A stitching workshop - October 2023
Bonsall Village Hall, The Dale, Matlock, Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
14/10/2023
An opportunity to attend a workshop of stitch - you will put together a design incorporating a bird. You will be tutored in selecting your colour themes and design in the first part of the workshop. We will work together to layer the fabric to produce a textural substrate. You will be assisted with stitches and stitching according to your level of expertise.
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.
Victoria Suvoroff
As an artist and a researcher Victoria Suvoroff is interested in issues of gender, sexuality and the transgression within as well as in investigation of different approaches to non-western cultures from the western perspective.
Revolve:R, edition four / Artwork Gifting
Revolve:R, edition four began in summer 2021 and our bookwork is set to be published by the close of 2023. As edition four kicked off partly with an open-call on CuratorSpace we thought to link back here with an opportunity / offer to coincide with the edition four launch.
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...
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.
ARTISTS RESPONDING TO... QUARTERLY MAGAZINE - Contemporary art, culture and activism.
25/09/2023 London
ARTISTS RESPONDING TO ...'s magazine is a digital and printed publication which uses creative depictions or literature to highlight current world issues, news and movements that aren't getting the attention that they deserve. A political and environmental platform to help ignite conversations and spread awareness through visual and written poetic responses.
Catherine Orr
Catherine has a first class degree in Photography from the University of Westminster. Disillusioned with Photoshop and filters, she began to work with the cyanotype photogram. An historic process, using iron salts, light and water, the cyanotype is an environmentally friendly printing method. ...
CGS Discovery Day at V&A Museum London
V&A, Cromwell Road, London
Symposium
08/12/2023
Listen to 5 eminent makers describe their journeys and work, explore this amazing gallery, network and more.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #20: Arlo Lawton
Arlo Lawton is a 25-year-old freelance artist and photographer from the North West, now based in Norfolk, England. The basis of their photographic work often lies within LGBTQ+ awareness and environmental activism. Their digital artwork predominantly revolves around transmasculine identities and life experiences.
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.
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...
Potpourri: Open Call for Collectives
25/09/2023 online
We are creating an online publication that will explore the diversity of collective art practices across the globe and you are invited to submit a page.
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.
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...
Megan Amber Gault
Hey! I'm Meg. I am a positive, enthusiastic person with a passion for all things creative. My main art form is drama, which I use for a variety of outcomes, with the main objective being gaining confidence. My first class drama degree focused on drama for confidence in children and young people,...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #20: Ali Pickard
Ali Pickard, otherwise known as The Yaffingale, is interested in which stories are told, and who tells them. Trained in metal art as part of a Women's Welding collective, she creates 3D, kinetic artworks, mixing wood and metal with fabric and embroidery.
In Memory Of
The House of Smalls, Cambrook Court, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
30/08/2023 to 30/09/2023
In Memory Of is The House of Smalls Chipping Campden Gallery's fifth show.
UN Climate Change Book
27/09/2023 Expo City Dubai
We welcome submissions from various forms of visual art, including painting, photography, sculpture, and more. We are eager to see submissions that showcase your artistic voice and vision. Being featured in CUP28 will not only give you the opportunity to have your work published, but it will also enable you to connect with a wider community of fellow young artists, art enthusiasts, and potential mentors. This is an excellent chance to gain recognition for your talent and inspire others with your creative abilities. Please Note that participation requires an adult parent, guardian or relative to sign up for you. CuratorSpace requires members must be at least 18 years of age. Thank you
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'.
Open Call for Art Under The Theme 'Dazzling Demons'
28/09/2023 Leicestershire
We are looking for art that falls under the theme 'Dazzling Demons' for our online exhibition @phantasmalgallery
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...
Peter Symonds
Born in Australia, 1961. Principally Oil on Canvas but intrinsically interested in "materiality"
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #20: Alan Gignoux
Alan Gignoux is an award-winning documentary photographer and founder of Gignoux Photos, which produces documentary photography and film projects focusing on socio-political and environmental issues around the world.
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.
(Un)Balanced
Robert Phillips Gallery, Manor Road, Walton on Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom
Exhibition
27/09/2023 to 15/10/2023
(Un)Balanced: A Captivating Textile Art Exhibition by Phoenix Contemporary Textiles at the Robert Phillips Gallery in Walton on Thames KT12 2PF
EMERGE @ The Undercroft *Norfolk / Suffolk artists*
30/09/2023 Norwich
Emerge at The Undercroft is a new art show which aims to highlight the brightest contemporary art talent in and around Norfolk. It is organised by working artists, to bring together those who are on their way up in an accessible and fun display in the heart of Norwich.
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...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #21
30/09/2023
CuratorSpace have adapted their artist bursary scheme to support artists in maintaining their art practice. Six bursaries of £250 will be awarded.
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.
Alison Whitmore
I am a Nottinghamshire artist working with lost, discarded and found materials to create assemblage sculpture, vignettes, curiosity boxes and mini installation pieces. My current work explores the human experience, the multitude of detritus we leave behind, our impact on the environment and...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #20: Kofi Perry
Kofi Perry (1998) is an American figurative artist based in London. Using historical methods, he paints and draws characters set in a Afrofuturist world he has created. Critical to his practice is the technique of figurative invention, or working without the use of live models.
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.
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...
Ilkley Arts Open Exhibition 2023
Ilkley Manor House, Castle Yard, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
16/09/2023 to 15/10/2023
TAKE TIME: Ilkley Arts Open Exhibition 2023. Presenting outstanding work by artists from across the UK. Hosted by Ilkley Manor House.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #20: Yang-En Hume
Yang-En Hume is an Australian artist with Singaporean heritage. Hume grew up in Sydney, Australia and acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora nation as the traditional owners of that land. She pays her respects to their Elders past and present and extends that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
Sally
Sally Barton is a multidisciplinary artist, graduating from Chelsea College of Arts in 2021, her practice explores her relationship to her hometown of Sheffield, stories of industrial history and masculinity. Barton aims to reimagine the aesthetics of the North of England through...
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.
Expressions of Nature Sculpture Exhibition at Sussex Prairie Garden in West Sussex
Sussex Prairies (Sussex Prairie Garden), Dutch Barn Morlands Farm, Wheatsheaf Road, Henfield, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Exhibition
01/06/2023 to 15/10/2023
The Sussex Prairies is approx. 8 acres planted in the naturalistic style using 60,000 plants and over 1,600 different varieties. It is a colourful garden with views of the South Downs. The sculpture exhibition is being curated by Gabrielle Argent of The Glass Garden. The collection of sculptures will feature many styles and materials.