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.
Lazutkina
About Art in Life: * Passion is photo & polaroids * Creator and producer of art objects * Prefer to combine contemporary art and books/literature to find new ways to show, how cool is reading * Try to show beauty of feminism * Creator of special exhibitions
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.
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.
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.
Kit Brown
London based artist, b. 1989, Southport. Graduated from the University of Central Lancashire, 2012, awarded a first class BA (Hons) Fine Art.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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
Toria Collins
‘Taking inspiration from the ancient woodlands and limestone crags around her home, Toria's work aims to capture the natural, gentle rhythms and harmonies found in the Welsh landscape.’
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.
NTKO Art Gallery Spring Affordable Art Exhibition 2023
31/03/2023 Louth, Lincolnshire
Call for artists for the NTKO Gallery two-week Spring Affordable Art exhibition. Show your work, for pieces valued £250 or under. 17th April - 1st May 2023.
Horsforth Walk of Art 2023
31/03/2023 Horsforth, Leeds, West Yorkshire
The Walk of ART 2022 – 1st and 2nd July 2023 - is a free, community-led, family friendly, creative festival that engages the entire community in a fun filled celebration of the arts! We aim to showcase creativity in everyday and unusual spaces. We promote and showcase local and almost local artists, inspire the community and make creativity, in all its forms, accessible and engaging. The event is shaped by the participants so if you have an idea please submit a proposal!
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'.
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...
Northern Digital Storytelling Festival 2023
online
Festival
20/03/2023 to 31/03/2023
We are excited to announce the upcoming Northern Digital Storytelling Festival (NDSF), a free online collaborative event that celebrates advancements in digital storytelling, taking place between March 20th and March 31st. Come join us at the synapse between art and technology and be inspired!
Rhiannon Adam
I was born in Co. Cork, Ireland, and now reside in London. I was educated at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London), and at the University of Cambridge (where I studied English). My work sits predominantly within the social documentary remit, and my practice involves both...
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.
Artist Rates of Pay
Artist Union England
A guide to help artists and their employers in England to determine fair pay for artists' labour.
Open call- Artist Interview
31/03/2023 Lisbon
Insights of an Eco Artist is an international art publication that features selected artists and writers from around the globe with a high focus on contemporary art and those tackling issues of social and ecological justice.
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...
[OPEN CALL] AMAZÓNICA Artists-in-Residence
31/03/2023 Iquitos
Production and research residency program in the Amazon Rainforest, Peru 2023. The residency program Amazonica welcomes national and international visual artists, multidisciplinary & interdisciplinary artists, curators, and other disciplines, for four weeks to develop projects related to the Peruvian Amazon, The community and city of Iquitos, Native cultures and tribes (such as but not limited to Kukama Kukamiria, Bora, Shipibo Conibo, Huitoto, etc), Equity and liberation.
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.
Gathering
Ballroom Arts, 152A High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Exhibition
29/03/2023 to 04/04/2023
Pop up shop
Greg Kent
I am a teacher of Geography and until a few years ago I never thought I had a creative bone in my body. I then discovered wood turning and the joy of shaping wood as if it was clay. I have rapidly moved away from traditional wood turning and like to use a variety of non-traditional wood and...
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.
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.
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 #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.
Laura Mabbutt
Laura is an applied artist, curator and creative project manager as well as Artist Associate for Mansion of the Future, Lincoln.
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.
The Hope Exhibition
Ballroom Arts, 152a High Street , Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Exhibition
05/04/2023 to 11/04/2023
Jane is a mixed media artist with a special interest in the medium of collage, which conjures an image of her journey through life – a mosaic of experiences that have challenged and shaped who she is today.