Event

Contemporary Glass Society's Discovery Day at De Montfort University, Leicester

De Montfort University, Leicester , Leicestershire, United Kingdom
Symposium
29/04/2023

The Contemporary Glass Society invites you to our first Discovery Day at De Montfort University, Leicester. Open to all. Come along to join inspired glass artists and listen to their fascinating stories. Meet and network with fellow makers and enthusiasts.

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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

Justin Wiggan

Justin Wiggan is an artist working at the frontiers of arts and public intervention. His practice includes a range of media from sound, phonics, film, drawing, installation, interventions and performance.

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #18: Rachel Collier-Wilson

Rachel Collier-Wilson is a prolific, intuitive artist who has been practicing since graduating in 1990 from Central Saint Martins School of Art, London. They follow where their creativity takes them on the day; using sketching, linocut, mono printing, sewing and painting.

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Curator profile

Saltaire Inspired

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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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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VILOMAH: HIDDEN LOSS & UNTOLD FUTURES

24/03/2023   Wood Green, London, London  

VILOMAH: HIDDEN LOSS & UNTOLD FUTURES is an exhibition exploring pregnancy loss, baby loss & infertility. I am inviting creative responses to the emotional, social, cultural & political impacts of these experiences, and welcome contemporary works from a variety of disciplines – visual arts, sculpture, prose, poetry, video/film, recorded music/sound/spoken word, multi-sensory media.

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Event

Reflecting On The Coast

Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
07/03/2023 to 25/03/2023

An Intuitive Response

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Artist profile

Mandy Wilkinson

Mandy Wilkinson graduated from Cumbria College of Art and Design with a first class degree in Fine Art and since then has worked as an abstract artist. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally and has represented North Wales in past exhibitions.

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #18: Oliver Bliss

Oliver Bliss is a Queer Craftivist using textiles to explore themes of identity and sexuality. Themes include contemporary hero worship, body image, celebrity, activism, and gender variation.

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Curator profile

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...

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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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Upcoming opportunity

SCAR

24/03/2023   Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire  

SCAR: ~ A mark on the skin which is left after a wound has healed. ~ A physical or emotional experience which has left a permanent effect on the mind.

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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.

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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

Sea And Oceans

Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
07/03/2023 to 25/03/2023

Coastal Riches - A solo exhibition of 2 and 3D ceramics.

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Artist profile

Krystyna Spink

Over the years I have studied many arts and crafts.I now focus on painting fine art using acrylic, recently experimenting with watercolour and mixed media.My crafts back ground has inspired and fuel'd my chosen path of painting. Art brings to life my experiences, memories and dreams, propelling...

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #18: Charlotte Cullen

Charlotte Cullen is an artist, exhibiting both nationally and internationally. Their work is held in private collections across the UK and Europe and they are also a member of the Sculpture Network with Yorkshire Sculpture International.

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Upcoming opportunity

ARTIST OF THE MONTH - OPEN CALL

27/03/2023   London, London  

OPEN CALL TO MULTIMEDIA ARTISTS WORLDWIDE. Submit NOW for an opportunity to get featured for a Month!

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Upcoming opportunity

Cut, Torn & Mended: online exhibition for Artist/Mothers

29/03/2023   online  

Open Call for artists who identify as mothers to submit collage works for our Cut, Torn & Mended World Collage Day 2023 Online Exhibition & Zine.

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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

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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Event

Fiona Campbell: Residency Exhibition

Create@#8, 8 Town Street, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
20/03/2023 to 25/03/2023

Solo exhibition by Fiona Campbell, the culmination of a 3-week residency in a large empty shop space in Shepton Mallet, Somerset. Work relates to our natural world and its entanglements, developed as part of Fiona's Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice award. Transformed into a gallery, work comprises sculptural installations, drawings, collages, sketchbooks.

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Artist profile

Jess Heywood

My practice revolves around the idea of labour intensity, often in a highly gendered context. I work mainly in mark making and textiles but also use writing to inform and underpin my practice.

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News article

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #18: Helen Mather & Anna FC Smith

Helen Mather and Anna FC Smith are a collaborative duo with independent experience of solo shows and leading workshops. They started collaborating in 2020 on an ACE funded project where they developed a community engaged exhibition with a programme of events and activities which continued throughout the lockdowns.

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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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Upcoming opportunity

The 26th MASS: HYBRID (Submissions Open!)

30/03/2023     

the MASS is an online collection of discursive art, articles, opinions, prompts, thoughts, and questions, gathered in response to global issues. The MASS aims to provide a space for reflection, criticism, and a platform for art as activism the Mass is a non-monetised publication (we are not down with the capitalist agenda), and is free to access by all. Everyone is welcome to submit to the MASS: artists, thinkers, writers, worriers – people with opinions prepared to be critical. All we ask that submissions are offered in a spirit of openness. Our open call is now live for our first issue of 2023. The 26th MASS: HYBRID - "Are you more than one thing?" Deadline 31st March @ 23:59 UK time.

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Curator profile

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...

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #19

31/03/2023     

CuratorSpace have adapted their artist bursary scheme to support artists in maintaining their art practice. Six bursaries of £250 will be awarded.

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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

INKERWOVEN Print and Textile Project: Final Exhibition

The Dyehouse Gallery, Bradford College, Lister Building, Carlton Street, Bradford, United Kingdom
Exhibition
03/10/2022 to 31/03/2023

A creative collaboration between Inkers Printmakers and the Bradford College Textile Archive.

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Artist profile

Mike Hartley

I am a mixed media artist and Designer/ Maker I have always been interested in interdisciplinary or mixed-media arts exploring different mediums, i trained in the North East of England at university of Northumbria in Newcastle. recently designing and building structures for festival...

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #18: Lucy Cade

Lucy Cade is a London-based painter. Her paintings present females as avatars of emotions, set in imagined landscapes. The work draws on her own experiences of postnatal psychosis, which she explored through a recent Arts Council grant enabling her to undertake a residency in Italy to research Madonna & Child representations.

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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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Curator profile

Alex Hetherington

I sustain a visual art practice (with an emphasis on the moving image, performance, text and sculpture) through various positions as artist, curator, programmer and writer, and often work under a title or pseudonym, for example Modern Edinburgh Film School, Neon John and ‘The Men and...

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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #18: Annie Trevorah

Annie Trevorah completed her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, working between sculpture, textiles, photography, video, and sound to communicates the socio-dynamic interplay between humans and nature. She has exhibited internationally with recent shows at Centro Culturale di Milano, Las Laguana Gallery, USA and 67 York Street, London.

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Artist profile

Jennifer Brook

Textile Artist

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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

Cultivate presents Deflect - a maximalist group show

On line via Organ magazine, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
12/01/2022 to 31/03/2023

The 18th in an ongoing series of maximalist on-line group shows from London's Cultivate Gallery, Deflect features the carefully selected work of 43 participating artists from all over the land and indeed the globe

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