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  The Harley Open 2026

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  Deadline: 19/07/2026

  City: Nottinghamshire  |  Country: United Kingdom  |  The Harley Foundation

  Paint it, carve it, stitch it – show it at the Harley Open 2026. Our biennial open exhibition returns in 2026, inviting artists, makers and heritage craft practitioners to exhibit work in our award-winning gallery. Whether you’re a professional, a hobbyist, a potter or a painter – we want to see your work.

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  The Making of Mothers

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  Deadline: 02/08/2026

  City: Walthamstow, East London  |  Region: London  |  Country: United Kingdom  |  Laura House

  A group exhibition bringing together artists from East London who create alongside, with, about and around motherhood

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  Open Exhibition, Wythnos Gelf Llanfairfechan Art Week

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  Deadline: 12/06/2026

  City: Llanfairfechan, Conwy  |  Region: Conwy  |  Country: United Kingdom  |  Wythnos Gelf Llanfairfechan Art Week

  INAUGURAL EXHIBITION, NORTH WALES ARTS FESTIVAL The Wythnos Gelf Llanfairfechan Art Week exhibition is part of a major new arts festival in North Wales taking place this August. The week will be a celebrations of all creative arts. The exhibition is open to artists living or working in North Wales. We welcome all 2d works. The arts week will run from August 8 to August 16. The exhibition will be on the final week of the festival and will take place alongside an affordable art fair, and demonstrations of portrait painting and of linocut printing by eminent North Wales artists.

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  Unfixed: Between Form and Dissolution

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  Deadline: 20/05/2026

  Region: London  |  Country: United Kingdom  |  Cista Arts

  Unfixed: Between Form and Dissolution invites works that exist in states of becoming—where forms shift, loosen, and resist resolution. This online exhibition explores the space between presence and dispersal, where boundaries blur and meaning remains open. Across all media, we welcome practices that engage with fluidity, fragmentation, and the unstable nature of form. Submissions are open to all disciplines, including painting, photography, video, installation, digital media, sculpture, and mixed media.

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  Summer show

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  Deadline: 05/06/2026

  City: Newton Le Willows  |  Region: Merseyside  |  Country: United Kingdom  |  Brendon Mtengwa

  ☀️ SUMMER SHOW ☀️ Open Call for Artists Be part of the very first exhibition at Earlestown Arts Club We’re welcoming local artists to exhibit at Arts Club, a vibrant bar in Earlestown, located between Manchester, Liverpool, Warrington and beyond.

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  Wayfarers Contemporary Art Fair

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  Deadline: 01/06/2026

  City: 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

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  Deadline: 28/05/2026

  City: 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

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  Deadline: 11/05/2026

  Country: 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

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  Deadline: 01/06/2026

  City: 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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  Open Call: Suspended — Paris, May, 2026 | All media welcome

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  Deadline: 01/05/2026

  City: Paris  |  Country: France  |  Zhen Yi Gallery

  Following the exhibitions Scentless Depths (2025) and The Body as a Threshold (2025–2026), Suspended marks the third chapter of an ongoing curatorial research exploring states of perception and being — moving from the invisible, to the embodied, and now into the state of suspension.

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