Event

The Yellowing - Works of Keith Frake

Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/10/2025

A bold new series, The Yellowing transforms alchemy’s “citrinitas” into layered, process-driven paintings in yellow and gold - where iconography, heat, and time stain the surface with fragile intensity.

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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

Chiara Lauren Grant

I am a multidisciplinary artist interested in selling my Paintings in the future and hopefully becoming a successful artist working in Coventry and Warwickshire area. I am a good colourist and can draw very well. I have sold work in Leamington and Coventry and have good connections to Artspace...

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News article

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.

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Event

One Island - Many Visions

Portland Sculpture & Quarry Trust, Drill Hall Gallery, Easton Lane, Portland, Dorset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
06/09/2025 to 31/10/2025

A Portland Sculpture Quarry Trust collaboration with Royal Society of Sculptors members involving 27 artists’ residencies and research outcomes over 18 months, leading to an exhibition of site-responsive artworks, symposium and community events, focusing on environment. Located across 2 sites: Drill Hall Gallery and Tout Quarry Sculpture Park & Nature Reserve

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Curator profile

13 b

13b is an artist run project space and gallery founded by Louise Winter 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...

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Resource

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.

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Upcoming opportunity

New Emergence Art Prize 2025 (£3,750+ Prize Fund)

19/10/2025     

£1,000 Main Award, NG Art Creative Residency: Emerging Artist Award (2 week residency in Provence, France), The Staedtler Award (£350+ worth of Staedtler products), The Daler-Rowney Prize (£250 worth of Daler-Rowney materials), The New Emergence Art-Founder’s Prize (£150) and The GreatArt Prize (£150 worth of GreatArt materials)

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Artist profile

Chloe Smith

An artist and printmaker from Leeds, Chloe Smith is inspired by the world around her and makes paintings, fine art prints, cards and textiles.

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Event

Untamed Art : Solo Exhibition By Anne Bardsley

The Pop Up, Merseyway, Stockport, United Kingdom
Exhibition
27/10/2025 to 02/11/2025

Explore a vibrant collection of wildlife inspired artwork by Anne Bardsley, celebrating endangered animals through expressive styles and storytelling. Featuring original pieces, prints, and gifts, this free exhibition invites visitors of all ages to connect with nature and creativity.

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News article

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.

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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

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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Upcoming opportunity

EXHIBITION CALL OUT *multiple North Bar venues*

19/10/2025   Leeds, West Yorkshire  

North Bar Art Wall is an exciting, collaborative project led by artists to support and showcase both emerging and established creatives. The selected artist will have full artistic control - from the artwork displayed to how the exhibition is marketed. This is a unique opportunity to transform the space, connect with a wide audience, and be part of a growing community that celebrates independent art.

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Event

Modern and Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Movements and Discourses

Workshop
02/11/2025

Duration: 6 weeks (Modern Art) Schedule: Sundays, 4:00–6:00 PM GMT Start Date: November 2, 2025 | End Date: December 7, 2025 Subject: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Movements and Discourses Language: English Location: Online Tutor: Dr Hamid Keshmirshekan Certification: Participants will receive a certificate upon completion

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Resource

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.

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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

Alison Whitmore

I am a Nottinghamshire artist currently working with textiles and embroidery to pay tribute to women lost to femicide as well as exploring thoughts and experiences of domestic and sexual violence, and misogyny.

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News article

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.

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Event

The Canvas Club: From Ten Brushes to Your Eyes – Local Art Exhibition in Epsom

The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Exhibition
05/11/2025

Discover From Ten Brushes to Your Eyes at The Horton, Epsom, 5–15 Nov 2025. Ten artists present oils, acrylics, watercolours and mixed media in this free local art exhibition. From landscapes to abstracts, it’s Surrey’s must-see autumn art exhibition near me. All works for sale; artists on site selected days.

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Upcoming opportunity

Flux and Stillness: Art in the Midst of Transition

19/10/2025   London  

SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN! We are in search of visual artists to submit their art to be showcased in an online exhibition. Artists of all mediums and from all countries are welcome to apply, including painters, sculptors, photographers, designers, and video artists.

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Upcoming opportunity

Small Treasures: An Artisan Christmas

20/10/2025   Scarborough  

Artist opportunity at Gallery Thirty Three to take part in “Small Treasures” - A Seasonal Exhibition of Handmade Gifts & Original Art Celebrating the spirit of the season. No entry fees, No gallery fees on pieces up to £65 , Fair commission rates. Gallery Thirty Three a contemporary gallery, located in the heart of a vibrant artist community. An opportunity to show your handmade, unique and creative pieces of art.

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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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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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Event

Between Sleeping and Waking: Hospital Dreams and Visions

Bethlem Museum of the Mind, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, London, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
14/08/2025 to 08/11/2025

Dreams and nightmares exhibit to open at world’s oldest psychiatric hospital. Artwork and poems from contemporary artists and former Bethlem hospital patients to go on show.

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Resource

Contract of Self Care

Luminara Florescu

This toolkit supports a best practice model for artists who have a social practice as well as the participating members of the public involved in their projects. It explores ways of working as a social practice artist that are sustainable for artists, including those with physical and mental health disabilities. Funded by a-n Artist Bursary 2021 TIME, SPACE, MONEY.

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Artist profile

Ieuan Edwards

I am a self taught illustrator and printmaker, focusing primarily on relief printing using the reduction linocut technique. I am self taught and launched my practice, The Black Gold Press, in 2013.

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News article

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.

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Upcoming opportunity

Call for Artists of All Mediums: SPIRA9 Artist of the Month – Online Critique & Curatorial Spotlight

20/10/2025   LONDON, London  

SPIRA9 ART invites submissions for our ongoing Artist of the Month programme, designed to spotlight outstanding contemporary artists from around the world. This initiative offers selected artists the opportunity to showcase their practice to an international audience and join a growing network of creatives, curators, and collectors.

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Event

Pressed and Pulled: Works of Charlotte Sainsbury

Artizan Printmaking & Sculpture Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
04/10/2025 to 08/11/2025

From Boatyards to Moorlands: Discover the Textured World of Collagraph Printmaking

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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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Upcoming opportunity

IOAEA Ecological Practices Interview Series

20/10/2025     

IOAEA is launching an exclusive interview series focusing on artists whose work addresses ecological challenges and environmental justice. This curated selection will feature only 10 artists globally, ensuring personalized attention.

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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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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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Event

GO! Friends - Oldham Art Fair

Gallery Oldham, Greaves Street, Oldham, United Kingdom
Art fair
15/11/2025

Save the date! On Saturday, November 15th, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, The Friends of Gallery Oldham will host their very first “GO! Artists - Oldham Art Fair.” This exciting event will take place at the Gallery Oldham Education Suite and promises a fantastic day of art, creativity, and community.

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Artist profile

Benjamin Harrison

Ben Harrison as a visual artists working with murals, paintings and print. Currently based in his studio in Artwork Atelier, Salford.

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News article

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.

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Curator profile

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...

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Event

Dick Onians a retrospective

T&T Gallery, Miry Lane, Thongabridge , United Kingdom
Exhibition
21/08/2025 to 29/11/2025

Dick Onians: A Retrospective Thomas & Thomas is proud to present A Retrospective of Dick Onians, the first major exhibition of Onians' work since 1972. Spanning over five decades, this retrospective celebrates a remarkable body of work rooted in tradition yet driven by continual reinvention. This exhibition brings Onians’ extraordinary vision back into public view.

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #26: Milly Aburrow

Through a playful colour palette and a comical stylisation, Milly Aburrow's work characterises the parameters of commercialisation, consumerist society, and particularly contemporary food culture. She was a recipient of the Kenneth Armitage Young Sculpture Prize 2023 and exhibits in galleries across the UK.

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Artist profile

Ali Barker

My work expresses music and sound in colour. I create abstract paintings, mixed-media work and installations inspired by my personal experiences of sound-colour synaesthesia – when I listen to music, each note of the musical scale is perceived as a specific colour. I completed my MA in Fine...

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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

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!

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