The Horton, Epsom - February Marketplace
The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Art fair
28/02/2026
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.
liz O Connell Glass
Artist with contemporary glass and craft practice based in North Yorkshire , completed an MA in Glass and Ceramics in Sunderland University developing torch skills and kiln forming glass threads Creating woven glass pieces and referring to women's relationships to textiles and Emotional...
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.
Sensory Drawing
Halton Mill, Mill Lane, Lancaster , Lancashire, United Kingdom
Workshop
10/01/2026
Join artist Helen Thompson for a relaxed, process-led drawing workshop exploring intuitive mark-making through sensory awareness and embodied experience. Working with a range of materials, participants will be guided through exercises to develop their own visual language. Saturday 10th January 10.30-12.30 £36 (all materials provided)
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...
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.
"Between the Door and the Dust" Exhibition Exploring Homes, Memory, and Domicide in Israel-Palestine
P21 Gallery, 21-27 Chalton St, London , London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
10/12/2025 to 10/01/2026
Exploring Palestine Domicide from 1948 to the present through collaborative work with Palestinian communities, research and interventions. The exhibition includes film installations, photography, and video.
OPO Open 2026
01/01/2026 Scarborough, North Yorkshire
CALL OUT for entries for the OPO OPEN 2026.
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.
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.
Exploring Embodied Experience
Halton Mill, Mill Lane, Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
14/12/2025 to 11/01/2026
Exploring Embodied Experience presents a series of sensory, process-led mixed-media and encaustic works developed through my CuratorSpace Artist Bursary project. Drawing on EMDR-inspired imagery, the exhibition explores how internal sensations and emotional states can be translated into layered mark-making, texture, and subtle figurative forms.
IJE
Ije (eejay) A multi-disciplinary artist with a sensuous, nomadic arts practice fusing personal memory, embodied practice and material intervention. My creations are extensions of the rhythms of my body, active evolving sites of experimentation and fabrications of energetic memories. A prolific...
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...
Sleepy Eyes Film Festival
02/01/2026 The Hague
Sleepy Eyes Film Festival is a 8-night long filmfestival in public space. A night-time winter walk becomes a cinematic experience with unexpected filmic encounters in the city centre of The Hague.
Holding space
The laundrette, 145 Cheltenham Rd, Bristol
Exhibition
15/01/2026 to 18/01/2026
Nine established artists from across Britain come together at The Laundrette in Bristol for a captivating exhibition exploring the relationships between objects, bodies, and space.
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.
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.
Fables
The Mill Gallery, Unit 5 Cardinal House, Swinnow Grange Mills, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
09/01/2026 to 30/01/2026
APS presents Fables: eight emerging artists showcase their first collaborative exhibition, nurtured through Resilient Roots.
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...
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.
Lucy Milligan
I'm Lucy, an artist based in Derby. I love to paint realistically in oils and acrylic, and dabble in mixed media. Nature is a huge source of inspiration and I also find challenging but rewarding to paint portraits and attempt to capture someone's personality in the painting.
The Blood Bag Project: Scotland
Exhibition
08/10/2025 to 31/01/2026
A call-out for Scottish artists and makers to submit textile 'blood bags' for exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh 2026. The Blood Bag Project is a socially engaged craftivist project that aims to raise awareness of the rare blood condition Diamond Blackfan Anaemia, and highlight the importance of blood donation!
Open Call: 'Surface Tension' Queerfest 2026
02/01/2026 Norwich, Norfolk
‘SURFACE TENSION’ art exhibition will be a central element of Queerfest 2026. This opportunity is open to artists from all disciplines and styles, including but not limited to painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, photography, video and mixed media.
Floral/ Special Edition
03/01/2026 Tbilisi
We are pleased to announce our next Special Edition, 'Floral.' Submit works inspired by the beauty, symbolism, and diversity of flowers. From botanical realism to abstract blooms, from personal narratives to cultural associations, this theme embraces every way flora can be seen, felt, and reimagined. Flowers can represent growth, fragility, celebration, decay, memory, or transformation — we welcome artworks that explore these layers visually or conceptually.
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...
The Paradigm of Looking
Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
08/01/2026 to 31/01/2026
Circular ArtSpace opens the third members’ exhibition. Exploring the range of members’ art through the lens of points of view and perspectives.
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.
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.
Sacred Geometry/ Special Edition
03/01/2026 Tbilisi
We are pleased to announce our next Special Edition, 'Sacred Geometry.' We invite artists to submit works exploring the harmony, symbolism, and mystery of sacred geometry. From mandalas and fractals to cosmic patterns and architectural symmetry, this theme celebrates the shapes and structures that connect art, nature, spirituality, and science. We welcome interpretations that are mathematical or mystical, ancient or contemporary, minimal or intricate.
Modern & Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa: Movements and Discourses - PART 2
Online (Zoom)
Talk
11/01/2026 to 15/02/2026
Part II of our online course, Modern and Contemporary Art of the MENA, explores key movements, debates and artistic practices from the 1930s to today. Led by Dr Hamid Keshmirshekan, it examines modernism, conceptualism, new media and globalisation. Part I is not required; you may register directly for Part II. Places are limited — secure your spot now.
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'.
Michel Ducos
Michel Ducos is a potter, sculptor and Art facilitator based in Alford, Lincolnshire. Having been a professional potter with his wife, Heather, since 1972 as Alford Pottery, for the last 20 years or so, ceramic sculpture has become an all engrossing activity which sits comfortably alongside the...
Felting Retreat: Working with Luxury Fibres
Rydal Hall, Rydal Hall, Ambleside, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
25/02/2026 to 26/02/2026
On this course, students will learn how to create gossamer weight felt to make beautiful wraps and scarves.
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...
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.
Scott Creative Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award 2026
04/01/2026 Doncaster
Scott Creative Arts Foundation (SCAF) invites emerging artists living or working in Yorkshire to submit a proposal for an original artwork responding to this year’s theme: HERITAGE. Shortlisted works will be exhibited as part of our 2026 Emerging Artist Award.
Kinetic Sculpture - Short 4 Day Residency - April
Art fair
02/04/2026 to 05/04/2026
A short kinetic sculpture meet up with a few fellow artists. I am a kinetic wind sculptor and keen to explore and share ideas with others
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.
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...
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.
SHED Art Club
The Bradbury Makers Shed, Hillsborough Park, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
11/11/2025 to 21/04/2026
Join award winning artist Donna Brewins-Cook for a monthly relaxing, friendly, adult mindful art club that will SHED the stresses of the day!
David Armes
I create typographic artworks that range in scale from large scroll installations to prints and artist's books.
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.
Soulful Creativity
Rydal Hall, Rydal Hall, Ambleside, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
21/04/2026 to 22/04/2026
Using stories of wandering in the wilderness and facing the wildness of life's storms, we will explore how Jesus triumphed over the temptations and tempests of life. Through exploration of stories and passages in the gospels in which Jesus amazed individual characters & crowds we will creatively engage with the 'awe and wonder' of Christ
Lucie Kordacova
Lucie Kordacova is a Czech artist, who works predominantly collaboratively and her work takes the form of installation using works across costumes and textiles, sculptures, moving image and performance.
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.
ENCAUSTIC HIVE UK ‘The Art of Place’
Exhibition
30/09/2025 to 28/04/2026
UK Encaustic wax artists Julie Wrathall and Lyn Kirkland have set up an online project group called ENCAUSTIC HIVE UK. The purpose is to foster a stronger connection amongst UK encaustic artists. To encourage creative exploration, in a supportive space. A series of informal zoom calls to make connections, culminating in an online exhibition of UK encaustic titled ‘The Art of Place’.