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Window Open Call
Image: Retina by Clive Burton
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: 11th July – 31st August
Decision announced: End of September
Launch night: Saturday 8th 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.
- A budget for materials & costs involved in the production (up to £100)
- 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.
Tin 003 Open Call
Tin 003
Open Call
Open to artists to have hARTslane Artist Membership
Deadline extended to Monday 28th of July!
hARTslane Artist Membership
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.
Open for registration: Making 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.
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hARTslane CIC is an art project space in New Cross Gate, rooted in the local community.
This is a place where artists and local people come together to share ideas, explore contemporary issues and be inspired.
We have a gallery space that we make available to artists to experiment and present their work to the public. This space is however in dire need of repair work.
We need your help for us to be able to improve our building so we can continue to offer and even expand our services.
Thank you for your support and good luck!
Yours sincerely,
The hARTslane team