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SEEN 2025 Mentorship Programme
Are you an emerging artist ready to take the stage?
We are looking for bold, creative artists from Lewisham to develop and showcase their work at SEEN Lewisham. This is your opportunity to receive funding, mentorship, and a platform to elevate your artistic practice.
Eligibility:
Are based in London, with a strong relationship to Lewisham.
Are emerging or at a pivotal stage in their career.
Have an interest in theatre, music or dance.
Participants must be aged 18+.
What you get:
Funding - Apply for a grant of £2,000 - £5,000 to support your creative project.
Mentorship- Join a 4-month mentoring programme with industry leaders.
Performances- Present your work on the Broadway Theatre stage during SEEN Festival 2025.
The London Photo Show Competition
Every entry to the competition will be displayed at the London Photo Show Summer 2025. That means your photo will be on display at a prestigious London Gallery and be seen by thousands of people.
The competition is open to anyone around the world and is open to all genres of photography. If you want to say you’ve exhibited in London, enter this competition.
Eligibility: Anyone with a camera or phone camera
What you get: You have the chance of winning. If your photo is chosen by our judges as the best in show, it will be displayed in a larger 70x50cm frame at the 2025 London Photo Show and you will be heralded as the winner. Additionally, the winner will receive a space to display six images at next year’s London Photo Show where you can showcase even more of your work.
The Zsuzsi Roboz Scholarship at Morley College
The Zsuzsi Roboz Scholarship is intended for a committed artist who have a developed artistic vision, but who need assistance or support with the next steps of their career.
Eligibility:
You must be a figurative artist of promise and quality who needs this opportunity to develop.
You are working primarily in 2D or 3D media.
You must be aged 19 or over in September 2025
You must be willing to commit to part-time. study over a year – three academic terms during which you will undertake a tailored programme of part-time courses each term, followed by a period of preparation with a view to holding an exhibition of your work in September 2026.
What you get:
The Scholarship offers the recipient one year’s part-time programme of free classes at Morley College, London, personal tutoring and mentoring from a professional artist and teacher, and an opportunity to exhibit work in our Gallery at the end of the year.
Dreams & Nightmares – Sales & Exhibition Opportunity in London's Tower Bridge District
Dreams & Nightmares – Sales & Exhibition Opportunity in London's Tower Bridge District
Boomer Gallery invites artists to explore the creative power of the subconscious in a curated exhibition near Tower Bridge. Showcase your work in a high-traffic, blue-chip-listed gallery with full support, promotional materials, and collector access.
Eligibility:
Open to UK and international artists aged 18+, working in any medium including painting, sculpture, photography, digital, installation, poetry, and AI-assisted art.
What you get:
Exhibition, printed/digital catalogues, PR, framing, champagne preview, direct sales (no commission), and collector advisory placement.
Fee: Application is free, but a £189 fee (including VAT) applies for each selected artist.
IV International Poetic Films Showcase
Open call for medium/full-length films of a poetic character. Minimum length: 30 minutes
Eligibility: Anyone can participate, regardless of age, sex, nationality, place of residence, professional or not.
What you get: The selected films will be screened online at Maldito Festival on its FILMIN streaming platform, where they will be available for viewing during the week-long festival (November 2025). They will also have the possibility to be screened in person.
FishTank Workshop & Gallery 25/26 Studio Residency
FishTank Workshop & Gallery is seeking applicants for its 25/26 free studio residency in Kings Cross. We’re looking for motivated individuals who want to develop their work, connect with others, and help build a supportive creative community. FishTank aims to create a welcoming entry point into the arts by building bridges with the wider community/youth projects/arts organisations.
Eligibility: Artists from all backgrounds and disciplines - including but not limited to photographers, illustrators, painters, animators, jewellers, filmmakers, fashion and set designers. We are particularly interested in those who can demonstrate their need for studio space, enjoy sharing work, influences, and interests, are open, generous, and supportive of others. We prioritise applications from local people currently living in Islington or Camden.
What you get: Free studio space in Kings Cross, use of our gallery/workshop and facilities, mentoring, a chance to take part in exhibitions, events, and public presentations.
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.
The FLAMIN Fellowship 2025 Updated
Film London and Arts Council England present The FLAMIN Fellowship, a major development programme for early-career artist filmmakers living in England. Part of Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), the Fellowship aims to support the most exciting, innovative and challenging moving image practices, with development and £2,500 funding for new work.
Eligibility: Early-career artist filmmakers
What you get:
A programme of monthly professional practice workshops taking place in-person in London (travel costs from other parts of England can be covered)
Development support sessions with Pinky Ghundale, an experienced Production Advisor
Development bursary of £2,500 towards a specific project
Promotion through representation in screening programmes and online profile
The benefits of being embedded in a peer group of moving image artists
Profile and promotion through Film London’s newsletter and social media channels as FLAMIN alumni, during and after the artists’ time on the Fellowship
Fresh 2025 Exhibition Opportunity
Fresh celebrates and promotes artists in the UK and Ireland at a pivotal moment in their practice, with twenty-five artists selected from an open submission process by a panel comprising leading professionals who are advocates for emerging contemporary art and making alongside a youth panel.
Eligibility: -Have been maintaining a sustained commitment to creative practice with clay for between 3 and 7 years. -Be living in the UK or Ireland from the point of application to November 2025.
What you get: Fresh provides a unique platform for early-career artists to inspire and challenge as part of the UK’s largest contemporary ceramics event. It will bring opportunities for networking and benefits from exhibiting alongside established artists. Each exhibitor in Fresh will receive a £300 exhibition payment and £50 towards the transportation of the work to and from the exhibition venue. Fresh exhibitors will benefit from a national PR and marketing campaign. Exhibitors in Fresh will also be considered for the Fresh Talent Prizes.
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