Case Study: ARTbound
Published: 19/03/2019
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.
Marianne Kennerley
Marianne is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer, based in Northern Ireland, with a passion for: Making Things. Making things,better. Through the use of locally sourced things she searches for a method of reuse that benefits, engages and empowers the bigger community and challenges...
Featured organisation: Fronteer
Published: 20/06/2019
Sheffield-based Fronteer is husband and wife team, artists Michael Borkowsky and Sharon Mossbeck who began organising open calls and group shows in 2014 as a way of exhibiting their own art work. Since that time their project has grown and they now provide opportunities for lots of other artists.
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 50 artists' studios. We also have a three-bedroom accessible flat for...
eighthwonder 2019: (a)muse
Deadline: 21/07/2019 Location: Bath, Somerset
The theme for this year's 'eighthwonder' exhibition is Muse. “The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.” Who or what sparks artists today? What is your inspiration? How do you start your creative process? What is your muse? All artwork mediums are accepted including performance, film and sound installation, but MUST be A2 format.
Claire Benn
I am an artist whose work always starts with a piece of cloth. I make art textiles that are reductive, quiet, simple and contemplative. This has meant restricting my tools, my media, my palette and my process – simplify, simplify, simplify. I use raw earth pigments for my landscape-inspired...
Does working in the arts affect your wellbeing?
Published: 17/06/2019
Halifax based artist, curator and writer, Alice Bradshaw is undertaking research reflecting on mental wellbeing as part of her ongoing work with Dwell Time arts publication. She is inviting arts practitioners to respond to questions around working in the arts and mental wellbeing, with the option to publish responses on the Dwell Time blog and the option to remain anonymous.
Creative Writer/Resident Writers
Deadline: 21/07/2019 Location: Leeds
Kaur and Baleem Creatives are looking for poets/spoken word writers to perform at a live and limited event called Friday Night Open Mic. We require a selected amount of resident poets, pre signed up poets and there will be last minute sign ups on the nights.
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...
All Of The World Is A Stage - Summer Edition
Deadline: 21/07/2019 Location: Leeds
Following the success of their first event, Kaur and Baleem Creatives are looking for artists, musicians (preferably acoustic) and writers/spoken word poets to take part in All Of the World is a Stage - Summer Edition. It is a one night showcase of mostly northern based Creatives.
Jasmine Matthews
I am a multimedia artist who graduated from a BA Fine Art at Newcastle University, 2017. Currently, I am located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. I'm hoping to forge connections with art scenes in the surrounding areas. I have taught art classes, been involved in conducting art therapy with...
Featured organisation: My Next Chapter for Creatives
Published: 14/06/2019
My Next Chapter for Creatives is a space for creative people to think and plan for what’s next. It is a collaboration between coach and facilitator Bev Morton and artist Jean McEwan, both of whom are based in the Bradford area. They empower participants to stay aligned to their own creative growth, challenge the conventional paradigm of what it means to be creative and reshape the way in which we live and work as artists.
Workshop Opportunity- Sponsored by LCC University Centre
Deadline: 21/07/2019 Location: Leeds
Kaur and Baleem Creatives are looking for people to run creative workshops throughout August 2019 (Dates are flexible).
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...
Tina Finch
I was born in Wigan, Lancashire, this unique northern, industrial urban place has had a profound influence on how I see aspects of life. I am interested in the juxta positioning of beauty, landscape and water especially canals and the sea. Intertwined amongst the beauty of landscape are the...
Featured Artist: Paul Digby
Published: 09/05/2019
Paul Digby is a practising artist based in Leeds and has exhibited widely throughout the UK. He has shown work in the Saatchi Gallery, Wellcome museum, and The Tetley, and is currently touring his most recent project, a celebration of the public sector, in venues throughout England.
ORBIT: Open Call for August Instagram Residencies for Emerging Artists
Deadline: 22/07/2019 Location: Liverpool, Merseyside
ORBIT is (for the timebeing) an online initiative, aiming to support and showcase the work of emerging artists and writers throughout the UK, with the initial aim of publishing reviews/articles and hosting residencies on a weekly basis. ORBIT hopes to act as a platform for discussion and collaboration between artists at all different stages of their career from all across the country.
CoCA Shop 2019
Deadline: 23/07/2019 Location: York, North Yorkshire
York Art Gallery opened its Centre of Ceramic Art (CoCA) in August 2015, following a major £8 million development project. CoCA aims to encourage the understanding and enjoyment of British studio ceramics. A new retail space on the first floor offers the opportunity to sell high quality ceramics to visitors.
Theresa Easton
Theresa Easton is a printmaker and activist working with artist’s books, based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Printmaking and artist’s books provide a platform for Easton’s interpretation of social history and cultural...
Beth Fox
Multi-media artist, writer and independent curator. Founder and director of The BF Artist Film Festival.
Featured artist: Norma Foulds
Published: 02/05/2019
Norma Foulds works in a variety of media, including drawing, printmaking, and collage. She has just secured a residency at Fish Factory in Cornwall to continue her work and hopes to gain more support in return for rewards produced during the residency.
CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #3: Adele Jackson
Published: 29/04/2019
We are delighted to announce the winner of CuratorSpace Artist Bursary #3, UK artist Adele Jackson, who is currently based in New Zealand. Adele describes herself as a environmental artist. Her current work uses solargraphy to explore the connection between the sun, Antarctica, and human activity over the austral summer season.
Geraint Edwards
My work is an exploration of the art-object in an age of the non-object. Through various media such as painting, video, sculptural installation and web-based art, my practice explores the relationship between our physical and virtual worlds and interrogates our experience and behaviour within...