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Online Artist Residency
Any
Closes: 31/12/25
Entry Fee: FREE
Our Digital residency program is a series of online artist residencies designed to elevate emerging artists / forge long-lasting connections between artistic communities and intensify the accessibility of art ideation. This residency includes - a 2 week Instagram takeover - sharing work / ideas or process every day. Your artist statement and bio are highlighted in a month long landing page feature. A written interview for a permanent media story. An invitation to show work in an annual physical group exhibition.
Entry Fee:
FREE
Artist Residency
Research
Closes: 30/09/25
Entry Fee: FREE
We are welcoming new proposals for artists to take up residency with us in 2025. This residency offers an environment for artists to develop projects that explore new processes / ideas / techniques and critical thinking. We will work responsively with your research and development proposal and can support your practice through mentoring / bid writing / access to audio-visual resources / a project space and unique archival resources.
Entry Fee:
FREE
Emerging Artists Bursary
Any
Closes: 24/12/25
Entry Fee: FREE
This Emerging Artists Bursary is aimed at young creatives taking their first steps into professional art practice. We would like to hear from 19-25 year old emerging artists living in Cornwall - who would benefit from additional expert tuition from professional artists. Successful applicants will be able to choose a 3 or 4 day art course of their choice at the historic St Ives School of Painting and 80% of the fee will be covered by the bursary - up to a maximum of £340.
Entry Fee:
FREE
Art Residency
Any
Closes: 31/10/25
Entry Fee: FREE
Our new art residency programme in the Andalucian mountains offers artists a fantastic opportunity the creation of new work and the opportunity for reflection / research and the creation of new work to work alongside other international artists. Offering private accommodation / private and shared working areas / ceramics workshop / woodworking / metalworking and welding stations. Reservations are now open for the period of - 17/05/25 - 31/10/25.
Entry Fee:
FREE
Apply to Exhibit 2026
Any
Closes: 01/12/25
Entry Fee: FREE
This Sculpture opportunity is an outdoor selling exhibition that has been operating for over 30 years showing renowned national and international artists alongside emerging new talent. We are looking for - fresh - new work with artistic intent in addition to technical proficiency - that is original / handmade or partly handmade / has been recently created and has not been previously exhibited within a 30-mile radius. All work should be of a suitable scale for a large outdoor garden setting and be robust enough to withstand the vagaries of the British weather.
Entry Fee:
FREE
x5 Postgraduate Bursaries
Any
Closes: 30/09/25
Entry Fee: FREE
We have 5 bursaries for 2025 worth £2000 each towards your postgraduate studies for the upcoming academic year – and every postgraduate student is eligible to apply. Wherever you are from or wherever you are planning to study - as long as you have been accepted onto a postgraduate program anywhere in the world you are eligible to apply for our bursaries.
Entry Fee:
FREE
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Choose between our annual plan of £38 or monthly at £3.80. Both options provide full access to Starving Artists’ members area, including hundreds of opportunities, personalised opportunity filtering, and our weekly newsletter.
- 350-400+ Live art opportunities at any one time
- Personalised Opportunity Filtering, to save you time
- 50-80 New Opportunities added each week
- A Weekly Newletters with our favourite opportunities
- A dedicated team finding the best opportunities for artists
- Connect with our tutors at a discounted rate