Discover Soft Territories: A Bold New Artist Call from Pup and Tiger

We’re launching a new ongoing series—Soft Territories—through Pup and Tiger, a queer-run art space in Canterbury, UK. This evolving project offers a platform for interviews, showcases, and creative conversations with artists. It focuses on LGBTQ+ and underrepresented voices.

The term Soft Territories evokes spaces that are porous, shifting, and open to redefinition. We want to explore how artists shape or inhabit these spaces. They might do this through memory, identity, practice, resistance, care, or play. In a world that urgently needs this kind of work, these creative acts matter deeply.

Through this series, we invite you to explore the edges and overlaps—imagined geographies, creative rituals, experimental forms, and the spaces we build to survive and thrive. These are the kinds of spaces where we can reimagine the world we want to live in.

This is an open and ongoing call. We’ll feature selected artists on our social channels, as well as in related events, exhibitions, and collaborative projects.

We’re looking for artists who are thoughtful, curious, and unafraid to take risks. Surprise us—whether your work is visual, time-based, sound-driven, hybrid, or still emerging.

Soft Territories is curated by Jared Pappas-Kelley, artist, writer, and co-founder of Pup and Tiger. His work has appeared in Art Monthly, The Guardian, 3:AM Magazine, Cabinet, and The Rumpus. He is the author of Solvent Form: Art and Destruction, To Build a House That Never Ceased, and Stalking America. Pappas-Kelley has curated exhibitions internationally and has led several independent art spaces and collaborative initiatives, including Critical Line, Tollbooth, and Don’t Bite the Pavement.

Please submit your work to [email protected] and we’ll be in touch! To be considered, share 3-8 images or examples of your work, a short artist statement or few lines (no more than 300 words) about you and the work. Keep it simple, we want to see what you do.

We kindly ask that any visual material be sent via Dropbox or Google Drive links to preserve the quality of your work.