Nest
How can creative practice nurture wellbeing, inspire reflection, or aid recovery?
This exhibition will bring together artists exploring wellbeing, health, and the body through acts of making. It will create space for journeys of unearthing, nesting, holding, and the slow rebuilding of self.
Seeking works that:
Engage with experiences of mental and physical health, disability, illness, or recovery
Explore the body in its fragility, endurance, and capacity to heal
Seek to reduce stigma while fostering hope, reflection, and shared understanding
Incorporate environmentally conscious methods and materials
Seeking works in any medium; including photography, painting, printmaking, photobooks, film/video, sound, text/poetry, sculpture, ceramics, and installation.
Personal, abstract, and research-led responses are all welcomed.
The Curator would like to share these artworks as examples to illustrate their thinking:
Curator Livvy Eden
Curated by Livvy Eden
Livvy Eden is a photographic artist based in Wiltshire. Her books and photographs mark an intuitive reflection of the places she inhabits and her understanding of 'home'. As she works through land and water, she looks inward, considering how places have continued to shape her and her familial relationships.
In recent works, Eden is navigating a benign brain tumour diagnosis, retracing her ongoing health issues and considering how it has intertwined with her approaches to image-making and consideration of self. Eden threads past and present, informing a search for truth, belonging and peace.
insta @livvyeden_
livvyedenphotography.com
linkedin.com/in/livvy-eden
How to apply
Fringe Arts Bath Festival will take place 22 May to 6 June 2026
Submission deadline: Friday 10th April 2026 at 23h59 GMT
Media accepted: All
Free submission. All are welcome to apply, of any age, status, and from anywhere in the world.
If selected, we ask Artists for a £25 contribution (like crowdfunding) and to give some of their time, as we are all volunteers.
Please read our FAQs here to find out more.See all 17 projects open to submissions on our home page: fringeartsbath.co.uk
To submit your work: please email the curator nest@fringeartsbath.co.uk including:
NB: please include the exhibition / project name in the email title.
max 200 words about your work and how it fits the call-out (written, audio file, video or another way to suit you).
some images of the work, or links to video / performance work (or existing work if it hasn’t been made yet).
any relevant links, if you have them (though it’s not a requirement and Curators might not have the capacity to visit them all).
of course please include any questions you have.
you might not hear back from Curators until after the deadline, thank you for your patience.