Art Walk Porty Festival 2025 – ‘ShowGround’ Celebrating 10 Years!
Applications are now open for this year’s Art Walk Porty Festival.
Deadline for the receipt of applications is 16th March 2025, 11pm
Art Houses are Open: Sats/Suns 6/7 and 13/14 September 2025
Opening times: 10am to 6pm
About
The Art Walk Porty Festival presents a unique opportunity for practising artists to be part of a thriving event that celebrates the creative community of Portobello & Joppa. It’s a chance for creative exchange with other artists and members of the public, as well as for opportunities to sell and promote your own work, set within the context of a larger festival that involves Art in Shops, Public Realm Commissions and related Live Art Events running across the full ten-day period.
Our Art Houses strand, as part of the festival, is a curated programme that shows a range of work and disciplines, with in the region of 30 houses/studios being accepted. As introduced last year, we will section the venues around 4 walking routes. We welcome creative approaches to the exhibiting of work and to artists embracing our 2025 theme of ‘ShowGround’, which celebrates our tenth year with an emphasis on performance, variety entertainment and play in response to Porty’s showground era. For those artists who have taken part across our ten years, we encourage you to think about a retrospective exhibition for your Art House.
Additional New 2025 Features, in celebration of our ten years:
Festival Opening Event & Ten Year Celebration – Thu 4 September, evening of variety entertainment (tbc)
Flowering Porty – Front Gardens Festival encouraging the growing of pollinator rich gardens inspired by themes of seaside retro. Includes window boxes, common greens and community spaces. (Full details available from 14 March)
Selection Process
The selection panel will consist of members of the Art Walk Committee. The panel will consider:
- Strong evidence of artistic practice both in the local context and in a wider art context (exhibitions and development of artwork for other environments). This will be assessed from the evidence provided in the CV.
- A clear, well thought through and coherent approach to your art practice, showing quality, consistency and a professional approach to presentation across the work submitted. This will be assessed through the images of artwork provided.
Prices & Booking One weekend £90| Both weekends £150 | Each additional artist £30 (up to max of 2 artists).
All applicants are required to have full details of the location of their proposed Art House at the time of submitting their application.
Please note a separate Art in Shops Call for Works will take place during April.
We will confirm all artist bookings for our curated Art Houses programme via email by 4 April 2025
PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE SUBMISSION FORM using the links below.
Email your completed form along with separate images and cv to rosy@artwalkporty.co.uk by 16 March 2025, 11pm.