Event

Outdated Love

The Wrong Gallery Birmingham, 53 Prospect Road, Birmingham , United Kingdom
Exhibition
29/06/2024 to 28/07/2024

Opening: 29 Jun 2024, 14:00 - 18:00 29 Jun 2024 – 28 Jul 2024 - all welcome!

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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

Angela Kennedy

I am a multi-disciplinary artist, activist, and feminist with a disability; my work is interdisciplinary in nature. I often work in Embodied Movement Processes, such as BMC / Body-Mind Centering and dance as a means to develop my drawing, painting, writing and performance work. With over thirty...

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Luminara Florescu

Luminara Florescu is an artist, curator and creative director living in Somerset, UK. Within her practice, she considers themes of wellbeing and self care, including how disabled artists and those with caring responsibilities can sustain a thriving and exciting art practice. Public engagement, collaboration and playfulness are integral to the activity of co-creation within her work.

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Event

Contemporary British Printmakers On The English Riviera

Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
20/06/2024 to 03/08/2024

Bringing A Piece of Delamore Arts to the English Riviera!

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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

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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Event

7th Community Art Exhibition

Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
13/07/2024 to 04/08/2024

A new collective art exhibition.

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Upcoming opportunity

Emotions

28/07/2024   Tbilisi  

Collect art is looking for artists, working in different media, such as painting, drawing, textile, illustration, mixed media, photography, collage, and digital art.

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Artist profile

Leo Caillard

Leo Caillard was born in Paris, France in 1985. He belongs to this new generation of artists associated with the significant changes that have been taking place since the 2000s with the dawn of the digital age and the new concerns of societies.

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Joanna Penso

Joanna Penso is a multi-disciplinary artist based between London and York, UK working with sound-led experiments in film, performance, radio programmes and sound installations. She has exhibited nationally, including at St Ives September Festival, Aesthetica, Southwark Park Galleries, The Lakeside Centre, and Nunnery Gallery.

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Event

Awakening

The Music House Gallery, Ruysdaellaan 3a, Huis ter Heide, Netherlands
Exhibition
10/08/2024 to 17/08/2024

Alexander Mackenzie - solo art exhibition of still life paintings and a performance of the live beginning of a new painting accompanied by piano music and song.

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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

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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Upcoming opportunity

LIVERPOOL ARTISTS BOOK FAIR

28/07/2024   Liverpool, Merseyside  

Call for Participants: Liverpool Book Art is excited to announce that the next Liverpool Artists' Book Fair will be held at the Bluecoat (Arts Centre) on Saturday 5th October and Sunday 6th October 2024. There will be around 30 tables of artists' work for sale. Entry to the public will be free. Applications are invited from individual book artists; artist collectives & groups; small press publishers; colleges/universities; and specialist trade suppliers.

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Event

The Lie of The Land

The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery,, Haslingden Road,, Rossendale, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
30/05/2024 to 18/08/2024

An exhibition of works by Carolyn Curtis Magri and Deirdre Kelly, wandering pathways, tracing trajectories point to point, exploring isotherms, unfolding narratives with global threads.

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Resource

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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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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Artist profile

Julia Holt

I am studying an MA Fine Arts at the University of Hertfordshire, Currently I am looking at displacement and emigre, using the narrative of the journey and researching language and culture, celebrating the colours and rituals left behind due to famine or persecution. I work in oils on board and...

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Event

Chapel Allerton Arts Trail

Venues across Chapel Allerton, Leeds
Art walk
17/08/2024 to 18/08/2024

Chapel Allerton Artists invite you into their homes and studio spaces for the 2024 Chapel Allerton Arts Trail, on the 17 and 18 August from 11-5pm.

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Sarah Wishart

Sarah Wishart is a film maker, writer, and artist based in Glasgow’s Southside. They have a PhD in how the documentation of live art includes the memories of audiences. Collaborative practice is a key component in much of their work.

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Upcoming opportunity

Still Life

30/07/2024   Tbilisi  

Collect art is looking for artists, working in different media, such as painting, drawing, textile, illustration, mixed media, photography, collage, and digital art.

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Event

Neurotype Narratives Exhibition

Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, Innovation Park, Jubilee Campus, Triumph Road , Nottingham , United Kingdom
Exhibition
02/07/2024 to 23/08/2024

Christine Thomas, a neurodivergent artist, was the recipient of an artist studio residency at BACKLIT, as part of a collaborative project between QUAD, BACKLIT and CANDAL to support a neurodivergent artist to develop her artistic practice.

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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

Everyday Life

30/07/2024   Tbilisi  

Collect Art is looking for photographers for the upcoming online exhibition and special edition of the magazine

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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

19th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality

Exhibition
26/07/2024 to 23/08/2024

A new Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality.

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Artist profile

Jess Hargreaves

Mixed media exploring writing as mark making, subverting traditional domestic materials and culminating a working class woman perspective from poetry, literature and shared experiences.

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Emily Joy

Emily Joy (UK, 1982) is a socially and environmentally engaged artist making sculpture, installation, and performative work. Emily is also a ceramic sculpture tutor and facilitates public creative projects as half of creative partnership ‘Periscope’. Currently exploring Swiss glacial melt and associated ecological and social impacts, her practice centres around communication, empathy and ecology.

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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

The Court of Neptune

The Pearce Institute, 840-860 Govan Road, Govan, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Exhibition
14/08/2024 to 24/08/2024

The exhibition, The Court of Neptune, provides a platform for artists Logue and Taylor to explore their family histories and their links to Govan, Glasgow.

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Upcoming opportunity

Creative Business Day 2024 - Paid Opportunity

31/07/2024   6 Old Fox Yard, Stowmarket IP14 1AB, Suffolk  

CREATIVE BUSINESS DAY 2024: An open day where people of all ages can come and learn about what it’s like to run a creative business, with guest speakers and interactive activities.

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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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Upcoming opportunity

ENIZMAG VISUAL ARTS OPEN CALL

31/07/2024     

Are you an artist looking to showcase your unique visual creations? We invite you to submit your work to our upcoming zine, a publication dedicated to celebrating undiscovered and underrepresented artists from all walks of life. It is a zine for artists by artists.

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Event

English Riviera Summer Open Exhibition

Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
07/07/2024 to 01/09/2024

Celebrating 10 Years of Art on the English Riviera - Planning for the Next!

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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

Sue Eves

I’m a local artist working from my studio at Art Space Portsmouth, Hampshire in the U.K. I graduated from The University of Chichester with a B.A. and an M.A. in Fine Art. My practice usually involves painting, drawing and photography. I was artist in residence at Portsmouth cathedral...

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Jacqui Barrowcliffe

Jacqui Barrowcliffe lives and works in North Yorkshire where her practice focuses on exploring human connections to nature and evolving environmental threats. She works across disciplines but is particularly drawn to photography and installation, often responding to a specific space or context through temporary interventions.

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Event

PLY-SPLIT BRAIDING - THE BASICS - WORKSHOP

The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
13/09/2024 to 14/09/2024

This two-day workshop is an introduction to ply-splitting, and gives a good grounding in the key ‘stitches’ or ‘weaves’ that are used. We start simply and build gradually, making braids, small mats and projects – these are things to refer back to in the future should you wish to take things further.

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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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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

Natural Ink Making Workshop: Glasgow

WASPS SOUTH BLOCK, 60-64 Osborne St, , Glasgow
Workshop
14/09/2024

Join me for a half-day workshop learning simple processes for making non-toxic inks and paints for creative projects with plants! We will be working with locally sourced organic materials including garden plants, ethically foraged wild plants & food waste.

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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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Artist profile

Kit Brown

London based artist, b. 1989, Southport. Graduated from the University of Central Lancashire, 2012, awarded a first class BA (Hons) Fine Art.

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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

Natural Ink Making workshop: Inverness

WASPS Inverness Creative Academy,, Midmills Building, Stephens Street, Inverness
Workshop
15/09/2024

Join me for a half-day workshop learning simple processes for making non-toxic inks and paints for creative projects with plants! We will be working with locally sourced organic materials including garden plants, ethically foraged wild plants & food waste.

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