artist opportunity! apply for the emerging artists programme

Our Emerging Artists programme at Orleans House Gallery for September 2024 – June 2025 is now open for submissions! We are looking for artists/art collectives who are within the first ten years of their practice, with a body of work ready to exhibit at Orleans House Gallery.

Artists are offered the Stables Gallery at Orleans House Gallery as a space for experimentation and building conversations with audiences. Artists may propose a collaborative, theme-based exhibition, or a wholly innovative arts-based project. We are interested to hear your ideas. This programme is an opportunity to develop your producing skills and work on the production of your exhibition from start to finish.

A criteria of the programme is that the art works submitted already exist. We want to support your exhibition financially and operationally; we do not have the capacity to support the production of new artworks.

We are keen to work with artists from a variety of backgrounds with different skills, stories, and experiences. We actively seek applications from our diverse communities including Global Majority, Deaf, disabled, neurodivergent, and LGBTQ+, to represent diverse lived experiences in our projects.

Orleans House Gallery is delivering Cultural Reforesting, a series of artist-led, multi-disciplinary projects set in the context of the ecological crises of our time. Each artist project responds to the question – how can we renew our relationship with nature? Care of the garden and woodland at Orleans House Gallery is outlined in The Ecosystem Plan. Please consider the environmental impact of your exhibition when applying.