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ARTIST COMMISSION: 'Lighting up the Lea' Cabinet of Curiosity No.2 2025
The second in a series of three works funded by the Heritage fund, Cody Dock will commission an artist or creative collective to design a public work to illustrate the rich and endless history of the Lower Lea River, focusing particularly Pre- industrial period.
We expect the artist to take inspiration from the dockside carts that vendors used to sell their wares in London’s docklands, to produce a publicly engaging, outdoor work that will be moveable around our site.
Eligibility: Any individual artist or collective. Applications from Newham will instantly be added to the shortlist.
What you get: £5400 fee, including production budget. Support through R&D and production processes as well as marketing once work is completed. The work will be revealed on 21st September 2025 and will remain as a permanent exhibition on our site.
Gallery Renaissance Presents: Symbols of Creation
Symbols of Creation is an innovative initiative by Gallery Renaissance that challenges young artists to explore and reinterpret the representations of the forces of procreation. Such images became taboo when Christianity and Islam became dominant but the underlying ideas, far from being eliminated, merely metamorphosed in unaccountable ways. Our objective is to revisit these questions and to obtain a fresh perspective through the eyes of young artists.
Eligibility: Graduates of all ages
What you get: Artists will receive 70% of the sale of their workSelected artists will benefit from strong curatorial guidance and promotion, ensuring their work reaches a wide and engaged audience..
Sculpture in the City 14th edition Call for Submissions
The Call for Submissions for the 14th Edition of Sculpture in the City is now open. Deadline for submissions: 12.00pm (GMT), Tuesday 18th March 2025.
Eligibility: We encourage all artists, whose work meets the above criteria, to apply. SITC is an inclusive and diverse community; artists of all races, genders, disabilities and identities are invited to apply.
What you get: An artist fee of £750 is offered to all exhibiting artists. SITC is responsible for all other costs, including insurance and transportation (from the UK), install/deinstall, marketing and press.
The GroundWork Residency 2025
Applications are open for Fluid Earth, the title of GroundWork Gallery’s fifth annual artist residency and exhibition programme for 2025. It builds on our track-record of environmental art residencies which have taken a strongly inter-disciplinary approach. We welcome broad and imaginative approaches to the subject. The Fluid Earth GroundWork Residency runs overall from 4 August – 10 September. During this time, each selected artist is required to join in with a research week from 4-9 August, followed by a choice of venue for the production phase for 10 days.
Eligibility: Any professional artist whose work is in sympathy with the environment, any medium, any age, any nationality
What you get: Accommodation and hospitality, studio space, peer-group & mentoring, opportunity to exhibit in show at GroundWork Gallery
Women in Art Fair Prize
Founded in 2023, Women in Art Fair is dedicated to redressing the gender imbalance in the art industry. This year the Fair is launching the Women in Art Fair prize to honour three women artists whom the jury believe show exceptional talent. Cash prizes of £1500, £750 and £400 will be awarded to support the winning artists' ongoing practice. Women artists and those identifying as women who enter work via the
Fair's open call will automatically be entered for the prize as well. The Fair will take place at gallery@oxo on London's South Bank.
Eligibility: Women artists and those identifying as women of any age and nationality
What you get: Selected artists will be able to show their work at gallery@oxo on London's busy South Bank in peak season, when gallery footfall is at its highest. They will also benefit from the Fair's dedicated marketing and PR programme, including social media and a high profile talks programme.
Fee: Up to 3 artworks £50; Up to 5 artworks £60
LGBTQ+ Artwork Commission: Camden Town Hall and Camden Art Collection
We are currently looking for an artist/s to develop new 2D artwork for display in the Grand Lobby of Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, King's Cross.
The new 2D artwork will celebrate Camden's LGBTQ+ communities, in particular our Trans stories, and the contribution the community has made to society and cultural life in Camden. The artwork should be celebratory, bold and reflect the community it celebrates. We are interested in themes which explore identity, innovation and activism.
The artworks will form part of the Camden Art Collection and will feature on our new website the Camden People's Museum at www.camdenpeoplesmuseum.org.
FEE: £2,500 to include all fees, travel, materials, production and framing.
Studio bursary open call for London-based artists
This open call is for an emerging or mid-career London-based artist to take up a free studio for three years, from 7 July 2025 to 25 June 2028. This life-changing opportunity to join Gasworks’ artistic community has been developed in response to the lack of stable, affordable studio provision for artists based in London. It is made possible for the first time in Gasworks’ history with the generous support of Knotenpunkt (Isabelle Nowak and Torsten Winkler).
The selected artist will receive:
24/7 access to a private 17-square-metre private studio at Gasworks
An annual materials stipend of £1,000 each year
Regular invitations to Gasworks’ activities, including Open Studios, exhibition openings and networking events
The opportunity to present their practice to a relevant audience as part of an annual Knotenpunkt ‘Playground’ event at Knotenpunkt’s base in Central London
Eligibility
This open call is for early and mid-career contemporary visual artists based in London only. Applicants must have a permanent address in Greater London and the right to live and work in the UK throughout the bursary. Artist duos and collectives are welcome to apply, but current students are not eligible.
How to Apply
Applications are open until 31 March 2025, 1pm. To apply, complete the online application form below.
The Drawing Year: 1 year full-scholarship programme for artists
The Drawing Year is a full-scholarship postgraduate-level course run by the Royal Drawing School in Shoreditch, London. The course offers up to thirty students the opportunity to focus on drawing from observation for one year. There are no tuition fees and all students receive a free studio space.
Every course offered at the School is taught at postgraduate-level by a distinguished faculty of over 75 practicing artists. Students have three end of year exhibitions and international residency and teaching opportunities after graduation.
Eligibility: Applicants will usually have completed a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art or a related subject, but this is not essential. Applicants are expected to show a strong portfolio of work demonstrating a commitment to drawing and a level of artistic professionalism appropriate for study at postgraduate level.
What you get: A full-scholarship postgraduate-level course in drawing, including free studio space
International FiKVA Award for painters 2025
Submit your best representational paintings from the last two years to compete for the FiKVA Award. Open to various styles including modern and classical realism, imaginative realism, hyperrealism, photorealism, luminism, and surrealism.
Eligibility: Open to all artists aged 18 or older.
What you get:
First Prize: €3,000 cash, art supplies valued at €300, digital marketing worth €200, certificate, online exhibition participation, published interview, permanent display on FiKVA's website, and 6-month online gallery representation.
Second Prize: €1,500 cash, certificate, online exhibition participation, published interview, permanent display, digital marketing, and 6-month online gallery representation.
Third Prize: €500 cash, certificate, online exhibition participation, published interview, permanent display, digital marketing, and 6-month online gallery representation.
Honorable Mention (3 awarded): Certificate, online exhibition participation, permanent display, and digital marketing.
Top 35: Participation in online exhibition, permanent website placement, and digital marketing.
Gallery Representation Award: Up to 10 artworks from the Top 100 selected for 6-month representation by FiKVA Online Gallery, by invitation.
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