Author: info@hartslane.org

Window Open Call for hARTslane Artist Members

“There is a window from one heart to another heart” – Rumi, Poet

We’re welcoming proposals for an artwork to be in our window from November 2025-26!

Open Call: 11^th July – 31^st August
Decision announced: End of September
Launch night: Saturday 8^th November

Guidelines:

Window Dimensions: 83cm x 73cm x 5cm

Please note: The window has a shallow arch at the top.

Send your proposals in PDF format to info@hartslane.org

All artist proposals must include:

Artist name, Title of Work, Short blurb explaining the work (300 words max).

Any additional content that you think will give us a good idea of the work you are proposing – drawings, mock ups, images.

Material specification details, including external materials that are durable for one year.

Outline of your Self-construction and installation process including any required maintenance and upkeep for the year.

Health and safety issues must be considered throughout. A risk assessment will be required for the selected artwork.

The complete removal of the work at the end.

hARTslane has a public liability insurance and artists are highly advised to have a public liability insurance as the artwork is public facing for one year.

This open call is for hARTslane Artist members only. If you’re interested in joining, find all information on our website.

Artist Membership

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Exhibitions, Opportunities

Tin 003

Open Call

Open to artists to have hARTslane Artist Membership

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Opportunities

hARTslane Artist Membership

Upcoming events:

Tin003 (the summer edition) Open Call

Open call for our window installation

Next Open Studios: Saturday 8th of November 2025

Artist Members Annual Exhibition: 20-22 March 2026

hARTslane Artist Membership is a new initiative open to artists at any stage of their career and from any background, offering opportunities to showcase and develop their work while being part of an exciting and supportive creative community.

You’ll get:

Monthly newsletters
Participation in the yearly Artist Members’ Show at hARTslane
The opportunity to contribute your writing & images to tin, our seasonal Art Zine up to 4 times a year.
Participation in the Artist Members’ Open Studio in hARTslane
The opportunity to propose an artwork for our window (annual open call for members only).

How to become a member:

The membership is open to all artists and creatives. Please choose one of the following options.

From £4 / month via Pay Pal
£42 / year via bank transfer to Hartslane CIC, account number: 67219643, sort code: 08-92-99 and send us an email with your details.

** Membership Terms **

In the case of monthly membership, payments will be due monthly and will renew automatically month by month. In the case of annual membership, we will invite you
to renew before your membership comes to an end.

You will be eligible for a full refund of a monthly or annual payment if you cancel your membership within 14 days of that payment being made. We do not offer refunds for cancellations of memberships after this time except as described below.

We reserve the right to make changes to the terms of membership. We may make minor changes to reflect any changes in relevant laws or to implement adjustments that will have no significant effect on your membership benefits. For more significant changes we will notify you in advance and you may then contact us to cancel the membership before the changes take effect. Donations will not be refunded.

All membership benefits are subject to availability, and membership is non-transferable. For more information on how we look after your personal information please see our Cookies & Privacy Policy.

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Exhibitions, Opportunities

Open for registration: Macking a Buck Without Selling Out

New course on artist professional practice— open for registration!

We’re thrilled to launch Making a Buck Without Selling Out, a new course on artists’ professional practice, with hARTslane co-director Cristiana Bottigella and guest tutor Sophia Kosmaoglou, founder of ART&CRITIQUE and co-founder of the Radical Pedagogy Research Group.

We created this course because we recognise that there’s a gap in art education—one that rarely prepares artists for the realities of building a practice in today’s culture industry.

The art world’s economy is full of contradictions. Artists are expected to be visionaries, provocateurs, and entrepreneurs all at once. We’re told to challenge the system—while also expected to succeed within it. Artists must survive and keep making work within a capitalist economy. That means negotiating visibility, marketing, and income—without selling out.

This course confronts that tension. It asks:

What does it mean to prioritise artistic integrity over marketability?
How do you stay connected and visible without getting drawn into competition and isolation?
What does autonomy look like when you also need to pay the rent?

This programme isn’t a checklist or a formula. It’s a space to ask difficult questions about what keeps your work going, what threatens to undermine it, and how to protect your autonomy while expanding your networks and building community. You’ll also reflect on what success means for you, and what it takes—emotionally, materially, ethically—to keep your practice sustainable over time.

You’ll get 6 online sessions, weekly activities with tangible outcomes, peer review, written feedback, and collective learning, a workbook to map your progression, resources, tools, and one-to-one tutorials to review your action plan.

Find out more and register on the course page

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Art Education, Opportunities

hARTslane Open Studios

hARTslane open studios

Thursday 29th May between 12-8pm

As part of the artist membership scheme* we are creating a hARTslane open studios for all of our members on Thursday 29th May between 12-8pm.

12 – 6pm – drop in and install your work. We will make available tables and plinths for you to use. Artists are responsible for install and deinstall of their work so please bring the necessary equipment. One piece of work only per artist.

4-6pm – feedback speed dating. This will be a 2-minute feedback and initial reaction to your work/ a document of your work. There are 24 places available and sign up is on a first come first served basis.

6-8pm – open studios are open to the public.

8pm – deinstalling and taking home your artwork.

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Opportunities

Jane Foole

Jane Foole is comprised of six artists.
They met at various stages of their artists journey.
Since then they have been fashioning an overdone piece of elaborate
entertainment, a selection box, alchemy.
We swing in differing stages of performance art.

Jane Foole is in residence with hARTslane Gallery from April 2025 to April 2026

Rachel Lonsdale – Sarah-Athina Nahas – Max Melvin – Michal Adamczewski – Melanie Christine Amengual

Friday 13th of June, 5-8pm Opening Night with bar

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Performance