Tag: Opportunities
Love Shack
Love Shack
hARTslane’s members annual show 2025
Love Shack is our annual members show taking place at hARTslane over the Valentine’s weekend.
Open Call 3rd of January -3rd of February 2025
Show opening on: Friday 14th February 5-8pm
Open on 15th and 16th, 11-4pm
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Jennifer Nieuwland
Liew Shiang Her
Kelvin Atmadibrata
Yunzhi Li
Natalia Zagorska-Thomas
Sion Knight
Kate Vagurina
Angela Wright
Chloe Cooper
Ash Fitzgerald
Emily Grenville-Grey
Małgorzata Drohomirecka
Christine Stewart
Emma Coop
Biancamaria Martini
Georgia Salmond
Jose Abad Lorente
Melissa Burton
Loann Hutchinson
Kate Murdoch
Rachel Bowyer
Antonella ferrari
Sheena Zhang
Yulia Rotkina
Wolfgang Woerner
Ivana Redfern
Janet Currier
Stéphane Lambion
Louisa Mahony
Karen Byrne
Rachel Lonsdale
Tin
Tin
RISOGRAPH ZINE
Curated by Rachel Lonsdale & Max Melvin
Tin will gather the defining mood or spirit of this period. We’ll move across the year with a new open call and new zine every season.
To submit send us:
Any open-ended writing (200 words max)
We would like to see: phone notes/ lists/ emails/ rants/ anecdotes/ thoughts/ musings/ recipes/ recommendations/ reviews/ research/ fragments
AND
A recent pic of nature (one)
I.e trees etc
One picture and one piece of writing only per artist.
100 copies of the zine will be printed using risograph (one colour) and on 55 gsm. Then distributed online and through our gallery.
Next open call*: June 2025
TIN Edition 001, Winter 2024, £5. Pay here & send us an email with your name and address
TIN Edition 002, Spring 2025, £5. Pay here & send us an email with your name and address
Open Call: All I Want For Christmas Is… Peace
All I Want for Christmas is… Peace
hARTslane’s International Winter Show and Fundraiser
OPEN CALL
All I Want For Christmas is… Peace is a group exhibition of postcard-sized artworks that is open to all creatives, artists and illustrators.
Deadline for sending artworks: Wednesday 20th of November 2024
Exhibition dates: 6 – 8 December 2024, 12 noon – 6pm
PV Friday 6th of December, 5-8pm
The exhibition will be free to attend.
hARTslane is pleased to present All I Want For Christmas is… Peace the first edition of its annual International Winter Show and Fundraiser. Each year, we invite artists from all over the world to come together to exhibit and support hARTslane by donating a postcard-sized work in any medium. Each original work will be sold for £30 and all proceeds go to benefit hARTslane’s mission to bring people together and closer to themselves through the arts. This year we have decided to keep the price of each work to £30 so that all artworks exhibited can be more affordable and accessible.
This year’s exhibition theme focuses on a call for a more just and peaceful world. Artists from all countries are welcome to submit their works. Whether you’re an established artist or someone who simply loves to create, hARTslane welcomes you to be a part of our celebration of international art and creativity and call for peace. Share your work, connect with fellow artists, and contribute to a message of peace and unity through art.
hARTslane is a non-profit arts organisation and exhibition space founded in London in 2012. The organisation is an alternative to mainstream institutions and empower both emerging talents and established artists, enabling them to curate, exhibit, and collaborate.
Guidelines:
- Entry is Free and all artworks are accepted. We have a Policy of Saying Yes to Artists.
- We invite artists to participate by donating a postcard-sized work (10x15cm) in any medium relating to the theme of peace.
- Each original work will be exhibited at hARTslane in December 2024 and sold for £30. Proceeds will benefit hARTslane’s mission to support artists and bring people together.
- To participate, artists have to fill in this online form & send their artwork via post to hARTslane, 17 Harts Lane, SE14 5UP London – United Kingdom
- Up to 4 artworks per artists will be accepted
- All mediums accepted: painting, photography, printmaking, mixed media, poems, illustration, etc
- All artworks need to be signed and include the title at the back
- All participating artists will be acknowledged on the website and promotional materials
- We’ll accept all artworks that arrive by Wednesday 20th of November 2024
- Please note that submitted artworks will not be returned following the close of the exhibition.
- The copyright and all other intellectual property rights will remain with the artist. hARTslane has the right to reproduce works in connection with the exhibition.
- hARTslane will hold personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Invisible Visible – Exhibition
ARTISTS
Kelvin Atmadibrata
Gem Bryant
Ros Cairns
Freya Clayton-Harding
Vivienne Cohen
El Colman
Laura Crosbie
Theo Dunne
Aisling Gallagher
Lola Gillies-Creasey
Margaux Halloran
Sally Hernández (Yaiza)
Caitlin Howe
Anna lll
Usva Inei
Theo Jackson
Katrina Lyne-Watt
Roux Malherbe
Jaime Martinez Lopez
Robbie McKinstry
Eva Merendes
Efrat Merin
Saffron Mustafa (Saf)
Charlie Oppenheim
Alessandro Paiano
E.M. Parry
Sol Santana
Eva Sbaraini
Artur Siudem
Siao-Chen Wang (Sam)
Raffi Williamson
Yufeng Wu
Lianjiang Zhu
Xinyu XuXX
‘Invisible Visible’
A Celebration of LGBQT+ Bodies and Identities
EXHIBITION
15 – 24 MARCH, 2024
Open daily, 2-6pm / Sat & Sun, 12-6pm
Opening night, Friday 15th, 5-8pm
Family Drop in, Sunday 24th, 12noon-2pm (art workshop suitable for all ages)
Performances, Sunday 24th, 3-5pm
Part of The Telegraph Hill Festival 2024
‘Invisible Visible’ is a group exhibition hosted at hARTslane that celebrates LGBTQ+ identities and bodies, as well as the freedom of expression and identification in terms of one’s gender and sexuality. The aim is to bring together LGBTQ+ artists that live in New Cross and surrounding areas in order to support the community and its creativity. The exhibition is curated by queer visual artist Usva Inei.
List of Works List of Works
Programme of Performances:
Friday 15th:
5-7pm, E.M. Parry
5:30pm, Jaime Martinez Lopez
6pm, Freya Clayton-Harding
6:30pm, Caitlin Howe
Sunday 24th:
3pm, Jaime Martinez Lopez
3:30, Caitlin Howe
3:45, Freya Clayton-Harding
4pm, E.M. Parry
Family Drop in, Sunday 24th, 12-2pm:
Led by artist and curator Usva Inei.
Free art workshops to explore themes of inclusion, acceptance, and self-expression through thought-provoking artworks.
Suitable for all ages.
Supported by:
HA! (hARTslane Alternative)
HA!
(hARTslane Alternative)*
Link to the Frequently Asked Questions
What are artists doing in general? When they are not creating objects that are intensely exquisite, sharply thought-provoking, and simultaneously, shocking. When they’re not using their materials for company, creating a doll, and eating paint as sustenance. When they are not hanging out on the steps of the Tate…wondering. No but really? Is anyone else wondering?
Can we talk a bit more genuinely about the “true lives” of artists.
The artists who are outside of funding or a residency, the ones who are outside of an institution or loan, those who have graduated, those who haven’t, artists who don’t align with the working hours of other artists, artists who can’t find the time to hang out in the museum, or on its steps.
How do you find the time to collide with your other artists? Do you want to make your artistic life spicy? Again?
HA! Is an alternative “MA” Fine Art programme designed by artists in collaboration with hARTslane.
HA! provides artists with a focus on skill-sharing, affordability, and living/working life as an artist in London.
HA! responds to discontentment with mainstream art education models.
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* HA! is an alternative MA fine art programme which is not officially recognised or accredited, which is why we are “alternative”.
It’s an artist-run education model and takes place with collective resources and skill share at its heart. We learn from each other by sharing skills and knowledge.
This programme was designed around affordability and the working/living life as an artist in London. It is for those who want to develop their artistic practice but can’t afford the costs of higher university education.
If you’d like to see other alternative school programmes, I’ve attached a link here:
https://videomole.tv/alternati
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HA! (hARTslane Alternative) 2024
Location: hARTslane Gallery
Duration: 4 months (15th April – 5th August)
Commitment: 2 x evenings per week (Monday and Wednesday)
Credential: Certificate in Master of Art by the authority of the assembly *
*held at the convocation
Course content:
Studying in the belly of the beast and between the walls and afterhours of hARTslane
We will have a large selection of crits, talks, workshops, visiting artists/experts and off-site visits, gathering as a group 1-2 times a week.
There will also be the chance to test exhibiting work in a weekend interim show with your cohort at hARTslane Gallery.
Your graduation will be captured in a final 9 day show at the end of the course, also taking place at hARTslane Gallery, with a total of 8 artists.
All the sessions will be happening between hours of 6-9pm on a weekday evening, staggered over the course of 4 months.
This is a launch of a project we’ve been crafting for the past year. This year we only have 8 places available, but we are hoping to keep the project returning year after year, with many cohorts and hARTslane alumni.
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Breakdown
3 expert-led sustainability talks
– Cristiana Botigella.
Founder & director of hARTslane, established the artist in residence at the Pistoletto Foundation (Italy), research in international work (Artquest), self-determination and economic sustainability for artists.
– Charlotte Warne Thomas.
Artist, lecturer, freelance researcher and advocate for artists’ fair pay; author of Artists as Workers (2021), editor of Structurally F~cked (2023); founder of Peer Sessions post-graduate crit group; and current practice-based PhD candidate (AHRC-funding) at Kingston University.
– Sophia Kosmaoglou.
Artist and organiser who works collaboratively and across media to address the construction of identity through relationships. Founder of the alternative art education network ART&CRITIQUE (2015) and co-founder of the Radical Pedagogy Research Group (2019). She is currently working on a participatory action-research project to start a co-operative art school, in order to provide a self-organised and sustainable alternative to mainstream art education.
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2 Group crits
– One crit will be with a group of 4.
– One crit will be with the whole cohort of 8.
2 visiting practicing artists talks
– Hanne Peeraer.
Artist, facilitator and interdisciplinary problem-solver.
– Alek Mechlinski.
Artist and curator with a painting practice, engaging with this dynamic environment by reiterating, digesting, and contemplating images.
1 x Workshop on a workshop
– led by founders Rachel Lonsdale and Sarah-Athina Nahas
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8 skill-share workshops
– Every artist on the course has to offer up 1 art related skill share workshop for the rest of the cohort. Skill share can take any form, but practice-based skill share is encouraged. Some examples include technician work/sewing machine skills/ archiving/ materials/ paper making / natural dye/ sculpture/ installing work/ movement based workshops
3 off site visits
– To an art space/event/opening
1 x weekend interim show
– May 2024
9 day graduation show at hARTslane Gallery
– July 2024
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Finance
We have set the fee for the course at £90 per month, coming to a total of £360 for the whole programme.
This will be in 4 instalments from April-July, expected on the 1st of the month
The first instalment will be expected on 1st March 2024. Instalments will not be refundable
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Project Lead(s)
– Rachel Lonsdale and Sarah-Athina Nahas
Rachel is a multi-disciplinary artist. Rachel puts questions to the environments she encounters (mainly spaces in London but sometimes in the Northeast of England when train fares are low and she goes home). She creates narrative in the form of performance, writing, text and film. She restages elements of contemporary life and interacts with everyday objects, misusing them to create unresolved mysteries, satire, and conflict.
After graduating from Wimbledon College of Art on the BA fine art course that has since been axed ~RIP~, she is now Programme Co-ordinator at hARTslane gallery where she programmes events, co-curates exhibitions and other action. She is the co-founder of GRAVEL* (2022-2023), and now is part of conch collective* as another extension of live performance projects.
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Sarah-Athina is Lebanese-French multidisciplinary artist with a particular interest for painting, textiles, sewing and any time consuming, painstaking activity. She studied BA:Fine Art at Wimbledon (UAL) and then had a very contrasting experience at the Royal college of Art. It reinforced her love for the alternative and underground culture in general.
She co-ran GRAVEL* (2022-2023) where she developed her drawing performances, exploring silky paints mixed with honey and spilled goblets of wine. She’s part of conch collective, a get-together of artists with a particular focus on performance(s) with a small P but with a big S.
(for both)
*a tri-monthly live performance art evening at hARTslane gallery
* a humble collective of seven
Invisible Visible Open Call
Dates:
Open Call open: Tuesday 2nd of January 2024
Deadline for submissions: Sunday 21th of January 2024
Drop-off date: Wednesday 13 March 2024, 4-8pm
Exhibition dates:
15-24 March 2024, 12-6pm
Opening night Friday 15th, 5-8pm
Part of The Telegraph Hill Festival 2024
Supported by:
‘Invisible Visible’
A Celebration of LGBQT+ Bodies and Identities
OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES
Deadline for submission: Sunday 21 January 2024
‘Invisible Visible’ is a group exhibition hosted at hARTslane that will be celebrating LGBTQ+ identities and bodies, as well as the freedom of expression and identification in terms of one’s gender and sexuality. The aim is to bring together LGBTQ+ artists that live in New Cross and surrounding areas in order to support the community and its creativity. The exhibition will be curated by queer visual artist Usva Inei.
We are now looking for entries for the exhibition. We welcome artwork of any media that responds to the themes of the call, including, but not limited to drawing, painting, printmaking, video, workshop, performance, sculpture, and installation. Please note that since we want to include as many artists as possible, you may be asked to edit or resubmit work that is very large. Depending on the number and type of entries, video work, performances, and workshops may be shown during viewings or events rather than throughout the show.
We will not be accepting work that is derogatory or against hARTslane’s inclusivity policy.
Eligibility and Submission:
We welcome any work by individuals that identify as LGBTQ+ and live or work in New Cross or surrounding areas (e.g., Peckham, Deptford, Telegraph Hill).
This exhibition is to celebrate and bring together the work of local LGTBQ+ talent. For this reason, we have left the theme intentionally quite vague and open for you to interpret. Our main goal is to bring together local LGBQT+ talent.
Your work does not need to be completely finished for the submission, you may submit a sketch. However, we need to be able to get an idea of what you will be creating.
We will accept one work per artist.
We will not be accepting work that is derogatory or against hARTslane’s Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Policy.
Submission of work and participation are free of charge.
Click HERE to submit your work.
Drop-Off and Pick-Up of Artwork:
You will need to physically drop off your work at hARTslane on Wednesday 13 March 2024, 4-8pm (or have someone drop it off for you). The work needs to be ready to hang.
Please provide written detailed instructions on hanging and installing. We will have nails and screws but If your work requires special fittings, you will need to provide them and you may be asked to help with installation.
Artwork will need to be picked up on Sunday 24th of March between 6 and 8pm. hARTslane does not have the space to store work outside of exhibition dates.
Curation:
The exhibition will be curated by visual artist Usva Inei. Usva (they/them) is a trans non-binary visual and performance artist. Usva mainly works through mixed media installations, with printmaking being at the centre of their practice. Working from their own lived experiences as a queer immigrant, Usva’s artwork addresses themes of misuse of power, suppression of freedom of speech, and generational trauma.
Following hARTslane’s policies, we aim to take all submissions. However, please note that due to spatial restriction, we may need to ask you to adapt or resubmit work if it is large. Depending on the number and type of entries, video work, performances, and workshops may be shown during viewings or events rather than throughout the show.
Care of work and liability:
The utmost care will be taken of all work submitted, however hARTslane shall not be liable for any:
- theft of, loss of, or damage to the artwork whilst on display/exhibition or stored in the gallery or the Artist’s property during the exhibition period;
- personal injury of the artist except to the extent that this was due to hARTslane’s negligence;
- exhibiting artists will assume the responsibility to insure their works. The gallery is covered by Public Liability Insurance policy.
Photographs:
Exhibiting artists accept and agree that all works in the exhibition may be photographed and used for publicity and promotion of the exhibition (including on social media).
For further information please email info@hartslane.org
Artist Development and Access to Opportunities
Following discussions with artists, we have noticed there is a recurring theme surrounding a lack of support and accessibility to opportunities and arts funding applications. The creative sector deserves better than this – we want to collaborate by sharing our resources and experience.
We are offering a programme of artist development events and opportunities that take place either in hARTslane or online.
We currently offer:
- Arts Council England DYCP (Developing Your Creative Practice) application writing group workshops and webinars.
- ACE DYCP application support & review (both new applications and resubmissions)
- We can help you obtain ACE Access Support for DYCP and NLPG funding applications and we can be your support worker
- One-to-one advice & mentoring sessions: from career and practice development to funding, accessing opportunities, visibility, community engagement and project management.
Our group sessions normally cost £20 and one-to one online advice sessions are £40. For fees on application review and for more information please contact us via email at info@hartslane.org
DYCP Grant – Application writing webinar
Ongoing / Normally 4-6 times a year and near the ACE DYCP deadlines
Sessions last 90 minutes
New dates are announced on our Instagram page
Are you an artist looking to further develop your practice but you are not sure how to?
Are you planning to apply for Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) programme and are looking for inspiration, advice and support?
Join our Developing Your Creative Practice funding application writing workshop. We will share our knowledge and experience to help you create a strong Arts Council DYCP application.
What to expect:
During the workshop we will take an in-depth look at the DYCP programme application process: eligibility criteria and access support, the questions and what ACE assessors are looking for, how to create a solid plan and a budget.
We will look at examples of successful applications and we will share useful tips and resources to help you develop your ideas, plan and write your own application.
The session will be friendly and informal. There will be plenty of opportunities for discussion and questions.
This workshop is tailored to those who are planning to apply to Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice programme. However, it will be beneficial to all those who want to take a moment to reflect on how to develop their practice and decide to apply in the future or just want to bring their practice to the next level and don’t know where to start.
What is a DYCP?
Arts Council England’s DYCP supports individuals who are cultural and creative practitioners and want to take time to focus on their creative development.
Artis Residencies Unwrapped
Run by Cristiana Bottigella (hARTslane director) & Rain Wu (Artist & lecturer)
Join us at hARTslane to get inspired and discover everything you need to know about artist in residence programmes:
Why you should go
What they are
Where to find them
How to apply…and be successful!
1-to-1 sessions
These sessions are bespoke and they can be booked as a one-off or as a series.
This is an opportunity to get practical advice, receive feedback on your work and find out more ways to support your practice. There is no expectation of prior knowledge about funding and project proposals.
The sessions are informal and conversational.
Participants can use the advice session as they choose. This could involve:
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A creative review of a project idea
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Practice development; plan of action and target-setting
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Funding opportunities; where to start and how to select the right ones
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Help finding partners and creating meaningful exchange in working with local communities
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Reading and commenting on a funding application/artistic opportunity or residency
Each session is a confidential, relaxed discussion about your ideas or project to explore the key issues and challenges you have identified. An advice session generally ends with a clear set of tasks and priorities or resources in order to progress to the next stage of your creative journey.
Sessions last 1 hour and cost £40.
For more information or bookings, please email us.
Artist Residencies Unwrapped – Informal talk on Saturday 10th of September, 11-1pm
Are you an artist interested in ART RESIDENCIES but you have questions or you are not sure how to start?
Join us in hARTslane on
Saturday 10th of September 2022, 11-1pm
A unique and informal opportunity to get inspired and discover everything you need to know about Artist in Residence programmes.
WHY YOU SHOULD GO
WHAT THEY ARE
WHERE TO FIND THEM
HOW TO APPLY
Run by Cristiana Bottigella (hARTslane director & head of UNIDEE Artist in Residence, 2000-2009) & Rain Wu (Artist & Associate Lecturer at UAL and Goldsmiths).
PART OF: Find the LANE to your ART!
An informal artist development programme run by hARTslane to advance your practice and fulfil your creative dreams!
Open Call: Floor Tat – deadline 8th of August, part of Gravel
Floor Tat
Saturday 27th of August, 6-8pm
Hello all
“Spread your wings look at the floor and its contents” – the sand man
The time has come, the energy bills are in the sky
Next Event: FLOOR TAT
Curated by Rachel Lonsdale and Kyran Gilbert, guest curator Anthea Hudson
On Saturday 27th August from 6-8pm we are hosting a live performance event in hARTslane in front of a small audience. We are looking for artists to work with us. This will be an evening showcasing artists who experiment with live performance.
We have three slots going to perform. Each artist is given 15 minutes. There’s no pressure for finalised or complete work, a lot of us will be showing snippets and works in progress. We have a camera to record footage to give to artists afterwards.
What to expect: performance/sound/sketch/spoken word/parody
We have: a mic/speakers/projector/tables
If you are an artist experimenting with something live and want to bring it to hARTslane gallery to test, send an email to Rachel and Kyran at hartslanegallery@gmail.com with your name, title of the piece and a description of what you’d like to perform. You can also send accompanying images and links and clips of the performance. Three artists will be looking over the submissions.
This is an open call and there are only four slots this time however the GRAVEL event will be every two months or so, so your work could be included in the next event if not this one
DEADLINE for submissions: Monday 8th August
For more info and images from our last event check out our linktree under GRAVEL