Grants, residencies and exhibitions open to artists in UK — 85 active calls with verified deadlines, application fees and funding details. Updated daily.
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85 active opportunities linked to UK — from local foundations to international programs accepting artists based in or targeting this region. Resolved from location fields, organizers, and verified metadata. Sign in free for the full filters, deadline reminders and calendar export.
ExhibitionSelf-fundedThe Pastel Society
The Pastel Society, founded in 1898, holds its 128th annual exhibition at Mall Galleries in London on the theme of colour, open to members and non-members working in pastel and contemporary dry media. Selection is a single online round.
Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom
FellowshipPartial FundingRoyal Drawing School
The Royal Drawing School in London teaches drawing from observation through a postgraduate programme and public courses. The Don Bachardy Fellowship, named after the Californian portrait painter, brings one emerging international artist to the school each summer term.
London, UK (Royal Drawing School, Shoreditch)
FellowshipFully FundedSound and Music
Sound and Music's transformational 18-month artist development programme for original creators.
United Kingdom
FellowshipFully FundedCharles Wallace India Trust
The third visiting Curatorial Research Fellowship of the Charles Wallace India Trust, run with the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts. It supports humanities-driven research on the V&A's photography collections, with an interest in the connections between the Indian subcontinent and the world.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
ResidencyGasworks
Gasworks' residency programme has run since 1994 and takes up to twenty artists a year from around the world; more than six hundred people from over eighty countries have passed through it. The residencies are deliberately non-prescriptive and process-based: no theme is set and no exhibition is required. This call is for artists based in Brazil who have previously taken part in the PIPA Prize.
London, United Kingdom
ResidencyFully FundedLewisham Arthouse
A free studio award with stipend and mentoring for a recent art graduate, funded by an artist-led cooperative in south-east London.
Lewisham Arthouse, London, United Kingdom
GrantPartial FundingArt Fund
This grant represents a highly specialized mechanism that perfectly complements larger European frameworks, offering small grants (up to £2,000) on an ongoing, rolling basis. It eliminates paralyzing bureaucratic wait times, allowing UK-based museum professionals and curators to be highly agile in their collections-based research. The ideal candidate is a UK-based museum professional or curator...
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This varies. Fully funded opportunities and residencies often cover travel expenses or provide travel grants, while others only fund local accommodation.
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Art academies, museums, galleries, foundations and non-profit spaces. In the organisers section you can browse them by type, each with every call it has run and the months it usually opens.