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We're hiring! Individual Giving Fundraiser: Short-Term Freelance Contract We are looking to work with an experienced development professional with experience in individual giving and major gifts fundraising (ideally for arts or cultural charities) to support the launch of our new individual giving programme in the first half of 2027. We are looking for someone with the skills and expertise to help guide and support our active work to engage and cultivate a new cohort of individual supporters. You will undertake this work with the support of our small in-house team, including our Communications and Development Officer and guided by our Head of Development (interim) and CEO / Artistic Director. Deadline for applications: Wednesday 11 November 2026, 10am Interviews: Tuesday 17 November 2026 For further details and to apply: https://lnkd.in/e-BQNue8 🔗 📸 Detail from Mohammed Imran Khan, 'Untitled', 2026. Courtesy of the Artist and ActionSpace. #Vacancy #ArtsJobs #InclusiveArts #Fundraising

Coming Soon! | Cockpit Winter Open Studios 2026 🌀 ActionSpace's Cockpit Winter Open Studios returns from Thursday 26th – Saturday 28th November, with exciting artworks available to view and purchase at Cockpit Bloomsbury. Our newsletter subscribers will get an exclusive first look at our invited curator’s 'Curator's Choice' selection of artworks for sale ahead of the event, a highlighted portion of their favourite works and top choices for the sale! 🌟 Sign up to our newsletter to be the first to view and shop the artworks: https://lnkd.in/e7tZzdRj ✉️ 💙 Explore the exhibition: https://lnkd.in/ekgDYiXp Image: Ibrahim Okeyere Keelson, 2026. Courtesy of the Artist and ActionSpace #ArtExhibition #OpenStudios #ContemporaryArt

Launching ActionSpace Creative Pathways 🌟 Moving from education into adult life can be a challenging transition for young learning-disabled people, particularly when the support and opportunities available during education are no longer there. Creative Pathways is our new year-long project, offering young people the time, space and support to explore their creative practice, experiment with materials and techniques, and develop their artistic practice. 🌀 In an important article from The Guardian, journalist John Harris highlights the lack of recognition for disabled people’s lives beyond conventional expectations of adulthood, describing a system with “no conception of successful grownup lives that does not involve paid work”. Led by ActionSpace Artist Facilitator Emily Rees-Haynes at our ASC Ealing Road studio in Brent, our new project creates opportunities for young people to explore their creativity and what comes next. Find out more about Creative Pathways: https://lnkd.in/eTsCp5wY 🔗 Image: Image: Brent workshop detail. Photo courtesy of ActionSpace. #DisabilityInclusion #ContemporaryArt

This week, ActionSpace Deputy Director Dan Lamont has been taking part in the Clore Leadership programme. Dan was selected as part of a small cohort of participants in the programme, which supports current and aspiring leaders across the arts, culture and creative sectors to develop their leadership skills and make a positive impact. 🌟 We’re really pleased Dan has been selected for this valuable opportunity, and look forward to seeing how the experience shapes his ongoing work and leadership with us. Find out more about our work to bring learning-disabled artists to the centre of the visual arts: https://lnkd.in/e53Aku8j 🔗 Image: Dan Lamont at 'We Contain Multitudes'. Photo credit: Erika Stevenson.

NOW OPEN | RWA (Royal West of England Academy) 173rd Annual Open Exhibition 📍 Royal West of England Academy, Queens Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1PX 🌀 Until 3 January 2027 The exhibition is now underway at the RWA, and we're pleased to see ActionSpace artists Sharon Adokorach and Declan Leslie among the artists exhibiting this year. 🌟 Both Sharon and Declan joined the celebrations at the opening and are pictured here with their selected works, now on show in the gallery alongside artists from across the UK. If you’re in Bristol, there’s plenty of time to visit, explore the exhibition and see Sharon and Declan’s work in person! Plan you visit: https://lnkd.in/dUW7TMcU 🔗 Image 1: Sharon Adokorach with ‘I like buying my own things I like doing my work’, 2026, at the Royal West of England Academy. Image 2: Declan Leslie with ‘Untitled’, 2026, at the Royal West of England Academy. Images courtesy of the Artists and ActionSpace. #ArtExhibiton #RWA #ContemporaryArt

Long Listed | Linda Bell for The Artist Prize 🌟 ActionSpace artist Linda Bell has been longlisted for The Artist Prize 2026, with her 'Foil Sheet Series' selected in the Sculpture & Installation category. 🌀 Selected from more than 3,700 entries from across the UK, Linda’s 'Foil Sheet Series' now goes forward to the next stage of the prize, with 20 artists set to be selected on 17th November for a group exhibition at Firstsite in 2027. Zealous Co. Discover more of Linda's work: https://lnkd.in/eb8Z_9By 🔗 Image: Linda Bell in the studio. Courtesy of the Artist and ActionSpace. #TheArtistPrize #Exhibition #ContemporaryArt

British Art Show 10: Nnena Kalu 🌀 2 October 2026 – 3 January 2027 🔹 Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry (touring) ActionSpace artist Nnena Kalu is featured in British Art Show 10: A Chorus of Strangers, the latest edition of the landmark national exhibition celebrating artists shaping contemporary art in the UK. Nnena’s practice is rooted in repetition, movement and the physical act of making. Working across drawing and sculpture, she creates large-scale works through sustained physical engagement with materials, building dense surfaces through repeated, energetic marks. The resulting works are expansive, rhythmic and full of movement. Nnena’s inclusion in British Art Show 10 is a significant recognition of her practice and its place within contemporary British art. The exhibition features two of her works, 'Drawing 55' (2021) and 'Drawing 46' (2022). Curated by Ekow Eshun, British Art Show 10 explores human connection and the figure of the Other in divided times, bringing together more than 30 artists. The exhibition tours nationally from Coventry, where it opens today, through to June 2028. 🌟 Explore the exhibition: https://lnkd.in/dE_qeQj7 🔗 Image 1: Nnena Kalu, Drawing 55, 2021. Soft pastel, Oil pastel, acrylic pen, pen and pencil on paper. Installation view. Courtesy of the Artist and Arcadia Missa, London Image 2 : Nnena Kalu, Drawing 46, 2022. Oil stick, pen, oil pastel and pencil on paper, framed. Installation view. Private Collection, Monaco.

As we celebrate this year’s Turner Prize nominees, we’re also reflecting on ActionSpace artist Nnena Kalu’s historic Turner Prize win in 2025. Nnena’s achievement as the first learning-disabled artist to win continues to challenge ideas about who gets to be recognised within the visual arts, and has had a significant ripple effect on the visibility of learning-disabled artists. 🌟 Congratulations to Marguerite Humeau, Tanoa Sasraku, Simeon Barclay and Kira Freije on their nominations. Having experienced the excitement and significance of the Turner Prize with Nnena last year, we know what an extraordinary moment this can be, and we’re wishing all of this year’s nominees the very best of luck. 💫 Explore more of Nnena’s work: https://lnkd.in/emv7pyqz 🔗 Image 1: Nnena Kalu at the Turner Prize Award Ceremony 2025. Photo credit: James Speakman Image 2: Drawing 12, 2021, Nnena Kalu. Installation view at Turner Prize 2025, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery Tate. Courtesy of the artist, ActionSpace and Arcadia Missa. Photo credit: David Levene Image: 3: Installation view of Nnena Kalu’s presentation at the Turner Prize 2025, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery Tate. Photo credit: David Levene #TurnerPrize #VisualArt

Immanuel Adelowo and James Heath: Imogen Stidworthy at Matt’s Gallery 🌀 30 September – 22 November 2026 🔹 6 Charles Clowes Walk, London, SW11 7AN ActionSpace artists Immanuel and James, alongside Artist and ActionSpace Facilitator Louis Caseley, feature in Imogen Stidworthy’s new exhibition at Matt's Gallery contributing audio guides developed through a series of workshops with the artist and gallery. Bringing together film, sound, sculpture and installation, the exhibition explores different forms of communication, connection and ways of being together. Immanuel and James’ audio guides offer visitors alternative ways into the exhibition, with each artist responding to the work on their own terms. The project forms part of Radical Audio Guides, a collaborative programme developed with ActionSpace artists throughout 2026, in partnership with BLINK Dance Theatre and supported by Wandsworth Council. Explore the exhibition here: https://lnkd.in/eracyAcf 🔗 Image: James Heath during a Radical Audio Guides workshop at Matt's Gallery. Photo: Imogen Stidworthy. Courtesy of the Artist, ActionSpace and Matt's Gallery. #ArtExhibition #ContemporaryArt

Yesterday it was a pleasure to welcome the New Curators back to our studio at Studio Voltaire✨👏 The group met with our Head of Artist Development, Charlotte Hollinshead to learn about ActionSpace and our supported studios, and met some of our studio artists to discover more about their diverse practices. Many thanks to Linsey Young and the team at New Curators. 📸Photos courtesy of Linsey Young