Liverpool Sculpture Prize 2026
Deadline: 08/04/2026
The Liverpool Sculpture Prize celebrates the creativity and dynamism of public art, providing an annual platform for artists in the history Commercial District of Liverpool. A partnership between Liverpool Business Improvement District and Liverpool Parish Church,…
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
Wachtmeister Award for Visual Artists- Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency
Deadline: 15/05/2026
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) is now accepting applications for their 2027 Wachtmeister award. This year’s award will be awarded to an interdisciplinary visual artist whose…
https://www.vcca.com/apply/fully-funded-fellowships/wachtmeister-award/
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…
Ecologies of Migration Residencies 2026–2027
Deadline: 06/04/2026
Forgan Arts Centre invites proposals for two funded residencies exploring migration, ecology and community engagement, responding to the site’s philosophy of an art centre as a garden. The awarded residencies offer time, space, and support…
https://www.forganartscentre.co.uk/awarded-residencies-ecologies-of-migration/
The Elephant Trust Grants
Deadline: 12/04/2026
The Trustees’ main objective is to support new work. Given The Elephant Trust’s modest resources, grants are usually between £2000 and £5000. Priority is given to artists in the fine arts and small organisations and galleries…
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/
The COAL Prize 2026: The Night
Deadline: 28/04/2026
The COAL Prize 2026 is dedicated to the theme of night. Artists are invited to defend the night as a common good, a major ecological issue for the regeneration of life, a refuge, a…
https://projetcoal.org/en/prize/coal-prize/call-for-projects-2026/
Schloss Wiepersdorf Fellowships 2027
Deadline: 15/04/2026
Writers, visual artists and scholars’ from Germany and abroad, are invited to apply for the Schloss Wiepersdorf Fellowship 2027. The residency fellowship lasts for three months and In addition to room and board at Schloss Wiepersdorf,…
https://www.schloss-wiepersdorf.de/en/individual-and-collaborative-fellowships.html
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.…
How to submit a proposal to Art Worlds
Art Worlds articles share practical advice on the realities of operating in the art world. We’re inviting proposals for articles that offer insights on being an artist from diverse lived experiences. A central focus is how to develop and maintain a sustainable career. We want to hear: In return, we offer up to £250 per […]
On Being an Artist and Running a Business
Being an artist is not my job, it’s who I am. I can’t turn off the part of me that’s constantly looking, listening and feeling the world, then thinking of ways to…