Currently 5 active visual and media arts grants, fellowships and residencies open to applicants in the UK. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Every entry is funded, no exposure-only calls. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
Subscribe: RSS feed · Calendar (.ics)
New bursary from House of Hackney and William Morris Gallery, in partnership with IntoUniversity, supporting the next generation of artists in the London Boroughs of Hackney and Waltham Forest. Provides up to £10,000 to 16 to 25 year olds with creative potential who face barriers to accessing education, training, materials or mentorship. Inspired by William Morris's values of art for all and the transformative power of creativity. Deadline 11 May 2026, 23:59.
Annual fellowship for one artist to develop new work-in-progress through engagement with physicists at the Cavendish Laboratory and researchers in adjacent fields. Open internationally; not confined to any single aesthetic, theme, or medium. Artists with no previous experience working with scientists or in scientific environments are explicitly encouraged to apply. The brief favours adventurous artists exploring alternative ways of knowing the world and working with communities not privileged in mainstream science. Past Fellows include Logan Dandridge, Ain Bailey, Robert Ssempijja, Akeelah Bertram, and Thulani Rachia, with practices spanning experimental film, sound, dance, and immersive technology. Strong fit for critical-AI / data / surveillance / sensory-translation practices framed as artistic-scientific dialogue. Application by online form only. Deadline 16 May 2026 at 11am BST. Free to apply.
Inaugural Future Art Ecosystems (FAE) R&D Fellowship from Serpentine Arts Technologies, supporting individual practitioners and ecosystem development in art and advanced technologies. Four fellows (individuals or collectives) selected. Open to artists, curators, technologists, organisers and producers working at the intersection of art and advanced technologies. International applicants welcome provided they can attend the three in-person London intensives. Inaugural theme: Art x Convergence, framed as a prompt to explore how AI is reshaping cultural and societal systems and to develop new frameworks for embodiment, robotics, legal constructs, markets and planetary organisation in light of AI's capacity to pursue goals, model environments and act in the world. Fellows pursue a defined research question connected to their practice or a project in development, supported through professional and specialist mentorship, network development, cohort exchange, and public-facing process sharing. FAE was initiated by Victoria Ivanova in 2019; programme led by Tommie Introna, Tsige Tafesse, and Kay Watson. Info sessions online on 15 May and 22 May 2026. Application deadline midnight BST 7 June 2026. Free to apply.
Open call for the 5th edition of Peckham Digital, a festival celebrating creative computing. This call is for the PROGRAMME track: artists, creative technologists and creative coders to facilitate workshops, present talks, provide demos, or deliver performances (the separate Artwork Open Call covers exhibition pieces). Emerging applicants explicitly welcomed; over half of past Peckham Digital artists had this as their first paid professional exhibition. Selected facilitators/speakers paid at Artist Union England rates. Workshop facilitators are asked whether their software will be open-source. Application requires: type of contribution (demo/workshop/talk/performance/other), 200-word description (text or video), 250-word facilitator statement on experience, 200 words on professional development impact, sample images or video, technical requirements, and any access needs. Equal Opportunities form also requested. Important caveat: festival is contingent on Peckham Digital's own funding being confirmed; if their funding application is not successful the festival will not go ahead.
Open call for the 5th edition of Peckham Digital, a festival celebrating creative computing in all its shapes and forms. This call is for the ARTWORK EXHIBITION track only (the separate Programme Open Call covers talks, workshops, demos, performances and films). Looking for artists, creative technologists, creative coders and performers to exhibit artworks. Emerging applicants and early-career creative technologists explicitly welcomed; over half of past Peckham Digital artists had this as their first paid professional exhibition. Submission to the open call is free; selected artists receive a fee. Important caveat: festival is contingent on Peckham Digital's own funding being confirmed (decision expected early July 2026); if funding is not received the festival will not go ahead. Read the Application Guidelines before submitting.