Wild Lives – Exhibition Closing Event
Gallery Oldham, Greaves Street, Oldham, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Exhibition
07/11/2026
Wild Lives is a free solo exhibition by Oldham wildlife artist Anne Bardsley, celebrating the character, beauty and vulnerability of the animal world. The exhibition comes to an end on Saturday 7th November, with a special closing event from 2pm–4pm at Gallery Oldham.
Case Study: Alan Dunn
Alan Dunn is an artist, lecturer, curator, and Reader in Art & Design at Leeds Beckett University where he lectures on the MA Fine Art course. Through his collaborative projects, he has worked with Bill Drummond, Douglas Gordon, Yoko Ono, Bikini Kill, Philip Jeck, redmentv, Pauline Oliveros, Einstürzende Neubauten and Brian Eno.
Donna Cheshire Textile Artist
Award winning textile artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Donna uses appliqué and free machine embroidery to create textile art inspired by the Northern landscape. She has exhibited at galleries and shows nationally and offers a range of textile workshops and talks. Donna also works in...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #34: Dan Harland
Dan Harland is an artist based in Leeds, UK. Working from memory rather than direct observation, his practice examines memory as a fluid construction that fragments, distorts, and merges with other experiences or even figments of the imagination. Using drawing, painting and material experimentation, his work asks the question: how reliable are the stories people tell themselves about their own lives?
Gold Leaf Wooden Mandala Workshop
Sunfyr Barns, Manor Farm Barns, Manor Farm Barns, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Workshop
08/11/2026
Spend four relaxed hours creating your own personally engraved wooden mandala with Indian gold ink, gold leaf and acrylic colour markers. Guided by artist Amber Stefani, work slowly and intuitively, with no creative experience needed. All materials, a drink and cake included. £65 per person. 10:30am–2:30pm.
13 b
13b is an artist run project space and gallery founded by LJW 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 art is, how...
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.
Colourful Language: How to Apply Colour Theory
Barnoon Arts, Tregenna Place, St. Ives, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom
Workshop
05/11/2026
Discover the secrets of colour in this practical, hands-on workshop with artist Zoe Eaton. Learn how colours interact, how to mix them effectively, and how to use colour with greater confidence and creativity in your own artwork. Suitable for beginners and more experienced artists alike, this workshop offers an inspiring and practical introduction to the fascinating world of colour.
Ones to Watch 2027 - Zine Open Call
01/11/2026 Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Submit your zine or book to be part of the Zine Library for our annual exhibition celebrating emerging artists!
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.
Sarah Goudie
Artist/Creative practitioner: graduate of Wimbledon and BCU Schools of Art. Working with contemplative making practices to investigate feminist narratives of touch and witness. Fascinated by the space of drawing; sharing its potential. Investigating poetics of beauty and injury, poise and...
Interior Monologues : making and unmaking
The Hive, Vittoria Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Workshop
19/01/2027
Explore expanded drawing practices, including bilateral, blind and touch led approaches using the gallery space at The Hive in BIrmingham.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #33: Junshu Gu
Junshu Gu is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and flâneuse, working across painting, sculpture, installation and time-based media. Her current research centres on the absent figure of the female flâneur within historical narratives and contemporary urban discourse. Through walking-based fieldwork, writing, sound and object-making, she explores how women move through, read, and are interrupted by public space.
Reset: 2026
01/11/2026 Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Call for Performers and Artists: Reset 2026
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...
42nd Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality
Circular Artspace - MetArtSpace
Exhibition
12/10/2026 to 03/11/2026
Circular ArtSpace presents the 42nd Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality, a vibrant celebration of creativity unfolding online from the 12th of October to the 3rd of November 2026. This immersive digital showcase brings together a wide range of artistic voices, offering global audiences an engaging and interactive way to experience contemporary art.
Contemporary Visual Arts Network England
CVAN England leads a collective agenda for policy change across the visual arts. They campaign to be heard, valued, and recognised so that the sector can thrive now and in the future. Links to nine regional networks across England.
Parkscapes II
01/11/2026 Primrose Hill, London, London, United Kingdom
London gallery is holding a Festive Season Exhibition, 3rd - 19th December 2026. We’re inviting you to enter paintings, drawings & original prints of parks and other places you find nature in a city. Our patrons love to see the parks in paint, so let's tempt them with your take on the landscapes, flora and fauna, or water features of these much loved green spaces.
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 body as an archeological site: Abraham babajide cole
The Hive Gallery, 43-47 Vittoria Street, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Exhibition
15/10/2026 to 04/11/2026
An exhibition exploring the body as a vessel for memory, place, identity, and new beginnings.
Su France
Residing in rural Lincolnshire, my practice explores nature's impermanence through a contemporary lens. I'm inspired by decay and weathered objects. Like kintsugi, I capture nature's flaws and renewal. I stitch printed pieces with gold/linen thread, creating invisible mends. I handcraft...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #32: Darren Calder
Darren Calder is a contemporary tapestry weaver based in Brighton, UK. His practice brings together questions of identity, history, and language, often through unconventional materials. He sees weaving as a way of thinking as much as making.
Hit & Run - One day pop up exhibition
01/11/2026 London, London, United Kingdom
Arrive. Install. Network. Disappear. HIT & RUN is an exhibition built around movement, momentum, and temporary takeover. For one day, the space will completely transform. Artists arrive in the morning, install work in the space, exhibit throughout the day, meet audiences and other artists during an evening viewing, then deinstall the same night.
Wild Lives: Solo Exhibition By Anne Bardsley
Gallery Oldham, Greaves Street, Oldham, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
05/09/2026 to 07/11/2026
Wild Lives is a free solo exhibition by Oldham wildlife artist Anne Bardsley at Gallery Oldham. Through colourful acrylic, oil and mixed media paintings inspired by animals in conservation-focused zoos and wildlife parks, the exhibition celebrates wildlife, personality and conservation.
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...
YVAN
YVAN is made up of Visual arts professionals, individual artists and makers, studios, collectives, Higher and Further Education departments and professionals, visual arts organisations and artist networks in Yorkshire. Alongside region-specific advice, opportunities, events and support, they have also gathered regional and general resources to support artists in developing their practice.
Unseen exhibition
Third space, 47 wallgate , Manchester , Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Art fair
07/11/2026 to 14/11/2026
UNSEEN is an arty, unapologetic celebration of mental health, creativity and community. The stuff you don't always see. The thoughts, feelings, stories and experiences that sit beneath the surface.
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'.
Elizabeth Benson
I’m Elizabeth Benson, a UK-based artist working between textile and sculpture. I explore how cloth, dye and fibre respond to contact, pressure and time, using natural dyes, tannins and iron to create layered works where colour and form emerge through interaction rather than control.
A New Approach to Artist Bursaries at CuratorSpace
CuratorSpace has updated its bursary programme to better support the realities of working as an artist. The new model removes the administrative barriers and fixed deadlines that often make funding difficult to access.
Autumn Exhibition
Earlestown Arts Club and Gallery, 64 Market Street, Newton Le Willows, United Kingdom
Exhibition
31/10/2026 to 21/11/2026
Join us at Earlestown Arts Club and Gallery for our Autumn Show, bringing together talented artists from across the North West and beyond in one creative space. From painting and photography to sculpture, textiles, jewellery and mixed media, the exhibition will showcase a diverse collection of original artwork, celebrating different perspectives, styles, stories and creative ideas.
Open Call for Artists - 43rd Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality
02/11/2026
Open Call for Artists! Be part of the 43rd Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality — an immersive and accessible showcase open to artists worldwide. This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to exhibit in a professional 3D virtual gallery and connect directly with a global audience. Don't miss it!
Figurative Group Exhibition
02/11/2026 london, United Kingdom
No. 35 Gallery invites artists worldwide to submit work for Figurative—International Online Group Exhibition 2026. This exhibition explores the human figure across contemporary artistic practices, from portraiture, the human body, gestures, movement, and everyday human experiences to expressive distortion, fragmented forms, abstraction, symbolic representations, and conceptual interpretations of the figure. Selected artists will present their work in a curated international online group exhibition hosted on the No. 35 Gallery website, supported by curatorial presentation and promotion through the gallery’s platforms.
Harriet Titlow
We support artists to experiment, collaborate and produce bold animation projects. We are a catalyst for connection. We believe that artists’ animation empowers people to see their world differently. The guiding principles that underpin our work are: curiosity, collaboration, support,...
The Wild Within Art Exhibition part of the VAA Open Spaces Global Arts Trail
Art at Vixen home gallery, 87 Town Lane, Whittle-le-Woods, Chorley
Exhibition
07/11/2026 to 21/11/2026
A free exhibition of contemporary animal portraits by Lancashire artist, Kirsten Todd as part of the VAA Open Spaces Global Art Trail
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.
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.
Jens Tojen
Jens Tojen is a multidisciplinary artist working with; fashion costume and clothing, textiles, oil painting, and collage. His work is idea-driven, with decisions on medium based on concept needed to be executed. Text is often incorporated, with meanings left vague. Every interpretation holds...
31st Community Art Exhibition
Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
28/10/2026 to 21/11/2026
Explore a diverse collection of artworks in our unique double-decker bus gallery, showcasing the talent of artists from Bristol and beyond.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #31
The CuratorSpace Artist Bursary is a quarterly award to support contemporary artists to develop their practice. The artists selected for CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #31 are Emma Bolland, Lucy Mulholland, Maybelle Peters, Cameron Lings, and Blandine Martin. Their projects span sculpture, performance, light, 3D scanning, film, and sound.
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...
The Horton Epsom - Festive Makers Market - December 2026
The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Art fair
04/12/2026 to 05/12/2026
The Horton Marketplace - approximately 40 stallholders selling their handmade items which include jewellery, textiles, ceramics, artwork and much more!
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #30
The CuratorSpace Artist Bursary is a quarterly award to support contemporary artists to develop their practice. The artists selected for CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #30 are Anna Li, Ziyan Liu, Alison Lowry and Dominika Jackowska. Their projects span installation, animation, projection mapping, sculpture, photography, textiles, and performance.
Clive Horsman
I am a fine art photographer with a love for photography since getting my first camera as a teenager. Initially working as a landscape architect for 40 years till 2015 I decided to change direction to pursue my passion for b+w fine-art landscape photography using both 35mm and medium formats....
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.
Winter Open Studio event
Cyan Clayworks, 5 Commercial Street, Edinburgh
Exhibition
26/11/2026 to 12/12/2026
I'll be taking part in our studio's open event and exhibition this winter in Edinburgh, as part of the Leith Creative Trail and Fair Saturday.