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  • Drawing up your schedule

    Drawing up your schedule

    Timing is everything – opening your submissions at the wrong time or for too long could negatively impact the number of candidates who apply. Find out more on what to watch out for when crafting the schedule of your programme.

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  • Terminal B

    Terminal B

    Zealous Stories: Digital Art winner, Nigel Goldsmith, is a visual artist focusing on environmental issues and the Anthropocene.

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  • Planning the selection process for your competition

    Planning the selection process for your competition

    Seeing submissions reach into the hundreds then into thousands is a real buzz. But that euphoria can quickly turn to dread if your process to select successful candidates isn’t built to cope.

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  • Performative Drawing

    Performative Drawing

    Zealous Stories: Performance winner, M. Lohrum, is an artist based in London and currently working across video, drawing and performance.

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  • 10 Questions with Guy Armitage

    10 Questions with Guy Armitage

    This year, Zealous celebrates its 10th Anniversary. In recognition of this momentous occasion, we’ve interviewed founder and CEO, Guy Armitage, to find out more about the company’s past, present and future. 

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  • Sharing Four Lessons from Running a Business

    Sharing Four Lessons from Running a Business

    Ten years have gone by quickly, and we are still learning. After a decade of building Zealous, we thought we should share some of our top lessons.

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  • We Are Not Ourselves

    We Are Not Ourselves

    Zealous Stories, Sculpture winner, Svetlana Ochkovskay lives and works in Portsmouth, UK. Her practice explores ideas of identity, belonging and otherness: encouraging new perceptions of the world by taking the audience to a visual other.

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  • Celebrating our 10th Anniversary!

    Celebrating our 10th Anniversary!

    It is humbling to see an idea I had ten years ago develop into a network of over 45,000 artists and arts organisations. And although we should use our anniversary to celebrate what we achieved, this feels only like the beginning! Here’s what to expect from our Anniversary year (and beyond).

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