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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…
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/
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…
Tender: Better Open Calls
Better Open Calls is a research project that looks at how arts organisations find artists to work with. It proposes and tests equitable processes for organisations to find and choose artists. If you would like to…
The White Pube Creatives Grant
Open deadline
The White Pube Creatives Grant is a one off £500 grant to be given out to a different working class creative practitioner based in the UK once every month. This grant has been set up…
Supporting Whitechapel Gallery’s open call for London Open Live
Building on our research, Artquest are supporting Whitechapel Gallery’s application and selection process for London Open Live. Whitechapel Gallery’s open call exhibition, The London Open, is back with an exclusive focus…
Unlocking the Collections
A research residency for an early career, London based artist to engage with The Collections Library at the Museum of the Home. Residencies took part in 2021 and 2022 with advice from Artquest on improving application and…
Lifeboat
Studio residency, peer mentoring and career development award for MA postgraduates from University of the Arts London The Award Between 2012 and 2018 the Lifeboat award supported artists who had completed a postgraduate course at UAL in the previous…
Sarah Roberts: on developing practice in the face of deadlines
How can you balance the demands of deadlines with the needs of your practice? Deadline vs Live Development I’m not a ‘loans’ exhibitior, so a new exhibition means a new…
Laura Fowle: on artist opportunities
Can do / Must do : Lost in a Sea of Artist Opportunities Continuing to pursue my practice post University was a consistent challenge. I found it harder to define my work since leaving. One…
Is it discrimination under UK law to advertise an opportunity for artists under a certain age?
An opportunity states that it is only open to artists under or over a certain age. Is this discriminatory under UK law? UK equal…