Featured Opportunities

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The Mark Tanner Sculpture Award is an award for emerging sculptors in the UK, offering a unique combination of £10,000 financial support towards producing new work plus a funded solo exhibition at Standpoint Gallery. The award also includes a national touring programme taking MTSA artists to partner venues across the UK, providing exceptional sculptors with comprehensive support for career development.

Open to established UK residents outside current BA/MA education (postgraduate research students undertaking PhD/MPhil/MLitt/MRes eligible). Joint, group, or collective applications not accepted. £15 application fee covers selection procedure costs.

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House of Hackney announces The William Morris Art Futures Bursary, a new initiative supporting the next generation of artists in the London Boroughs of Hackney and Waltham Forest. Inspired by William Morris’s values of art for all and the transformative power of creativity, this bursary provides £10,000 funding for young people aged 16–25 with creative potential who face barriers to accessing education, training, materials, or mentorship.

The £10,000 funding can be used to support education costs, training programmes, art materials, equipment, mentorship, or other resources needed to advance artistic practice. Applications for the 2026 bursary are now open, with successful recipients announced in Summer 2026.

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Do It Projects is connecting artists and creatives with opportunities in the London Borough of Bexley. This Expression of Interest invites artists who have a connection to Bexley – whether through residence, work, family, community ties, or other meaningful links – to register for potential collaborations across a diverse range of creative projects.

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FVU:LAB supports four emerging moving image artists to work with cutting-edge technologies at Nottingham Trent University’s Design and Digital Arts building. Artists can apply either to realise a specific new work or for R&D time to experiment with technologies and incorporate them into their practice. No exhibition outcomes required—this opportunity prioritises experimentation and skills development, though work may be presented at NTU or via FVU’s digital channels.

Selected artists receive up to five days’ access to NTU facilities (motion capture/facial capture, virtual production studio with LED wall and UNREAL Engine, Foley studio, green screen studio, and immersive technologies including VR/AR), £500 bursary, two mentoring sessions with FVU Director Angelica Sule, plus travel, accommodation, and per diems. Days can be taken in one block or spread over time. Open to UK-based visual artists working with moving image at any career stage (broad definition of “emerging”).

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Mixed media exhibition celebrating cats and birds as nature’s fiercest rivals, following the success of ‘Old Dogs, New Tricks’ in 2025. Exhibition features feline and feathered subjects from lions to lapwings and kittens to kingfishers, running 30th May to 7th July 2026 at The Gallery Holt.

Artists notified of successful or unsuccessful submissions by 30th April 2026. Selected artists must deliver work between 18th-23rd May 2026 and collect between 13th-18th July 2026. Submissions accepted via online form on the gallery website.

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Artist Space Gallery announces their fourth Botanicals online Art Competition for April 2026, inviting artists to submit work interpreting botanical and floral art. The theme welcomes any work featuring flowers, herbs, fruits, leaves, plants, and related botanical subjects, celebrating the beauty and diversity of the natural world through artistic expression.

Open to all visual art mediums including painting, photography, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, digital art, mixed media, and more. This international online competition provides artists at any career stage with an opportunity to showcase their botanical-themed work to a global audience.

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Abeceda welcomes applications year-round from both emerging and established practitioners at any stage of their academic or artistic development for their ongoing online mentorship programme. New participants may join the programme at any time until capacity is reached, providing flexibility for artists to begin their mentorship journey when it suits their schedule and career development needs.

The participation fee is €100 per month, with no application fee to submit. To apply, submit via the online form at the Abeceda website or email [email protected] with the following attachments: brief motivation letter (max 2 pages), CV, and score, recording, portfolio materials, or sample of previous work serving as a reference for your practice.