Afternoon All,
I hope you’re all well, and welcome to Issue 133 of The Shock of the Now.
Following the excitement of London Gallery Weekend, and the expanded selection of exhibition openings that came with it, I’m taking a break from Recommended Exhibitions this week. However, there are still six fresh Artist Opportunities, and normal service will return next Wednesday!
I hope you enjoy Issue 133, and if so do forward it along! As always any questions, comments or feedback are welcome, so feel free to get in touch.
All the best, and speak soon, H x
Artist Opportunities:
Thanks to support from the British Council, Delfina Foundation and Foundation Art Divvy are delighted to offer opportunities to three artists to develop their practices through residing in and engaging with the rich artistic and cultural landscapes of London and Lahore. One Pakistan-based artist will be selected for a twelve-week residency at Delfina Foundation in London, taking place between 23 September and 15 December 2024, as part of Delfina’s autumn residency season. Two UK-based artists will be selected for a three-week residency with Foundation Art Divvy in Lahore, taking place between 15 September and 8 October 2024.
Open Call, Day School 2024/25, east bristol contemporary. Deadline - Monday 10th June.
Day School is a year-long programme, offering artists a shared studio space alongside monthly education days with guest artists, support and advice for work and careers, and other professional development opportunities, community projects and social occasions. Day School is committed to the idea of alternative education as a meaningful response to the current climate of UK arts education provision, and the opportunity to contribute to maintaining a thriving artistic community in the amazing city of Bristol.
Day School Provides: A year-long programme designed to support individual progression and professional development; A small cohort of 14 (maximum) artists and practitioners with a broad range of disciplines and interests; 24/7 access to a shared studio at St Anne’s House, Bristol, the space will be organised and set up collaboratively by the participants; Monthly education days (Saturday) with invited guest artist/educator (including talks, workshops, crits, 121s, discussions and other group projects); Annual group project or exhibition; and more.
Residency, Working Class Creatives Database x SET Woolwich. Deadline - Friday 14th June.
Since 2021 the Working Class Creatives Database has hosted 10 residencies in our studio space in SET Woolwich. They are delighted to announce another residency period from the 20th July - 31st December 2024 You must be a Working Class Creative to apply 2 Artists will receive a studio space. They will prioritise those who do not have access to a working art-making space. Due to a lack of funds, they are unable to subsidise travel or accommodation. As such, you must be based in London or able to commute to Woolwich.
Open Call, Offerings: Food for the Gods, Suck Green and See Issue 005. Deadline - Saturday 15th June.
Suck Green and See invites contributions for their forthcoming autumn 2024 issue 05, on the theme - Offerings: Food for the Gods. “In many religious ceremonies, it's common to make some sort of offering or sacrifice to the gods. Do you have that kind of experience and is it inspired you? Do you know something about it? Or you have created some works about it? Please share with us your hometown tradition about food for the gods.” To submit to the open call please email oldtheifrogfairy@gmail.com along with a short bio of yourself, one/a few drawings/ pics/ writings/ poems/ tracks, a brief description of the work, either published or unpublished.
Open Call, image, scrape, synthesise, collapse, The Photographers’ Gallery. Deadline - Sunday 16th June.
The Photographers’ Gallery invites proposals for an artist or collective to develop research and create a new digital commission to be presented online and at the Gallery in February 2025. This free open call is for artists or collectives to undertake or extend research around generative AI, self-made tools or similar advanced technology. The research will in turn form a new commission to feature on Unthinking Photography and at The Photographers’ Gallery. The opportunity is open to artists and collectives working with photography, digital and moving image practices. The selected artist/collective will receive a £4,000 fee and £5,000 production costs. Applicants can be based in the UK and internationally.
Open Call, SET Film Festival 2024, SET Social. Deadline - Sunday 16th June.
Submissions are now open for the second edition of SET’s annual festival of contemporary, artist, and archival film. They’re interested in short films (under 30 minutes in length) of all genres and production techniques, including animation, documentary, experimental or artists’ films, and projects spanning low to high budgets. Films must have been completed after 1 January 2019. Screenings will take place every Thursday from 7 November to 5 December 2024 at SET Social in Peckham.
The FLAMIN Fellowship, Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network. Deadline - Monday 17th June.
Film London and Arts Council England with the support of The Fenton Arts Trust present The FLAMIN Fellowship, a major development programme for early-career artist filmmakers living in England. Part of Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN), the Fellowship aims to support the most exciting, innovative and challenging moving image practices from filmmakers at the early stages of their careers, with development and funding for new work. The FLAMIN Fellowship offers a unique opportunity in developing professional artistic practice with a series of monthly workshops, which cover key areas including selling artwork, film festival strategy, writing funding applications, archiving your work, sound design, insurance, copyright and sustaining a practice.
In October this year, Bow Arts will present In the footsteps of the East London Group – an exhibition exploring the past and present of east London, bringing together the historical paintings of the East London Group with their 21st century contemporaries. For the exhibition, they are inviting artists with a connection to east London to submit their proposals for a new, contemporary sound piece to be exhibited in the show. The piece will activate the gallery and provide an atmospheric soundtrack which will immerse visitors as they move through the exhibition and encounter the streets, scenes, and communities which make up the fabric of east London, then and now.
Bow Arts are looking for proposals for sound artworks in a range of different formats – from soundscapes, field recordings, conversations, and interviews, to community radio broadcasts, audio experiments, songs, chants, incantations, and more. There are no explicit requirements for format or length of the audio artwork – they only ask that the work must be suitable to be played/looped throughout the exhibition, but they are open to different interpretations of this and more experimental installations too.
Open Call, Ethereality, Photobook Cafe. Deadline - Thursday 20th June.
A photographic one evening group exhibition and print/publication sales event curated by Alice Campos. In response to Lyle Rexer’s Antiquarian Avant Garde, Ethereality brings together artists using photographic forms of image making to transform the physical world, and the acquisition of power-the power to separate out spirits of metals.
Open Call, Shoes Shoes Shoes, outhouse Gallery. Deadline - Friday 21st June.
outhouse Gallery are collecting shoes! Do you have any shoes/ shoe look alikes/ shoes with stories/ shoe paraphernalia/ shoe artworks, props, costumes? Chosen artefacts/artworks will be exhibited at outhouse Gallery in Camberwell and you will need to drop any work off in person by 1st July. You do not need to think of yourself as an artist - all are welcome. Please email outhouse your submission with a photo and description. Open to interpretation. Curated by Stella Pearce and Robin Pickering. wewantshoesplease@gmail.com
International Curators Forum (ICF) is accepting applications for an emerging or early career UK-based Black or Brown researcher/curator with an interest in working on an exciting, new project addressing the legacy and contemporary relevance of Ten.8 Magazine. Their research into the Ten.8 archives will inform their development of a public event which they will curate and produce with the ICF programmes team, at The Photographers’ Gallery in London to correspond with an archival exhibition on the legacy of Ten.8 in January 2025; a major exhibition at The New Art Gallery Walsall activating the Ten.8 archive and bringing it into dialogue with artworks and other materials set to take place between April and September 2026; digital programming or outputs activating the Ten.8 archive; a contribution to a new publication on the legacy of Ten.8, bringing together key existing texts and new commissions.
The Hari Art Prize 2024. Deadline - Sunday 23rd June.
A Space For Art is delighted to announce the Third edition of The Hari Art Prize, celebrating the global roster of artistic talents attracted to London. A Space for Art is pleased to collaborate again with award-winning luxury hotel The Hari in Belgravia for the return of The Hari Art Prize for 2024, with a cash prize of £10,000 awarded to the finalist. The two runners-up will receive £3000 in second place, and £1000 in third place. The prize is open to applicants who have graduated within the last five years (2019-2024) from UK art colleges or Art Students who are currently studying at a UK Art College. All shortlisted artists will be invited to exhibit a work in The Hari Art Prize Shortlist exhibition which will be on view at The Hari Hotel in September.
Open Call, Antigone Revisted, Marcelle Joseph x Hypha Studios. Deadline - Wednesday 26th June.
Hypha Studios are excited to be partnering with Marcelle Joseph on a special Frieze London opportunity. Marcelle is curating “Antigone Revisted” in Hypha HQ and this is your chance to be part of it. To apply to be part of the exhibition, submit up to 5 works that are engaged with the theme, and Marcelle will judge the applicants to select successful work to be in the exhibition.
The theme: Antigone Revisited. The tragedy of Antigone written by Sophocles in 441 BC has attracted writers and dramatists throughout the ages from Jean Cocteau in 1922 to this excerpt from Anne Carson’s 2000 anthology of essays and poetry. Just as Cocteau turned to the drama of ancient Greece for inspiration after the upheaval of World War I, this exhibition turns to the contemporary poet Anne Carson and her interpretation of the Greek heroine of Antigone for guidance in our present era of societal crisis.
The Muse Residency Competition 2024, The Muse Gallery. Deadline - Wednesday 26th June.
Since 2004 The Muse / Gallery & Studio has supported a residency program, offering recent graduates subsidised studio space, a gallery to show and the means to cultivate both client and industry connections. Each year they host a group competition show, awarding the residency positions to a few successful artists; they appeal to all disciplines, with a BA minimum qualification from the previous two years. Artwork is then reviewed by their panel of esteemed industry professionals, curators and collectors, with an emphasis on professionalism from the onset. Their curators will award three or four artists with a residency from 13th January to the 30th June 2025. The residency will begin with a group show in January 2025 and conclude with a second group show in June 2025. Further to the residency program, a chosen artist will be awarded a three-week solo show during their 2025 calendar year.
The Zsuzsi Roboz Scholarship, Morley College London. Deadline - Saturday 29th June.
This Scholarship is offered in memory of the celebrated painter, Zsuzsi Roboz. Funds have been made available to support contemporary figurative artists of promise working primarily in painting and drawing to study for one year at Morley College London, thanks to the generosity of the ‘Alfred Teddy Smith and Zsuzsi Roboz Art Trust’. In this context Figurative primarily refers to drawing and painting or sculpture related to human form and other forms of figuration that depicts people and considers the politics of representation. The Scholarship offers the recipient one year’s part-time programme of free classes at Morley College, personal tutoring and mentoring from a professional artist and teacher, and an opportunity to exhibit work in their Gallery at the end of the year.
Turps Correspondence Course, Turps Art School 2024/25. Deadline - Sunday 30th June.
Turps Correspondence Course is an innovative programme of online mentoring facilitated through critical, supportive written reviews delivered by a dedicated mentor. The course is aimed at painters who want to develop or reinvigorate their work, whether recently graduated from art school, mid-career or those without any formal arts education. The course is designed and structured to be delivered entirely online so that painters, based anywhere in the world and at any stage in their career, can participate and receive informed, critical feedback from a mentor who is practising painter selected by Turps. There are 5 review points throughout the year when you will be required to upload images of your work and a short statement or ‘letter’ to your mentor. Your mentor will then review what has been uploaded and write their response. It is a very different type of feedback from more conventional face-to-face tutorials but Turps believe this is what makes the correspondence course such an appealing and sought-after professional development course.
MASS Correspondence Course, MASS Art School 2024/25. Deadline - Sunday 30th June.
Mass Correspondence Course is an innovative distance-learning programme of online mentoring facilitated through critical, supportive written reviews by a dedicated mentor. The course is aimed at sculptors based anywhere in the world and at any stage in their career who want to develop or reinvigorate their work, whether recently graduated from art school or those without any formal arts education.
Artists’ Collecting Society Studio Prize 2024. Deadline - Sunday 30th June.
The Artists' Collecting Society (ACS) is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company that administers intellectual property rights on behalf of visual artists. ACS is offering a recent graduate the chance to win £6,000 to contribute to the cost of an artist’s studio in a UK city of their choice. ACS has once again partnered with Gurr Johns International, a global independent art advisory and appraisal group, to offer this year’s five finalists the opportunity to take part in a group exhibition at Gurr Johns. The exhibition will take place in their St James’s first-floor gallery in autumn 2024. If you are a UK or EEA national and are an undergraduate or postgraduate university student on an accredited art course who is about to graduate, or if you have graduated from a university accredited art course within the last four years, and you work in pictures, collage, painting, sculpture, tapestry, ceramics, glassware or photography, then you are eligible to apply for the prize.
The Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University is seeking to appoint two contemporary practitioners to the Stanley Picker Fellowships in Design & Fine Art 2024. Each Fellowship provides up to £16,000 and valuable access to the extensive material workshops, technical resources and expertise within Kingston School of Art and the wider University departments, to support a practice-based, innovative research project that will result in an exhibition of international standing at the Stanley Picker Gallery.
DoBeDo Book Award, DoBeDo Projects. Deadline - Monday 8th July.
The DoBeDo Projects Book Award will be accepting submissions for the publication of a photo book by photographers at any stage of their career with an unpublished photographic project (that is complete, or close to completion). This award offers start-to-finish production of a photobook for those selected by the jury; edited, designed, printed and published by DoBeDo Projects, which also includes distribution, press and promotion of the publication. Different publication formats and budgets will be awarded on a project-by-project basis up to £50,000. Winners will be selected by a jury of established industry professionals.
LGW was an abundance! I wonder if anyone has or will see all 130+ shows before they close?