Arts Council England – Developing your Creative Practice – Round 24
Deadline: 02/07/2026
Developing your Creative Practice (DYCP) supports individuals who are cultural and creative practitioners and want to take time to focus on their creative development. This could be for a…
Outside In – Artist Materials Bursary
Deadline: 30/06/2026
The Artist Materials Bursary provides financial support of up to £150 to help Outside In artists buy materials for their practice. We know that the cost of materials can be a real barrier to…
https://outsidein.org.uk/opportunities/artist-materials-bursary/
Hugo Burge Foundation: 2026 Grant Programme
Deadline: 31/07/2026
The Hugo Burge Foundation is a new arts funding body. The grant funding is focused on three key areas: Creative Education, Creative Communities, and Creative Individuals The Creative Individuals Fund will have £50,000 available…
GenAI
During 2026, governments worldwide are consulting on possible new policies and legislation aimed at keeping pace with the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI). Consultations are intensifying, as authors and governments continue their dialogue to find solutions that strike…
Friends Like These
Ant and Dec were the subject of mainstream news reporting in March 2026. Not because of typical media interest in their latest escapades as well known TV presenters. But due to their achievement of a significant ruling…
Future Generation Art Prize 2027
Deadline: 28/06/2026
The Future Generation Art Prize is a biannual global contemporary art prize to discover, recognize and give long term support to a future generation of artists. All artists up to 35 may apply with their…
https://futuregenerationartprize.org/en/about-the-prize-fgap
We Are Makers: Mini Grant 4
Deadline: 19/06/2026
We Are Makers have launched a grant fund to support makers anywhere in the world who want to kickstart or upskill their creative practice. Now, having surpassed their fourth milestone – 2000 subscribers –…
Stanley Picker Fellowships in Art & Design 2026
Deadline: 29/06/2026
The Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University is seeking to appoint two contemporary practitioners to the Stanley Picker Fellowships in Art & Design 2026. Each Fellowship provides up to £16,000 and access…
https://www.stanleypickergallery.org/fellowships/stanley-picker-fellowships-in-art-design-2026/
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grants
Open deadline
The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from professional visual artists who are painters, sculptors, and/or artists who work on paper, including printmakers. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis: there are no deadlines. Grants are…
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…
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/
The Art of writing about your work
About this article This article was written by Rosalind Davis one of the long term advisors on the Artquest One to One programme. Artquest One to One’s saw Artquest staff and professional career…
Wealth Tax
In the months leading to the UK’s Annual Budget on 26 November 2025, there was widespread public speculation about how best to tackle the evident black hole in government finances: whether government should cut expenditure, or increase tax…
How to throw your own party: peer mentoring as infrastructure
Art practice is sustained by the support that artists provide for each other – long before recognition and institutions come into view. In everyday exchanges, artists develop their practice through…
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…
Fall of Freedom
On 21 November 2025, artists and cultural workers in the US are launching a nationwide ‘cultural celebration of art against fascism and censorship’. Operating under the banner ‘Fall of Freedom’ (FoF), they are joining cause with widespread…
Lifting the Veil
The Great Art Fraud was televised by the BBC in August 2025, documenting one of the biggest art frauds in art market history. British born contemporary art dealer Inigo Philbrick was the perpetrator, who emerged as ‘an…
Fake or Fortune?
On 29 July 2025, a landmark lawsuit ended concerning a living British artist. The principal claimant was Robert Fletcher, who was a correctional officer at the Thunder Bay Correctional Centre (TBCC) in Ontario, Canada, in the 1970s.…