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Open Studios Notts

Bringing Artists into View

Open Studios Notts logo with event name and website

Open Studios Notts aims to widely promote Nottinghamshire artists and maker’s open studio events in co-operative collaboration, creating opportunities each year for visitors to connect with artists and to discover their work and practices.

Inspire supports Open Studios Notts by commissioning and curating exhibitions in our Library Galleries. The photographs in the exhibitions capture rare and varied behind-the-scenes images of the artists and crafts peoples' working worlds, shown alongside information about where to visit the Open Studios events taking place across the county.

Each year a number of artists and craftspeople taking part in the event are selected to have their work and workplaces featured in our exhibitions. Who will be on the wall in 2025?

Open Studios Notts 2025

Would you like to be part of the Open Studios Notts: Bringing Artists into View Exhibition?

Open Studios Notts is making its annual call out to Nottinghamshire artists and makers who would like to open their studios to the public and be part of OSNotts 2025.

Get your work photographed!

Each fee-paying artist participating in OSNotts will be eligible for selection by Inspire to have professional photographs taken to be featured in the library exhibitions and for the artist’s own use.

The deadline for applications is Monday 13 January 2025

Applications will be open in December. Find out more: osnotts.co.uk

OSNotts include:

  • Open Studios events of participating artists and makers
  • A printed and widely circulated brochure of all events
  • Year long studio and profile entry of the OSNotts website for each participating artist
  • A chance to be selected for one of the Inspire Library exhibitions in either Beeston, Mansfield Central and Retford Libraries

Exhibition Dates:

The 2025 Open Studios Notts: Bringing Artists into View Exhibition were on display at:

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Joy is holding a brush and painting a blue semi circle of paint on what seems to be the photographers camera lense.
Michael stood next to one of his large metal sculptures looking up to the top of it
Christina is peeping through a stack of her hand made books which are stacked on the table in front of her