Open Call for Emergent

Open Call — Pup and Tiger: Emergent
Exhibition and Prints: Call for Queer Artists — Prints, Editions, and New Work

Pup and Tiger is launching Emergent, a new ongoing series focused on work by queer artists and creators exploring new directions in contemporary practice. Emergent is not about career stage, but about ideas, approaches, and bodies of work that feel in motion, unresolved, or actively forming. Selected works will be featured in our Canterbury gallery and across our website and social channels, produced as limited-run prints in collaboration with the artists.

The Emergent exhibition will focus on editioned prints of the selected bodies of work, presented collectively as part of our new print series. Each artist’s submitted series of 6–10 works will form their exhibition within Emergent. Original artworks may also be considered for future physical exhibitions, but the prints themselves will make up this exhibition. We’re creating a space where prints connect artists, collectors, and the wider queer community, building visibility and offering an accessible way for audiences to collect and live with art.

We’re looking for work that catches our imagination, not necessarily what looks “queer” on the surface, but what feels alive, engaged, and searching. We’re drawn to projects that take us somewhere new: visual experiments, quiet gestures, bold statements, and everything in between.

Emergent is interested in how ideas develop rather than how identities are illustrated. We’re especially drawn to practices that unfold over time, think carefully through materials or images, or approach queerness obliquely rather than literally. Artists at any stage of their practice are welcome to apply.

Each selected artist or collective will have their series featured in the first season of Emergent and offered as part of a small-run print edition. Our goal is to make high-quality art accessible while supporting artists directly through shared proceeds and ongoing promotion across our platforms.

We’ll handle the production, logistics, and setup. You bring the vision.

What we’re looking for:

• Finished or cohesive bodies of work (photography, collage, painting, 2D, drawing, mixed media, or digital works)
• Projects that hold together as a small series (roughly 6–10 images, which will form your exhibited prints)
• Artists who identify as queer, or whose practices engage queer sensibilities, communities, or imaginations

What selected artists receive:

• Your editioned prints featured in the Emergent exhibition series at Pup and Tiger
• High-quality giclée prints produced in collaboration with you
• ⁠Sales through our physical gallery and online shop
• Artist features and promotion across our social media and newsletter

Think of Emergent as both a platform and a conversation, a way to experiment with editions, expand visibility, and connect through queer creative networks.

How to Submit:

Complete the form by clicking the button below. Send 6–10 images of your proposed series (JPEGs or PNGs), along with a short statement (200–300 words) introducing your work and a link to your website or Instagram.

Submissions are open now through March 17, 2026.

We can’t wait to see what you’re working on and where your ideas might take us.