Intro to Ecological Film Making Workshop
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
16/08/2025
This workshop offers an easy and experimental introduction for anyone interested in making moving-images responding to the natural world. The workshop provides an overview to non-fiction filmmaking (AKA creative documentaries), enthusing participants with the techniques to play with creative approaches towards documentation in their own lives.
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.
Simone Williams
MA Fine Artist based in North Wales Specialising in Sculpture, installation and digital art. Dealing with environmental and ecological themes
Couched/Laid Bayeux Stitch Workshop
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
24/05/2025
Often known as Bayeux stitch, laid and couched work was used all over Europe throughout the middle ages, often for very large pieces of embroidery/ Learn this fun easy technique using naturally dyed wool.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #26: Alice Sheppard Fidler
Alice Sheppard Fidler received the Gilbert Bayes Award from the Royal Society of Sculptors, the CAS Emerging Sculptor Development Award in 2023/4, and is an Associate at Spike Island, Bristol. She is a founding member of Studio Voltaire Gallery and Arts Charity and runs the artist-led initiative The Hide Artist Retreat. Before completing her MA in Fine Art at the University of the West of England in 2020, she worked in design for television, film, and fashion.
Japanese Papercut Workshop
The Quaker tapestry Museum, The Quaker Tapestry Museum, KENDAL, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Workshop
06/09/2025
In this mindful and session, professional artist Pui Lee will help you to create your own unique design to be cut into paper to create a wonderful artwork to take home with you
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...
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.
A SENSE OF PLACE
The Chapel, Church Street, Loose, Kent, United Kingdom
Art fair
07/05/2025 to 14/05/2025
A Sense of Place is an art and photographic exhibition which uses the title as a theme to allow the artists a wide interpretation, allowing a diversity of ideas but with a mutual interest in the village and valley. This Art Exhibition is funded, organised and curated by the artists involved.
27th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality
12/05/2025
Open Call for Artists! Be part of the 27th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality—an immersive and accessible showcase curated by Circular ArtSpace, a not-for-profit gallery based in Bristol. Open to artists worldwide, this exhibition offers a unique opportunity to exhibit in the Metaverse and connect directly with a global audience.
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...
Emerging Contemporaries
Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
10/05/2025 to 16/05/2025
Artizan Collective is pleased to host Emerging Contemporaries, an ambitious showcase from FdA Contemporary Arts Practice students at University Centre South Devon.
Emma Roberts
I am a UK-based artist working in the South West. I make both large and small works, predominantly oil paintings on linen, but I also create small three dimensional pieces that consider the impact of scale and perception. Some of these become part of older objects, others are created new.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #26: Helen Thompson
Helen Thompson's art practice focuses on the body, movement, and embodied experience, with a strong emphasis on mark-making and line. She works intuitively to create drawings, paintings, and mixed media pieces that explore and express these themes drawing upon personal experiences.
Carshalton & Wallington Art Group Spring Exhibition 2025
United Reform Church, Stanley Park Road, Wallington , London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
15/05/2025 to 17/05/2025
A vibrant community art exhibition in Wallington, showcasing original artwork by local artists. Free entry, charity raffle, refreshments, and public vote.
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.
Creativity and Wellbeing Week Reading Group
Online
Workshop
20/05/2025
This year's theme for Creativity and Wellbeing week is 'New Horizons' exploring curiosity and listening. The reading group will explore the theme of 'Sand'.
SHINE 2025 Emerging Artist Programme Open Call
12/05/2025
Calling all UK-based emerging artists with new light artwork ideas. Light Up The North are commissioning £18,000 for up to two artists/collectives for our 2025 programme. Exhibit your work at 4-5 incredible light festivals including: Lightpool Blackpool, Light Night Leeds, BD is LiT (Bradford), Barnsley Bright Nights, Light Up Wakefield, Nightfall Middlesbrough, Lightwaves Salford, Illuminate Oldham and Colliderfest (Hull).
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.
Drawing in Provence
Maison Sylvette, Place Du Patiol, Camaret sur Aigues, France
Workshop
19/05/2025 to 25/05/2025
Maison Sylvette is the home of Sylvette David, who is Picasso's last surviving muse. Isabel is her daughter and as a practising sculptor herself enjoys using their family French home to share her extensive knowledge of drawing and carving. The house is old and a beautiful artistic venue, full of inspiring cameos. This is a truely authentic experience.
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...
Artist Residency: Friendship at Oakwell Hall
12/05/2025 Birstall, West Yorkshire, West Yorkshire
Artists from W. Yorkshire are invited to apply for a six-week residency (2 x days a week) at Oakwell Hall, as part of a new ‘Friendship Programme’ in partnership with the Brontë Parsonage and ‘Friends of’ organisations. The residency focuses on exploring the theme of "friendship" particularly through the relationships of Charlotte Brontë and her close friends Ellen Nussey, Mary Taylor, and Margaret Wooler, whose bonds influenced their creativity and intellectual exchange.
Into the Wildwood
Mill Bridge Gallery, 3, Mill Bridge, Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
11/04/2025 to 25/05/2025
This is a themed exhibition staged by the six resident artists at Mill Bridge Gallery. The exhibition will include paintings, ceramics, sculptures and wood turnings.
Laura Andrews
I have painted since I was ten years old, throughout my career in fashion design and later interior design. I use everyday scenes as well as those from travelling, and am inspired by nature and the seasons, with the variation in moods and colours they bring. I started painting in oils and in the...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #26: Sam Ivin
Sam Ivin is a photographic artist who explores social issues and the people connected with them. By documenting their stories and perspectives he hopes to provide a more personal, tangible understanding of them. His process often involves hosting photography workshops, where he creates collaborative artwork with project participants.
26th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality
Circular Artspace - MetArtSpace
Exhibition
23/04/2025 to 25/05/2025
Circular ArtSpace is delighted to announce the 26th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality, an immersive digital showcase running from 23 April to 25 May 2025. This innovative exhibition brings together a diverse group of talented artists, allowing audiences worldwide to engage with contemporary art in a unique and interactive way.
LGBTQ+ Featured Artists @ Fair Trader
15/05/2025 Holmfirth, West Yorkshire
We are looking for artists from the LGBTQ+ community to be part of a small group exhibition in Holmfirth
Far Horizons
Artizan Printmaking & Sculpture Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
19/04/2025 to 31/05/2025
Artizan welcomes artist Ian Brooks as we continue with our series of solo shows at our dedicated printmaking and sculpture gallery on Lucius Street.
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'.
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...
The Old Workshop at Delamore Arts 2025
The Old Workshop, Delamore Estate, Cornwood, Ivybridge
Workshop
01/05/2025 to 31/05/2025
Delamore Arts 2025 introduces its first-ever workshop programme, an exciting new addition hosted in The Land Rover Shed and curated by Artizan Collective.
Funding library
The White Pube
This library is a resource of successful funding applications that you can learn from to write your own bids. It also includes links to other resources such as application templates and crib sheets.
CALL FOR ARTISTS: Art Now Fair, Unit 0/8 Copeland Park, Peckham, London, 23 - 26 May 2025
16/05/2025 Peckham, London
Take part in our 21st London event!
The Horton, Epsom - May Marketplace
The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Art fair
31/05/2025
The Horton Marketplace - approximately 40 stallholders selling their handmade items which include jewellery, textiles, ceramics, artwork and much more!
Adeline Timis
Adeline Timis is a Visual Artist and Shaman. Following a feminist path, she is using her own experiences with the world to show social, mental and physical states of the spirit portrayed in her artworks. While the physical body is silenced, censored, tortured, destroyed in a hypocrite 21st...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #26: Milly Aburrow
Through a playful colour palette and a comical stylisation, Milly Aburrow's work characterises the parameters of commercialisation, consumerist society, and particularly contemporary food culture. She was a recipient of the Kenneth Armitage Young Sculpture Prize 2023 and exhibits in galleries across the UK.
History of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Online
Workshop
27/04/2025 to 01/06/2025
Exploring the Art of MENA: Led by a renowned art historian, critic, and Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS, University of London, this online course examines modern and contemporary art from the Middle East and North Africa. Covering key movements since the 1930s, it explores global influences, curatorial trends, and the role of diaspora across diverse media, from painting to performance.
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...
15th Community Art Exhibition
Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
10/05/2025 to 01/06/2025
Explore a diverse collection of artworks in our unique double-decker bus gallery, showcasing the talent of artists from Bristol and beyond. A true celebration of creativity!
Walkley Edge Artists in Sheffield Open Call
17/05/2025 Sheffield, South Yorkshire
This opportunity is only open to members of the Walkley Edge Artists art group in Sheffield. Members can submit work for a group exhibition.
Artist Rates of Pay
Artist Union England
A guide to help artists and their employers in England to determine fair pay for artists' labour.
Start With One
The Mill Gallery, Unit 5 Cardinal House, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
16/05/2025 to 06/06/2025
An Exhibition for First-Time Collectors – All Artworks Priced at £100
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.
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...
PYRAMIDION
T&T GALLERY, lower ground floor , Millfield House, Thongsbridge, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
29/03/2025 to 07/06/2025
PYRAMIDION is the art work of POP ARTIST TeeBee.
BOXXHEAD
Half painter, half print maker and two thirds street artist, BOXXHEAD is a mixed media abstract artist whose work can be found at exhibitions and galleries across the UK.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #23: Gil Mualem-Doron
Gil Mualem-Doron is a transdisciplinary artist working across photography, film, large-scale installation, and textile art. His work focuses on decolonial practices, intersectional identities, everyday urbanism, and social and climate justice. While his practice is research-based and socially engaged, it is deeply influenced by his lived experiences as a neurodiverse, queer, Jewish migrant, and is firmly rooted in activism.
Spring Sculpture Exhibition
Artizan Gallery, 7 Lucius Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
05/04/2025 to 21/06/2025
The Artizan Sculpture Season offers a refined exploration of contemporary sculpture, presenting a series of quarterly exhibitions that showcase the diverse practices within 3D art.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #25: Matilda Moors
Matilda Moors an artist and academic working with sculpture, writing, print and installation. She deploys languages associated with youth culture to create pieces with a skewed-cartoonesque-cuteness. Her practice and research focus on the tension between cuteness and violence as a way to probe the contradictions in contemporary consumer culture.
The Hide Installation and Sculpture Showcase 2025
The Hide Artist Retreat, Pinfarthings, Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
14/06/2025 to 22/06/2025
The Hide Installation and Sculpture Showcase (THISS) presents artworks by artists from London, the South West and local young people in gardens on the edge of Minchinhampton Common, Stroud. This free exhibition is part of Stroud’s annual Site Festival, showcasing unique contemporary sculpture in a stunning rural location.
Helen Scalway
I trained as a sculptor at Kingston University and Chelsea College of Art, U.A.L. I have taught drawing at the City Lit, at Camberwell College of Art and the University of Hertfordshire and have held residencies at the Drawing Centre at Wimbledon Art College, the Geography Departments of...
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.
GLOUCESTERSHIRE SOCIETY OF ARTISTS - ART EXHIBITION
LOWER SLAUGHTER VILLAGE HALL, LOWER SLAUGHTER, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
18/06/2025 to 24/06/2025
Art Exhibition held by the Gloucestershire Society of Artists at Lower Slaughter Village Hall near Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire known as the 'Venice of the Cotswolds'.