Folded Realities
The Mill Gallery, Unit 5 Cardinal House, Swinnow Grange Mills, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
14/11/2025 to 12/12/2025
Folded Realities: Where stories bend, zines speak, and imagination unfolds, a snapshot of DIY culture in motion.
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.
Stephanie McCormick
I was born in 1968 in Bridgend, Wales, where I am currently based. I retired in 2024 after a long and distinguished career as a Registered Nurse and am now focussing on developing my career as an artist having demonstrated a love and talent for art from a very young age.
CuratorSpace launches new 0% commission art selling platform
CuratorSpace is excited to introduce the launch of Exhibtd, a new online marketplace that connects artists and buyers, offering a fair and transparent way to buy and sell original art and limited editions without commission or listing fees.
21st Community Art Exhibition
Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
27/11/2025 to 20/12/2025
Explore a diverse collection of artworks in our unique double-decker bus gallery, showcasing the talent of artists from Bristol and beyond.
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...
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.
Capturing Moments in Time — Works by Jo McChesney
Artizan Printmaking & Sculpture Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
15/11/2025 to 24/12/2025
Discover the fleeting beauty of the natural world in Capturing Moments in Time, a new exhibition by printmaker Jo McChesney, launching with an exclusive artist preview on 14th November.
The Horton, Epsom - February 2026 Marketplace
10/12/2025 EPSOM, Surrey
Calling all Artists and Makers! We are planning our next curated arts and craft market, which will be on Saturday 28th February 2026!
Jess Hargreaves
Mixed media exploring writing as mark making, subverting the way text and image is presented, culminating a working class woman’s perspective by collecting text from poetry, literature and own experiences.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #28
The CuratorSpace Artist Bursary is a quarterly award that supports contemporary artists working across a wide range of disciplines, helping them to test new ideas and develop their practice. The artists selected for CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #28 are Caitriona Dunnett, Natalia Janula, Emanuela Cusin, and Holly Foskett-Barnes. Their projects span photography, sculpture, performance, and socially engaged practice and each artist is using the bursary to explore new materials, processes, and ways of connecting with audiences.
English Riviera Winter Open Exhibition and Launch
Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
09/11/2025 to 24/12/2025
Launching on Saturday 8th November, Celebrate the season with a vibrant showcase of contemporary art at the English Riviera Winter Open Exhibition 2025.
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.
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...
Artist Call for “Left, Right, and Everything In Between” – Small Scale Disabled Artists Exhibition
10/12/2025 Brighton
“Left, Right, and Everything In Between” is a small-scale exhibition for disabled artists, prioritising A5 prints (A3 max). The theme focuses on journeys, detours, and different ways of navigating the world. It reflects how disabled artists often create our own paths, inviting viewers to rethink movement, making, and belonging.
L8ER
Queen's Street Gallery, Oxford Street, Neath, United Kingdom
Exhibition
06/12/2025 to 27/12/2025
This is the 'Grand Finale' exhibition round-up of 'The 8 Small Shows' Welsh Group series that started in March 2024.
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.
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...
Karen J Blacklock
Life has taken me through many twists, turns and shifts during which my creative passion has ebbed and flowed but never faded. The last 5 years has seen my definitive return to art. Following an introduction to mixed media in the summer of 2018 I embarked on a 3 year intensive artistic study....
33rd Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality
Circular Artspace - MetArtSpace
Exhibition
10/12/2025 to 30/12/2025
Circular ArtSpace presents the 33rd Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality, a vibrant celebration of creativity unfolding online from 10 - 30 December 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.
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.
Mural LAB: Artist Training Programme + Bursary Call-Out
10/12/2025 Leeds
We Belong Here CIC, in partnership with Active Leeds and Leeds City Council through the Active Travel Social Prescribing Pilot, are offering four bursaries for emerging or early-career artists based in West Yorkshire, with a focus on supporting Global Majority artists who want to gain hands-on experience in public art, muralling, and community-engaged practice.
Circular ArtSpace Members Exhibition 2025
Circular Artspace - MetArtSpace
Exhibition
14/02/2025 to 31/12/2025
The Members Exhibition is Now Online in our MetArtSpace in Virtual Reality!
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'.
Meet The Locals 2026 - open call for artists from South Yorkshire and surrounding counties
10/12/2025 Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Fronteer Gallery are looking for artwork for our annual exhibition of work by artists local to South Yorkshire and the surrounding area.
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...
"Between the Door and the Dust" Exhibition Exploring Homes, Memory, and Domicide in Israel-Palestine
P21 Gallery, 21-27 Chalton St, London , London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
10/12/2025 to 10/01/2026
Exploring Palestine Domicide from 1948 to the present through collaborative work with Palestinian communities, research and interventions. The exhibition includes film installations, photography, and video.
Cristina Prudente
Cristina Prudente is an artist and independent curator based in London. She loves to experiment with different media and painting, photography and installations are some of these. She has been creating art for 20 years. She always explores new styles and perspective to create a new art...
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.
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.
Holding space
The laundrette, 145 Cheltenham Rd, Bristol
Exhibition
15/01/2026 to 18/01/2026
Nine established artists from across Britain come together at The Laundrette in Bristol for a captivating exhibition exploring the relationships between objects, bodies, and space.
Children / Young People Art Opportunity
12/12/2025
Children / Young People Art Opportunity - WINTER THEME/CALENDAR
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...
Voices of Dissent: An Interview Series
14/12/2025
When art becomes dissent, the studio transforms into a site of political resistance. Insights of an Eco Artist (IOAEA) launches Voices of Dissent: Art and Politics, an interview series examining how contemporary artists deploy creative practice as social commentary and transformative intervention.
Fables
The Mill Gallery, Unit 5 Cardinal House, Swinnow Grange Mills, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
09/01/2026 to 30/01/2026
APS presents Fables: eight emerging artists showcase their first collaborative exhibition, nurtured through Resilient Roots.
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.
Becky Long-Smith
My practice is muti-disciplinary but a unifying starting point for most of my work is print or collage. I am an artist and educator interested in the social applications of art. I like to create work that is playful and invites interaction in some way. Ritual, play, wonder, performance,...
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.
The Blood Bag Project: Scotland
Exhibition
08/10/2025 to 31/01/2026
A call-out for Scottish artists and makers to submit textile 'blood bags' for exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh 2026. The Blood Bag Project is a socially engaged craftivist project that aims to raise awareness of the rare blood condition Diamond Blackfan Anaemia, and highlight the importance of blood donation!
Artist Rates of Pay
Artist Union England
A guide to help artists and their employers in England to determine fair pay for artists' labour.
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...
Felting Retreat: Working with Luxury Fibres
Rydal Hall, Rydal Hall, Ambleside, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
25/02/2026 to 26/02/2026
On this course, students will learn how to create gossamer weight felt to make beautiful wraps and scarves.
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.
Lisa Keegan -Hill
Lisa Keegan-Hill is a ceramic artist and former psychotherapist based in Whittle-le-Woods, Lancashire. She’s a mother of four, and shares her home with a dog and two cats. Her work channels healing, vulnerability, and connection through figurative sculpture.
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.
SHED Art Club
The Bradbury Makers Shed, Hillsborough Park, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
11/11/2025 to 21/04/2026
Join award winning artist Donna Brewins-Cook for a monthly relaxing, friendly, adult mindful art club that will SHED the stresses of the day!