The Horton, Epsom - August Marketplace
The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Art fair
29/08/2026
The Horton Marketplace - approximately 40 stallholders selling their handmade items which include jewellery, textiles, ceramics, artwork and much more!
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.
Abdullah Adekola
I am a son, an older brother and a husband. I am a reader and I try to be mindful and a humanitarian. I have Yoruba heritage and I am from Yorkshire. I am a baller (Basketball and football) and lover of learning and languages such as English, Yoruba, Arabic and Spanish to name a few. I like...
Community Artists' Fair - Arts & Crafts MARKET - Summer Edition
The Vassall Community Hub, Gill Avenue, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Art fair
27/06/2026
Community Artists' Fair returns to Fishponds in Bristol this summer with expanded programme
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.
Soil Chromatography
Photofusion, UNIT 2 2 BEEHIVE PLACE, BRIXTON, London, United Kingdom
Workshop
22/08/2026
Join photographer Aindreas Scholz for a hands-on soil chromatography workshop in Brixton. Using a cameraless photographic process from biodynamic agriculture, you will collect local soil, make 2 to 3 circular “soil portraits”, and learn how their colours and patterns can reveal vitality, care, pollution, memory, and inequality in the land beneath our feet.
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...
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.
Where We Land, a gathering for South West Disabled Artists
Ham Green House
Symposium
09/09/2026
Where We Land is a new gathering for disabled, deaf and neurodivergent artists from across South West England. Created by Spectroscope, the day brings together conversations, workshops, keynote speakers, quieter spaces and opportunities to reconnect with creative practice.
New 0% commission art selling platform from CuratorSpace
15/06/2026 United Kingdom
Exhibtd is a new online art marketplace from CuratorSpace where artists can sell their work directly to buyers with no listing or commission fees.
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.
Bone Deep
The FG Gallery, Boots Green Lane, Nr Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
06/06/2026 to 21/06/2026
The FG Gallery is pleased to present Bone Deep, a group show of 11 painters. Exhibiting artists: Elvira Bernhard, Karl Bielik, Nan Collantine, Jenny Eden, Sarah Grant, Scott McCracken, Gavin Shepherdson, Mikey Thomas, Henry Ward, Harriet Westgarth and Matilda Wainwright. 6th – 21st June 2026, Preview Opening 6-9 pm June 5th 2026.
Stefan J Schaffeld
Studying Fine Art with UCA (University for the Creative Arts) through its distant learning unit OCA.
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.
Astley Pop-Up Shop & Studio
Astley Coach House, Astley Park, Chorley
Art fair
13/06/2026 to 21/06/2026
A celebration of contemporary art & craft, designed and made in Lancashire
Lip Lines
16/06/2026 Barcelona, Spain
Plazuli invites artists and designers to apply for Lip Lines, a curated publication and exhibition exploring lips as sites of language, desire, identity, intimacy, and control. Lips exist at the boundary between the body and the world. They speak, kiss, consume, conceal, and resist. Through the lips, language is articulated, desire is enacted, and identity is performed.
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...
Group Residency Programme, Orkney: Air, Sea and Soil: MICRO-MACRO
The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Palace Village, Birsay, Orkney, United Kingdom
Workshop
20/06/2026 to 27/06/2026
Welcome to all creative practitioners and researchers interested in making, thinking and being in experimental ways. This Group Residency will take you out and about in Orkney, introduce you to the impact of climate crisis, to vast skies and the archipelago that has long been shaped by the sea.
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.
Exhibit in Brazil - Vivid Exhibition
18/06/2026 São Paulo, Brazil
A unique opportunity for artists to show their work in a different country without having to be physically present.
Group Residency Programme, Orkney - Air, Sea and Soil: SOUNDINGS and SURROUNDINGS
The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Palace Village, Birsay, Orkney, United Kingdom
Workshop
27/06/2026 to 04/07/2026
The Group Residency is offered for creative practitioners working in all creative disciplines and for those who have a strong interest in the investigation of the Group Residency themes in relation to space, sound and visuals. The group will comprise of approx. eight international participants.
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.
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...
21 Journeys
Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
07/06/2026 to 05/07/2026
Experience the enduring legacy of the 21 Group of Artists in their latest exhibition, 21 Journeys.
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.
Time 2026, International Photography Exhibition
19/06/2026 Glasgow, United Kingdom
Call for entries for an International Photography Exhibition. This month-long exhibition will be a photography exhibition with the theme Time. Free to submit and open to everyone.
Nature Making: The Artist’s Way
Rydal Hall, Rydal Hall, Ambleside, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
13/07/2026 to 16/07/2026
This retreat is a spiritual and creative journey, a cocoon of connection, to ourselves, to each other and to God.
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...
Drawing Club Term 2
Workshop
02/06/2026 to 23/07/2026
The SHARP gallery will be starting term 2 of their online drawing group for anyone who wants to start drawing or build on their skills and experiment with new ways of working. The gallery is for anyone who feels art will help with their mental health. If you are unable to come to all the classes but would still like to join some, that is not a barrier. You do not have to have done term 1.
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.
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'.
Cyanotype: design, print, make
Rydal Hall, Rydal Hall, Ambleside, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
23/07/2026 to 24/07/2026
Learn about and practice the unique art of Cyanotype on this 2 day course.
Ronen Raz
An artist/sculptor working mainly with biological tissues such as leather and hair, recently I have been using recycled leather primarily, creating realistic copies of inorganic materials, generic consumer goods, or of peripheral environments and events taking place on the margins of culture and...
How to Crowdfund Your Project
With traditional funding routes increasingly constrained, filmmaker Dan Edelstyn shares a practical perspective on building ambitious projects outside conventional systems. Drawing on firsthand experience of taking independently crowdfunded films from idea to international platforms and nationwide screenings, he outlines why developing a direct relationship with your audience may be one of the most viable routes for artists working today.
Modern and Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): Movements and Discourses
Online
Workshop
26/05/2026 to 28/07/2026
This course aims to address the major historical, conceptual, theoretical and aesthetic issues that inform the region’s modern and contemporary art paradigm. Arranged largely in chronological order, it will explore the art of MENA region, with particular attention to Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco and Egypt, by tracing the underpinning discourses that have shaped artistic practices in the region.
Open 2026, International Photography Exhibition
19/06/2026 Glasgow, United Kingdom
Call for entries for an International Photography Exhibition. This month-long exhibition will be a photography exhibition with an open theme. Free to submit and open to everyone.
States of Exposure
20/06/2026 London, United Kingdom
CISTA ARTS invites artists worldwide to submit work for States of Exposure, an online group exhibition exploring visibility, vulnerability, revelation, and the shifting conditions through which contemporary experience is negotiated.
The Open 2026
The Mill Gallery, Unit 5 Cardinal House, Swinnow Grange Mills, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/06/2026 to 31/07/2026
Join us for the opening of The Open 2026 on Friday 19 June from 6:30pm, a vibrant exhibition bringing together contemporary artwork by emerging and established artists from across the UK.
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,...
Artist Rates of Pay
Artist Union England
A guide to help artists and their employers in England to determine fair pay for artists' labour.
PLAY / RECORD - an open-studio art residency
Mid Street Lab, 80 St George's Road, Kemptown, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/07/2026 to 14/08/2026
PLAY / RECORD is a live, open studio residency in which digital artist Caroline Beavon develops new interactive work, inviting the public to see her process. Combining analogue sketchbooks and digital experience, she digitises, animates and layers found materials into scrollable, interactive stories — building new pieces across four weeks with the doors open and the process visible.
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.
Robert Melia
Ex Army Father of two beautiful girls and I work as a HGV driver in the UK. I got into art literally by accident, after a work place accident and recovering at home ,I took up pyrography to take my mind off the recovery. Since then and work permitting I do my art when I can. Only having...
WRITING with PLACE, Group Residency, Italy
Workshop
01/10/2026 to 08/10/2026
We welcome applications from people working in creative practices, research, writing, poetry, performance, scenography, education etc. and for those who have a strong interest in ‘writing’ as an area of practice.
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.
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...
Group Residency Programme Italy - Place, People and Time: ART and FOOD
The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Via Collemacchia, Italy
Workshop
09/10/2026 to 16/10/2026
The Group Residency is devised around the relationships of ‘place, people and time’ and residents will be welcomed to Collemacchia, in Italy’s Apennine Mountains and the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise. The aim of the Group Residency is to develop approaches to the relationships between art and food that are experimental and inventive in their form, in a specific environment.
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.
TAKING TIME Residency, Italy
Workshop
01/05/2026 to 31/10/2026
An Individual Residency provides uninterrupted periods of time in the beautiful environment of Collemacchia in Italy’s Molise region, for centuries home to the family of Tracy Mackenna, curator of The Museum of Loss and Renewal. There is no expectation of a final residency outcome.
Maureen Jordan
I am a Northern Irish artist currently based in Kent Using found objects and recycled materials, I tend to work in response to specific sites, indoors and out. Reclaimed materials often retain the traces or scars of their former use but can be given a new energy charge when redeemed. I...
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.
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!