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.
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.
While We’re Watching
No.6 Bruton, 6 High Street , Bruton, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
27/03/2026 to 06/04/2026
Multi-disciplinary exhibition by six artists who invigilate at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. The show connects their shared sense of observation and dialogue, through which stories and work emerge, some created during interludes between shows.
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...
Wilmslow Art
06/04/2026 Wilmslow, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Wilmslow Art Under One Roof is a prestigious annual art showcase, located in Cheshire's 'Golden Triangle'. The show features a carefully curated selection of artists, makers, ceramacists and jewellers who are located in the North West of England.
Fun, Family & Group Friendly Felting Workshops
Bardsey Arts Studio, 42a Church Lane, Bardsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Workshop
14/02/2026 to 25/04/2026
Workshop Menu You can choose the workshop you would like. On any of the dates; you can choose from the following Menu: * Wet Felt a Picture of your choice * Wet felt your own bag * Wet felt your own bowl * Nuno felt Cowl onto silk In each session you will learn from your tutor Katy, the processes of agitation; fulling and finishing your felted Picture / Bowl / Bag or Cowl. Refreshments
How to Crowdfund Your Project
With traditional funding routes increasingly constrained, filmmaker Dan Edelstyn shares a practical perspective on building ambitious projects outside conventional systems. Drawing on firsthand experience of taking independently crowdfunded films from idea to international platforms and nationwide screenings, he outlines why developing a direct relationship with your audience may be one of the most viable routes for artists working today.
24th Community Art Exhibition
Circular ArtSpace Gallery, 780 Fishponds Road, yard behind The Crafty Egg Café, Bristol, Somerset, United Kingdom
Exhibition
02/04/2026 to 25/04/2026
Explore a diverse collection of artworks in our unique double-decker bus gallery, showcasing the talent of artists from Bristol and beyond.
Animate Projects
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,...
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.
Beyond Horizons - Stoberry Park Garden Sculpture Exhibition
07/04/2026 Wells, Somerset, BA5 3LD,, Somerset, United Kingdom
We are delighted to invite submissions for Beyond Horizons, a new outdoor sculpture exhibition set within the unique and atmospheric landscape of Stoberry Park Garden in Somerset, with breathtaking views overlooking the City of Wells, its cathedral, Glastonbury Tor and the Vale of Avalon. We are seeking high-quality contemporary sculpture and installation that responds thoughtfully to a garden setting, engaging with nature, space and light.
ENCAUSTIC HIVE UK ‘The Art of Place’
Exhibition
30/09/2025 to 28/04/2026
UK Encaustic wax artists Julie Wrathall and Lyn Kirkland have set up an online project group called ENCAUSTIC HIVE UK. The purpose is to foster a stronger connection amongst UK encaustic artists. To encourage creative exploration, in a supportive space. A series of informal zoom calls to make connections, culminating in an online exhibition of UK encaustic titled ‘The Art of Place’.
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.
Ian Kemp Artist Photographer
As a multimedia artist focussed on photography, Ian works from his studio on the Essex/Suffolk/Cambridgeshire border. Producing innovative photographic, canvas and 3D forms in series, often with moral, social or ethical themes, Ian seeks to expand his practice with each new project. Having been...
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #29
The CuratorSpace Artist Bursary is a quarterly award to support contemporary artists to develop their practice. The artists selected for CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #29 are Henry Cottam, Ngo Chun Tse, Tom Fairlamb, and Maija Liepins. Their projects span photography, video installation, sculpture, and drawing.
SCARS OF GOLD II - PRESENTED BY MORTAL AND STRONG
08/04/2026 London, United Kingdom
Artist Open Call now open inviting artists to apply for the infamous Scars Of Gold II campaign. A major campaign bringing together the power of art for the purpose of health awareness, produced by the charity Mortal And Strong. Putting a spotlight on inequalities in health using art in a major campaign.
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...
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.
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'.
Group Residency Programme, Orkney: Air, Sea and Soil: MICRO-MACRO
The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Palace Village, Birsay, Orkney, United Kingdom
Workshop
20/06/2026 to 27/06/2026
Welcome to all creative practitioners and researchers interested in making, thinking and being in experimental ways. This Group Residency will take you out and about in Orkney, introduce you to the impact of climate crisis, to vast skies and the archipelago that has long been shaped by the sea.
Aindreas Scholz
I am a London-based artist working with analogue and cameraless processes. My practice explores ecological vulnerability, care, and the relationship between humans and the more-than-human world through sustainable photographic methods, experimental materials, and research-led image making.
CuratorSpace launches new 0% commission art selling platform
CuratorSpace is excited to introduce the launch of Exhibtd, a new online marketplace that connects artists and buyers, offering a fair and transparent way to buy and sell original art and limited editions without commission or listing fees.
Group Residency Programme, Orkney - Air, Sea and Soil: SOUNDINGS and SURROUNDINGS
The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Palace Village, Birsay, Orkney, United Kingdom
Workshop
27/06/2026 to 04/07/2026
The Group Residency is offered for creative practitioners working in all creative disciplines and for those who have a strong interest in the investigation of the Group Residency themes in relation to space, sound and visuals. The group will comprise of approx. eight international participants.
Call for Artists: NOVE - An International Art Exhibition at the Cultural Center in Milan
09/04/2026 Milan, Italy
NOVE is a contemporary art collective exhibition co-presented by SPIRA9 ART and A4U, to be held at Centro Culturale di Milano, also known as Cultural Center in Milan (CMC), in Milan, Italy. As one of the most ambitious and largest group exhibitions at CMC in 2026, NOVE fosters dialogue around perception, structure, and cultural translation within contemporary artistic practice.
Pride was a Riot exhibition open call with Fringe Arts Bath
09/04/2026 Bath, United Kingdom
Exploring the crucial historic reminder of pride’s origins, how the fight for queer rights began and continues to be a riot! Driven by narrative, the space will be turned into an uprising.
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.
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.
Andrea Hobson
Winner of art battle Manchester Dec 2018 and a long standing student of Artworks art school on Halifax. I have my own studio at home where I work. I have had an exhibition Hebden Bridge which launched my art business. I show work locally in Halifax and have commissions on the go most of the...
Group Residency Programme Italy Place, People and Time: WRITING with PLACE
The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Via Collemacchia, Italy
Workshop
01/10/2026 to 08/10/2026
The aim of the Group Residency is to develop ‘writing’ and approaches to ‘writing’ that are experimental, inventive in their form, and that respond to place, in a specific environment. Bringing together residents from a range of areas of practice and research, the potential to create an international network is made possible.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #28
The CuratorSpace Artist Bursary is a quarterly award that supports contemporary artists working across a wide range of disciplines, helping them to test new ideas and develop their practice. The artists selected for CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #28 are Caitriona Dunnett, Natalia Janula, Emanuela Cusin, and Holly Foskett-Barnes. Their projects span photography, sculpture, performance, and socially engaged practice and each artist is using the bursary to explore new materials, processes, and ways of connecting with audiences.
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...
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.
Individual Residency Programme, Italy: TAKING TIME / PRENDENDO TEMPO
The Museum of Loss and Renewal, Via Collemacchia, 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. APPLY NOW for 2026 / Residency periods are available between 01 May and 31 October each year. The minimum residency period is 2 weeks, however for the full benefit of all that the residency programme provides, a minimum period of 3 weeks is recommended.
Valerie Kuzina
Valerie Kuzina is a London-based artist working primarily with dry media. Her practice is rooted in observational sketching. These studies are later developed in the studio, resulting in carefully composed drawings that emphasise clarity, tension and atmosphere. Recent work is site-specific,...
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!