GO! Artists – Oldham Art Fair
Gallery Oldham, Gallery Oldham, Oldham, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Art fair
17/10/2026
GO! Artists – Oldham Art Fair brings together 19 artists and makers from in and around Oldham for a day celebrating local creativity. Discover and buy original artwork and handmade pieces, meet the artists, and enjoy an art tombola. Saturday 17 October, 10am–4pm at The Creator Space, Gallery Oldham. £1 entry.
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.
Melanie King
Melanie is interested in the relationship between the environment, photography and materiality. Melanie intends to highlight the intimate connection between photographic materials and the natural world. Melanie is currently researching a number of sustainable photographic processes, to minimise...
Autumn Wet Felting Workshop - Yorkshire Landscape
Just Makers Art Gallery, Craven Court, Skipton, United Kingdom
Workshop
17/10/2026
Spend a day with textile artist Katy Small learning the traditional process of wet felting and creating your own wool painting.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #34: Dan Harland
Dan Harland is an artist based in Leeds, UK. Working from memory rather than direct observation, his practice examines memory as a fluid construction that fragments, distorts, and merges with other experiences or even figments of the imagination. Using drawing, painting and material experimentation, his work asks the question: how reliable are the stories people tell themselves about their own lives?
Autumn Wreath - Felting Workshop - Himalayan Gardens
Hilamalyan Gardens, The Hutts, Hutts Lane, Grewelthorpe Ripon, HG4 , United Kingdom
Workshop
18/10/2026
Create your own felted autumn wreath in the beautiful surroundings of the Himalayan Garden with textiles artist Katy Small from Felted Yarns. Autumnal Wreath – Sunday 18th October. 10 am – 1 pm. £50 per person.
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...
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.
Black zine Fair
Brixton library, Brixton Oval,, London
Art fair
16/10/2026
A community gathering for all things zine and Black at Brixton library. Free entry and family friendly. From 12pm - 4:30pm
Autumn Show
18/10/2026 Newton Le Willows, Merseyside, United Kingdom
🍁 AUTUMN SHOW 🍁 Open Call for Artists Be part of the autumn exhibition at Earlestown Arts Club and Gallery. We’re welcoming local artists to exhibit at a vibrant bar in Earlestown, located between Manchester, Liverpool, Warrington and beyond.
Ashley Ferrari
Ashley Ferrari is a Yorkshire-based oil painter specialising in atmospheric semi-abstract landscapes.
Chain Making for Jewellery
The Hive, The Hive, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Workshop
27/10/2026
Chain Making for Jewellery Tuesday 27th October |1:00pm – 3.30pm | £45 Heritage Crafts at the Hive is a new year long programme, featuring a new heritage craft each month. This series of workshops and courses is celebrating Birmingham’s award of World Craft City status by the World Crafts Council in 2025. Each craft will be showcased in a display in the Hive’s Heritage Lounge.
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.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #33: Junshu Gu
Junshu Gu is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and flâneuse, working across painting, sculpture, installation and time-based media. Her current research centres on the absent figure of the female flâneur within historical narratives and contemporary urban discourse. Through walking-based fieldwork, writing, sound and object-making, she explores how women move through, read, and are interrupted by public space.
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.
Art at the Cathedral - Call for Local Submissions
18/10/2026 London, London, United Kingdom
In 2027, Southwark Cathedral will dedicate its Café exhibition programme to the work of local artists, creating a series of exhibitions celebrating the creativity and perspectives of artists connected to our wider community.
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...
30th Community Art Exhibition
Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
01/10/2026 to 24/10/2026
Explore a diverse collection of artworks in our unique double-decker bus gallery, showcasing the talent of artists from Bristol and beyond.
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.
Autumn Workshops - Halloween Craft - York
Made In Yorkshire Halloween Festival, Parliament Street, York, United Kingdom
Workshop
22/10/2026 to 30/10/2026
Felting Workshops - 3 to choose from!! Sunflower & Pumpkins & Autumn Wreath
Emma Bevan-Henderson
I live in the Bannau Brycheiniog, working as an artist, curator and tutor. My family has a log history in artistic and healing practices, and I am very happy to be ableto continue these traditions as an artist and facilitator. My work is influencedby cycles, seasons and stories, as well as the...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #32: Darren Calder
Darren Calder is a contemporary tapestry weaver based in Brighton, UK. His practice brings together questions of identity, history, and language, often through unconventional materials. He sees weaving as a way of thinking as much as making.
Heritage Crafts at the Hive: Rigid Heddle Weaving
The Hive, The Hive, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Workshop
16/10/2026 to 30/10/2026
Our Heritage Craft programme celebrates rigid heddle weaving this month. This is a simple form of hand weaving on a loom. This is a great way in for beginners to have a go at hand weaving cloth. We're offering three sessions which can be booked as stand alone sessions or together as a course. The workshops will be delivered by Jewellery Quarter based Emily Hawkins @mletextiles.co.uk
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.
Editions Open Call: Observations on Ordinary Life
18/10/2026
Art Post Editions is looking for an artist to join our upcoming collection, Observations on Ordinary Life. We’re looking for work that finds something worth noticing in the everyday — the people, places, objects, routines and small moments that might otherwise pass us by. The selected work will be produced as a museum-quality fine art print and sold as part of the collection, with the artist receiving a commission from every sale.
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.
ArtGeminiPrize 2026 - Call For Artists
19/10/2026 London, London, United Kingdom
13th Edition ArtGeminiPrize 2026 x Fresh Art Fair Call For Artists - Painting Photography Sculpture
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...
Holding and Yielding
WestOx Arts Gallery, Bampton, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
04/10/2026 to 31/10/2026
Holding and Yielding Exhibition. An exhibition of collaborative sculpture by Helen Pakeman and Mary Norowzian.
YVAN
YVAN is made up of Visual arts professionals, individual artists and makers, studios, collectives, Higher and Further Education departments and professionals, visual arts organisations and artist networks in Yorkshire. Alongside region-specific advice, opportunities, events and support, they have also gathered regional and general resources to support artists in developing their practice.
Nelson
Nelson (she/her) is a contemporary conceptual artist based in London and currently studying for an MFA at the Royal College of Art.
Were We Are: Place, Persence and Belonging
The Vault Brighton Contemporary Art, 42-43 Kings Road Arches, Brighton
Art fair
01/10/2026 to 31/10/2026
WHERE WE ARE is Wach’Art’s evolving month-long exhibition for Brighton Photo Fringe 2026. Through two distinct curatorial chapters exploring identity, belonging, masculinity and inheritance, the exhibition brings socially engaged photography into dialogue with a living tribute to artist and director Pierre‑Yves Monnerville.
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.
Signature XIII
Guildford House Gallery, 155 High Street, Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom
Exhibition
14/10/2026 to 31/10/2026
Signature XIII brings together work by members of Zero3 Textile Group at Guildford House Gallery. The free exhibition presents a diverse range of contemporary textile-based art, exploring individual ideas through stitch, print, constructed surfaces and other processes.
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'.
Call for Art Submissions – Art Horizons Magazine - Vol 6, Issue 3, 2026
20/10/2026 Houston, United States
Art Horizons Magazine (ISSN: 3068-1103) invites artists, researchers, and writers worldwide to submit original work for Volume 6, Issue 3 (2026). Submissions are free. The call runs from September 9 to October 20, 2026, with selected work published in print and digital editions.
42nd Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality
Circular Artspace - MetArtSpace
Exhibition
12/10/2026 to 03/11/2026
Circular ArtSpace presents the 42nd Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality, a vibrant celebration of creativity unfolding online from the 12th of October to the 3rd of November 2026. This immersive digital showcase brings together a wide range of artistic voices, offering global audiences an engaging and interactive way to experience contemporary art.
Elemental
21/10/2026 Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Dot Gallery are looking for artworks that celebrate the elements for their exhibition 'Elemental'; how you interpret this theme is entirely up to you.
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,...
The body as an archeological site: Abraham babajide cole
The Hive Gallery, 43-47 Vittoria Street, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Exhibition
15/10/2026 to 04/11/2026
An exhibition exploring the body as a vessel for memory, place, identity, and new beginnings.
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.
Wild Lives: Solo Exhibition By Anne Bardsley
Gallery Oldham, Greaves Street, Oldham, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
05/09/2026 to 07/11/2026
Wild Lives is a free solo exhibition by Oldham wildlife artist Anne Bardsley at Gallery Oldham. Through colourful acrylic, oil and mixed media paintings inspired by animals in conservation-focused zoos and wildlife parks, the exhibition celebrates wildlife, personality and conservation.
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.
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 Horton Epsom - Festive Makers Market - December 2026
The Horton Arts Centre, Haven Way, EPSOM, Surrey, United Kingdom
Art fair
04/12/2026 to 05/12/2026
The Horton Marketplace - approximately 40 stallholders selling their handmade items which include jewellery, textiles, ceramics, artwork and much more!
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.
Winter Open Studio event
Cyan Clayworks, 5 Commercial Street, Edinburgh
Exhibition
26/11/2026 to 12/12/2026
I'll be taking part in our studio's open event and exhibition this winter in Edinburgh, as part of the Leith Creative Trail and Fair Saturday.
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.
Sarah Hutt
Sarah completed a degree in textile design and worked as a colourist and print designer for several years before taking up her career in Education. Although not formally trained in the Fine Arts, she uses her knowledge of print and colour to create her own unique style. She travels with her...
The Expressions
The Media Centre, 7 Northumberland Street , Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Exhibition
24/11/2026 to 14/01/2027
An exhibition of the experimental expression paintings of Alice Farrar's work so far.
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.
Florence Peake: Vitalities
HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Manchester
Exhibition
09/10/2026 to 31/01/2027
Titled Vitalities, this exhibition explores loss, grief, absence and what is left behind when a physical and material form has dissolved, been removed or died. Produced collaboratively with studio assistants, professional dancers and queer identifying people in Manchester. Redacted is one of the collaborating artists, led by Florence Peake.