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Call for Artist – live drawing event at National Museum of Scotland
National Museums Scotland is seeking an artist to develop and deliver a live drawing event on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th July.
Deadline: 17 June

Anthology 2016 | Call for applications    
Ten finalists will be exhibited at Charlie Smith London and receive £2,000 cash prize.
Deadline: 18 June

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The RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award 2016
The Barns-Graham Travel Award (£2,000) provides a travel and research opportunity for graduating and postgraduate students.
Deadline: 9 August

The RSA William Littlejohn Award 2016
The RSA William Littlejohn Award (£2,000) is for artists working in water-based media (any pigment mixed with water).
Deadline: 9 August

The RSA Morton Award 2016
The Morton Award (£5,000) is for artists working in a lens-based media in Scotland.
Deadline: 9 August

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 Head of Marketing & Communications | Edinburgh
Collective are seeking an experienced individual to lead the strategic development of marketing, public relations and communications.
Deadline: 20 June

Digital Project Manager: Glasgow
Everyone are seeking an experienced digital project manager to assist with the running of our busy city centre studio.
Deadline: 24 June

Various Jobs at SFMOMA | San Francisco
SFMOMA are looking to recruit for various positions including marketing, communications & digital roles.
Deadline: ongoing

Graphic Designer | Shanghai
Experienced Graphic Designer required for NeochaEDGE, an expanding company based in China.
Deadline: ongoing

Volunteer Correspondents
Tribe magazine are recruiting for both international and UK based correspondents to write articles, interviews & features around the arts.
Deadline: ongoing

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Commission, Galoshans Festival 2016
Awards are available for proposals in any art form and which are inspired by or fit within the festival’s theme: ‘When Two World’s Touch’
Deadline: 20 June

Open Project Funding: Call for Applications
Individuals & organisations can apply for funding from £1,000 to £100,000 to support supports the arts, screen and creative projects.
Deadline: ongoing

Night Shift Residency
A peer group residency focussing on attention economy and the 24/7 sleepless society for artists, art practitioners and writers.
Deadline: ongoing

FUNDING: Go and See Fund – Imaginate
A fund dedicated to helping artists in Scotland access work & shows to help inspire their next project.
Deadline: ongoing

Team Effort! Residencies
Residencies last for a maximum of 3 weeks between September 2013 & August 2014 to fit within Team Effort!’s ethos of exploration, risk-taking & collaboration.
Deadline: ongoing

Open Access Residency | Aberdeenshire
This residency offers artists the time, space, facilities & technical support to realise their work & to develop their practice & research new ideas.
Deadline: ongoing

Mark Devereux Projects Associates Programme
MDP announce their revised Associates programme which supports early-career visual artists through events, opportunities & critical exchange.
Deadline: ongoing

Woodland Project Residency
The Residency takes place in Cyprus and seeks to expand outdoor practice and explore the relationship between woodland & human being.
Deadline: ongoing

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Products Wanted | Glasgow
We are looking for great new designs by current students, practising staff, recent graduates and established alumni of The Glasgow School of Art.
Deadline: 22 June

Spoken Word Submissions Sought
Lies, Dreaming are seeking audio recordings of spoken word pieces on the theme of ‘Do you want fries with that?’ for our bi-monthly podcast.
Deadline: 30 June

Open call: Faraway, So Close
Selected participants will work within teams and exhibit under the main exhibition umbrella accompanied by a dedicated catalogue.
Deadline: 10 July

Call out, Creative Workshop Facilitators / Makers
Kalopsia are seeking proposals from Creative Workshop Facilitators / Makers for participatory workshops and activities.
Deadline: 1 September

Tin Roof ϟ Zine Fair
Tin Roof invites submissions from artists, collectives, publishers and presses to sell, network and enjoy print.
Deadline: TBC

The Glasgow Photography Gallery: Call for Submissions
See your photography showcased on one of The Glasgow Photography Gallery’s online spaces.
Deadline: ongoing

Peep Show Coffee: Call for Proposals
Peep Show Coffee are looking for proposals & ideas for short-term and long-term use of their project space.
Deadline: ongoing

Callout to Artists Looking for a Venue | London
Ziferblat is a social experiment. The space is ours & yours. To use to create, collaborate, experiment and play; what would you do with the space?
Deadline: ongoing

Hold Me Dear: Call for Submissions
Send a photograph of the place you personally treasure and include a 50 words caption explaining the story behind why this place is important to you.
Deadline: ongoing

Gallery Unit Open Call
Open call for exhibition proposals for new artist exhibition/event space at The Savoy Centre in Glasgow.
Deadline: ongoing

The Facility Makers Call Out
The Facility shop seeks products made in Britain including jewellery, textiles, prints, glass, furniture & ceramics to sell in the Facility shop.
Deadline: ongoing

Exhibit your artwork at Tchai-Ovna
Open call for exhibitors: proposals wanted for monthly solo exhibition at Tchai-Ovna, House of Tea.
Deadline: ongoing

Write Shoot Cut: Call for submissions
Write Shoot Cut is a monthly short film night. They are currently seeking submissions for various programmes.
Deadline: ongoing

Open Submissions for Moving Image Makers
An unconscious & uncurated stream of work will be displayed at Summerhall, Edinburgh for the indefinite future.
Deadline: ongoing

A.L.L. Seaweed
An Lucht Lonrach is searching for articles & artworks on the uses of seaweed.
Deadline: ongoing

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Six Foot Gallery Jewellery Benches for Hire
Six Foot Gallery would like to offer jewellers the opportunity to rent our jeweller’s benches.
Deadline: Ongoing

WASPS Studios: Creative Office Space Available | Nairn
WASPS Studios have one creative industry/enterprise space to rent at Links Studios in Nairn please click link for further details.
Deadline: Ongoing

Open Studio Club: Rent, swap & collaborate studio spaces around the world.
Free Event/Urban/Unusual/Studio/Rehearsal Spaces: 16–25 with an idea, creative project or business? Need a space to help make it happen? We’ll find a space to help you — for free!

Glasgow:

SWG3 Desk hire in Design Studio
Full and Half Desk spaces available in Design Studio 223
Ongoing

Studio Spaces and Co-working desks Available
Two studio spaces available, a space for 1 person or for 2/3 people, and co-working opportunities too.
Deadline: Ongoing

Workspace available for fashion project | Glasgow
Do you have a fashion related project and need space or equipment to develop it? The Fashion Foundry studio is opening its doors.
Deadline: Ongoing

Modern Office Spaces: Spaces available include; a coworking desk space, an office for 3/4 people & an unfurnished whole floor for up to 15 people.
Titan Props: Multi-use spaces for film & photographic shoots.
South Block: Creative space in Merchant City.
MAKLAB: A digital fabrication studio offering use of machines for engraving, embroidery, cutting shapes and making 3d objects.
Studio/Office desk space: Three spaces are available in a bright, secure shared office/desk space five minutes from Central Station.
Shapes Of Things Studio Available for Hire : Studio hire is aimed at those with a fair amount of silk screen printing experience.
The Distillery: Creative freelancer looking for a place to work? The Distillery at The Whisky Bond offers open plan space, quiet areas & meeting rooms.
Toad’s Caravan: Collaborative, creative working space based in the west end with desk space available to rent.
De Anderen Studios: Three spaces are available within the studio in addition to hot-desking facilities
Desks to rent in Creative co-working office space Flexible desk rental from hot desking to permanent available now in Glasgow’s West End with relaxed meeting room available for separate hire.

Edinburgh:

Whitespace: A space for classes and exhibitions.
Media Education: A desk space for hire close to Haymarket station.
Rhubaba Studios Available: Any artist can apply for studios at Rhubaba. All studio artists have access to the gallery space between exhibitions.
The Facility Studios: Involved in textiles, fashion or design? Studios now available to rent at The Facility, Edinburgh.

London:
Project space available at Enclave: A long-term project space will be available from October for individuals/groups of artists/curators running contemporary art programmes.

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Writers:
Pinso | Our Penniless Write | Product Magazine | Fractured West | Colossal

Moving Image:
Write Shoot Cut | Pluspace | The Cutting Room | Soundry

Members:
Fleet Collective, Dundee | Project Slogan Consortium, Aberdeen |
Just Us Collective | Make Works Directory | VAU: Membership Scheme

Artwork:
tribe magazine | artpistol | Product Magazine | Moray Art Centre | Editions | a secret.

Jewellery graduates:
Vanilla Ink

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Romantico Elegante

My work spaces have changed a lot over the last four years or so. Actually, it is difficult for me to afford a permanent studio so I try to rent one for a while every time I have to make work for an exhibition. I also have another job that does not allow me to spend that much time in the studio, although it does allow me to pay my bills and to finance the production of my pieces.

The first studio I rented was a super small place in the house of a very conservative and Christian lady who failed to greet me when one day she came in to clean the space and found a pop-up edition of the Kamasutra I bought in an antique shop (I’m a big collector of useless things). After a while, along with my cousin, who is a photographer, I rented the bottom of a house in Chorrillos. We were evicted quickly because the owner decided to sell it. We felt sad because it was a very nice and quiet place to work and especially to get together, drink beer, and talk about our work (and problems). I still have not paid the phone bill for that place. The best studio I’ve ever had was one that I subleted from a friend to make work for a solo show last year. A nice, big house, located in one of the most beautiful areas of Lima, a place that sometime ago hosted La Culpable, an artists collective that is very important for the local art scene of Lima. After that I traveled to New York for three months to do a residency at Flux Factory, where I had a studio which was also my room. I had a tiny space between the bed and the wall to walk and a desk in which I drew a lot. The prettiest light ever came through that window.

So I have not been in permanent studio for more than a year, but I have been constantly changing my work space according to my needs and possibilities and many times I had to limit myself to work in my room or in my office desk (making a mess in the process). Less than a month ago I moved my studio to the house of a great friend I’ve had since I was a teenager. She bought this house in Barranco and lives there with another great friend. I’ve been very lucky, not only because the space is quite big and comfortable and because I rent it at a much lower price than it is worth; I can also spend time with my friends and laugh a lot. The house is located near the sea.

Las Princesas Solas En Mesa

Now I’m working on a new project which will be presented during Glasgow International this April  in the Project Room of Many Studios. It’s been a big challenge because it is the first time I work on a video but very exciting at the same time. The video shows part of the Peruvian Amazon Uiniversity, a modernist structure built in the Amazon rainforest that embodies a number of contradictions. It was supposed to be created as a response to the demand for a higher education institution in the area, as voiced for decades by the local communities. But this building is just  evidence on how the government spends a huge amount of money building structures that show its power instead of investing on a decent educational system. Although I find the architecture fascinating, the building imposes itself over nature, interfering with its order, and doesn’t respond to the community’s necessities.

The video progressively shows all spaces of the university revealing what the important structure contains: a precarious space in which learning is not fostered and where the lack of it is concealed. I talk about a particular contrast between modernism and lack of progress one constantly finds in Latin American societies. To shoot the video, I spent several days in the jungle. It was a hard work, especially because of the weather in Iquitos, but luckily I had the best team working with me.

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‘Where I Make’ invites readers behind the scenes of artists from many disciplines to share photographs and a little insight about where they create their masterpieces. See more from the series here.

Like lots of people I’ve done tons of jobs including working in a pie and bridie factory (I’m from Forfar) but the jobs below are the ones that stick in my mind.

1.    Sales Assistant, Jeffrey Rogers

Ladies over a certain age will remember Jeffrey Rogers, a kind of wannabe River Island that didn’t make it through the ’90s. This was my job through my student days….

2.    Australian Jobs
I spent a year in Australia after graduating and did everything from data testing at Citibank to working in a coffee shop to washing dishes in hostels, all in between drinking too much Tooheys New and cheap wine.

3.    Sales Person / Administrator, ‘Neverfail Spring Water’ 

But my favourite of all these jobs and one worth mentioning was a stint at ‘Neverfail Spring Water’ in Sydney. It was a new company and my job was to call businesses and get them to take free trials of Neverfail Spring Water Coolers. You wouldn’t think it would be difficult selling free water in the summer in Australia but I struggled badly. After a few days the boss spotted my lack of sales talent and gave me one of the best jobs there doing admin work. Sometimes it pays to be bad at something.

4.    Customer Advisor, Scottish Power

I then went from the Technicolor of Australia to a call centre in rainy Glasgow. It was a dark time. For anyone who’s worked in a call centre you’ll know what an utterly sole destroying job it can be. I won’t dwell.

5.    Admin Assistant, Wasps
I needed to get some more office experience fast when I saw the job for Admin Assistant advertised at Wasps way back in 1999. I knew nothing about visual art back then but managed to win over my interviewers at the time (one of them was Chief Exec. David Cook who is also still at Wasps today). I actually said in my C.V. that I had a “real zest for life”. Every now and again David will dig out my original application for a right good laugh. I’ve been incredibly lucky at Wasps and have been able to develop my role as the organisation has grown over the past decade.

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We’ve asked professionals in creative industries what jobs they have had in the past to get their foot through the door (or at least pay the rent). For more in the “My First 5 Jobs” series look here.

“Maria Thereza Alves, a Brazilian artist living in Europe, researches social and cultural phenomena working particularly with situations which question social circumstances about what we think we know and who we think we are instead at where and how we actually are at this time.” (GSA Events Blurb about M T A)

The talk “Urgent and Not So Urgent Possibilities” was not a well-attended GI lecture event. The artist spoke specifically about some examples of her previous work, in a sparsely populated GFT Theatre on 23^rd April.

When an artist sets about discussing their work, it can be expected that some of the conceptual foundations may not be easily transmitted to the viewers or listeners. I would suggest this is because of the fact that underlying principles are shaped by a multitude of factors. These factors can encompass beliefs, opinions and experiences, and the internal nature of the intentions behind art works can be difficult to articulate in a meaningful and quantifiable manner.

The reason that I make this admittedly general statement regarding the conceptual basis of art works is that it seemed that the articulation of the conceptual foundations was absent from Maria Theresa Alves’ talk. These elements surely should have been foregrounded as being key within her practice?

The examples the artist chose to showcase were quite wide-ranging in terms of format, and I would have expected to gain a sense of them by noticing and understanding the theoretical underpinnings they shared.

However, although some sort of connecting thread was visible on a few occasions (about “what we think we know and who we think we are”), her works felt somewhat disjointed, perhaps even coming across either as being developed on unsteady foundations, or as morphing into outcomes based on uncertain/very generalised lines of inquiry. In particular, could one perhaps question both the conceptual process of identifying and hypothesising the travel ideas and the relative merits of the frieze outcome of her ‘seed-migration-through-the-ages’ project for the Guangzhou Triennial?

It could be that rather than the exploratory / historical / ecological art projects (as they seemed to be described), her work is actually much more akin to a set of personal stories?

It could be that the very generalised narrative structure which the works seemed to possess was actually intended to bring to light issues connected with the lack of knowledge we have about the creation of our surrounding environment?

In my mind, such analysis of the works would make them, without exception, more interesting. Instead, these types of ideas were not acknowledged and this left me wondering if they were perhaps much less successful works than they pertained to be?

I do not think that a relatively short presentation talk, to such a small audience, talking briefly about a few works can really be expected to do either an artist or their practice justice. The fact that you also cannot seem to see any of Maria Theresa Alves’ works in Glasgow during GI does also not seem to make sense.

I believe that the Sculpture Studios are involved with the artist in a residency of sorts and I hope that the result of this can be shown in the city. Otherwise it could conceivably be the case that seeking out new work by Maria Theresa Alves make just become a “not so urgent possibility”