Open Call: Associates Exhibition with Guest Selector Hannah Perry

How to Apply

• Tell us how your artwork relates to the theme of Place (500 words)
• A professional artist bio (300 words) and/or CV                             
• Submit around 5-10 images of your work, video or sound clips. Any time-based media (eg. videos, sound work) should be no more than 20 minutes in duration. Please provide all the information and images in a single pdf no more than 10MB in size, which can include links to other images and materials. Feel free to include short texts about the works and how they relate to the theme.
• Include any website or social media links to support your application.
• Alternatively, you could send a video or audio of you talking about your work and ideas – we are happy to accommodate any access related submission requirements. If you have any access queries please email Kacey Stonnell on  associates@castlefieldgallery.co.uk. 

Send your application to associates@castlefieldgallery.co.uk by 5pm, Wednesday 29 July 2026. Make sure that your subject heading is clearly marked as “Submission to Castlefield Gallery Associates exhibition”. We also kindly request applicants complete an Equality Monitoring Form which is anonymised and can be completed here.

Please note that we cannot accept late or incomplete applications.

If you are already a Castlefield Gallery Associate, we’d like to remind you that support in helping you write for applications can be found on the Associates Resource Page here 

Selection Criteria

• We are looking to select 2 or 3 artists, and will curate their work to exhibit together.

Key Dates

• Application deadline: 29 July 2026, 5pm
• Selection Announced: week beginning 24 August
• Exhibition Install: 1 February – 10 Febraury 2027
• Preview: Thursday 11 February 2027, 5 – 8pm
• Exhibition run: 14 February – 11 April 2027
• The Gallery will be closed over the Easter bank Holiday, Friday 26 March – Wednesday 3 April 2027.

Application Eligibility

Applications must be submitted by an active member of Castlefield Gallery Associates. If you’re not an Associate yet, you can find out more about the scheme and join here

To learn more about eligibility and terms and conditions of application click here

Please note: not reading these terms and conditions means that you won’t be fully equipped to submit your application.

We are committed to equitable practice and the promotion of equal opportunities in all aspects of our work. To read our Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Equity statement, click here

Budget

• Between 2 and 3 artists will be selected. An artist fee of £500 or £750 will be given depending on how many artists are selected for the exhibition.
• Castlefield Gallery provides a technician (c.9 days) to install the work, and curatorial support to arrange on-site signage and gallery interpretation.
• For installations, there will be space made available to work onsite at the venue if needed, some basic tools and equipment will be made available as well as some recyclable materials from previous exhibitions. 
• The gallery technician will be able to access a range of gallery equipment for installation and exhibition purposes; however, the applicant needs to consider costs for any specialised equipment that the gallery does not already own or have access to. A list of AV equipment that the gallery has can be accessed here
• The gallery will provide marketing & communications support for the exhibition, as well as support audience development activities and preview costs.
• The gallery can cover freight costs (collection and return of the work) within a 30 mile radius; application from further afield may have to consider how work will be delivered.

Further guidance and support

For more information, images and dimensions of the gallery space click here

Access: If you have any access needs or there are ways that we can support your application process, please contact our Gallery and Volunteer Coordinator Kacey Stonnell at associates@castlefieldgallery.co.uk or on 0161 832 8034.

Please note that our office hours are Tuesday–Sunday, 10am–6pm. Castlefield Gallery offices are closed on Mondays and not all staff work full-time. Please therefore allow up to 5 working days for a response from the team. 

Hannah Perry

Hannah Perry was born 1984 in the North of England, and lives and works in London, UK. She graduated from Goldsmiths College in 2009 and then the Royal Academy of Arts 2014. Her Recent exhibitions include: ‘HARD LOVE’ at TickTack, Antwerp, ‘Solo Show’ Baltic Gallery in Newcastle 2024, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf 2024, NTNT, Chester Contemporary, Duo show at Galerie Kandlhofer 2023, ‘Liquid Language’ Arsenal Toronto, ‘A Smashed Window and an Empty Room’ at the Kunstverein Hamburg, ‘Gush’, Somerset House, London and ‘Rage Fluids’, Kuenstlerhaus, Graz, Austria as well as an exhibition of the Artist-in-Residence programme of the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Russia.

Her work has been shown at: Over the Influence (LA), Arsenal Contemporary (Montreal), ICA Off-Site (London), ‘Private Settings: Art After the Internet’, MOMA Warsaw (Poland), Royal Academy of Arts (London), and Stedelijk at Trouw, Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam). Upcoming shows include; Royal Academy Summer Show, ‘Where is Your Mind?’, Quench, Margate, opening July 2025, and British Art Show 10.

Hannah Perry is represented by Contemporary Fine Arts (Berlin), Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer (Vienna) and Jeanine Hofland Gallery (Amsterdam).

Ryan Peter French 

Ryan Peter French is an artist-curator and oil painter based in Manchester. He works at Castlefield Gallery as Communications & Audience Development Coordinator and is curating this open call while completing a dual-qualification MA Apprenticeship in Curating at Teesside University.

His curatorial interests focus on cultural policy, audience engagement, accessibility, and the relationship between art, value, and society. Drawing on experience across artist development, exhibitions, public programmes, and audience development, he is particularly interested in creating opportunities for artists who are typically underprepresented across the cultural sector.  Alongside his curatorial work, Ryan maintains an active artistic practice that combines Renaissance painting techniques and traditions of craft with contemporary explorations of perception, identity and transformation. His work has developed a national and international private collector base and following, informing a curatorial approach grounded in both critical research and the lived realities of a queer, working-class artist navigating the contemporary cultural landscape.