opportunity

Renewal Reverie: Embracing the 'New Start'

14/12/2023   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

MERRY - 12th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality

Exhibition
07/12/2023 to 01/01/2024

MERRY - The 12th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality is up and running!



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Artist profile

Hannah C Gleeson

I specialise in watercolour and acrylic paintings and have been painting as long as I can remember. It's my love and passion. I love to celebrate the beauty in the natural world around us! I find myself drawn to the sea and so many of my paintings focus on the ocean, and also the moon which...

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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.

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Event

Navigators Art & Performance presents PUNK/JAZZ: Contrasts & Connections

Micklegate Social and Fossgate Social, 148-150 Micklegate, York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/10/2023 to 03/01/2024

This adventurous collective of York-based and local creatives has been exploring iconic genres through music, painting, drawing, collage, print, words, sculpture and photography, asking: 'A Love Supreme' or 'No Future'? Are Punk & Jazz at odds or two sides of a coin? The project includes a mixed media exhibition, launch night with music, and a related live performance event.

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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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Upcoming opportunity

Abstracted @ Meta Space Gallery Open Call

14/12/2023   Online, Merseyside  

Abstracted is an exhibition that aims to showcase the best of the artists' works within the abstract genre. It can be any form of abstract as long as it was created through abstract thinking.

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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.

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Event

Rocking the Shoreline

Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Little Elborow Street , Rugby , Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
09/01/2024 to 21/01/2024

Solo exhibition

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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

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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Artist profile

Alan Gignoux

Alan Gignoux is an award-winning documentary photographer and founder of Gignoux Photos, which produces documentary photography and film projects focussing on socio-political and environmental issues around the world.

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Event

We The Human: A Quiet Blue Wall @ Redcar Palace

Redcar Palace, 28 The Esplanade, Redcar, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
12/02/2024 to 17/02/2024

We The Human: A Quiet Blue Wall, is a global project, a people project, a human project, designed and developed by an artist from the community of the neurodiverse at risk of suicidal ideation and attempted suicide for the community wishing to prevent suicide, their own or others, using the Cultural and Creative sectors to do so. Don’t be a spectator, be a participator.

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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.

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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.

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Event

We The Human: A Quiet Blue Wall @ Creative Health Camden

Creative Health Camden, 2 Bartholomew Road, London, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
15/01/2024 to 19/04/2024

We The Human: A Quiet Blue Wall, is a global project, a people project, a human project, designed and developed by an artist from the community of the neurodiverse at risk of suicidal ideation and attempted suicide for the community wishing to prevent suicide, their own or others, using the Cultural and Creative sectors to do so. Don’t be a spectator, be a participator.

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Artist profile

Jon Pountain

I am a Liverpool based painter and a member of Bridewell Studios. My work embraces the mystical and metaphysical. My latest paintings “The Sacred Mountain’ offer the viewer a journey into a place between worlds, bathed in the light of the moon, they are steeped in stillness and a connection...

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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

Bonsall Art Trail

Bonsall Village, Clatterway, Bonsall, Derbyshire, Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Festival
29/06/2024 to 30/06/2024

Bonsall Art Trail is a new arts trail located in the village of Bonsall on the edge of the peak district. As a curated trail we aim to showcase the work of talented established and new artists and makers who want to exhibit and sell their work. The trail is over the weekend of 29th and 30th June 2024. Please take a look at our opportunity on CuratorSpace to apply.

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