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Contemporary Visual Arts Network North West creates development opportunities for, supports and promotes the work of artists, organisations and professionals
North West, England
Joined February 2019
Studios and Small Galleries: Have Your Say – Barriers to Capital Funding. We are gathering urgent evidence on the barriers that you face in accessing capital funding. Deadline: 24 August
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Purpose: CVAN Contemporary Visual Arts Network is gathering data and case studies from England-based studios and small galleries that are ineligible for the DCMS Creative Foundations Fund (CFF),...
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We’re delighted to share that London Gallery Weekend & @cvanetwork are partnering again to offer England-based contemporary art curators tickets to Frieze London for Thurs 16 Oct. 🔗Head here to apply Deadline 17 Aug.
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CVAN and London Gallery Weekend are partnering to support curators across England to attend Frieze London on Thursday, 16 October 2025. This opportunity includes: We
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Our featured artist this month is @ClaireTindale, an artist working primarily with sculpture and installation and who uses the miniature as a conceptual framework.
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Every month we feature the work of a leading North West based artist. This month it is Rebecca Chesney whose work is concerned with the politics of landscape: economics and wealth, social issues and justice, and the effects these have on natural ecologies and people.
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ACT NOW: Write to your MP to protect the future of the visual arts. Urge them to champion our sector in the forthcoming comprehensive spending review. Resources to make this very easy found here:
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As the Government prepares its ten-year national renewal and growth plan, we must ensure the visual arts are not left behind. Now is the time
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This month's artist feature is Jenny Steele. Sign up to our newsletter so you don't miss out on features like this
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Artists don’t thrive in isolation. We need to protect the whole visual arts ecosystem—from studios to education—to secure the UK’s global leadership in the visual arts. Framing the Future launched in Parliament with 4 key asks. 📥
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The UK’s visual arts sector is a global leader and a vital part of our national identity, creative economy, and public life. From Turner Prize-winning
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New report launches today in Parliament:.Framing the Future: The Political Case for Strengthening the Visual Arts.Ecosystem. 🔗
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The UK’s visual arts sector is a global leader and a vital part of our national identity, creative economy, and public life. From Turner Prize-winning
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The delays to Arts Council England’s NPO investment programme are more than just admin—they’re already impacting the visual arts. Let’s invest in the whole picture. #ArtsFunding #VisualArts #SupportTheArts #ArtsCouncilEngland #Devolution #CreativeEcology #CulturalInfrastructure
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"Art is an expression of the imagination and a powerful vehicle for social change." Manifesto for Arts and Health, 2011 made with people from NW and Yorkshire.
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This month's North West artist feature is Tracy Hill. She works within "a hybrid space where a geological understanding of the land informs an embodied experience of the energy contained within it." #northwestcreatives #contemporaryart #tracyhill
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Clive Parkinson was director for Arts for Health and Reader in Arts, Health and Social Justice at Manchester Metropolitan University until July 2021. His work is driven by a conviction that the arts - in all their forms - might contribute to social change.
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It's no surprise to us, but a recent government. report has found that consuming arts and culture is good for health and wellbeing. They have even put a figure on it. 💰.Read the full report on the 'resources' section of our website.
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This month's Visual Arts Organisation feature is the wonderful @butnorain who connect beautifully to all of our central themes: Placemaking, Climate Justice and Health & Wellbeing!.Ongoing Poem on YouTube:
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A poem filmed month-by-month in the Ullswater Valley in 2024, reflecting on land, landscape and change. Each new month, a new section is composed, drawing on experiences on a farm, in meetings...
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Join our mailing list! 🤗.We are getting ready to send out our next newsletter. Each one is filled with news, opportunities and events from the North West's contemporary art world.
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The creative industries has been highlighted as an important ‘growth driving sector’ within the green paper. You can read the full response by clicking here: . #culturallife #contemporaryart #artandculture @cvanetwork
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Thanks again to our artist of the month, North West based @ann_carragher_ .Image featured from her work exhibited at this year's @mcrcontemporary. 'Dubailt-Doubling' (2024), Stone, flock, perspex, tassel trim.
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RT @warringtonmus: We're delighted to announce SKY GARDEN has won another award! 🏆. Alongside our pals at @GoldenSquareUK, we scooped 'Gold….
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Our Core Themes for the NorthWest Arts ecology: Climate Justice, Health & Wellbeing, Placemaking. #northwestcreatives
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