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ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined at Saatchi Gallery

ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined at Saatchi Gallery - Last Chance to Apply
In September 2025, London Art Collective will present the large-scale international group exhibition “ArtEvol 2025: Voices from the Undefined” at Saatchi Gallery. The exhibition will focus on emerging artists who are shaping the visionary future of contemporary art, collectively examining the motivations and emotional tensions encapsulated by “Evol,” which signifies “Evolution” in the context of today’s art landscape.

Eligibility: Open to all

What you get:

• Your works will be featured in our printed and digital catalogues (for both exhibiting and shortlisted artists), which are shared with curators, collectors, and institutions.
• Media promotion through London Art Collective’s social media, newsletters, and press network.
• The selected works will be featured on the official LAC SHOP platform, professionally presented and promoted to an international network of collectors and institutional buyers.
• Sales support is provided.
• Take part in live artist talks, networking events, and public programmes.
• Support from the London Art Collective curatorial and marketing teams.

Fee: A registration fee of £15 per artist, plus £15 per artwork submitted, applies (excluding VAT at 20%). Each artist may submit up to three works. For example, submitting one artwork would cost £30 + VAT (20%), two artworks £45 + VAT (20%), and three artworks £60 + VAT (20%).

Deadline 20 August 2025

Organiser: London Art Collective, LAC
Locations: United Kingdom

CoSTAR National Lab Call: Grassroots Music Venue Innovation

Grass Roots Music Venues have intrinsic cultural value. They provide shared social experiences. They offer emerging artists their first opportunities, and they stimulate local economies.

The Music Venue Trust’s
2024 Annual Report
acknowledges a significant decline in the number of grass roots venues, with two closing every month in the UK. It also emphasizes the need for practical interventions and action to address the challenges facing the grass roots sector.

The UKRI-AHRC
CoSTAR National Lab
(CNSL) and the UKRI-AHRC
MusicFutures
Creative Cluster (Liverpool City Region) are now inviting UK-based companies to develop and pilot creative and technologically innovative ideas that will start to address some of these challenges. We are seeking ideas that can extend the reach of grass roots venues, that can connect artists and audiences in new ways inside grass roots venues, and that point toward new portable and scalable business models and solutions.

This is an opportunity for companies to develop, test and own IP that they can then go onto commercialise. Selected companies will be provided with extensive research conducted by CoSTAR National Lab across the UK’s live music sector and dedicated access to our technical infrastructure and research teams to deliver their ideas.

In addition, applicants can apply for cash funding of up to £40,000 per project. We are seeking to award up to 3 projects, one of which will take place inside the MusicFutures Creative Cluster, in the Liverpool City Region.

Awarded projects will have access to the COSTAR National Lab
Futures Studio
in Egham Surrey for prototyping and rehearsing in October/ November/December 2025, as well as access to MusicFutures facilities in Liverpool. Pilots will then be tested on location in front of audiences at grass roots venues across the UK. Pilots will have to complete location testing by 27 February 2026.

Online Drawing Development Year from the Royal Drawing School

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The Online Drawing Development Year (ODDY) is a year-long, part-time programme from the Royal Drawing School, designed to support arts graduates and practising artists in developing their drawing and studio practice through live online teaching.

What you get: Taught by professional artists, the course offers a rigorous combination of taught courses, peer discussion, 1:1 mentoring and critical dialogue across three terms.

Students curate their own programme from a broad range of online drawing courses, enabling them to tailor the year to their practice and personal schedule. The flexibility of the format makes it ideal for those based outside London or the UK, or anyone balancing artmaking with other commitments.

With dedicated mentoring and a focus on building community online, ODDY provides the structure, challenge and support to move your practice forward.

Eligibility: Open to arts graduates and practising artists from all over the world who wish to develop their drawing skills and studio practice. Applicants should be able to commit to a part-time, year-long course taught live online (UK time, Daytime courses are 10am – 5pm and evening courses run 6pm – 9pm, students choose their own schedule combining daytime and evening classes).

Deadline 17 September 2025

Organiser: The Royal Drawing School
Locations: United Kingdom

ING Discerning Eye 2025: Call for Entries Now Open

ING Discerning Eye 2025: Call for Entries Now Open
Now in its 27th year, the ING Discerning Eye is one of the UK’s most respected open exhibitions, offering artists the chance to exhibit at the Mall Galleries in London and win part of a £13,000 prize fund.

Open to all UK-based artists, this prestigious annual show celebrates small-scale works in all styles and media, from painting and drawing to sculpture, print, photography, textile and more.

Shortlisted works will be selected by six leading figures from across the art world: artists Curtis Holder, Polly Morgan, and Richard Ansett, journalist Rosie Millard OBE, museum director Dr Chris Stephens and collector Nicholas Scott.

This is your chance to get your work onto the walls of a central London gallery, and in front of an established audience of art lovers and collectors.

Eligibility:

Open to all UK-based artists. All works must be for sale and under 50cm in any dimension.

What you get:

Selected artists will have their work exhibited at the Mall Galleries in central London, seen by leading art world figures and collectors, with a chance to win part of a £13,000 prize fund.

Deadline 28 August 2025

Organiser: Parker Harris, ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries

Free exhibition space - 1 Poultry, London

We are looking for artists & curators for our brand new gallery hub (3 spaces) in the City of London, launching Frieze Week 2025.

This is a unique opportunity to organise an exhibition in one of the world’s most important postmodern buildings, designed by architect James Stirling & completed in 1997.

Eligibility: Anyone eligible to work in the UK

What you get: Free exhibition space and opportunity, marketing support, networking

Deadline 03 August 2025

QEST Autumn Grant (£18,000 funding)

QEST offers three grants to support makers and conservators at various career stages, strengthening the pipeline of talented craft professionals in the UK.

Celebrating 35 years of impact in 2025, QEST has awarded £7.2 million to almost 900 craftspeople working across the UK in 130 different craft disciplines. QEST supports contemporary and traditional craft, as well as the exploration of innovative techniques.

QEST provides funding for education and training, with Scholarships of up to £18,000, Emerging Maker Grants of up to £10,000, and up to £12,000 towards an apprentice’s salary.

Deadline: 13 August, 5pm.
Applications are open twice a year, the Spring round will take place 7 January to 11 February 2026.

Royal Institute of Oil Painters Open Call Now Open

The Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI) invites artists worldwide, aged 18 and over, to submit artwork for the ROI Annual Exhibition 2025 at Mall Galleries.

Submission deadline: Friday 10 October 2025 at 12 noon.

This year’s special theme is ‘HOME’ – with the ROI Themed Painting Prize awarded for the best interpretation. However, the theme is optional and represents just one aspect of a broader exhibition, which welcomes oil paintings on all subjects.

Eligibility:

Artists worldwide may enter a maximum of six artworks each.
The combined total of the longest dimensions of accepted paintings must not exceed 8 feet per artist.
Works must have been completed within the last three years and not previously exhibited at Mall Galleries.
Works must be created in oils. The ROI promotes and exhibits work of the highest standard in oil paint.
Water-soluble oil paint is acceptable if framed as an oil painting, to maintain the overall appearance of the exhibition.
What you get:
Take part in the ROI Annual Exhibition 2025 at Mall Galleries (27 Nov – 13 Dec 2025) With a total prize fund exceeding £10,000.

Vogued 1st Edition - Sales and Exhibition Opportunity in London

An exhibition exploring how contemporary art is evolving in the collision of traditional methods and AI-generated works. Curated by Boomer Gallery in central London’s Tower Bridge district, this show features a keynote by art critic Tabish Khan, opening 8 August 2025

Eligibility:

Open to artists working in any medium: painting, sculpture, photography, installation, prints, textiles, illustration, digital art, AI-assisted art, poetry, etc.
What you get:

Exhibition, 8–13 August 2025, in a high‑foot‑traffic space near Tower Bridge
Inclusion in a permanent, professionally designed e‑catalogue displayed online
No commission on sales—artists deal directly with buyers (optional 20% VAT added if sales brokered)
Printing/framing support available for remote artists at no extra cost
Invitation to Boomer Gallery’s Advisory Program—connecting artists with collectors
Fee:
Application is free, but if selected: £189 (inc. VAT)

Deadline 02 August 2025

BADA Art Prize 2025

The BADA is proud to announce that the BADA Art Prize is returning for a fifth year, promoting “the antiques of tomorrow” by awarding a £1,000 grant to an emerging contemporary artist whose work exemplifies the enduring ingenuity and quality illustrated by our members’ objects.

Eligibility: Applicants must be currently enrolled in or have completed a post-secondary education at a UK institution. Submissions must be original works produced within the last 2 years. Beyond this, there are no criteria - all medium and styles are welcome.

What you get: Finalists will be selected by a panel of industry experts, including internationally recognised artists, art critics, and curators. The finalists' works will be on public view at the BADA Art Prize reception on 13th November 2025 at David Messum Fine Art in London and the winner announced at the event. The winner will be awarded a £1,000 grant.

Design Dalston’s Future: Kingsland Shopping Centre Logo Design Competition

Bring Dalston to Life – In a Logo Kingsland Shopping Centre is getting a fresh new look – and we want you to design it.

We’re calling on Hackney’s residents, workers, and students to help reimagine the centre’s visual identity in a way that reflects the heart, heritage, and creativity of Dalston today. Whether you’re a seasoned designer, an aspiring artist, or someone who simply loves this neighbourhood, this is your chance to shape a piece of East London’s future.

Eligibility: Anyone who lives, works, or studies in Hackney

What you get: The winning designer will receive £2,000 and have their work featured prominently in one of East London’s most iconic destinations, while each of the four finalists will also receive £500.

Fables – Apply to Exhibit at Mall Galleries with Swanfall Art Updated: 26 June 2025

Fables – Apply to Exhibit at Mall Galleries with Swanfall Art
Swanfall Art returns to Mall Galleries this August with Fables, its annual exhibition exploring the role of narrative in contemporary art. We invite artists to submit work that explores emotional depth, rhythm, and resonance – across any medium – to help shape a compelling visual dialogue around storytelling and perception.

Eligibility:

Open to artists working in all media, both in the UK and internationally. Artists may submit a single artwork or a full portfolio. Wall-based works must not exceed 1.5m on the longest side; sculptures and installations must be under 2m in height.

What You Get:

Selected artists will exhibit at Fables, taking place from 26 to 31 August 2025 at Mall Galleries, London. The show offers professional curation, exposure to collectors and curators, sales opportunities, and promotion across Swanfall Art’s channels.

Fee:

Single Work Submission: £15
Full Portfolio Review: £55 (Early Bird) / £65 (Standard)
Sales Commission: 35%

The British Art Prize 2025

Artists & Illustrators is delighted to be back with The British Art Prize 2025. Enter for the chance to win some fabulous prizes, have your work exhibited at TWO major London galleries and featured in Artists & Illustrators magazine.

This major international art competition is back with bigger prizes, broader exposure, and even more ways to get your work seen by thousands of art lovers, collectors, and curators.

Eligibility: Open to everyone – whether you’re an amateur, emerging, or professional artist – all styles, media* and techniques will be considered.
*AI art will not be considered.

What you get: A prize fund worth more than £10,000 which includes cash, art materials and a solo show at Panter & Hall's Cecil Court gallery. Winners and finalists will also feature in a special 10-page editorial in Artists & Illustrators, the UK's best-selling art magazine.

All shortlisted artworks will be showcased at an exhibition at gallery@oxo from 26-30 November 2025 in London. Shortlisted artists will also be invited to a prestigious private view reception on 27 November 2025 alongside artists, collectors, and other VIP guests.

Mural Fund Small Grants

The Abbey Harris Mural Fund makes grants to artists to create semi-permanent or permanent public murals or site specific works on walls, in any medium, in the United Kingdom.

Eligibility: Mural painters

What you get: Funding of up to £7000 is available for an artist or organisation producing a public mural in the UK

OD Photo Prize 2025

OD Photo Prize 2025
Open Doors Gallery invites submissions for the fifth OD Photo Prize, supporting emerging photographers worldwide through exhibitions, fairs, and mentorship, continuing a decade-long mission to discover, nurture, and elevate early-career talent in contemporary photography.

Eligibility: Submissions must be in project form. Artists must be working within the first ten years of their practise [Emerging / Early career artists]

What you get: Winner gets £2,000 prize. An exclusive interview with 1000 Words Magazine. Representation for at least one year with Open Doors Gallery. All Shortlisted artists are invited to exhibit with Open Doors Gallery in London, November. There are also a variety of other awards available to applicants

Fee: £17 entry fee [Approx. €20.50 / $23USD]

Fandom

Open call for any and all work FANDOM. A show all about celebrity obsession, celebrating the wide open world of fanart and fandom.

Eligibility: We welcome work from anyone, we aim for maximum accessibility.

What you get: The chance to exhibit their artwork in a London gallery

The London Group Open 2025

The London Group is now accepting entries for its 86th Open exhibition which will take place at Copeland Gallery, London SE15 from Saturday 8 November to Sunday 23 November 2025. The exhibition will include up to 200 works by current London Group members alongside works selected from open submission. At least half of the exhibitors will be non-members. The London Group was founded in 1913 and has gone on to successfully nurture the careers of many of Britain’s best-known artists.

Eligibility:

Open to UK-based artists over the age of 18 working in any medium including painting, sculpture, drawing, print, photography, mixed media, installation, video, sound, digital and performance.

What you get:

The London Group Open will award these prizes to non-member exhibiting artists: The London Group Prize 1,000, The London Group Prize 500, The Vic Kuell Memorial Prize for Innovation 1,000, The Schauerman Prize for Digital Art 500, The Chelsea Arts Club Trust Stan Smith Award for an Artist Under 35 1,000, The JPES Partnership Prize 1,000, The Armour Studio Award 500, Linden Hall Studio Prize – opportunity to show three artworks alongside the Linden Hall Collection.

Fee:

£20 for one submission, £35 for two submissions, or £45 for three submissions.

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