
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'.

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #15: Dyana Gravina
Dyana Gravina (She/They) is an independent curator, birth doula, activist and community builder, mover, and performance artist. They are currently studying for an MA in Gender Sexuality and Culture at Birkbeck University. Originally from Italy and now based in London, she is founder and creative director of Procreate Project, a pioneering arts organisation dedicated to womxn and non-binary artists who are (m)others. They have collaborated and curated projects with partners and venues including RCA, King’s College London, LADA Live Art Development Agency, Ugly Duck, Mimosa House, Women's Art Library, RichMix, Richard Saltoun Gallery, and 198 contemporary Art.

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...

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #15: Rosalind Lowry
Rosalind Lowry is a sculptor and installation artist who works with the land and environment in a range of materials. In 2021 she was elected to the Royal Society of Sculptors. She studied Fine Art at Chelsea and St. Martin's Schools of Art and has won several awards including a Social Art Award in 2021 from The Institute for Art and Innovation in Berlin.

Dark Skies Wild Seas - Cot Valley Arts-Science Group Residency
22/05/2022 Cot Valley, St Just, Penzance, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Dark Skies, Wild Seas: Cot Valley Group Artist Residency (October 30th - November 3rd, 2022). A fantastic opportunity to spend time with like-minded people in the awe-inspiring location of Cot Valley, Cornwall, nestled within the UK's most Westerly peninsular. This fascinating arts-science-heritage opportunity is curated to inspire art practitioners, researchers and thinkers alike.

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...

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #15: Katherine James
Katherine James is a contemporary artist and jewellery maker in Leeds. Graduating in 2020 from University of Leeds' School of Design, she crafts chainmail into lace-like patterns to create wearable works and sculpture which explore ideas around gender. She has exhibited with the Crafts Council and is an alumni of their 2021 Crafting Business Programme supported by Crafting Europe.

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.
Lita Doolan
I exhibited at Modern Art Oxford Open Exhibition, Angel Row Gallery Nottingham and Oscar Wilde Rooms Oxford. Film work curated at Brighton Digital Festival, Borderless Lockdown and Kings Cross Film Festival 2022. I studied graphic design and illustration online at UAL. I have forthcoming...

Framed: Trees and Water
Black Box Gallery, 811 East Burnside St. #212, Portland, Oregon, United States
Exhibition
01/05/2022 to 20/05/2022
Black Box Gallery is excited to announce a juried group photo show on Trees and Water. Framed: Trees and Water will look to feature both subjects in a dynamic and diverse exhibition on contemporary photography. Trees and Water are both powerful and important subjects.

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #15: Pamela Schilderman
Pamela Schilderman's mixed-media practice is influenced by science and often draws inspiration from her Dutch/Brazilian heritage. Through her work, she aims to encourage the viewer to question knowledge and value systems. Since graduating from Goldsmiths in 2004 she has exhibited in galleries, museums and alternative venues across the UK and completed residencies in France, Holland and Finland.
East Leeds Observatory
27/05/2022 Leeds, West Yorkshire
The East Leeds Project, in partnership with LEEDS 2023, is seeking expressions of interest from artists and/or creative teams to help us imagine and realise a mobile observatory to tour East Leeds and beyond in 2023-24. We want to commission a mobile structure to operate simultaneously as a functional observatory, a creative lab for art and science, and as a visually dynamic work of kinetic/sculptural design.

Summer - Open Call
28/05/2022 Halifax
The Open Gallery is looking for artworks on the theme of 'Summer' for an exhibition in June/July 2022. The 'Summer' art exhibition provides artists with a great opportunity to get greater exposure by exhibiting their work at the Open Gallery in front of a new audience. There will be a £50 prize for the winner from each category.
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...

Katharine Lazenby
I am a multi-disciplinary artist and educator, with a passion for photography and collage. My work captures often overlooked graphic fragments of the everyday. I draw on visual associations between disparate images to create carefully arranged compositions, exploring how context influences...

Portrait Painting Course (3 weeks sessions)
Blooming Art Academy, 4 Academy Street, Warrington , Cheshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
13/05/2022 to 27/05/2022
Portrait painting three weeks course with portrait artist Tina Ramos Ekongo. Tina Ramos Ekongo will guide participants, of any level of experience (preferably beginners and intermediate) through the process of painting a portrait in three weeks sessions. From the sketching of the facial features to the painting of a portrait on cardboard, using her signature technique of acrylic on cardboard.

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #15: Leon Clowes
Leon Clowes is an older queer working class transdisciplinary artist in recovery. Their practice research examines the application of autoethnographic techniques in creative practice. As an artist that explores their own lived trauma, they are keen to self-compassionately mediate the sharing of their lived experience with participants, audiences, listeners and viewers.

Joyce Datiles
JOYCE DATILES is an artist, writer and historian. Her work has screened and won on the international film festival and art circuit, exhibiting at the Cannes Film Festival, PRADA Journal, VOGUE Italia, Sundance London, Canada Indie, the British Film Institute (BFI), Open City London, Festival of...

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.

Trees and the Sacred : The Arborealists
The Hostry, Norwich Cathedral, Norwich, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Exhibition
28/04/2022 to 28/05/2022
The Arborealists and invited artists mount an exhibition about trees and their sacred aspects throughout the culture from ancient to modern time.