
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Iram Iqbal
Iram Iqbal is an Islamic artist who creates both traditional and contemporary art. Using Arabic Calligraphy, Islamic architecture, and other symbolic imagery, she uses her art to show the beauty of Islam and address the many misconceptions about it.

Calligraphy Workshop
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
08/12/2023
Enjoy making swooshes and swirls in modern calligraphy with tutor Claire Gould from ‘By Moon & Tide’. You’ll have fun practicing with a dip pen and copperplate nib in this friendly and festive calligraphy workshop.

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...

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Diane Ketteringham
Diane Ketteringham is an interactive installations artist, engaging with passersby to explore their emotional, social and cultural landscapes and inviting them to break conventions. She explores ‘sharing’ in its widest sense through artworks where she is often an active participant.
Saturday LIFE at the Pavilion: Life Drawing in Hillsborough
The Pavilion, Hillsborough Park , Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
26/08/2023 to 16/12/2023
Life Drawing with Donna Brewins-Cook. Enjoy a friendly, relaxed, experimental and diverse Life Drawing class working from the nude model at the modern Pavilion Building in the district of Hillsborough, Sheffield.

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.

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...

EcologyNOW
Lapworth Museum of Geology, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Exhibition
06/10/2023 to 20/12/2023
EcologyNOW challenges the position of humans at the top of the classic evolution chain. Pamela Schilderman has created sculptures and drawings to ask visitors to consider whether humans are the most important species on earth today. It is a Sci/Art collaboration between the University of Birmingham, the Lapworth Museum of Geology and the artist.

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.

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Nicola Garvey
After changing careers later in life, Nicola Garvey graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Leeds Arts University in 2021. Her work is inspired by the everyday and promotes the overlooked and underrated, which is reflected across the wide range of media that she uses.
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...

Maria Esmar
Maria’s abstract art strives to create a fleeting magic aimed at encouraging those who view her work to take a deeper look at the world around them and discover beauty and meaning in unusual places. Throughout all her collections she pays tribute to the limitless sophistication of this world,...

Chapbook Series #6 ‘The Fragile Knots of Time’
10/12/2023 London
We are in search of emerging writers to submit their work for publication opportunity ‘Chapbook Series #6 ‘The Fragile Knots of Time’’. The writing must be your original work inspired by the theme of the call ‘‘The Fragile Knots of Time’’. Write your own ‘‘The Fragile Knots of Time’’ story in less than 250 words.

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'.

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 #21: Tarla Patel
Tarla Patel explores identity, space and belonging. She combines analogue film and photography with digital media to create layered stories of migration and transition of cultures in today's society. She is also one of the founders of an artist collective called COVert Arts.

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.

Renewal Reverie: Embracing the 'New Start'
14/12/2023 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.

Rebecca Lyons
I am a Visual Artist based in the Southwest of Ireland. I work in the medium of Origami. I received my Masters in Creative Media (2015) from IT Tralee and Degree in Fine Art Sculpture (2002) from Crawford College of Art and Design. Between those dates I lived and worked in London and did a...

Navigators Art & Performance presents PUNK/JAZZ: Contrasts & Connections
Micklegate Social and Fossgate Social, 148-150 Micklegate, York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/10/2023 to 03/01/2024
This adventurous collective of York-based and local creatives has been exploring iconic genres through music, painting, drawing, collage, print, words, sculpture and photography, asking: 'A Love Supreme' or 'No Future'? Are Punk & Jazz at odds or two sides of a coin? The project includes a mixed media exhibition, launch night with music, and a related live performance event.

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 #21: Eve Schroeder
Eve Schroeder is a multi-disciplinary artist and maker exploring themes of Fat Justice and Fat activism in contemporary illustration and arts practices. Through this research, she has created work that more accurately and positively represents the fat body.
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...

Angela Palmer Art
Angela Palmer has sculptures in the permanent collections of The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, The National Portrait Gallery in Scotland, and a and a major installation, The Ghost Forest, in The National Botanic Garden of Wales. Her work is in...

We The Human: A Quiet Blue Wall @ Redcar Palace
Redcar Palace, 28 The Esplanade, Redcar, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
12/02/2024 to 17/02/2024
We The Human: A Quiet Blue Wall, is a global project, a people project, a human project, designed and developed by an artist from the community of the neurodiverse at risk of suicidal ideation and attempted suicide for the community wishing to prevent suicide, their own or others, using the Cultural and Creative sectors to do so. Don’t be a spectator, be a participator.

CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21: Jo Liddle
Jo Liddle's practice is based on personal narrative and history, loss, and memory; exploring ideas of time passing and the trace, if any, that we leave behind. She often uses oil paint, but sometimes digital images, to build up a layered surface; removing and rubbing back to reveal a lost memory and creating a tension between the seen and the unseen, or almost seen.

Charlotte Gower
Owner of Homeware and Jewellery brand Pipit. Originally from Holmfirth Charlotte moved to Cardiff where she studied for her degree in Fine Art, after a decade in Wales she moved back to Yorkshire. Charlotte uses an art led design process where she explores a concept through art work which then...

We The Human: A Quiet Blue Wall @ Creative Health Camden
Creative Health Camden, 2 Bartholomew Road, London, London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
15/01/2024 to 19/04/2024
We The Human: A Quiet Blue Wall, is a global project, a people project, a human project, designed and developed by an artist from the community of the neurodiverse at risk of suicidal ideation and attempted suicide for the community wishing to prevent suicide, their own or others, using the Cultural and Creative sectors to do so. Don’t be a spectator, be a participator.

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.

Bonsall Art Trail
Bonsall Village, Clatterway, Bonsall, Derbyshire, Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Festival
29/06/2024 to 30/06/2024
Bonsall Art Trail is a new arts trail located in the village of Bonsall on the edge of the peak district. As a curated trail we aim to showcase the work of talented established and new artists and makers who want to exhibit and sell their work. The trail is over the weekend of 29th and 30th June 2024. Please take a look at our opportunity on CuratorSpace to apply.