The Elephant Trust: Grants for the Visual Arts
Deadline: 19/10/2025
The Trustees’ main objective is to support new work. Given The Elephant Trust’s modest resources, grants are usually between £2000 and £5000, but with the addition of the Shelagh Wakely Bequest some…
Sainsbury Scholarship in the Fine Arts for Black artists
Deadline: 08/09/2025
Applications are open to the Sainsbury Scholarship, a transformative six month residency in Rome for early career artist working in any medium. This award is specifically intended to support visual artists…
https://bsr.ac.uk/call-for-applications-the-sainsbury-scholarship-for-fine-arts-2026-six-months/
BADA Art Prize 2025
Deadline: 01/10/2025
The BADA Art Prize is returning for a fifth year, promoting “the antiques of tomorrow” by awarding a £1,000 grant to an emerging contemporary artist whose work exemplifies the enduring ingenuity and quality illustrated by British…
https://www.bada.org/features/bada-art-prize-2025-call-submissions
AA2A Residencies for Artists & Creators
Deadline: 10/10/2025
AA2A is an artist Residency Programme and Professional Practice Development at art and design institutions across the UK. Universities and colleges host up to six artists for one academic year, allowing artists the opportunity…
Unlimited Open Awards
Deadline: 29/09/2025
Open Awards offer ten opportunities for disabled artists based in England, Scotland or Wales. These awards offer a grand total of £413,000 to disabled artists with individual awards ranging from £15,000 seed commissions, to £80,000 for major…
https://weareunlimited.org.uk/opportunities/apply/open-awards-2025/
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 […]
Alternatives to Art School
I’ve long dreamed of going to art school. Studying art in a lofty building, with ample studio space, and paints galore. But as a working class person, it’s hard to take a chance on an investment…
Why I stopped making art
This is the story of why I stopped making art for years and how I rediscovered my passion. I’m not juggling it perfectly and haven’t given up the day job. Maybe you can relate. The…
The Ingram Prize 2025
Deadline: 15/09/2025
The Ingram Prize is an annual purchase prize open to visual artists who are within five years of graduation from a UK based art school. Three artists will be selected as recipients of the Ingram Prize…
Abbey Harris Mural Fund: Small Grants 2025
Deadline: 10/10/2025
The Abbey Harris Mural Fund makes grants to artists to create semi permanent or permanent public murals or site specific works on walls, in any medium, in the United Kingdom. Funding of up…
A Complete Unknown
The 97th Oscar awards were presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on 2 March 2025 in Los Angeles, honouring movies released in 2024. Nominated in eight Oscar categories, A Complete Unknown is a…
Copyrightability
Many governments worldwide are currently seeking to keep pace with the impact – on their economies, infrastructures and industries – of AI developments and innovations. In the visual art ecosystem, two challenging issues are being faced: whether AI generated…
The Last Year of the Inequity Olympics
Artist and writer Alistair Gentry critiques the art world’s focus on marginal diversity gains while it ignores underlying issues of class, disability, and other systemic inequities. Precarious employment, underfunding, and a lack of…
Copyright and AI Consultation
The year is barely a month old and already 2025 is being variously described by digital technologists worldwide as: ‘A Year of AI Hype and Quiet Evolution’, ‘Maybe the Year of AI Legislation: Will We See…
Smarter Artists’ Funding
The UK’s Autumn Budget 2024 promulgated government’s fiscal policies and plans aimed at establishing economic foundations for its mission of ‘national renewal’ over the next five years. Many suggestions and proposals have been made in recent months…
Ladies Lounge
The history of modern and contemporary western art and law is punctuated with rare court decisions demonstrating extraordinary understanding of the content of artwork, and respect for the artist’s creative intentions. One such case was decided recently, and…
Drawing Connections: Four works from 30works30days by an artist with chronic illness
I need structure to function. I live with cystic fibrosis (CF) and I don’t have a job, so I’m used to creating my own structure. My daily routine…
Disclosure of Buyers
High profile artists rarely speak publicly about the commercial dimensions of their practices. It is significant, then, that a leading British artist, the usually reticent Peter Doig, recently voiced concerns about the way artists can be mistreated…