fringe arts bath 2026 - ‘new only:only new’

Fringe Arts Bath (FaB) is a test bed for new ideas, a platform for early career curators and artists, and those who prefer to operate outside the gallery-based art scene.

You can read short descriptions of the 20+ exhibitions, projects and events we are supporting for the Fringe Arts Bath Festival programme 2026. Different exhibitions and projects might call for any media, or specific media for example _‘MP4, or a VHS tape_’. This will be stated on their individual project page.

‘All media accepted ’ means exactly that. A project stating ‘all media’ will consider all approaches using any material you can think of, including these and many more; oil paint, woodblock print, lino print, collage, audio files, 3D printer files, paper sculpture, slip cast ceramics, found objects, journalling, performance, photography, AI generated (please state if this is the case), a website, finger painting, mechanical sculpture… absolutely anything you can think of.

The important thing is for your work to relate to the project or exhibition’s topic, and the brief set by the Curator/s.