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John Hansard Gallery – a leading public gallery of contemporary art that is part of the University of Southampton and an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation – is seeking to appoint an experienced Communities Curator who will be a key member of the Engagement and Learning Programme Team at this exciting moment for the Gallery.

 John Hansard Gallery – a leading public gallery of contemporary art that is part of the University of Southampton and an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation – is seeking to appoint an experienced Engagement Curator who will be a key member of the Engagement and Learning Programme Team at this exciting moment for the Gallery

Eastbourne’s Towner Art Gallery are seeking an experienced, passionate marketing professional to join their team for a maternity cover opportunity at a particularly exciting time in the gallery’s development as they approach their 10th anniversary in their award winning gallery building in 2019, and the organisation’s centenary in 2023.

The Dover Prize is a 2-year bursary of £10,000 that will support excellence and experimentation in the arts and creative industries. The bursary will be awarded to an artist or artists to provide them with time to think, research, reflect and/or experiment with new ideas that will create work to be premiered in Darlington.

This new funding scheme is designed to help emerging talent, start-up businesses and collaborative projects try-out and pilot new innovative work which contributes to delivering and enhancing the cultural offer and economy for younger people in the GPLD area.

East Street Arts and its partners are delighted to invite artist collaboratives, groups and spaces across the country to apply to be part of Guild, a pioneering four-year partnership programme aimed at transforming the landscape of artists' spaces nationally. 

Axis Web are taking on empty buildings, handing them over to [artists] members and giving them new purpose. Creating new opportunities. Making them work for local communities. 

Visual Arts South West (VASW) part of the CVAN Network is seeking a new Network Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to advocate for the visual arts in the South West of England, supporting the development of the sector through connectivity, knowledge sharing and strategic intervention within the region and nationally.

The Curatorial Commission Project, the first of its kind in the UK, will give the successful candidate the opportunity to draw upon the expertise and mentoring of specialist curators across the whole of MAC’s artistic spectrum.

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Exciting artist commission opportunity to work with young children, engaging them through architecture & place. 

There's something of a theme emerging in a slew of recent reports and consultations and in artists responses to them: how does the visual arts sector with its socially embedded practices actually work and can it continue as it is - or can we feed it into a computer, bottle it, flip it, and label it with a flag? How radical is radical - or is it populist? Are we in revolutionary or just ‘interesting’ times?…

CVAN South East is pleased to announce the selection for the Platform Graduate Award 2018. Thirty-three graduates have been chosen from across seventeen universities, representing some of the finest emerging visual artists in the South East region.

CVAN South East is expanding its network to include a wider range of visual arts organisations from across the South East region, including those that encompass artists’ studios and higher education. In May we welcomed six more network members:

Jerwood Gallery has been nominated for the South Bank Sky Arts Award Visual Arts category for their recent Paula Rego: The Boy Who Loved the Sea and Other Stories exhibition.

New Geographies and the East Contemporary Visual Arts Network (ECVAN) are delighted to announce the artists selected to create ten major site-responsive visual arts commissions across the East of England. New Geographies is a three-year project, funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, to create a new map of the East of England based on personal thoughts, reflections and stories of unexplored or overlooked places, rather than on historic or economical centres.