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Wayfarers Contemporary Art Fair
Report this?Deadline: 01/06/2026City: Southport | Country: United Kingdom | Play On Productions
Southport’s elegant Edwardian Wayfarers Arcade is hosting a brand new art fair. That will open with a special preview on Thursday 16th July 2026 at 5pm and be open to the public for free from Friday the 17th to Saturday 18th of July 2026 between 10am and 5pm. The fair will take place when Royal Birkdale hosts the Open Golf championship, that will bring a quarter of a million visitors to Southport from across the globe. We will use this to showcase and celebrate UK creative talent, including the best of fine art, design, food and drink.
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The Secret Salon Peckham
Report this?Deadline: 28/05/2026City: London | Region: London | Country: United Kingdom | Andree Adley
Exhibit your work at our ICONIC exhibition in PECKHAM LONDON on June 4th and 5th 2026....Be part of THE SECRET SALON and the art collective kudos that we have built up over the years. We show the best new talent alongside established artists and provide a springboard for your art career. We are looking for engaging and thought provoking works for our large LCD screen which will be shown in rotation at our 2026 LONDON exhibition. You may submit short films or three pieces of your work for consideration.
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Light Up The North SHINE Emerging Light Artist Programme
Report this?Deadline: 11/05/2026Country: United Kingdom | Light Up The North
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Calling all UK-based emerging artists with new light artwork ideas. Light Up The North are commissioning up to £15,000 (to cover all artist fees and fabrication costs) and touring costs: covered separately up to £2,500 (to attend up to 4 festivals) for up to two artists/collectives for our 2026 programme.
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Summer Makers' Fair 2026
Report this?Deadline: 01/06/2026City: ILKLEY | Country: United Kingdom | Andreea Chitan
Attention all talented crafters and makers! We would like to invite you to submit your application to be a part of the enchanting Ilkley Manor House Summer Makers’ Fair, happening on the last weekend of July.
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GUTSTRING — A Platform for Unfinished Ideas (Showcase) — Art, Writing, Poetry — Open Call
Report this?Deadline: 06/05/2026City: Online | Asycd Limited
GUTSTRING invites writers and digital artists to let it all out. In an era of polished facades and forced consensus, authentic expression has lost its breathing room. We are reclaiming it. This showcase is a dedicated launch event designed to break down the walls of "the expected" and unleash art straight from the gut. We aren’t looking for your portfolio pieces; we want your "strings"—the raw, the unfiltered, and the brilliantly unfinished.
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UN-PAID CURATOR for a new pop-up museum
Report this?Deadline: 15/05/2026City: Folkestone | Region: Kent | Country: United Kingdom | Anita Sala
M+Collective is an independent, grassroots, museum-making organisation that creates culturally relevant initiatives in Kent. Our approach is community-centred, we envision our work to bring positive impact to groups and individuals by means of cultural engagement and meaningful experiences. Our goals are to lower the accessibility bar, to inspire critical thinking, and to promote social cohesion. Want to be part of this?
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CGS Cabinet of Curiosities at The International Festival of Glass
Report this?Deadline: 21/06/2026City: St Helens, England | Country: United Kingdom | Helen Stokes
The Contemporary Glass Society are delighted to announce that we are holding an exhibition at The International Festival of Glass this year in The World of Glass, St Helens. The theme is “A Cabinet of Curiosities” which is an open call to all CGS members!
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Open Call for Artists - 26th Community Art Exhibition
Report this?Deadline: 12/05/2026City: Bristol | Region: Somerset | Country: United Kingdom | Circular ArtSpace
Exhibit your artwork at Circular ArtSpace – East Bristol’s vibrant gallery supporting emerging and under-represented artists
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DARKLIGHT: Illumination, Imagination, and the Zoetrope of Spiritual Apperception
Report this?Deadline: 08/05/2026Paid opportunity
DARKLIGHT: Illumination, Imagination, and the Zoetrope of Spiritual Apperception. How does the balance of darkness and light, the ongoing cycle by which we live, inform artistic practice? How are themes of the 'dark' and the 'light' represented in art, music and writing? How does creative practice illuminate or reveal new ideas, concepts and ways of understanding? How does such practice tie in to broader ontological philosophes (Illuminationism, Anthroposophy, mysticism etc.)?
More details Call for Interviewee - Research on Generative AI Art Practice
Report this?Deadline: 09/10/2026City: Online | Yudi Zhang
Paid opportunity
My name is Yudi Zhang and I am a Doctorate PGR at the University of Aberdeen seeking interviewees for a study on generative AI in visual art practice. If you have experience creating AI-based artwork, I would love to hear about your creative process, thoughts on AI ethics, and reflections on the relationship between human creativity and AI. Interviews last 30–45 minutes.
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