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Misty Athena Stokes
I am a mixed media artist based in Bedfordshire. My recent work has focused on abstract, geometric and surreal patterns and shapes, expressing underlying themes of mental health and disability. I graduated from the University of Bedfordshire with a BA (Hons) in Art and Design in 2010, after...
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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Luminara Florescu
Luminara Florescu is an artist, curator and creative director living in Somerset, UK. Within her practice, she considers themes of wellbeing and self care, including how disabled artists and those with caring responsibilities can sustain a thriving and exciting art practice. Public engagement, collaboration and playfulness are integral to the activity of co-creation within her work.
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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...
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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.
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Lee Whitworth
I grew up in the heart of the textile industry, and spent many childhood days playing amongst the derelict mills that are our heritage. After travelling extensively, I was drawn back by the rugged and remote beauty of the Pennines. My passion is capturing the drama of our landscape, its social...
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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Joanna Penso
Joanna Penso is a multi-disciplinary artist based between London and York, UK working with sound-led experiments in film, performance, radio programmes and sound installations. She has exhibited nationally, including at St Ives September Festival, Aesthetica, Southwark Park Galleries, The Lakeside Centre, and Nunnery Gallery.
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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.
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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...
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LIVERPOOL ARTISTS BOOK FAIR
28/07/2024 Liverpool, Merseyside
Call for Participants: Liverpool Book Art is excited to announce that the next Liverpool Artists' Book Fair will be held at the Bluecoat (Arts Centre) on Saturday 5th October and Sunday 6th October 2024. There will be around 30 tables of artists' work for sale. Entry to the public will be free. Applications are invited from individual book artists; artist collectives & groups; small press publishers; colleges/universities; and specialist trade suppliers.
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The Lie of The Land
The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery,, Haslingden Road,, Rossendale, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
30/05/2024 to 18/08/2024
An exhibition of works by Carolyn Curtis Magri and Deirdre Kelly, wandering pathways, tracing trajectories point to point, exploring isotherms, unfolding narratives with global threads.
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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.
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Neurotype Narratives Exhibition
Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham, Innovation Park, Jubilee Campus, Triumph Road , Nottingham , United Kingdom
Exhibition
02/07/2024 to 23/08/2024
Christine Thomas, a neurodivergent artist, was the recipient of an artist studio residency at BACKLIT, as part of a collaborative project between QUAD, BACKLIT and CANDAL to support a neurodivergent artist to develop her artistic practice.
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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'.
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...
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Celestine Thomas
Celestine Thomas, influenced by her dyslexia, finds solace in the vibrant world of art. Through captivating paintings, she communicates her inner language of colors, surpassing traditional means. Her semi-abstract pieces provide a glimpse into an imaginative realm, reminiscent of a child's...
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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Emily Joy
Emily Joy (UK, 1982) is a socially and environmentally engaged artist making sculpture, installation, and performative work. Emily is also a ceramic sculpture tutor and facilitates public creative projects as half of creative partnership ‘Periscope’. Currently exploring Swiss glacial melt and associated ecological and social impacts, her practice centres around communication, empathy and ecology.
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Creative Business Day 2024 - Paid Opportunity
31/07/2024 6 Old Fox Yard, Stowmarket IP14 1AB, Suffolk
CREATIVE BUSINESS DAY 2024: An open day where people of all ages can come and learn about what it’s like to run a creative business, with guest speakers and interactive activities.
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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...
ENIZMAG VISUAL ARTS OPEN CALL
31/07/2024
Are you an artist looking to showcase your unique visual creations? We invite you to submit your work to our upcoming zine, a publication dedicated to celebrating undiscovered and underrepresented artists from all walks of life. It is a zine for artists by artists.
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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.
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diane harding
I work in glass and painting. My glasswork covers all forms of kiln fired glass, fused, cast, slumped and any other that can be fired in my kiln. With my paintings I have moved through all mediums, and now work mainly in oil and cold wax medium. My inspiration comes from nature, with...
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CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Jacqui Barrowcliffe
Jacqui Barrowcliffe lives and works in North Yorkshire where her practice focuses on exploring human connections to nature and evolving environmental threats. She works across disciplines but is particularly drawn to photography and installation, often responding to a specific space or context through temporary interventions.
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PLY-SPLIT BRAIDING - THE BASICS - WORKSHOP
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
13/09/2024 to 14/09/2024
This two-day workshop is an introduction to ply-splitting, and gives a good grounding in the key ‘stitches’ or ‘weaves’ that are used. We start simply and build gradually, making braids, small mats and projects – these are things to refer back to in the future should you wish to take things further.
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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.
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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...
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Natural Ink Making Workshop: Glasgow
WASPS SOUTH BLOCK, 60-64 Osborne St, , Glasgow
Workshop
14/09/2024
Join me for a half-day workshop learning simple processes for making non-toxic inks and paints for creative projects with plants! We will be working with locally sourced organic materials including garden plants, ethically foraged wild plants & food waste.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #22: Rebecca Korn
Rebecca Korn's interdisciplinary practice stems from a fascination with the intersections between art and science. Her recent interests explore the posthuman body, investigating ideas around symbiosis, sympoiesis and speculative futures, re/imagining how bodies may adapt/evolve through learning from and with non-human counterparts.
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Susan Wright
An experimental printmaker using etching and other print making techniques. The work is concerned with the temporal transformation of discarded and forgotten objects into new printed images which emulate the landscape, becoming imaginary map like places. A new 2 or 3 dimensional narrative...
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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.
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Natural Ink Making workshop: Inverness
WASPS Inverness Creative Academy,, Midmills Building, Stephens Street, Inverness
Workshop
15/09/2024
Join me for a half-day workshop learning simple processes for making non-toxic inks and paints for creative projects with plants! We will be working with locally sourced organic materials including garden plants, ethically foraged wild plants & food waste.