Case Study: Alan Dunn
Alan Dunn is an artist, lecturer, curator, and Reader in Art & Design at Leeds Beckett University where he lectures on the MA Fine Art course. Through his collaborative projects, he has worked with Bill Drummond, Douglas Gordon, Yoko Ono, Bikini Kill, Philip Jeck, redmentv, Pauline Oliveros, Einstürzende Neubauten and Brian Eno.
Jan Beesley
I am a Sussex based artist inspired by the landscape and our emotional and physical connection with it. I use photography as my primary medium of expression, my aim being to create intuitive abstracted works as a response to the environment in all its seasonal changes and moods.
Soil Chromatography
Photofusion, UNIT 2 2 BEEHIVE PLACE, BRIXTON, London, United Kingdom
Workshop
22/08/2026
Join photographer Aindreas Scholz for a hands-on soil chromatography workshop in Brixton. Using a cameraless photographic process from biodynamic agriculture, you will collect local soil, make 2 to 3 circular “soil portraits”, and learn how their colours and patterns can reveal vitality, care, pollution, memory, and inequality in the land beneath our feet.
13 b
13b is an artist run project space and gallery founded by LJW at her home in the medieval town of Kamnik, Slovenia. Born out of a desire to create a space for artists to show their work and try out ideas outside of the traditional white cube, the gallery explores questions of what art is, how...
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.
Where We Land, a gathering for South West Disabled Artists
Ham Green House
Symposium
09/09/2026
Where We Land is a new gathering for disabled, deaf and neurodivergent artists from across South West England. Created by Spectroscope, the day brings together conversations, workshops, keynote speakers, quieter spaces and opportunities to reconnect with creative practice.
LION OF JUDAH: ROOTS, FAITH AND AFRICAN LEGACY
LEEDS MEDIA CENTRE, 21 Savile Mount, LEEDS
Workshop
25/07/2026
Join artist Marcia Brown for a 1.5-hour acrylic painting workshop celebrating Haile Selassie I’s birthday. Create a vibrant Lion of Judah-inspired artwork exploring Rastafari art and African symbolism. Light refreshments included. Limited to 10 spaces.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #31
The CuratorSpace Artist Bursary is a quarterly award to support contemporary artists to develop their practice. The artists selected for CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #31 are Emma Bolland, Lucy Mulholland, Maybelle Peters, Cameron Lings, and Blandine Martin. Their projects span sculpture, performance, light, 3D scanning, film, and sound.
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...
Drawing Club Term 2
Workshop
02/06/2026 to 23/07/2026
The SHARP gallery will be starting term 2 of their online drawing group for anyone who wants to start drawing or build on their skills and experiment with new ways of working. The gallery is for anyone who feels art will help with their mental health. If you are unable to come to all the classes but would still like to join some, that is not a barrier. You do not have to have done term 1.
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.
Scarborough Market Vaults : Emerging Contemporaries Exhibition
24/07/2026 Scarborough, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
SCAF is supporting the production of an exhibition in the Scarborough Market Hall Vaults, managed and curated by Amelia Pethullis. As a recent Fine Art graduate and freelancer with the Scott Creative Arts Foundation, Amelia is beginning to initiate local creative connections in response to her interest in Yorkshire’s thriving creative sector. This exhibition will focus on experimental approaches to practice, and offering Yorkshire based artists the opportunity to showcase works they feel represent their ongoing artistic practices.
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.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #30
The CuratorSpace Artist Bursary is a quarterly award to support contemporary artists to develop their practice. The artists selected for CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #30 are Anna Li, Ziyan Liu, Alison Lowry and Dominika Jackowska. Their projects span installation, animation, projection mapping, sculpture, photography, textiles, and performance.
Suspended - Last Few Places Added
24/07/2026 Paris, France
This is a second round of applications for the exhibition. A limited number of places have become available, and we are therefore reopening the call for additional submissions. Following the exhibitions Scentless Depths (2025) and The Body as a Threshold (2025–2026), Suspended marks the third chapter of an ongoing curatorial research exploring states of perception and being — moving from the invisible, to the embodied, and now into the state of suspension.
Oaks Park Cafe Art Exhibition
Oaks Park Cafe, Oaks Park, Banstead, United Kingdom
Exhibition
25/07/2026 to 26/07/2026
Discover original artwork by members of the Carshalton & Wallington Art Group at Oaks Park Café. Browse paintings, prints and handmade gifts while enjoying coffee in the beautiful surroundings of Oaks Park. Free entry.
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...
Modern and Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Movements and Discourses
Online
Workshop
26/05/2026 to 28/07/2026
This course aims to address the major historical, conceptual, theoretical and aesthetic issues that inform the region’s modern and contemporary art paradigm. Arranged largely in chronological order, it will explore the art of MENA region, with particular attention to Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco and Egypt, by tracing the underpinning discourses that have shaped artistic practices in the region.
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'.
Layla Khoo
I am a multimedia 3D artist, specialising in ceramics. My work is responsive – responding to ideas, events or collections of objects. My work develops from this initial response, considering how this can be represented in a contemporary way within the context of my material practice. I am...
How to Crowdfund Your Project
With traditional funding routes increasingly constrained, filmmaker Dan Edelstyn shares a practical perspective on building ambitious projects outside conventional systems. Drawing on firsthand experience of taking independently crowdfunded films from idea to international platforms and nationwide screenings, he outlines why developing a direct relationship with your audience may be one of the most viable routes for artists working today.
27th Community Art Exhibition
Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
09/07/2026 to 01/08/2026
Explore a diverse collection of artworks in our unique double-decker bus gallery, showcasing the talent of artists from Bristol and beyond.
take to the greenwood
24/07/2026 Liverpool, United Kingdom
take to the greenwood - to escape into the forest. As stated in the 20th Century novel Maurice by E.M Forster, ‘such...can vanish’ into the woodlands. Those such, the LGBTQIA+ community, can escape from the world with its prejudices, judgements and threat; a retreat to nature for ecological, political and romantic stances. Forster also created the woodland Piney Copse, a safe space for him, his friends and lovers. Furthermore, literature like A Shropshire Lad, the tale of Robin Hood as well as texts about the Arcadian utopias of Ancient Greece and Rome, queer the pastoral.
Harriet Titlow
We support artists to experiment, collaborate and produce bold animation projects. We are a catalyst for connection. We believe that artists’ animation empowers people to see their world differently. The guiding principles that underpin our work are: curiosity, collaboration, support,...
PLAY / RECORD - an open-studio art residency
Mid Street Lab, 80 St George's Road, Kemptown, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/07/2026 to 14/08/2026
PLAY / RECORD is a live, open studio residency in which digital artist Caroline Beavon develops new interactive work, inviting the public to see her process. Combining analogue sketchbooks and digital experience, she digitises, animates and layers found materials into scrollable, interactive stories — building new pieces across four weeks with the doors open and the process visible.
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.
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.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #29
The CuratorSpace Artist Bursary is a quarterly award to support contemporary artists to develop their practice. The artists selected for CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #29 are Henry Cottam, Ngo Chun Tse, Tom Fairlamb, and Maija Liepins. Their projects span photography, video installation, sculpture, and drawing.
Group Residency Programme Italy - Place, People and Time: ART and FOOD
The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Via Collemacchia, Italy
Workshop
09/10/2026 to 16/10/2026
The Group Residency is devised around the relationships of ‘place, people and time’ and residents will be welcomed to Collemacchia, in Italy’s Apennine Mountains and the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise. The aim of the Group Residency is to develop approaches to the relationships between art and food that are experimental and inventive in their form, in a specific environment.
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.
Natalia Kolpakova
Natalia Shamrai (Kolpakova), award-winning graphic artist from Kyiv now UK-based, crafts narrative silk scarves and art prints blending fine art with fashion. From book illustration roots, her surreal designs explore dreams, time, and reality—wearable stories that distort space, evoke...
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.
TAKING TIME Residency, Italy
Workshop
01/05/2026 to 31/10/2026
An Individual Residency provides uninterrupted periods of time in the beautiful environment of Collemacchia in Italy’s Molise region, for centuries home to the family of Tracy Mackenna, curator of The Museum of Loss and Renewal. There is no expectation of a final residency outcome.