Artists

Proposals for new structures for ACE funding from 2018 are on the table for consultation at Arts Council England.

Read the proposals and share your opinion by 20 March 2016.

Read more in Arts Professional.

The Shape Open is an annual call-out for disabled and non-disabled artists to submit work in response to a disability-focused theme. Exhibiting artists will be selected by a panel of arts industry judges to show their work at Shape Open patron Yinka Shonibare MBE’s Guest Projects space. The winning artist will receive a £1,000 prize.

This year's theme, chosen Yinka Shonibare, is 'My Life'.

Poole Housing Partnership is inviting expressions of interest from art tutors/artists/art therapists to lead a Creative Arts for Dementia Group on a contract basis.

The weekly group will be for people with early or mid stage dementia that, subject to funding, should be running from the autumn following a successful pilot earlier this year. You will be required to register with the Borough of Poole as a provider of services prior to starting to provide the service.

An expression of interest form must be submitted by 31st December 2015.

Liverpool will celebrate World Mental Health Day on Saturday 10 October with a programme of events more extensive and varied than those offered in any other city in the UK. The activities range from music, performance and debates to film, training, advice and information. Now in its 6th year and organised by Liverpool Mental Health Consortium, one of the most popular events in our World Mental Health Day programme has proved to be the art exhibition.

Baltic Creative, Baltic Triangle, Liverpool

9–11 October 2015

Mark Storor and Anna Ledgard’s latest project The Barometer of My Heart. 

The Barometer of My Heart asks 'What is it to be a man today?', and offers an intimate reimagining of masculinity. Inspired by workshops and real conversations with men, carnivalesque, primitive and tender performances will bring male experiences kept in the shadows into the light.

The Wellcome collections' picture library is currently acccepting submissions of images for the library and for its awards.

Award-winning images will go on display in science centres and public galleries around the world.

The Australian arts community has roundly condemned the Federal Government in submissions to a Senate inquiry on the impact of Budget cuts to arts funding.

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Are you a marginalised or disabled artist, writer, maker or engaging in arts activity? Creative Future is researching the barriers that marginalised and disabled artists face when accessing arts opportunities. Complete this survey before the 11 September 2015 to be in with a chance of winning £60. The survey has 24 questions (mostly tick boxes and can be completed in around 15 minutes). The research will help organisations engage more people who are marginalised and disabled.

Click here for the survey

A new umbrella organisation has been established to support individual participatory artists. The Artworks Alliance has been developed from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded Artworks scheme to support the development of those working in community arts, socially-engaged arts, voluntary arts, and arts in education and learning.