We are looking for artists to create engaging, thought-provoking, site-specific work for an exciting variety of over 20 participating venues, including public spaces such as the Pier, the beach and the High Street in Southend on Sea. They can be in any medium, including painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video.  read more »

Helen Pynor, the award winning Australian artist, will surprise visitors to GV Art this summer with her powerful portrayal of the interior human body. By fashioning a visual language that neither revels in the sensationalism of gore, nor presents the body coolly as an object for the medical gaze, she transforms what might have been clinical depictions into works of art with stories to tell.  read more »

STEP beyond fundLaunched in February 2003, the STEP beyond fund supports cross-border movement of artists and cultural workers to experience diversity and cross-cultural cooperation between all European countries, including those that are not currently members of the European Union.  read more »

We're excited to announce the opening of LAVA Gallery. After a year spent staging pop up events in temporary locations, we're happy to have somewhere we can call our own. Following the success of the Ashes 57 show in October, we decided that Kingly Court would be a good place for us to open our first permanent art space.  read more »