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Now open to submissions : Bath Open Art Prize 2026

Submission deadline: Sun 13 September 2026.

Now in its 14th year, the Bath Open Art Prize welcomes Visual Artists at any stage of their career, from across the globe. All genres and mediums considered.

Selected works will be exhibited at 44AD artspace in Bath, judged by Artist Simbah Pilé and Curator Jemma Hickman.

Prizes include £750 cash, £250 cash, £50 art vouchers, and the 44AD Solo Exhibition Opportunity.

FaB Projects : Kate McDonnell

Pop-Up exhibition: 25, 27 & 28 June at Old Glassworks, Walcot Street, Bath.

FaB invited Kate McDonnell for a week-long flash residency in the Old Glassworks, we now invite you to experience the work she has created.

McDonnell is an installation Artist based here in Bath. Her practice explores materiality and process, embodying anxiety through site-specific installations, also sculptural works and drawing.

McDonnell’s artworks provoke feelings first rather than thoughts – a visceral form of communication. She focuses on the physical sensations of uncomfortable emotions, often creating scale through repetition, her artworks can become feats of endurance played out over time.

About Fringe Arts Bath

Fringe Arts Bath (FaB) aims to raise the profile of contemporary visual arts in Bath and beyond, providing early-career and emerging Curators and Artists with a platform for development as well as opportunities to test their ideas beyond the gallery-based arts scene.

Our key projects are Fringe Arts Bath Festival, Bath’s only annual visual arts festival, and the Bath Open Art Prize, open to all media, all genres and all artists worldwide.

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FaB is a Safe Space.

Fringe Arts Bath aims to be welcoming and inclusive for all.

You'll see this expressed through the diversity of exhibitions, curators and artists for who FaB provides a platform, as a test-bed for new ideas.

We at Fringe Arts Bath strongly believe in every artist's (and visitor's) right to creative expression and free voice, and we continue to advocate for that.

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FaB facilitates collaborative projects between Curators, Artists and commissioning bodies throughout the year, we are interested in hearing about new initiatives you might have.

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