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.
Tim Stubbs Hughes
Tim is drawn to memory, to its recollection and the private and the intimate clashes of consciousness. He focuses on how work or an installation can present a multitude of meanings and resonances for the viewer.
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...
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.
Art Lab October 2026
Everybody Gallery, Shaw Lane, Halifax
Talk
10/10/2026
Presenting: Alicja Mrozowska and Paul Miller
MY RED BALLOON | EXHIBITION 2026 | Open Call for Artists
10/10/2026 London, London, United Kingdom
Open Call Now Live | In association with Experimental Art Rising (EAR), Garfield Of London invites artists and creative practitioners to apply for 'MY RED BALLOON' Exhibition 2026. Your work should feature a red balloon or an interpretation thereof, and respond to one of the meanings for MY RED BALLOON
ThAbluecat
I am Tha Blue Cat, an autistic artist. I paint and sculpt the Blue Cat as a symbol of perception and otherness. My work explores neurodivergent identity, isolation, and the fracture of communication, using layered signs, broken words, and backlit materials. I create pictorial and sculptural...
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
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.
West Art Collective presents: Flesh at Antwerp Mansion
Antwerp house, Manchester , Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Exhibition
10/10/2026
A halloween themed art event in a haunted mansion! A sculpture by Redacted will be on display.
Signs of Use
11/10/2026 London, United Kingdom
CISTA ARTS invites artists to submit work for Signs of Use, an international online group exhibition exploring the marks left by touch, labour, repetition, habitation and time.
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...
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.
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.
Poison Garden - Healing or Deadly
Artizan Collective, 74 Fleet Street, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom
Exhibition
12/09/2026 to 11/10/2026
A captivating visual journey through the fine line between natural remedy and fatal drop.
Sam Haynes
Sam Haynes started her practice over twenty five years ago creating site specific public art installations, engaging local communities. Her creative process is still all about making connections, incorporating found objects and materials, using low tech methods of construction to create...
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.
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.
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.
OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS
12/10/2026 Geneva, Switzerland
OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS “LOVE AFFAIR” Year-end collective exhibition · 2026 THE CONCEPT Every love is a story worth telling… Love Affair is a year-end collective exhibition built around a simple, universal idea “Love”. We are looking for works that respond to the theme LOVE AFFAIR in a personal, original and visually engaging way. Selection will consider artistic quality, originality, relevance to the theme and the dialogue each work can create with the other works in the exhibition. Both emerging and established artists are welcome. Extensive exhibition history is not required.
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.
Ryedale open studios 2026
12/10/2026 Ryedale, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Ryedale Open Studios is beginning their application process to take part once again! Ryedale Open Studios will return for it's 6th year in 2026! Dedicated to celebrating the creativity and artistic talent of the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, the event celebrates and showcases the abundant arts and crafts taking place throughout the region.
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...
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
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.
Cezar Nicula
I am a UK-based sculptor exploring transformation, identity, and social narratives through form and material. Rooted in craftsmanship, my practice bridges traditional making with contemporary conceptual sculpture. I work with wood, marble, steel, concrete, copper, and reclaimed materials such as...
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
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.
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.
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 Artists - 31st Community Art Exhibition
13/10/2026 Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibit your artwork at Circular ArtSpace – East Bristol's vibrant gallery supporting emerging and under-represented artists
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.
Gilbert Bayes Award for early career sculptors 2027
13/10/2026 South Kensington, London, United Kingdom
The Gilbert Bayes Award for early career sculptors is given annually by the Society to a small group of outstandingly talented sculptors. Selected by the sculptor members of the Society’s Board and a guest judge, the award provides vital support during what can be a difficult transition from study to professional practice. The award is open to sculptors of any age or nationality, with or without formal training and working in any style of media.
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,...
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.
alan birch
I am an artist predominantly working in print. I have recently been working on a series of Later-Day Saints inspired by medieval medical saints found in The Welcome Collection. I have been involved in many public art projects and am a keen educator. I run print workshops in my studio and at ...
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Zippy
Zippy is a queer Irish visual artist working within the public realm ot create site-specific murals, sculptures and textile art. Renowned for her striking large-scale murals, crisp graphic designs, and playful use of colour, Zippy's work aims to interweave with public spaces, serving as a vessel...
The place we become art exhibition
Carlton Club, 1JA, 279 Bury Old Rd, Prestwich, , Manchester , Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Exhibition
16/10/2026 to 25/11/2026
Redacted works will be on display, taking place in Manchester, with works remaining on display from 15th October to 25th November with the launch night taking place on on 16th October 2026. Work that explores our shifting relationships with place - the ways places hold memory, shape belonging, invite desire, and carry traces of where we have come from. The exhibition will also be a fundraiser.
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 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!