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Goldsmiths CCA Residency
OPEN CALL FOR RESIDENTS 2025-2026
Applications are now open for our 2025-2026 Residents programme. We are looking for Lewisham-based, as well as Goldsmiths’ student and alumni groups, to become part of our Residents Programme, which was developed to broaden the voices of the CCA. Up to 3 community groups, collectives, and initiatives will be invited to join our Residents Programme.
OVERVIEW OF RESIDENTS
Residents is a Goldsmiths CCA programme that began in Autumn 2021. Goldsmiths CCA’s 2025-2026 Residency will see community and student groups take up residence in the John Garcia Family Foundation Gallery over the course of 1 year. Each will use the space on a regular schedule (either weekly, fortnightly, or monthly) to host their activities, as an additional resource for their core work.
Residents aims to proactively increase community links and voices within the CCA, share our resources, encourage conversation, and examine potentials for collaboration and partnership. The project grew from the conversations instigated by the Black Lives Matter protests, and reflection on how the gallery runs.
In preparation for Residents, the John Garcia Family Foundation Gallery at the CCA has been redesigned as a multifunctional learning and engagement space to support different needs. The re-formulation of the space has been led by the Design Collective APV (Access Power Visibility), and co-designed with our first Resident groups in 2021.
BACKGROUND AND AIM
At Goldsmiths CCA, learning with and from our constituent audiences is a key part of how we want to grow and develop as an organisation. We are a relatively new space (having only opened in September 2018) and are committed to reforms and new initiatives which embed anti-racist approaches and practices. Through Residents we want to create conditions for different communities who make up the local ecosystem (with a focus on those under-represented at the CCA and other cultural spaces), to benefit from and share in our resources.
Our ambition through Residents is to develop as a site for collaboration which feels open and relevant to different local communities, and where artistic, academic and experiential forms of expertise can intersect.
YOUR INVOLVEMENT
We are looking to support a range of different groups, from newly established collectives to those that have been active for longer periods of time. Are your collective looking to host regular film screenings or creative workshops, or invite artists to give talks and lectures? Maybe you’re a community based initiative with a project idea that helps to strengthen links and foster spaces of bonding within the community. Are you a performance-based group that may be looking to use the space for rehearsals and performances? Or are you a group that are concerned with global or personal issues, such as mental health and wellbeing, LGBTQI+ practices, Anti-Racist ways of working or ecological approaches, and accessibility and disability. Maybe you’d like to start a club for yoga, meditation, reading or textiles work?
Our chosen applicants will be able to organise and carry out their group’s project in the John Garcia Family Foundation Gallery, and will receive production support, alongside a budget of £1,500. The CCA requires an outline budget, but the funds can be used for visiting speakers, commissioning artists, creative materials, hosting educational resources.
The project is to support the group’s work and need not be public, however if you wish to host anything for external audiences, we will do our best to support you. Residents is set up to support the development of your collectives’ practices. As such, this funding is not a fee.
To be eligible, you must be living or working within the borough of Lewisham, currently studying at Goldsmiths, or have graduated from Goldsmiths within the last two years.
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%
Open Call for Emerging Artists/Curators
CHEEKY LONDON 25: LAUNCHPAD is a large-scale group exhibition taking over the entire Tradestars shared studio building, featuring over 90 units. Organised by Cheeky Studio and Tradestars, this initiative supports emerging artists and curators across all disciplines. Join a vibrant creative network during the London Design Festival 2025.
Eligibility: We welcome emerging artists and curators of any age, nationality or background. Applicants can work in any medium—fine art, design, installation, performance, textile, digital art, and more.
What you get: Low-cost chance to exhibit during London Design Festival 2025 with marketing support, creative community networking, and high public visibility.
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]
The Fashion Residency
Applications are now open for Cohort Two of The Fashion Residency at Studio Smithfield.
The Mayor of London, Projekt, Paul Smith’s Foundation and British GQ are delighted to announce applications for the next round of The Fashion Residency are now open.
Six successful creatives will gain access to a free studio space for 18 months at Studio Smithfield in the heart of London, funded by the Mayor of London and Projekt. Alongside this they will receive over 60 hours of personal and business skills mentoring in the areas of legal, finance, production, and marketing, among others from an experienced network of industry volunteers – giving emerging designers the skills to build a sustainable career.
The Fashion Residency has been designed to address the key issues facing early career designers, including shipping and logistics, cashflow, production, common legals issues, HR, marketing and ecommerce, licensing, manufacturing and more. Designers will also receive 10 hours of pro bono support from international law firm, Osborne Clarke.
As well as mentoring and their own private studio, residents will also have access to wider facilities including a 6,000 sqft event space, meeting rooms, a dye room, reading room and bespoke support on event management, freelancer introductions, partnership and consultancy work and project management. Each designer is also paired with a ‘Personal Mentor’ who acts as a confidant, guide and sounding board throughout the process.
The full list of mentors for Cohort Two will be announced later in the year.
There are six places available on Cohort Two. The programme has been developed for designers in the early stages of their career, have delivered 2-6 seasons and are at a pivotal moment for growth. Successful applicants will have a clear vision, an understanding of their market, knowledge of their customer (existing and or target) and an ambition to develop their business skills with a view for long-term growth.
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
Royal Society of Marine Artists Open Call 2025
Royal Society of Marine Artists Open Call 2025 is Now Open
The Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA) invites artists worldwide, ages 18 and over, to submit artwork for the RSMA Annual Exhibition 2025 at Mall Galleries. The total prize fund will be over £5,000, including the Charles Pears Award for an outstanding work by a non-member.
Eligibility: Artists worldwide, ages 18 and over.
Submission guidelines:
Artists may enter a maximum of six works each, from up to which four works per artist may be selected
Works should be no larger than 2.4m along the longest dimension
Acceptable media:
Oil, acrylic, watercolour, original prints of any media (excluding photography), mixed media, textiles, drawings, pastels, or sculpture.
Works may be from a limited edition not exceeding fifty.
What you get: The total prize fund will be over £5,000, including the Charles Pears Award for an outstanding work by a non-member.
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.
The 2025 Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize
The Burlington Contemporary Art Writing Prize seeks to discover talented writers on contemporary art. The winner of the Prize receives £1,000, their review is published on Burlington Contemporary and they have the opportunity to publish a review of a future contemporary art exhibition in The Burlington Magazine.
Eligibility: There is no age limit for applicants. Entrants must have published no more than six pieces of writing in print or online, in any language or country, prior to their submission.
What you get: The winner of the Prize receives £1,000, their review is published on Burlington Contemporary and they have the opportunity to publish a review of a future contemporary art exhibition in The Burlington Magazine.
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