Visual Arts South West
We work to connect, support and advocate for artistic communities. We campaign for diversity and work to build resilience in the South West sector.

💥 Reminder! ⏳️ Mentoring Opportunity: Curator Bank - an initiative to support artists living in the South West through mentoring and one-to-one support.
Curator Bank offers opportunities for one-to-one meetings to talk through work and ideas with curators based in organisations. It aims to support individual artist development while also strengthening networks between artists and curators across the South West region.
Participating curators represent a range of experience such as working with exhibitions, engagement, education, public art and museums.
⏰️ Deadline for submission: 30 April 2026
Find out more about applications and see the full list of curators on our website. Link in bio.
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Final week to see Simon Bayliss - It's just a feeling
Simon Bayliss - a potter and artist based in St Ives, Cornwall - was invited by Dr Peder Clark, a cultural and social historian, to develop work in response to his research on Ecstasy (MDMA).
He was given access to Clark’s archival and oral history materials on 1990s Ecstasy consumption, spanning rave scenes and alternative communities, including writing on gender expression within club culture, psychedelic rave art, and harm reduction campaigns.
The resulting exhibition brings together slipware ceramics, music video, and print, playfully reprocessing this material through the circular logic of the pottery studio. Moving between archive and painterly expression, the works explore subcultural appropriation, emotional communities, and the material culture of Ecstasy.
Until 30/05/26
Auction House, Cornwall
For more info, visit our website
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Figuring Out... Developing Your Creative Practice is an online talk by Mark Devereux for artists planning an application to Round 24 of ACE’s DYCP programme.
Devereux - an arts funding specialist - will unpick every aspect of the application process including: eligibility, structuring your project, budgeting, access support and the language you use. He will share top tips and advice that he has built up over 15-years receiving & helping other artists gain successful Arts Council England funding.
28/05/26
6:00 - 7:30pm
Online (Zoom)
For more info and booking, visit our website.
Image: You and I, Louise Ward Morris, 2023. Image: courtesy of the artist.
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How to Enter the Art World... with Hettie Judah
Head to KIT FORM to hear from Bristol-based artists (TBA) about their practices, and from renowned critic and curator Hettie Judah.
The presentations will be followed by a relaxed hour-long Q&A with Hettie. We will be seated in a circle, and everyone is invited to participate and ask Hettie their questions.
Saturday 23rd May
6:00pm (doors open 5:00pm)
KIT FORM
For more info, visit our website
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We’re pleased to share ‘Master of Some?’ by artist Barry Sykes, a new early career resource that focuses on developing a stable income to support your practice - and finding ways to create that work for you! 🙌
This series is aimed at graduates and early career artists. It offers practical and knowledge based insights into key areas, covering the nuts and bolts of operating professionally in the visual arts and helping to bridge the gap between education and a sustainable creative career. 🌱
Commissioned by VASW in partnership with Arts University Bournemouth, Arts University Plymouth and Falmouth University.
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Artist-led is an ongoing series profiling artist-led groups in the South West. This month we celebrate Contemporary Art Membership Platform (CAMP) - a member-led support and professional development network for artists, arts workers, and other creatives across Devon, Cornwall, and the Isles of Scilly!
CAMP promotes and supports doing, making, and sharing contemporary art.
We want to discover and share artist-led initiatives in the region, profiling the projects and people doing incredible work in the South West. Get in touch to tell us about the brilliant people you know.
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This is the final week to see ‘Unknown Futures : Hope, Longing, Grief & Other Distortions’ by contemporary British artist Andrew Litten, presented by Anima Mundi.
Here, Litten presents a reflective body of work over three floors of the gallery, comprising multi-scale painting, sculpture and works on paper. The work reaches into our contemporary world of global turbulence and uncertainty, tracing the contours of a shared human moment and suggesting through vulnerability a pathway of empathy and connection for us all.
Until 16/05/26
Anima Mundi, Cornwall
For more info, visit our website
image: Seeds & Cuttings (With Shadows and New Hopes), Andrew Litten.
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We’re proud to support Art in Motion (AIM) 💛
AIM is a Bristol-based organisation working alongside learning-disabled and neurodivergent artists to create bold, ambitious work - while building confidence, connection, and creative independence. They’re currently fundraising at a critical moment - and we’re helping spread the word.
For small, community-led arts organisations, funding is becoming harder to secure. At the same time, the need for inclusive, accessible creative spaces like AIM has never been greater.
Through their studio, residencies, and programmes, AIM supports artists to collaborate, build confidence, and connect with wider audiences within a professional arts environment.
This funding will help bridge an urgent gap, keep the studio open, and ensure artists and projects already in development can continue to grow.
If you’re able to, please consider supporting their crowdfunder. And if not, sharing this post helps more people discover and support their work.
🔗 Donate here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-keep-aims-studio-open
#HelpKeepAIMSStudioOpen #DisabilityArts #InclusiveArts #ArtinMotion

An Introduction to Arts Funding with Laura Porter (online workshop)
An informal session discussing funding applications; how to approach them, the different kinds of funds available, and sharing insight.
During this session, gallery director Laura Porter will be discussing her experience with different kinds of funding, talking about what's available for artists now, and how to start to put together a funding application.
11/05/26
Studio KIND
17:30 – 19:30
£25
For more info and the eventbrite link, visit our website
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Online Event: Artist Voices in Conversation with Alistair Debling
Join 'a space' arts for this in-conversation event, as they talk to artists and scientists about collaboration and climate change.
Artist voices is a series of conversations that aim to support artist development by unpacking and demystifying key topics and issues of the visual arts ecology. For this event, they'll be exploring the ideas and themes in Alistair Debling’s exhibition, RAFTS and discussing collaborations between art and science, particularly in relation to the climate.
07/05/26
6:00 - 8:00pm
'a space' arts
For more info, visit our website
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Catherine Ade: Lithography
Catherine Ade is an artist exploring drawing and lithographic printmaking. Through an autobiographical lens, Ade's practice explores the dualities of identity, memory, and belonging. She explores place and the human connection to it through family history, and her personal family connection to the land.
28/03/26 – 09/05/26
MAKE Southwest
For more info, visit our website!
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Opening today! People’s Art Fair: Spring 2026 🤩
The People's Art Fair encompasses a group exhibition, performances, creative workshops & activities. Open to artists, makers, photographers, painters, sculptors and creatives, acting as a celebration of culture and expressive art. Aiming to break down financial barriers to the art world, it is free to exhibit and free to visit!
The Peoples Republic of Stokes Croft
24 April – 3 May 2026
For more info on how to sign up, visit our website
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