The Horton, Epsom - February Marketplace
The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Art fair
28/02/2026
The Horton Marketplace - approximately 40 stallholders selling their handmade items which include jewellery, textiles, ceramics, artwork and much more!
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.
Christine Thomas
Christine Thomas is a fine artist with a multi-disciplinary practice and often works with textiles. Her areas of interest include locational identity and the domestic, often from a feminist perspective and explore the use of nature and the domestic. She uses practice led research methodology...
Sensory Drawing
Halton Mill, Mill Lane, Lancaster , Lancashire, United Kingdom
Workshop
10/01/2026
Join artist Helen Thompson for a relaxed, process-led drawing workshop exploring intuitive mark-making through sensory awareness and embodied experience. Working with a range of materials, participants will be guided through exercises to develop their own visual language. Saturday 10th January 10.30-12.30 £36 (all materials provided)
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.
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...
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.
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.
Ones to Watch 2026 - Zine Open Call
19/12/2025 Leeds, West Yorkshire
Submit your zine or book to be part of the Zine Library for our annual exhibition celebrating emerging artists!
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.
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.
Ros Burgin
Ros Burgin is a sculptor who combines globally traded materials and a variety of processes, discovering new ways to shape and inform the subject of sculpture. She makes work that considers values and comments on sustainability, the marine environment and the part women play in shaping society....
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.
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.
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...
No Space Exhibition- Open Call for Artists
20/12/2025 Attercliffe, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
No Space is a pop up exhibition for the SpaceCADets programme, in association with CADS Studios. We are looking for artists who explore themes of negative and liminal space.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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...
"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.
The Art of War & Peace
20/12/2025 Tbilisi
We are pleased to announce our next Special Edition, 'The Art of War & Peace.' This open call seeks creative interpretations of conflict and harmony — from physical battles and political struggle to inner turmoil, resolution, healing, and reconciliation.
Exploring Embodied Experience
Halton Mill, Mill Lane, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
14/12/2025 to 11/01/2026
Exploring Embodied Experience presents a series of sensory, process-led mixed-media and encaustic works developed through my CuratorSpace Artist Bursary project. Drawing on EMDR-inspired imagery, the exhibition explores how internal sensations and emotional states can be translated into layered mark-making, texture, and subtle figurative forms.
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'.
Call for Artists: JustArt Community – Collective Voices Art Exhibition
20/12/2025 Edinburgh
JustArt Collective invites contemporary artists to join Collective Voices, a group exhibition celebrating the power of artistic expression and visibility. We aim to create a platform where emerging and mid-career artists can showcase their work, share their perspectives, and engage with a supportive art community.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
Food Art/ Special Edition
21/12/2025 Tbilisi
We are pleased to announce our next Special Edition, 'Food Art.' Explore food as nourishment, ritual, memory, identity, pleasure, or protest. Whether delicious, playful, nostalgic, or thought-provoking, we are looking for artworks that transform everyday ingredients and culinary moments into visual storytelling.
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!
sonia e barrett
I started working with black communities in the beginning because I felt that when members of the black community were engaged in my work, I could claim the title of visual artist. I see my work as an intervention into spaces of intergenerational wealth created by triangular trade. I also see...
The Paradigm of Looking
Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
08/01/2026 to 31/01/2026
Circular ArtSpace opens the third members’ exhibition. Exploring the range of members’ art through the lens of points of view and perspectives.
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...
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.
Modern & Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa: Movements and Discourses - PART 2
Online (Zoom)
Talk
11/01/2026 to 15/02/2026
Part II of our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art of the MENA, explores key movements, debates and artistic practices from the 1930s to today. Led by Dr Hamid Keshmirshekan, it examines modernism, conceptualism, new media and globalisation. Part I is not required; you may register directly for Part II. Places are limited — secure your spot now.
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.
Under the Bed Sale 2026
22/12/2025 Sheffield, South Yorkshire
The Under the Bed Sale is a famous and extremely popular sale of older and early original work that artists no longer hold dear. We invite artists, across all media to send us older and early work, sketches, mistakes, glaze tests, cracked pots, misprinted original printmaking, damaged work, experiments etc to sell off at bargain prices.
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.
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.
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...
Kinetic Sculpture - Short 4 Day Residency - April
Art fair
02/04/2026 to 05/04/2026
A short kinetic sculpture meet up with a few fellow artists. I am a kinetic wind sculptor and keen to explore and share ideas with others
Christine Pike, MA
I am an artist and freelance curator. I hold an MA in Contemporary Curation from Norwich University of the Arts. I have been sculpting professionally since 2011. My work is figurative and inspired by folklore and the natural world. I work mainly in paperclay, recycled materials and mixed...
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!
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.
Wacky Lamps
Hi, my name is Steve and I handcraft unique lighting—steampunk, industrial-style lamps from galvanised iron pipe fittings, and upcycled lamps from often neglected, vintage items. My pipe lamps take the form of recognisable objects or robotic people, with the switch being an integral part of...
Soulful Creativity
Rydal Hall, Rydal Hall, Ambleside, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
21/04/2026 to 22/04/2026
Using stories of wandering in the wilderness and facing the wildness of life's storms, we will explore how Jesus triumphed over the temptations and tempests of life. Through exploration of stories and passages in the gospels in which Jesus amazed individual characters & crowds we will creatively engage with the 'awe and wonder' of Christ
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.
ENCAUSTIC HIVE UK ‘The Art of Place’
Exhibition
30/09/2025 to 28/04/2026
UK Encaustic wax artists Julie Wrathall and Lyn Kirkland have set up an online project group called ENCAUSTIC HIVE UK. The purpose is to foster a stronger connection amongst UK encaustic artists. To encourage creative exploration, in a supportive space. A series of informal zoom calls to make connections, culminating in an online exhibition of UK encaustic titled ‘The Art of Place’.