Young V&A Design Placement 2026: The Shed residency
Deadline: 27/04/2026
Young V&A invites applications from early to mid career designers, studios, or collectives for a six month design placement within The Shed, a public facing residency studio in Young V&A’s Design Gallery.…
https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/young/apply-now-to-become-young-vas-designer-in-the-shed-2026
Holly House public art commission
Deadline: 28/04/2026
Field Art Projects, working with Curo, is inviting expressions of interest from artists for a new public art commission at Holly House, the final phase of The Willows housing development in Lawrence Weston. The appointed…
Artist ResidenciesVila 31 x Art Explora
Deadline: 01/05/2026
The Tirana Art Residency – Vila 31 x Art Explora is an international residency programme supporting contemporary artistic creation and research, with a strong emphasis on engagement with the cultural, social, and political contexts…
Jean-Claude Reynal Grant
Deadline: 04/05/2026
The Jean Claude Reynal Grant, under the auspices of the Fondation de France and in collaboration with the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux (ebabx), is launching an international call for applications and will award a €10,000 grant…
Fundación Botín Art Grants 2026/2027
Deadline: 08/05/2026
Since 1993, Fundación Botín has awarded Art Grants each year, aimed at artists of any nationality. Each grant provides funding of 23,000€ and promotes and supports those artists who need resources to carry out a…
https://www.centrobotin.org/en/beca/becas-de-arte-2026-2027/
SHINE Emerging Artist Programme 2026
Deadline: 11/05/2026
SHINE is led by Light Up The North (LUTN) a network of light festivals across the North of England. For 2026, a group of LUTN festivals will work together to commission two new artworks. These…
https://lightupthenorth.com/development/shine-artist-call-out/
Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship at Girton College
Deadline: 16/05/2026
The Fellowship supports the Cavendish Arts Science ethos of experimenting, decentring and re imagining. It is designed for artists to develop thought provoking ideas through engagement with physicists and those in other fields,…
FLAMIN Animations
Deadline: 25/05/2026
FLAMIN Animations is a commissioning programme for early career Black and global majority* artists working with animation based in England, organised by Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN). Now in its sixth year, the programme aims to…
https://filmlondon.org.uk/resource/apply-to-flamin-animations
FLAMIN Fellowship 2026-27
Deadline: 01/06/2026
Film London and Arts Council England present The FLAMIN Fellowship, a major development programme for early career moving image artists based in England. Each year, The FLAMIN Fellowship supports six artists at the early stages of their…
https://filmlondon.org.uk/resource/apply-to-the-flamin-fellowship
Magnetic 5 Residencies
Deadline: 02/06/2026
Magnetic is a joint Franco UK initiative that brings together ten institutions to create a programme of artist residencies of 2 to 3 months each: five in France and five in the United Kingdom. Each residency pairs…
Leith School of Art’s Graduate Residency programme
Deadline: 05/06/2026
Leith School of Art’s Graduate Residency programme offers a unique opportunity to develop a substantial body of new work within an established Art School leading towards professional practice or further postgraduate study. The…
https://www.leithschoolofart.ac.uk/course-info/13/graduate-residency-programme
ACS Studio Prize 2026
Deadline: 30/06/2026
The ACS Studio Prize is now open, offering a recent graduate the chance to win £6,000 to contribute to the cost of an artist’s studio in a UK city of their choice. If you are a…
https://artistscollectingsociety.org/acs-studio-prize/about-acs-studio-prize/
Liberty Art Award
Deadline: 29/07/2026
The Liberty Speciality Markets Art Award aims to elevate graduate artists by providing funding, training, exhibition and sales opportunities within a comprehensive two year programme. Selected participants will each receive £1,000 for their work being exhibited in…
FVU:LAB
Open deadline
FVU:LAB is delivered in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University and provides opportunities for four UK based emerging moving image artists to work with cutting edge technologies at NTU’s new Design and Digital Arts building. This can be either for…
Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grants
Open deadline
National Lottery Project Grants is an open access programme for arts, museums and libraries projects. The fund supports thousands of individual artists, community and cultural organisations. National Lottery Project Grants supports a broad…
Black Artists Grant
Open deadline
The Black Artists Grant is £1,500 given out monthly to black artists in the UK, with each artist selected receiving £500 each.The BAG is no strings attached financial support to help the selected artists in whatever they…
Jonathan Ruffer curatorial grants – Small grants
Open deadline
The Jonathan Ruffer curatorial grants support UK curators, museum professionals and researchers to undertake travel and other activities that will extend and develop their curatorial expertise, collections based knowledge and art historical interests.…
https://www.artfund.org/professional/get-funding/programmes/jonathan-ruffer-curatorial-grants
Palazzo Monti Artist Residency
Open deadline
Palazzo Monti is an artist residency program based in Brescia, housed in a palazzo dating back to 1200. The Palazzo is an incubator for creativity and productivity, offering artists a chance to find inspiration, forge new…