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.
Andy Sowerby
Andy Sowerby is a filmmaker and visual artist. His films have been screened internationally, including at London Short Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, and BBC Music Video Festival and on websites such as Omeleto.com and Booooooom.com.
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.
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...
Open Call: BLANK 01 Publication
Deadline: 22/05/2019 Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
BLANK is a thematic biannual publication exploring issues pertinent to contemporary creative culture. We’re looking for contributors to add to debates around making work in the current climate. The publication is a mixture of open submissions and invited contributors, which encompass the full spectrum of creative disciplines, from visual and performing arts, to film and computer game design.
Gil Mualem-Doron
I am a multi-disciplinary artist, with 15 years of experience of socially engaged art / social practices projects. My work is informed by my Ph.D. thesis, activism and personal experience as a mix race person and migrant. Much of my work concentrates on themes of place and belonging, identify...
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.
Textile Artists for Temporary Contemporary Exhibition in Huddersfield from 6th - 16th June
Deadline: 24/05/2019 Location: Huddersfield
Temporary Contemporary is a partnership project between Kirklees Council (Markets and Creative Economy Teams) and the University of Huddersfield, (School of Art, Design and Architecture). From 8 - 16 June WOVEN celebration of innovation in textiles across Kirklees and Temporary Contemporary are offering the opportunity for artists using textiles in their practice to use vacant stalls around the market to create and showcase work.
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...
sarah filmer
sarah is an artist, associate lecturer, researcher and vet, based in southampton, uk.
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.
Lumen: Cosmos
Deadline: 26/05/2019 Location: Oxford
LUMEN OPEN CALL: ‘COSMOS’ at NUFFIELD ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL, OXFORD, 6 JULY – 7 SEPTEMBER, 2019
Heallreaf 3
Deadline: 26/05/2019 Location: Nottingham and London, London
Call for artists for Third International Exhibition of Hand Woven Tapestry.
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...
Lee Simmons
Artist/designer creating artworks using natural colour in the form of dried botanicals.
Clare Thornton Memorial Residency
Published: 18/04/2019
The Clare Thornton Memorial Residency is an residency opportunity at KARST Projects, Plymouth, UK. The initial funds for the opportunity were set aside by the late artist and KARST studio member, Clare Thornton. Clare also wanted to offer a way for others to contribute to supporting this residency by matching and adding to her own donations through a crowdfunding campaign. To assist with this, she has left a range of specially selected artworks which are offered as rewards to supporters.
ORBIT: Open Call for June Instagram Residencies for emerging artists
Deadline: 27/05/2019 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.
LEFTCOAST EXPRESS 7
Deadline: 27/05/2019 Location: Blackpool, Lancashire
LeftCoast Express 7 is a self-directed research and development programme for artists, performers, creative producers with a relationship to Blackpool and Wyre aimed at developing their creative practice. The final round of LeftCoast Express (Express 7) calls creatives interested in developing or adapting a work or programme for ArtB&B in Blackpool, a new creative space that will open in September 2019.
Ali Barker
My work expresses music and sound in colour. I create abstract paintings, mixed-media work and installations inspired by my personal experiences of sound-colour synaesthesia – when I listen to music, each note of the musical scale is perceived as a specific colour. I am due to complete my MA...
Video artists on Leeds Big Screen: April 2019
Published: 08/04/2019
CuratorSpace is working with Leeds Big Screen to showcase artists with a connection to Yorkshire who work in film and video. Films will be screened in Millennium Square at 1pm and 6pm daily throughout April. Here are the artists who will be showcased this month.
Artists blow up £1.2m of high interest debt in Walthamstow
Published: 26/03/2019
On Wednesday 13th March 2019, 411 people each with an average of £2959 outstanding high interest debt to their names, were sent yet another letter about their long overdue accounts. But this time it didn't ask them to repay the money. Instead it invited them to come and watch those debts being blown up in the shadow of Canary Wharf.
Romily Alice Walden
Romily Alice Walden is a transdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, text and publishing, all with a research-led and socially-engaged working methodology. Her practice centres a queer, disabled perspective on bodies, landscapes and community.