Artist Calendar: Opportunities, Classes and Exhibitions
A selection of events for artists, including workshops, art classes and art holidays. To view an event, click the tile to reveal the event details. Filter results by date, type of event, or region. To submit an event, fill out the form below the calendar.
Please note: due to UK government advice on social distancing regarding COVID-19, many events across the country have been postponed or cancelled. Please contact the event organiser directly for up-to-date information, or to amend a listing please email dan@jacksonsart.co.uk.
Our Gloucester Shop workshops have also been postponed.
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Course Dates: September 11th – October 23th, Wednesdays 12-3pm. November 6th – December 18th, Wednesdays 12-3pm. January 8th – February 12th, Wednesdays 12-3pm. February 26th – April 1st, Wednesdays 12-3pm. April 22nd – May 20th, Wednesdays 12-3pm. June 3rd – July 22nd (except July 8), Wednesdays 12-3pm. Course fees: £90.00 To sign up, contact Zsuzsanna Pataki at 07545685444 or email art@zsuzsannapataki.com September 11 (Wednesday) 10:00 am - July 22 (Wednesday) 3:00 pm Ripley Arts Centre 24 Sundridge Avenue Bromley BR1 2PX Postcards from The Trafalgar Way 2020 is an art and photography competition. You are invited to submit a photograph or artwork portraying a feature, scene or event on or more Postcards from The Trafalgar Way 2020 is an art and photography competition. You are invited to submit a photograph or artwork portraying a feature, scene or event on or near to The Trafalgar Way route. What is The Trafalgar Way? The Battle of Trafalgar took place on October 21 1805 and is probably Britain’s greatest naval victory. The Trafalgar Way tells the story of how news of this momentous event was first delivered to London. After nine days in tumultuous seas, the official messenger, Lt John Richards Lapenotiere, came ashore in Falmouth. He used a series of horse-driven post-chaises to travel ‘express’ to London, covering 271 miles and changing horses 21 times to arrive within 38 hours of setting out. His adventure became a race with another naval officer, both keen to claim the reward for delivering news of the utmost national importance. Over two hundred years later The Trafalgar Way is the UK’s first national historic coaching route, celebrated and commemorated with plaques at every staging post and with events and competitions such as this one helping to put it on the map and into the national consciousness. Although parts of the route have changed since Lapenotiere’s day, large swathes remain as beautiful as they were when his post-chaise clattered through. Many of the coaching inns where Lapenotiere changed horses have survived, as have many thousands of other buildings, some dating back into the mists of time. The Trafalgar Way is is a living artery, reminding us of our island’s enduring relationship with its Royal Navy. It’s a place where history and modernity meet, but above all it is a story, and one which gets better with every retelling. Our mission for you is to be part of this epic story. Capture what you can of the essence of The Trafalgar Way. Study the route and show it to us in photographs, drawings and paintings. We’ll publish the best of them to showcase history in its modern setting, a series of Postcards from The Trafalgar Way to document our own chapter in time. You can find out where The Trafalgar Way runs using this interactive, zoomable map. On The Trafalgar Way website you can also find route descriptions mentioning example features and some photographs to inspire you. The competition is open to all residents of the United Kingdom and to anyone who will be aged 7 or above on 1st September 2020. The full terms and conditions of the competition can be found at https://www.thetrafalgarway.org/competition-termsandconditions-postcards2020 For a fuller explanation of what is required from entrants please see our competition guidelines and FAQ. December 1 (Sunday) - September 1 (Tuesday) Orlanda Broom and Nick Moran are exhibiting paintings and sculptors at 10 Gresham Street, London. Curated by VJB Arts, the work will be installed from February until May in the Orlanda Broom and Nick Moran are exhibiting paintings and sculptors at 10 Gresham Street, London. Curated by VJB Arts, the work will be installed from February until May in the reception area of the Norman Foster building. Visitors are welcome to visit for the duration of the exhibition – it is open Monday-Friday 8am-8pm or by appointment at weekends. January 30 (Thursday) 8:00 am - May 29 (Friday) 8:00 pm 10 Gresham Street, London 10 Gresham Street, London After a decade of conceptual and minimal art, the 1981 exhibition A New Spirit in Painting at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, took the art world by storm. Lavishly painted, more After a decade of conceptual and minimal art, the 1981 exhibition A New Spirit in Painting at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, took the art world by storm. Lavishly painted, epically scaled canvases reasserted the centrality of painting – and the hand of the artist. The 38 exhibitors hailed from Europe and America and were exclusively male. This seminal show was curated by RA Exhibitions Secretary Norman Rosenthal, Nicholas Serota, then director of the Whitechapel Gallery, and independent curator Christos M. Joachimides. It was to be the fountainhead for a sequence of solo surveys organised by Nicholas Serota at the Whitechapel Gallery of painters including Georg Baselitz, Cy Twombly, Anselm Kiefer, Malcolm Morley and Julian Schnabel. Privileging history, mythology and the sublime, their work came to define the tendencies in painting in the 1980s. The Return of the Spirit in Painting presents works by artists in the original shows, including Georg Baselitz, Bruce McLean and Julian Schnabel, as well as significant archive material from the Whitechapel Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts. February 5 (Wednesday) 9:00 am - August 23 (Sunday) 6:00 pm Whitechapel Gallery 77-82 Whitechapel High St, London, E1 7QX Aesthetica Art Prize is hosted by the international art and culture publication, Aesthetica Magazine. It has supported artists since 2006, inviting both emerging and established practitioners from around the world more Aesthetica Art Prize is hosted by the international art and culture publication, Aesthetica Magazine. It has supported artists since 2006, inviting both emerging and established practitioners from around the world to submit their work. Through the Prize, participants can reach new collectors, curators and gallerists from key institutions such as; Tate Modern, Sotheby’s, Creative Review, Magnum Photos and Getty Images, and gain wider recognition through Aesthetica’s publication and digital channels. Awards include £5,000 for the Main Prize Winner, £1,000 for the Emerging Prize Winner, as well as publication within the Future Now: 100 Contemporary Artists Anthology, and a chance to participate in the annual Art Prize Exhibition which will run for 12-weeks. Click the link below for more information. The deadline for entries is 31 August 2020. February 21 (Friday) 12:00 am - August 31 (Monday) 12:00 am The Yellow Wallpaper is an exhibition of new portraits by American artist Kehinde Wiley. This will be the first solo exhibition of new work shown by Wiley at a public The Yellow Wallpaper is an exhibition of new portraits by American artist Kehinde Wiley. This will be the first solo exhibition of new work shown by Wiley at a public institution in the UK and also the first to feature exclusively female portraits. The works feature women that the artist met on the streets of Dalston and offer a visual response to American novelist Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s acclaimed feminist text, The Yellow Wallpaper (1892). February 22 (Saturday) 9:00 am - May 25 (Monday) 5:00 pm William Morris Gallery Lloyd Park, Forest Road Walthamstow, London E17 4PP From his celebrated self-portraits to dreamlike scenes of the North Sea coast, this exhibition will introduce UK audiences to the visionary work of artist Léon Spilliaert.
Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946) was born more From his celebrated self-portraits to dreamlike scenes of the North Sea coast, this exhibition will introduce UK audiences to the visionary work of artist Léon Spilliaert. Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946) was born in the coastal town of Ostend. He moved to Brussels at the age of 20, and would live and work between the two cities for the rest of his life. Self-taught, he forged his own artistic identity, which was shaped by the affinity he felt with writers and thinkers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Friedrich Nietzsche. Spilliaert’s work is characterised by dramatic perspectives and a quiet luminescence. He is best known for a sequence of enigmatic self-portraits and for his atmospheric night-time scenes of Ostend. His visual explorations of the self and potent images of solitude align him with European modernists such as Edvard Munch and Vilhelm Hammershøi. This is the first monographic exhibition of Spilliaert’s work in the UK and will showcase some 80 works on paper – from images of his home town and the coast, to later works capturing the tranquillity of the forest outside Brussels. Exhibition organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London in collaboration with the Musée d‘Orsay, Paris. February 23 (Sunday) 9:00 am - May 25 (Monday) 5:00 pm Royal Academy of Arts Burlington House Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD 28feb(feb 28)9:30 am10jun(jun 10)5:30 amMe Myself and IType:ExhibitionsRegion:Greater London ‘Me, Myself and I’ is an exhibition investigating artists’ self-enquiry and expressions of the interior self. Works speak to a range of lived experiences recalling personal and political struggles, family more ‘Me, Myself and I’ is an exhibition investigating artists’ self-enquiry and expressions of the interior self. Works speak to a range of lived experiences recalling personal and political struggles, family relationships and memories of childhood. Across painting, drawing, photography and assemblage the show reflects on themes of freedom and solitude, collectivitity and belonging, disenfranchisement and loss. In liminal spaces between fact and fiction, the fantastical and the everyday, twenty artists grapple with – and celebrate – the complexities of identity, selfhood and finding one’s place in the world. Curated by Rosalind Davis Artists: Broughton Birnie, Paul Benjamins, Georgina Clapham, Nathan Eastwood, Margarita Gluzberg, Ken Kiff, Aya Haidar, Will Harman, Marie Harnett, Laura Hudson, Marion Michell, Eleanor Moreton, Kate Murdoch, Manon Ouimet, Sikelela Owen, Conor Rogers, Linnet Rubaya, Wendy Saunders, Charmaine Watkiss, Erika Winstone. February 28 (Friday) 9:30 am - June 10 (Wednesday) 5:30 am Collyer Bristow Gallery 4 Bedford Row London WC1R 4TF Aubrey Beardsley shocked and delighted late-Victorian London with his sinuous black and white drawings. He explored the erotic and the elegant, the humorous and grotesque, winning admirers around the world more Aubrey Beardsley shocked and delighted late-Victorian London with his sinuous black and white drawings. He explored the erotic and the elegant, the humorous and grotesque, winning admirers around the world with his distinctive style. Spanning seven years, this exhibition will cover Beardsley’s intense and prolific career as a draughtsman and illustrator, cut short by his untimely death from tuberculosis, aged 25. Beardsley’s charismatic, enigmatic persona played a part in the phenomenon that he and his art generated, so much so that Max Beerbohm dubbed the 1890s the ‘Beardsley Period’. This will be the first exhibition dedicated to Beardsley at Tate since 1923, and the largest display of his original drawings in Europe since the seminal 1966 exhibition at the V&A, which triggered a Beardsley revival. Image: Aubrey Beardsley The Climax 1893 (published 1907). Stephen Calloway. March 4 (Wednesday) 9:00 am - May 25 (Monday) 6:00 pm Tate Britain Millbank, Westminster, London SW1P 4RG 12mar(mar 12)9:00 am06sep(sep 6)6:00 pmAndy Warhol: Tate ModernType:ExhibitionsRegion:Greater London Andy Warhol was the son of immigrants who became an American icon. A shy gay man who became the hub of New York’s social scene. An artist who embraced consumerism, more Andy Warhol was the son of immigrants who became an American icon. A shy gay man who became the hub of New York’s social scene. An artist who embraced consumerism, celebrity and counter culture – and changed modern art in the process. He was born in 1928 as Andrew Warhola to working class parents from present day Slovakia. In 1949 he moved from Pittsburgh to New York. Initially working as a commercial illustrator, his skill at transforming the imagery of American culture soon found its realisation in his ground-breaking pop art. This major retrospective is the first Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern for almost 20 years. As well as his iconic pop images of Marilyn Monroe, Coca-Cola and Campbell’s soup cans, it includes works never seen before in the UK. Twenty-five works from his Ladies and Gentlemen series – portraits of black and Latinx drag queens and trans women – are shown for the first time in 30 years. Visitors can also play with his floating Silver Clouds and experience the psychedelic multimedia environment of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Popularly radical and radically popular, Warhol was an artist who reimagined what art could be in an age of immense social, political and technological change. March 12 (Thursday) 9:00 am - September 6 (Sunday) 6:00 pm Tate Modern Bankside London SE1 9TG United Kingdom Established in 1919, the Society of Graphic Fine Art exists to promote and exhibit works of high quality in colour or black and white with the emphasis on good drawing more Established in 1919, the Society of Graphic Fine Art exists to promote and exhibit works of high quality in colour or black and white with the emphasis on good drawing and draughtsmanship, in pencil, pen, brush, charcoal, conté or any of the forms of original printmaking, as well as any original artwork including paintings, which demonstrate evidence of drawing by hand. Entry Deadline: Tuesday 17 March 2020 Midnight Exhibition Dates – March 17 (Tuesday) 9:00 am - July 4 (Saturday) 5:00 pm Mall Galleries The Mall Opening spring 2020, Barbican Art Gallery presents the first-ever UK commission by Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, a site-specific installation for The Curve.
An epic cycle of new work unfurls more Opening spring 2020, Barbican Art Gallery presents the first-ever UK commission by Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, a site-specific installation for The Curve. An epic cycle of new work unfurls across the 90-metre long gallery, exploring an imagined ancient myth conceived by the artist. Renowned conceptual sound artist Peter Adjaye has created an immersive soundscape in response to Odutola’s series, which evolves in dialogue with the narrative. Working exclusively with drawing materials, including pencil, pastel, ballpoint pen and charcoal, Ojih Odutola’s works often take the form of monumental portraits, which retain a remarkable intimacy despite their scale. She approaches the process of drawing as an investigative practice, through which to explore an intense engagement with mark-making and its potential for meaning. March 26 (Thursday) 9:00 am - July 26 (Sunday) 11:00 pm The Curve, Barbican Silk St, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DS In 17th-century Europe, at a time when women artists were not easily accepted, Artemisia was exceptional. She painted subjects that were traditionally the preserve of male artists and for the more In 17th-century Europe, at a time when women artists were not easily accepted, Artemisia was exceptional. She painted subjects that were traditionally the preserve of male artists and for the male gaze; transforming meek maidservants into courageous conspirators and victims into survivors. In this first major exhibition of Artemisia’s work in the UK, see her best-known paintings including two versions of her iconic and viscerally violent ‘Judith beheading Holofernes’; as well as her self portraits, heroines from history and the Bible, and recently discovered personal letters, seen in the UK for the first time. Follow in Artemisia’s footsteps from Rome to Florence, Venice, Naples and London. Hear her voice from her letters, and see the world through her eyes. April 4 (Saturday) 9:00 am - July 26 (Sunday) 5:00 pm The National Gallery Trafalger Square Travel to Italy and learn to paint from a professional painter and expert art tutor, explore different styles and techniques, live la dolce vita, and get inspired by mountains, rivers, more Travel to Italy and learn to paint from a professional painter and expert art tutor, explore different styles and techniques, live la dolce vita, and get inspired by mountains, rivers, fields of wild flowers, orchards and grapevines in a tranquil, bucolic setting in Bedogno. UpTrek Painting Retreat inclusions: may 16 (Saturday) - 23 (Saturday) "If you'd like to learn to draw, no matter how little skill you believe you have, I can heartily recommend Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and its more “If you’d like to learn to draw, no matter how little skill you believe you have, I can heartily recommend Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and its teaching by Anna… what I really loved about the course was the gateway it opens up the other possibilities. Having been an artistic no-hoper all my life, within three days I felt very comfortable calling myself an artist because the evidence was right there in front of me in my drawings.” Si Feely Have you always wished you could draw? Are you someone who thinks they could never learn to draw – well think again – if you can sign your name you can learn to draw! Betty Edwards’ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is one of the the world’s best-selling practical drawing books. Betty Edwards’ proven technique has taught millions of people how to draw and now you can learn too in this 5-day workshop. In a small group, you will learn the five basic skills of realistic drawing – these skills are global skills (like learning to read or drive a car) and once you have learned them you will have them for life and you can apply them to drawing landscapes, portraits, still life or life drawing. This course is suitable for people with no drawing experience as well as those who would like to improve their drawing skills or who teach drawing. All participants receive a course portfolio with art materials, unique Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain tools to support your drawing and a course workbook. Anna Black has been teaching this course since 2008 and is the UK’s only licensed Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain teacher. 18 (Monday) 9:30 am - 22 (Friday) 5:30 pm Travel to Italy and learn to paint from a professional painter and expert art tutor, explore different styles and techniques, live la dolce vita, and get inspired by mountains, rivers, more Travel to Italy and learn to paint from a professional painter and expert art tutor, explore different styles and techniques, live la dolce vita, and get inspired by mountains, rivers, fields of wild flowers, orchards and grapevines in a tranquil, bucolic setting in Bedogno. UpTrek Painting Retreat inclusions: may 23 (Saturday) - 30 (Saturday) Travel to Normandy, immerse in a tutored painting retreat, walk in Monet and Pissarro's footsteps, discover new perspectives on artistic techniques, and get inspired by the picturesque Normandy countryside and more Travel to Normandy, immerse in a tutored painting retreat, walk in Monet and Pissarro’s footsteps, discover new perspectives on artistic techniques, and get inspired by the picturesque Normandy countryside and the scenic Parc Naturel Régional de Normandie-Maine. UpTrek Painting Retreat 2020 inclusions: may 24 (Sunday) - 30 (Saturday) Orne, Normandy, France Orne, Normandy, France This is an intensive weekend acrylic painting course working with the figure in costume.
This class covers a wide range of skills needed for draped life painting.
You will be drawing the more This is an intensive weekend acrylic painting course working with the figure in costume. This class covers a wide range of skills needed for draped life painting. You will be drawing the figure, making portrait studies and a small number of little paintings as you gather your skills for a larger more advanced painting of the model. As ever, demonstrations will be given throughout the teaching period. The cost of this exciting two day course will be £230. You will need lots of paper, preferably primed, your acrylics, brushes and palette knives. A board for your work and water jar and rags/kitchen paper. There is a wonderful cafe on site which is open both days. We gather there for a nice lunch and a chance to talk to the other students! Tea, coffee and biscuits are supplied in the studio on a help yourself basis. Let me know if you would be interested in this course. Detail are below. Ann Oram RSW 30 (Saturday) 10:00 am - 31 (Sunday) 3:00 pm Cockenzie House and Gardens 22 Edinburgh Rd, Cockenzie, Prestonpans EH32 0HY 
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Private View: Tuesday 30 June, 6pm to 8.30pm
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On top of this, we will be looking at the use of acrylic paints, the different mediums that can be used and also the use of brushes and palette knives for texture. So expect some paintings to have thin washes while other pieces will be looking at texture.
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