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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
Reflecting On The Coast
Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
07/03/2023 to 25/03/2023
An Intuitive Response
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.
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.
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: 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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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!
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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