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  • Free Resources for Creatives

    Free Resources for Creatives

    Want to improve your creative skills, manage your time better or send more traffic to your website? The internet has tons of free resources to help you develop your practice. From project organisation tools to industry insights and creative classes, here are some great websites that we think you’ll love.

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  • Global creativity, the UK and the arts

    Global creativity, the UK and the arts

    The creative industries account for 14.6% of the UK’s GVA. But in a complex political climate and a rapidly developing world; how can the UK retain its edge?

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  • 5 exhibitions you should go to this September

    5 exhibitions you should go to this September

    We’ve compiled our top 5 exhibitions you should go to this September 2018 so, if you are stuck for where to go, refer to this and you’ll have something to go to every week!

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  • Meet Michelle

    Meet Michelle Loa Kum Cheung, winner of the the Secret Art Prize 2018, hosted by Curious Duke Gallery on Zealous. Michelle creates fictional environments exploiting the tactility and raw materiality of wood. Using techniques including pyrography and painting, her art focuses on landscape and displaced heritage, as a response to her own cultural heritage and identity…

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  • Meet Jess

    Meet Jess

    Meet Jess Burgess, MA Fine Art graduate and winner of the first Zealous Stories, open to UK-based painters. Jess’ practice asks questions surrounding the virtual screen, and has in turn driven her desire to explore painting as a slower medium. A fascination with recipe books has allowed her to break into new grounds, creating her…

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  • 10 photographers on World Photography Day

    10 photographers on World Photography Day

    As you may have guessed by now, we love celebrating creative talent, and what better opportunity to share some of the most awe-inspiring works by our photography community than on World Photography Day! Here are 10 photographers to watch.

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  • Website builders for creatives

    Website builders for creatives

    Choosing the best website builder to showcase and/or sell your work can be a little overwhelming. There are so many options available, and what works well for a filmmaker might not have the same benefits for a visual artist. Our blog on coding tips for creatives will help those of you who are up for…

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  • 7 tips to boost your open call

    7 tips to boost your open call

    From making sure your imagery looks great to inviting judges to review your submissions. Here are our 7 top tips to help boost the number of submissions you get for your next opportunity.

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