{"id":66902,"date":"2025-12-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/?p=66902"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:33:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:33:44","slug":"new-contemporaries-open-call-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/opportunities\/new-contemporaries-open-call-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"New Contemporaries Open Call 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-5f079da5 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0.4rem;padding-bottom:0.4rem\"><strong>New Contemporaries<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e406bfd8 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-base-2-color has-contrast-2-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-446873006846249f943fa8dbb2c57674 has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4e74fbfd wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"border-radius:6px;padding-top:0.3rem;padding-right:0.5rem;padding-bottom:0.3rem;padding-left:0.5rem\">\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">From \u00a325<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-accent-5-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-accent-5-background-color has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"margin-top:0.6rem;margin-bottom:0.6rem\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-right is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-35904e51 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-right is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-17124a9a wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p class=\"opp_deadline has-small-font-size\">Closing: <strong><strong><strong>22nd March 2026<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>New Contemporaries invites applications from emerging and early-career artists aged 21+ based in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, or Wales for their Artist Development Programme running September 2026 to June 2027, culminating in a major group exhibition at Focal Point Gallery and partner venues across Southend-on-Sea, opening June 2027. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selected artists receive a structured monthly programme (online and in-person sessions) including two mentoring sessions, peer networking, workshops, and talks; exhibition in the June 2027 group show with contribution opportunities to public programmes; artist fee; travel and accommodation bursary for in-person sessions and exhibition opening; access support where required; and opportunity to sell work during the exhibition (30 June-11 September 2027).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-b03bdb05 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--10)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newcontemporaries.org.uk\/open-call?utm_source=zealous.co&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=featured_opportunity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Apply<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apply by 30th March 2026 for New Contemporaries. Artist Development Programme September 2026-June 2027 for emerging UK artists aged 21+, culminating in group exhibition at Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, June 2027. \u00a325 fee to apply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-post-opportunity","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[880],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opportunities"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66904,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66902\/revisions\/66904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}