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.
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...
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.
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.
Scarborough Market Vaults : Emerging Contemporaries Exhibition
24/07/2026 Scarborough, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
SCAF is supporting the production of an exhibition in the Scarborough Market Hall Vaults, managed and curated by Amelia Pethullis. As a recent Fine Art graduate and freelancer with the Scott Creative Arts Foundation, Amelia is beginning to initiate local creative connections in response to her interest in Yorkshire’s thriving creative sector. This exhibition will focus on experimental approaches to practice, and offering Yorkshire based artists the opportunity to showcase works they feel represent their ongoing artistic practices.
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.
Lilium Blake Wilkinson-O'Dwyer
My work anchors me to reality, a lens of visual translation that enables me to attempt to understand human thought and behaviour at a deeper level. The unreality of day to day existence is relentless, a maze of whirring dualities and circus mirrors, through paint I tune in to the collective...
LION OF JUDAH: ROOTS, FAITH AND AFRICAN LEGACY
LEEDS MEDIA CENTRE, 21 Savile Mount, LEEDS
Workshop
25/07/2026
Join artist Marcia Brown for a 1.5-hour acrylic painting workshop celebrating Haile Selassie I’s birthday. Create a vibrant Lion of Judah-inspired artwork exploring Rastafari art and African symbolism. Light refreshments included. Limited to 10 spaces.
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.
Suspended - Last Few Places Added
24/07/2026 Paris, France
This is a second round of applications for the exhibition. A limited number of places have become available, and we are therefore reopening the call for additional submissions. Following the exhibitions Scentless Depths (2025) and The Body as a Threshold (2025–2026), Suspended marks the third chapter of an ongoing curatorial research exploring states of perception and being — moving from the invisible, to the embodied, and now into the state of suspension.
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...
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.
take to the greenwood
24/07/2026 Liverpool, United Kingdom
take to the greenwood - to escape into the forest. As stated in the 20th Century novel Maurice by E.M Forster, ‘such...can vanish’ into the woodlands. Those such, the LGBTQIA+ community, can escape from the world with its prejudices, judgements and threat; a retreat to nature for ecological, political and romantic stances. Forster also created the woodland Piney Copse, a safe space for him, his friends and lovers. Furthermore, literature like A Shropshire Lad, the tale of Robin Hood as well as texts about the Arcadian utopias of Ancient Greece and Rome, queer the pastoral.
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.
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.
Yan Cheng
Cheng Yan is a UK-based artist and photographer whose work draws on nature, wildlife, and landscape. Influenced by traditional eastern painting and contemporary practice, he works across painting, photography, and printmaking, creating refined, expressive works that explore harmony, detail, and...
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.
York Open Studios Call For Artists 2027
25/07/2026 York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
York Open Studios is York's longest running arts festival, and we will be holding our next event across the weekends of 17-18 and 24-25 April 2027.
Oaks Park Cafe Art Exhibition
Oaks Park Cafe, Oaks Park, Banstead, United Kingdom
Exhibition
25/07/2026 to 26/07/2026
Discover original artwork by members of the Carshalton & Wallington Art Group at Oaks Park Café. Browse paintings, prints and handmade gifts while enjoying coffee in the beautiful surroundings of Oaks Park. Free entry.
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...
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.
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.
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'.
Rachel Olin
Rachel Olin is an Artist and Maker based in Lincoln. Specialising in textile and installation work, Rachel is particularly interested in artwork that involves the viewer, creating an immersive experience. Born in 1988, Rachel has dedicated her life, education and work to the Arts. She studied at...
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.
27th Community Art Exhibition
Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
09/07/2026 to 01/08/2026
Explore a diverse collection of artworks in our unique double-decker bus gallery, showcasing the talent of artists from Bristol and beyond.
York Open Studios Call for Bursary Artists 2027
25/07/2026 York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
York Open Studios is York's longest running arts festival, and we will be holding our next event across the weekends of 17-18 and 24-25 April 2027.
Equinox - Virtual Exhibition with BobCat Gallery
26/07/2026
The next exhibition in the BobCat Gallery virtual space will be an open call celebrating the best of the new season - fresh, inspiring original works and handmade limited editions that bring to life the spirit of the equinox; the perfect balance of night and day. The exhibition will feature regular BobCat Gallery artists as well as other international artists working in a diverse range of media and styles.
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,...
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 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 they’ve managed to reduce their carbon footprints.
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.
Lauren Whyte
About me I graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in 2002 with a degree in Sculpture. I have been a Youth Worker for over 30 years. I love lino print for its sculptural aspects including carving to mark make and making impressions. Print making is relief making. My practice is playful,...
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.
Mark Lomax
Contemporary Artist based in Scottish Highlands. Specialising in wooden and metal quilts.
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 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.