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.
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, Einstรผrzende Neubauten and Brian Eno.
Linda Chapman
I am an abstract artist, producing photography and mixed media miniature scenes . After graduating in art photography, I worked in a fine art studio and in between, exhibited at V&A, Stills Gallery, Mall gallery London and in New York, Paris and Vienna. Concentrating now on just my personal...
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.
๐๐ผ๐๐๐: ๐จ๐ฉ๐ช๐๐๐๐จ ๐๐ฃ ๐จ๐ช๐ง๐ซ๐๐ซ๐๐ก
๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ค๐ค๐ข, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ข ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฉ๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ, Peckham Rye Station, Station Way,, london
Exhibition
03/09/2026
๐๐ผ๐๐๐: ๐จ๐ฉ๐ช๐๐๐๐จ ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ ๐๐ผ๐ด๐ฒ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ, ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป, ๐ณ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ด๐๐ฒ, ๐๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป. ๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ค๐ค๐ข, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ข ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฉ๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ
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.
Dream world: Envisioning better futures
HULME COMMUNITY GARDEN CENTRE, 28 Old Birley St, Hulme, Manchester , United Kingdom
Workshop
12/09/2026
SPARK #50 - Dream World: Envisioning Better Futures Saturday 12th September, 3-4:30, Hulme Community Garden Centre Join Bunny X for this collage making workshop as part of Wild Witness. Tickets are free of cost, please sign up through the Wild to witness linktree https://linktr.ee/sparkartistnetwork?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=46b90e4c-410d-44c9-a78a-e8eaad608a1d
RISE Open (Dumfries and Galloway)
01/09/2026 New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire, United Kingdom
Call for Submission - Rise Open Art Exhibition (18 - 30years) All shortlisted artists will take part in a group exhibition in November. First place prize is solo exhibition in 2027.
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.
Keron Beattie
I have a First Class BA (Hons) Degree in Contemporary Art and Design (2016) and a MA Fine Art with Distinction (2018). My overarching interest is fragmentation, remaking and wholeness and the potential of materials to change or transform.
Peninsula: The South-West Open 2026
Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
26/07/2026 to 04/09/2026
An exhibition grounded in the dramatic landscapes, tactile materials, and the legendary quality of light that defines the peninsula.
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.
Pickled Magazine Issue #2 Artist Submission Call Out
01/09/2026 West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Call out for a chance to showcase your art/writing in a magazine. For individuals that don't fear to express their emotions.
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...
The Great Torre Abbey Paint Out
Torre Abbey, The Kings Drive, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Festival
05/09/2026 to 06/09/2026
The Torbay Paint Out series is returning! Three years after our first event in Paignton, we are pleased to announce The Great Torre Abbey Paint Out, taking place on the 5th and 6th of September.
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.
Call for Ceramic Artists: Sunken Studio Pottery Market 2026
01/09/2026 Leeds, United Kingdom
Applications are now open for makers to join our curated pottery market, hosted inside Sunken Studio, a working ceramics studio in Leeds.
Manchester Open artist exhibition 2026
HOME, 2 Tony Wilson P, Manchester
Exhibition
21/08/2026 to 06/09/2026
The Manchester Open is the biggest celebration of Greater Manchester's artists and creative talent - and it returns this summer. Taking place every two years, The Manchester Open is an exhibition of artworks from people across Greater Manchester of all experience levels, including first-time artists and enthusiasts as well as emerging talent and established professionals.
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.
Jack Sanderson-Thwaite
I'm a writer and artist working across multiple media. I am the creator of The Infinity of Lists, an ongoing project in which I curate and create inventive, curious lists. The project began as a newsletter but has gradually expanded into a wider creative practice incorporating site-responsive...
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.
Colourscapes
The Gallery at the Playroom, 99 Junction Rd, London
Exhibition
01/09/2026 to 06/09/2026
My first solo exhibition showing major and minor works from the last 3 years, including cards and small editions.
Dreams & Nightmares | Open Call
02/09/2026 London, United Kingdom
Could dreams and nightmares be the potent driving force behind our creative processes, the mysterious catalysts igniting the flame of artistic inspiration?
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.ย With a reputation for quality shows and innovation, the gallery regualrly hosts approximately 10 themed or solo...
And Then The Artists Moved In
Barnoon Arts, Barnoon ARts, St Ives, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom
Exhibition
23/08/2026 to 26/09/2026
"Then the Artists Moved In" marks Barnoon Arts move to its new home, on the first floor of the former Post Office Building on Tregenna Place in St Ives. The exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists to celebrate this transition and to celebrate the buildingโs layered history.
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 theyโve managed to reduce their carbon footprints.
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'.
Nicole Prior
Nicole is an emerging artist who develops installations that explore behaviour via interaction and media. Her research and practice is led by the influence on the subconscious for social change via external sources such as the media and technology. Lives and works in Manchester, UK.
Beyond Horizons
Stoberry Park Gardens, Stoberry Park, Wells, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
05/09/2026 to 04/10/2026
A new outdoor sculpture show set to become an annual event. Stunning landscaped grounds offer dramatic views of Wells Cathedral and Glastonbury Tor.
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.
The Landscape - Open Call for Exhibition
02/09/2026 Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Call for Artists: โThe Landscape' Exhibition โ September/October 2026. Open Gallery is inviting submissions of original artworks on the theme โThe Landscapeโ for a vibrant exhibition in September/October 2026. This is a fantastic opportunity for UK-based artists to showcase their work at the Open Gallery in Halifax and connect with a new audience.
Bankley Gallery Open Call 2026
03/09/2026 Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Bankleyโs annual Open Call exhibition returns! We are excited to invite submissions for our headline show taking place in October. Bankley Open 2026 โ Call for Submissions
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 โwritingโ as an area of practice.
Harriet Titlow
We support artists to experiment, collaborate and produce bold animation projects. We are a catalyst for connection. We believe that artistsโ animation empowers people to see their world differently.ย The guiding principles that underpin our work are: curiosity, collaboration, support,...
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.
Drawing Club Term 3
Workshop
06/08/2026 to 08/10/2026
The SHARP gallery will be starting term 3 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 or 2.
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.
Richard Simon Kirkby
Currently my practice is built around transition, on curiosity and discovery, I have no fixed media on how to create works with depth, texture, and atmosphere, but it happens. I layer can colour, gesture, and even fragments of text to form pieces that feel alive with energy and meaning, inviting...
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.
40th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality
Circular Artspace - MetArtSpace
Exhibition
17/08/2026 to 08/10/2026
Circular ArtSpace presents the 40th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality, a vibrant celebration of creativity unfolding online from the 17th of August to the 8th of September 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.
Saltaire Inspired Team
Saltaire Inspiredย 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 #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.
Marilyn Kyle
Though rooted in printmaking, my MA in Fine Art (UAL) encouraged me to expand my practice to include installation and assemblage. I use a range of media including traditional (e.g. print, ceramics) and newer technologies (e.g. laser cut) which I combine to stretch possibilities. My work reflects...
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 โplace, people and timeโ and residents will be welcomed to Collemacchia, in Italyโs 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.
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.
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 Italyโs 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.