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OPPORTUNITIES

CALL FOR PROPOSALS-Camden Arts Centre's Ceramics Fellowship is for artists who wish to push the boundaries of their ceramics practice and who are able to promote their approach to making across Camden Arts Centre’s education activities and public programme. The Fellowship provides space and resources to research, develop and produce new work and provides opportunities to engage a wide range of people in working with clay.

The selected artist would work alongside Camden Arts Centre's pool of artists and tutors who run regular classes and courses as well as external partners and organisations. The Fellow will have an interest in teaching, engaging with audiences through their work and a desire to participate in Camden Arts Centre’s wider programmes. The application deadline is Monday 26 October, 5.00pm. Past Ceramics Fellows: Salvatore Arancio, Jesse Wine, Phoebe Cummings and Katie Cuddon  Read more & apply here
Deadline 5pm, Monday 26 October 2015

CALL FOR PROPOSALS-Arteles Creative Residency Program 2016 in Finland, 1-2 month residencies in June-October 2016 at Arteles Creative Center, Hämeenkyrő / Finland. One of the largest, liveliest and most international residency centers in Finland and Scandinavia. Arteles Creative Residency Program brings together international creative minds to explore, experiment & expand their practice and thinking. Get inspired with other energetic, ambitious artists & creative professionals from various mediums and backgrounds.
Read more & apply online: www.arteles.org More info
Deadline 30 October 2015
 
CALL FOR PROPOSALS-Proposals are invited for one of six two-month residencies at The Observatory in 2016. The first residencies took place in Winchester between January and July 2015. The Observatory is currently located in Lymington where it will remain until December 2015.
Locations:
  • Burton Bradstock, Dorset Coast between mid January 2016 and early July 2016
  • West Cornwall Coast between mid July 2016 and December 2016
The Observatory enables artists to interact with the landscape and develop a body of work connected to each place and context. Artists will be drawn from a broad range of disciplines and will need to be prepared to share their practice with the public. 
The residencies are open to artists or makers working in any medium, visual arts, crafts, performing arts, writing, film, video or digital media but the Observatory space may not be suitable for all of these activities. Applications can only be made online at: Info
Deadline Friday 30 October 2015
 
CALL FOR DIASBLED WRITERS-Disability Arts Online, in partnership with arts writer Bella Todd and Wikimedia UK, are seeking disabled artists working in any artform for a series of workshops to develop skills in writing about arts practice for publication, promotion, critique and social media.  
Participants will also have the opportunity to pitch to Disability Arts Online editor Colin Hambrook and Culture24 editor Richard Moss and will be paid for copy produced. For each piece they have published on Disability Arts Online, participants will receive a fee of up to £75. Bursaries for travel to attend the course are available.  The course will consist of 5 workshops with Bella Todd and 3 ‘editathons’ to produce Wikipedia entries on UK disabled artists. Participants will each get the chance to interview a high-profile disabled artist.
Learning will be divided between small workshop groups and practical exercises including:
  • research and interview techniques
  • planning for writing
  • writing for the web 
  • image sourcing
  • pitching to editors
  • opinion pieces 
  • the future of arts coverage
  • vlogging
By building on writing skills, the workshops will better equip participants in activities essential to successful artistic practice, including producing promotional material, talking about their own and others' practice, and writing for social media.
Course dates: 19 November, 26 November, 3 December, 7 January, 21 Jan (TBC), 4 Feb (TBC), 18 Feb (TBC), 3 March (TBC)
Location: Goldsmiths, University of London, Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW.
How to apply:
Please send a copy of your CV along with a short statement (written or video) about your interest in the course and how it would benefit your career and creative practice to info@disabilityartsonline.org.uk with 'Writing workshop application' and your name in the subject line. Please also attach a completed equal opportunities form and details of any access requirements you have for participation in the workshops.
Deadline 5 November 2015
 
CALL FOR IDEAS-Without Walls invites artists and companies from any discipline to request support for the creation and touring of new outdoor work for presentation and touring in 2016. In 2016 we will continue to support artists who want to create ground breaking and exciting work for presentation at outdoor festivals across the country; this is subject to a successful Grants for Arts application. We will be looking to support the creation and touring of a range of exciting and ambitious projects of different genres, styles and forms.
For further details click here
Deadline 5pm, Thursday 5 November 2015
 
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS-Climate Change Theatre Action: Call for Participants in Brighton
Onca Arts & Ecology, Brighton, is proud to be part of Climate Change Theatre Action - hosting readings from an international collection of 1-5 minute plays to be performed across the globe, in solidarity with those campaigning for a better future at the COP21 climate change summit in Paris in December. The collection has been curated by NoPassport, The Arctic Cycle and Theatre Without Borders, and the CCTA day will round off Onca's week-long Festival of Climate Ideas. We are seeking performers, directors and theatre companies to help us stage it.
 
If you would like to participate, we'll share the collection of plays with you, or make recommendations. Onca can provide space to rehearse, but the evening is envisaged as a series of readings/ experiments rather than fully produced performances; we are unable to offer financial assistance towards taking part. If you're interested, please email persephone@onca.org.uk
Deadline 6 November 2015 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS- Interdisciplinary & Innovative Live Art/ Exhibits/ Workshop Proposals
Cerebellum seeks to support artists to produce non-commercial, experimental, innovative and challenging work without the risk of financial losses. There is no theme. We are especially interested in new work that has not been publicly shown before although high-quality existing pieces are not ruled out. Larger scale installations with interactive elements are especially encouraged, as are 1:1s and durational work in cross-disciplinary mediums.
Artists performing live are especially welcome to show related work or processes as part of the exhibition.
 
Although, we are yet to have funding confirmed, if reached we will be paying each individual solo or within a group a £100 performance/ exhibition fee inclusive of expenses per show. Workshops will be paid £150. In the unlikely event that full funding targets are not met we will provide reasonable expenses. All Open Call artists will be expected to perform, exhibit or run workshops at both shows in London and the South East during the month of February. Artists should ideally be based in Greater London, the South East, or both. We look forward to hearing from you. Please feel free to contact us with any further queries. @Cerebellum_arts
http://www.facebook.com/cerebellumartevent
Deadline 7 November 2015

CALL FOR ENTRIES-John Moores Painting Prize-Open to all painters in the UK, works are selected anonymously by an independent jury. The Prize continues to honour the principles of open submission and democratic selection. The jury, which is soon to be announced, will select a final shortlist of five paintings. The overall winner will receive £25,000 and four further prizes of £2,500 will be awarded. The winner of the Visitors' Choice award, voted for by the public during the 2016 exhibition, will receive a prize of £2,016.
The John Moores Painting Prize is delivered in partnership with the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition Trust and issupported by our exhibition partner Weightmans. The Prize is showing as part of Liverpool Biennial 2016 festival of contemporary art, one of the world’s leading Biennials, taking place from 9 July to 16 October 2016. Deadline 9 November 2015
 
CALL FOR PROPOSALS-Horizons ‘Arts-Nature’ in Sancy, will take place between the 18th June and 25th September 2016. This is the tenth edition of a contemporary art event based on short-lived visual works of art specifically made for the Sancy Massif (heart of the Massif Central in France). The call for projects involves the creation of 10 works of art based on the Sancy Massif. There is a bursary of €8,000 which will be given to each selected artist (covering the creation, travel expenses, the transport of materials from the studio to the site, installation of the work, food and accommodation for the artist in the area). The event is open to all artists, without any limit of age, and to young talents who have recently graduated from art school (within the past 2 years). The application requires a CV, biography, personal artist statement, examples of recent work, visuals of the proposed project, technical sketches, budget and more. http://www.horizons-sancy.com
Deadline Thursday 12 November 2015
 
CALL FOR ENTRIES-Open Call - Whitstable Biennale 2016
Whitstable Biennale is a festival of contemporary visual art. We commission ambitious and experimental work, focusing on film and performance. We are inviting proposals for a new work to be part of the programme of our next festival, which will be held in June 2016. Our curators will select one work from this open call. The artist will receive a budget of £1000, inclusive of fees and materials. Visit http://bit.ly/1PPTF2t for further information and details of how to apply. www.whitstablebiennale.com
Deadline 10am, Monday 16 November 2015
 
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS-SICK! Festival
SICK! Festival is seeking 6 works-in-progress that explore the themes of Understanding & Representing Trauma and Identity. These will be presented as part of SICK! Lab in March 2016, a focussed 5-day public programme, a temporary open laboratory for discussion, discovery, collaboration and creation. More information here: http://bit.ly/1LBKqz6
Deadline 30 November 2015
 
CALL FOR PROPOSALS-Sámi Center for Contemporary Art offers a residency to professional visual artists of all fields. The aim is to strengthen, promote and develop a collaboration between contemporary artists in Sápmi and foreign artists. The residency is open to professional visual artists. There is one apartment with two bedrooms, a shared studio and two offices available at the art center in Karasjok. We offer a 1 or 2 months residency with free rent. The residency program will pay tickets for travelling to and back Karasjok, and a grant, 800 Euros per month. All expences (other than studio, accommodation and travel) such as living costs, materials and insurance must be covered by the artist. The selected artist must be prepared to be quite self-reliant. We are running the residency on tight administrative resources. However we are doing our best to set up contacts and network. The visiting artist must understand and speak some English.
The application must consist of a project proposal for the residency period and artist statement, updated cv, documentation of work. Current work is requested. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Residents are selected by a jury composed of professional artists and other arts professionals. samidg.no
Deadline Tuesday 1st December 2015
 
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS-The Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) is pleased to announce Water Rights as its next residency and programmatic theme. Because water is seen, now more than ever, as a contested resource, SFAI is committed to bringing together local, national, and global thinkers and creators to collectively expand and revise our knowledge of what we think we know about water rights. New Mexico is rich in its relationship to water- a position created over a long history of corporate, environmental, political, and multicultural claims to this essential resource.
From September 2016 through June of 2017, SFAI and its community partners will explore several questions: How do we describe and define the contested space around water? If water use is often parallel to culture, how can cultural activities result in greater models of equity to our water systems? How can diverse practices, from poetic to practical to political, create greater access to these and other parallel resources?
SFAI looks forward to bringing together dynamic creative thinkers, artists, designers, educators, policy makers, poets, architects, journalists, and activists to focus on ways that we can address inherent inequalities relating to water rights and create new ways of thinking about the use and misuse of this essential substance.
Apply at: WWW.SFAI.ORG,
Deadline 18 December 2015
 
Artist Resource Picks of Upcoming Events:
  
FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE -Fabrica Programming Talk
Wed 21 October 6-7.30pm
Friends Meeting House, The Meeting Room
Free but donations are welcome
 
Liz Whitehead, Fabrica’s Co-Director and Head of Artistic Programmes will outline Fabrica’s approach to commissioning artists and presenting work in Fabrica’s unique building. Liz will discuss the history and background of how Fabrica developed and provide an insight to curating exhibitions, covering all aspects of our programme. To book Programming Talk
 
TOWNER-June Nelson reporting back from Northern Ireland on
Thursday 22nd October, 6pm 8pm. Artists - all welcome
FREE to Blue Monkey Network members; £5 non-members 
 
The Engage Summer School brought together experienced artists, educators, curators and academics practicing in the field of gallery and museum education to review and develop their practice during a three-day residential course. It took place in September hosted by Belfast School of Art, University of Ulster, and focused on the value, benefit, challenges and opportunities of artists working within education, learning and participation. 
June was keen to add the freelance artist's voice to questions raised during the trip, including asking, "What can visual arts organisations learn from artists, artist-run spaces and alternative arts education systems?" and "Can artists or grassroots community practice result in experimentation and risk-taking?" For more details: bluemonkeynet@btinternet.com
 
GUEST PROJECTS, HACKNEY-Navigating the Art World after Your Degree: Seminar with Doug Fishbone: Sat & Sun October 24-25, course fee £125.
Special Guest Speaker: Sam Chatterton Dickson, Director of Sales, Lisson Gallery. This two-day seminar offers an overview of issues in professional practice and development for visual artists. It is particularly aimed to advise artists and students making the transition from BA or MA courses to the "real" world of professional practicing artists.
A unique feature of the seminar is that each participant will have a one-on-one hour-long private tutorial in which they can focus on issues and questions particular to their situation. It also provides students with a detailed course manual which is a useful long-term reference.
The first session is an all-day lecture/discussion from 10 am - 6 pm, which will cover the following:
 
Managing Materials ie CV / Portfolio
Marketing and Self-Promotion
Networking and Press
Dealing with galleries
Looking for work / Interning
Useful resources
Creative approaches to funding projects
How to conduct a successful research campaign - using the Internet as a strategic tool.
We are fortunate to have a special session with guest speaker Sam Chatterton Dickson, who is the director of Sales at Lisson Gallery, one of the world's leading contemporary art galleries, who will be taking about working with galleries. http://www.lissongallery.com/
The second day is devoted to individual tutorials. Students will have a private hour-long coaching session/tutorial to discuss whatever issues they would like.
Doug Fishbone was born in New York in 1969 and earned an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London in 2003. He recently exhibited a major new project, Doug Fishbone's Leisure Land Golf - a 9 hole artist-designed miniature golf course - at this year's Venice Biennale: http://em15venice.co.uk/ and his project Made in China, in which he switched an Old Master painting with a cheap Chinese replica, was on view at the Dulwich Picture Gallery from February to August,  2015 in London: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/feb/10/young-masters-dulwich-gallerys-made-in-china-challenges-public-to-spot-fake-art-work
His film Elmina, which had its world premiere in a solo exhibition at Tate Britain in 2010, was recently voted one of the most iconic artworks of the past 5 years by the website artinfo: http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/826311/the-100-most-iconic-artworks-of-the-last-5-years
The course is limited to a maximum of ten students, to enable comfortable discussions and a generally comfortable vibe.
Coffee, Tea and snacks provided. Money-back guarantee if dissatisfied - never yet happened! Location: Guest Projects, Sunbury House, 1 Andrews Road, London E8 4QL. Closest Tube: Bethnal Green, Central Line. For more information or to book a place, contact: dougfishbone@gmail.com
 
LIGHTHOUSE-Progress Bar, Thursday 5 November, 6.30-9.30pm.This special edition of Progress Bar is curated by artist Ville Haimala – our current Lighthouse Studio Resident. Tickets: £5 / £4 concs (full-time students or anyone in receipt of an income-based benefit, please bring ID/proof with you). Tickets can be bought from our website: Progress Bar: November.
 
During his residency, Ville is researching the enhancement and manipulation of human hearing – through technologies and phenomenons such as in-body bio-hacking and ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) sound recording. For Progress Bar, Ville has invited artist and founder of PAN record label Bill Kouligas and sound artist Claire Tolan to present their work and discuss how our senses act as an interface for the world, and the ways in which that interface can be expanded, modified and manipulated.
Also being screened is When You Moved (2014), a sci-fi video essay that explores the relationship between the body and its technologically mediated environment, by Finnish artist Jenna Sutela.
For more information about the event, please go to our website: Progress Bar: November.
 
BLOCK 336, 336 BRIXTON ROAD, LONDON-System Failure is a series of six conversations in November and December that look at the ways in which the art world could improve its practices, specifically for artists. 
 
The art world is a large, complex and interdependent system: individual freelancers, institutions, artist-led groups, national funders and students all grapple with financial pressures, unclear career progression, low status, poor work/life balance and increasing pressure from Government. These talks zero in on: the problems artists with families face; the public funding system and its obsession with institutions over individuals; how artists with non-gallery practices can progress; the impact of urban regeneration on artists practice; persistent low pay and status; and why art education reinforces much of this with Government pressure.
 
These conversations also serve as a timely reminder that, without artists, the art world wouldn’t exist, and ask what can collectively be done to address its problems. Join the conversation on Twitter using ‪#aqsystemfailureDetails of all talks and tickets (£7) are available: at http://www.artquest.org.uk/articles/view/system_failure
 
FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE-Artist’s Statement Workshop
Saturday 14 November 10am-12 noon
Friends Meeting House, Room 4
Free but donations welcome
 
Led by Artist Resource Manager Caitlin Heffernan, this informal workshop will look at different options and ways of writing an artist’s statement. A key feature of this group session will be sharing current statements with fellow participants and as a group to give feedback to each person. To book click here
 
LIGHTHOUSE-The Sound of Story 17 & 18 November 2015
An exploration of sound and music in storytelling, The Sound of Story is aimed at filmmakers, sound practitioners, music producers and film lovers. Through a series of talks and workshops showcasing critically acclaimed and innovative projects, leading sound and film professionals will discuss their work, influences and insights, offering a rare opportunity to learn about the power of the soundtrack, and the importance of designing projects with sound in mind from the start.
 
 A stellar line-up of world-class professionals includes BBC wildlife sound recordist and composer Chris Watson (Frozen Planet); sound artist Magz Hall (Radio Mind); singer, composer, filmmaker, photographer and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds member Barry Adamson (Natural Born KillersThe Beach); and sound designer and supervising sound editor Joakim Sundström (The Constant Gardener, Seven Psychopaths).  Event website: www.lighthouse.org.uk/programme/the-sound-of-story-2015
 
 

 
 
STUDIOS

STUDIO SPACE-Mews Art Studio. Mews Art Studio
Shared studio space available in ceramic studio near the Brighton/ Hove
seafront. Fine Art space also available. £125 per calendar month rent which includes water, general electricity and rates. Studio kilns available for shared use. For details and more information please contact Kathy on 07803006014 or kathy@kathylaird.co.uk
 
STUDIO SPACE Large and beautiful, light self-contained studio to rent on Hove/ Portslade borders near sea front. South facing, huge windows, high ceilings, lockable and self contained. Suit painter or other fine artist(s) to join studio complex of other fine artists. Sharers welcome. £162/month inclusive of all rates, bills, internet, parking, 24 hr access.  Trafalgar Studios, Portslade.  Please ring 07957485433  email your info to: trafalgarstudios@gmail.com
 
STUDIO SPACES Affordable studio spaces available at Red Herring Studios. We are one of Brighton & Hove's longest established cooperative-run art studios home to 23 artists and craftspeople from a wide range of practices. Studio rent is just £120 or £185 per month, and includes internet access and most bills. For more information, please call Sam on 07580597677, email info@redherringstudios.org or visit
http://redherringstudios.org

 
 

 

 
Image: Emily Jacir: Europa, Whitechapel

TOP 5 EXHIBITIONS

ROYAL ACADEMY Ai Weiwei until 13 December 2015
 
DE LA WARR PAVILLION- In The Realm of Others, exhibition continues until 29 November 2015, free entry.
 
WHITECHAPEL-Emily Jacir: Europa, until 3 January 2016
 
CURIOUS PROJECTS- Spectre by Sara Willett, exhibition continues until Friday 27 Nov 2015.
 
CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE-Earth Needs More Magicians-Ben Rivers, until 29 November 2015.


 


Best wishes
Caitlin

Caitlin Heffernan
Artist Resource Manager
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